How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure; sewers, plumbing pipes, wires, tunnels, cables, and sometimes rails are usually buried underground or hidden behind walls.
Experiments, games, and construction diagrams show how these structures are built, how they work, and how they affect the environment of the city and the land outside it.
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Spinal Cord Injury is the definitive guide for people with SCI and their families. Combining first-person accounts with up-to-date medical information, the book addresses all aspects of spinal cord injury -- recovery and coping, sex and family matters, transportation and housing, employment and leisure -- and reviews the challenges encountered by people with spinal cord injury throughout their lives.
This text undertakes to provide a first-year course in accounting, with accepted principles of accounting arranged in an orderly fashion to capture the student's interest, to hold it, and to anticipate his difficulties so that unnecessary questions are avoided. Additional illustrative material should strengthen and clarify the presentation, particularly in connection with such subjects as analysis of proprietorship, adjustments, bad debts, depreciation, corporations and payroll.
Paint Realistic Animals in Acrylic with Lee Hammond
Discover the no-fear, all-fun way to paint family pets, barnyard animals, woodland critters and exotic creatures! What do you get when you combine the ever-popular subject of animals, the user-friendly medium of acrylic, and the friendly, encouraging teaching style of Lee Hammond? A simple and fun way to start painting your favorite animals in a charming, realistic style!
Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists
How DO they do it? If you could ask your favorite artist or crafter only one question, chances are you'd ask about creativity: Where do your ideas come from? How did you get started? What are your tricks for overcoming blocks? In Living the Creative Life, author Rice Freeman-Zachery has compiled answers to these questions and more from 15 successful artists in a variety of mediums--from assemblage to fiber arts, beading to mixed-media collage.
