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CONTENTS Preface Introduction, Background and Seismic Risk Areas Principles of Seismic Resistance in Dwellings Architectural Considerations Site Selection Elements of the Seismic Resistant System Foundations and Foundation Details Floors Shear Walls Roof Requirements Masonry Chimneys Concrete Masonry Clay Masonry Masonry and Stone Veneer Building Code and References Home Builders Check List Appendix: Typical Regular Floor Plans for Earthquake Resistance Acknowledgments

CONTENTSPREFACECHAPTER 1. EMPLOYMENT OF ENGINEER DIVERS Command and Control Engineer Diving Support Priorities Diving Support Request ProceduresCHAPTER 2. ENGINEER DIVING ORGANIZATIONS Control and Support Diving Detachment Lightweight Diving TeamCHAPTER 3. ENGINEER DIVING MISSIONS Port Clearance Ship Husbandry Physical Security Logistics Over the Shore Operations Offshore Petroleum Distribution Systems River CrossingCHAPTER 4. CONSIDERATIONS Environment Manning Modes of Diving Equipment Medical Support SafetyAPPENDIX A. Engineer Diving Force Composition TOE 05-530LA00 - C & S Diving DetachmentAPPENDIX B. Engineer Diving Force Composition TOE 05-530LC00 - LW Diving TeamAPPENDIX C. Minimum Staffing Levels for Various Types of Air DivingGLOSSARYREFERENCES

Lazarus and The Gentleman from San Francisco, while fairly typical of Slavic literature, nevertheless contain few of the elements popularly associated with the work of contemporary Russian writers. They have no sex interest, no photographic descriptions of sordid conditions and no lugubrious philosophizing. These stories are not cheerful, yet their sadness is uplifting rather than depressing. They both contain what the Greek called katharsis in their tragedies - that cleansing atmosphere which purges us of every baser feeling as we read them.

CONTENTSThe Golden Beetle or Why the Dog Hates the CatThe Great BellThe Strange Tale of Doctor DogHow Footbinding StartedThe Talking FishBamboo and the TurtleThe Mad Goose and the Tiger ForestThe Nodding TigerThe Princess Kwan-YinThe Two JugglersThe Phantom VesselThe Wooden TabletThe Golden NuggetThe Man Who Would Not ScoldLu-San, Daughter of Heaven

A drama in four acts set in Pomerania (Prussia) about 1880. This English language version was first presented in Boston in January, 1904, and this translation and adaptation is the only English version authorized by the author. Hermann Sudermann (1857 - 1928) dominated the German stage for nearly a quarter century, and was considered one of the greatest figures in contemporary German literature. He studied philosophy and history at Konigsberg University, and continued to write right up to his death, his last play appearing in 1925 and his last novel in 1928. Sudermann achieved surprising success in passing from novel-writing to dramatic authorship. He had a style of utmost distinction, and was well skilled in technique.

This is a story of Egypt and the Soudan with its principal scenes in Cairo and Khartoum. It was published in 1909, and anticipated by many years some racial, political and religious problems which are now agitating those countries. The central character resembles the Madhi in his earlier years. At first he is a religious reformer only, but later he developes political aims which bring him into sharp collision with the British rule. A tragic happening enlists on his side the son of the English Consul-General who remotely resembles the late Lord Cromer in his policy, but not his person. Out of this fact and the further complication of his affection for an English woman, Helena, the author developes his love story. The glamour and mystery of the East are the background of the novel, which is a strong contrast to the stark simplicity of the scenes of Hall Caine's Manx and Icelandic stories. The Liverpool Post says: "Hall Caine's power of rivetting and engrossing attention will be found in this novel at its zenith."

A pioneering California writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) is best known for his homoerotic tales collected as South-Sea Idyls and The Island of Tranquil Delights. Stoddard was a member of San Francisco's Bohemian and journalistic circles, where he was appreciated for his wit. His literary friendships and lasting relationships included Ambrose Bierce, Ina Coolbrith, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, W. D. Howells, Henry Adams, Joaquin Miller, Jack London, George Sterling, Bliss Carman, Yone Noguchi, George Cabot Lodge, and Samuel Clemens.

An important resource in American history, told by one of the participants, who was a key figure in the labor disputes and violence of the Pennsylvania coal mines. Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was the world's first private detective. Emigrating to Chicago from Glasgow, Scotland, he discovered a gang of counterfeiters and assisted in their capture. He became deputy sheriff of Kane County, then Cook County, resigning from the police to form the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1852. The Pinkerton logo, the All-Seeing Eye, inspired the phrase "Private Eye".

CONTENTSForewordHymns Based upon ScriptureHymns Inspired by Spiritual ExperienceHymns Occasioned by IncidentsHymns Arising from CircumstancesHymns Suggested by SurroundingsHymns Expressing Personal FeelingsHymns Proceeding from Sudden InspirationPoints of Interest in the Language of HymnsStriking Incidents Connected with HymnsSpiritual Blessing Resulting from HymnsIndex of HymnsIndex of Authors

This work usually appears on lists of the ten most important books of detective stories published in the United States. The tales of Uncle Abner take place in what is now West Virginia, in the 1840's or 1850's.Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was a lawyer, political insider, and candidate for President of the United States (Democrat, 1924). He was one of the really great writers of the detective short story and is ranked in the same class as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This novel was originally published in 1859. Mayne Reid, a pre-eminent and popular writer, was primarily a novelist (1818-1883) who wrote adventure stories from just before the Civil War until his death in 1883. Reid's career included two periods in the U. S: 1840-49 and 1867-70. He had emigrated to the United States in his early twenties, reaching New Orleans in January, 1840, where he pursued a varied career as a shopkeeper, overseer of slaves, schoolmaster, and actor, with occasional forays into hunting and Indian warfare. Reid returned to England in 1849, and embarked upon a successful career as a writer of adventure novels and books for boys He was a close friend of Poe (though their writings were miles apart), played a gallant role in the Mexican War, worked as a journalist and wrote most of his first novel while in the United States. He was an influence on the young mind of Teddy Roosevelt, as Roosevelt reveals in his Autobiography; while Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his 1890s essay "Juvenilia" that when young he always kept "Mr. Ballantyne or Captain Mayne Reid at my elbow"; Robert Louis Stevenson praised Reid in the Vailima Letters, and J. Frank Dobie has said he, "dared convey real information in his romances."

Oriental letters being a literary fad of the day, it was inevitable that Oliver Goldsmith should indulge his whim of "leaving scarcely any kind of writing untouched;" hence his series of Letters from Lien Chi Altangi, the Chinese philosopher in London. These Chinese letters are in the strictest sense by a wide-experienced Citizen of the World. They photograph many a quaint character whose types are as familiar to us as his originals were to Goldsmith. The living portrait gallery will fit generations yet to come. Not characters only but movements, political and social, great problems in government, art, education, and taste are mirrored and discussed with a breadth and charm not found elsewhere. Goldsmith's many-sidedness is displayed in these Letters, which are occasionally elaborated in other of his writings. This is a reprint of the Third Edition originally published in 1774.