Richard E Ashley

The Political Economy of War and Peace: The Sino-Soviet-American Triangle and the Modern Security Problematique

Cocaine: Its History, Uses and Effects

Dictionary of Nutrition

A Nonlinear Time Series Workshop: A Toolkit for Detecting and Indentifying Nonlinear Serial Dependence

Advances in Urban Flood Management (Balkema: Proceedings and Monographs in Engineering, Water and Earth Sciences)

One of the effects of global climate change is the increasing variability of extreme flood events and cyclones. Current measures to mitigate flood impacts, particularly in the urban environment, are based on previously-planned flood risk intervals and no longer provide sufficient protection.Being pr...

Urban Flood Management

Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than ha...

Urban Drainage Practice

Nothing can be built without some excavation and transfer of soil (or rock) from one part of a site to another and this makes earthworks the most common product of civil engineering operations. Although normally seen as major structures, such as earth fill dams or large highways or railway embankmen...

Fundamentals of Applied Econometrics

Fundamentals of Applied Econometrics is designed for an applied, undergraduate econometrics course providing students with an understanding of the most fundamental econometric ideas and tools. The texts serves both the student whose interest is in understanding how one can use sample data to illumin...