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The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields
From the author of our best-selling and widely beloved HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES comes this “quick and dirty” introduction to biointensive gardening that shows it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing crops of healthful organic vegetables and fruits, while conserving resources and actually helping the soil. A revolutionary approach to feeding ourselves and nurturing the land, this book includes:‚Ä¢ Step-by-step illustrations and instructions that make these techniques simple for even the novice gardener.‚Ä¢ Everything you need to know about planning crops, composting, harvesting, and more.‚Ä¢ Complete resources for seeds, tools, and other garden supplies.Feed a family of four on the bounty of your backyard, or just get more out of your garden with less effort with this wonderful resource.
Read More →Soil Testing for Engineers
The primary purpose of this book is for the teaching of soil testing. Can be of value as a reference book for practicing engineers and for personnel in soil laboratories. There are many conditions, such as soil disturbance during sampling and unknown boundary conditions in nature, that require the engineer to use intelligence and experience in applying the results of laboratory tests to an actual soil problem. In many particular problems the results of laboratory tests can do no better than serve as a guide to the designer. For such problems field tests are often required. Even though this book is devoted entirely to laboratory testing, I hope that it will aid the student in attaining the proper perspective on the role of laboratory testing in soil mechanics. CONTENTS: 1) Specific Gravity Test 2) Atterberg Limits and Indices 3) Grain Size Analysis 4) Compaction Test 5) Permeability Test 6) Capillary Head Test 7) Consolidation Test 8) Direct Shear Test on Cohesionless Soil 9) Triaxial Compression Test on Cohesionless Soil 10) Unconfined Compression Test 11) Triaxial Compression Test on Cohesive Soil 12) Direct Shear Test on Cohesive Soil APPENDIEX: Conversion Factors; Specific Gravity of Water; Viscosity of Water; Proving Rings; Drawing of Liquid Limit Device; Derivation of Equations.
Read More →Soil Testing for Engineers
The primary purpose of this book is for the teaching of soil testing. Can be of value as a reference book for practicing engineers and for personnel in soil laboratories. There are many conditions, such as soil disturbance during sampling and unknown boundary conditions in nature, that require the engineer to use intelligence and experience in applying the results of laboratory tests to an actual soil problem. In many particular problems the results of laboratory tests can do no better than serve as a guide to the designer. For such problems field tests are often required. Even though this book is devoted entirely to laboratory testing, I hope that it will aid the student in attaining the proper perspective on the role of laboratory testing in soil mechanics. CONTENTS: 1) Specific Gravity Test 2) Atterberg Limits and Indices 3) Grain Size Analysis 4) Compaction Test 5) Permeability Test 6) Capillary Head Test 7) Consolidation Test 8) Direct Shear Test on Cohesionless Soil 9) Triaxial Compression Test on Cohesionless Soil 10) Unconfined Compression Test 11) Triaxial Compression Test on Cohesive Soil 12) Direct Shear Test on Cohesive Soil APPENDIEX: Conversion Factors; Specific Gravity of Water; Viscosity of Water; Proving Rings; Drawing of Liquid Limit Device; Derivation of Equations.
Read More →Push-Pull Tests for Site Characterization (Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences)
The push-pull test is a powerful site characterization technique that has been applied to a wide range of problems in contaminant hydrogeology. The theoretical and practical apsects of push-pull testing were initially developed to characterize groundwater acquifers but the method has now been extended to saturated and unsaturated soils and sediments as well as to surface water bodies. Dr. Istok and his collaborators have been instrumental in the development of these techniques and he is widely recognized as the world’s leading expert push-pull testing. This is the only reference book available on this powerful method.
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