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" Don't throw this away! : "
Brian Brenner.
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BL
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659513
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Brenner, Brian R.
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Don't throw this away! : : the civil engineering life /\ Brian Brenner.
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xii, 148 pages ;; 23 cm
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0784408882
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: 9780784408889
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Brian's Bridges -- Life Insurance -- The Twister -- Engineering Fashions -- Who Likes the Chocolate? -- The Maze -- The Ronald Reagan Room -- Bringing Out the Inner Civil Engineer -- The Baby Sitter-In-Law -- Reston Town Center -- Don't Throw This Away -- Don't Throw this Away - II -- Don't Throw This Away - III -- Don't Throw This Away - IV -- An Ideal Geotechnical World -- Infrastructure and Coming of Age -- Learning the Expanding Body of Knowledge -- The Road Not Built -- Build It and They Will Come -- New Car -- Acronyms and the Explosion of Useless Data (AEUD) -- The Quacking Moment -- Fish -- The Bridge Tour -- Fred Retires -- The Sky Bridges and Malls of Minneapolis -- Raising the Bar -- Vegetarian Nerds Watching the Super Bowl -- My New Cell Phone -- Hamsters Gone Wild -- A Comparison of Dilbert and Wally -- The Discovery of Pluto -- What's New on the Xway -- Opryland -- The Last Game at Foxboro -- The Zucchini Story -- Moss on the Median -- First Class -- After All, It's a Small World -- What Happened to Nantucket? -- The Way Things Are -- The Forest and the Trees -- Mass MoCA and the Hoosac Tunnel -- The Trail Ridge Road -- Encino Engineer -- Aberaeron.
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"In Don't Throw This Away! The Civil Engineering Life, Brenner reports on what it's like to be a civil engineer in the 21st century: the mindset, the practice, the profession. Equally skilled as a writer and an engineer, Brenner ranges from serious discussions of suburban sprawl, technology run amok, and bridge aesthetics, to comical accounts of packrat habits, quacking moments, and engineering fashion. This collection of essays displays Brenner's distinctive combination of quirky humor and engineering "right stuff.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Civil engineering.
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624
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TA155.B74 2007
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