Hydraulic Engineering

ICOLD Bulletin 159, Supplement to the Position Paper on Dams and the Environment, summarizes the role of dams in the future in the context of the g...

Pipelines for Water Conveyance and Drainage offers a concise listing and description of 11 types of pipe commonly used for water conveyance and dra...

The multidisciplinary field of fluid mechanics is one of the most actively developing fields of physics, mathematics and engineering. This textbook...

Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Souther...

Design of Protection Works Against Torrent Floods explores the main features of the three leading types of protection workstorrent checkdams, sedim...

In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to the world's toughest drainage problem, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recoun...

Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit,...

Thirty years ago, Low Life appeared to universal acclaim and secured Luc Sante's status as the author of that cult classic of alternative New York ...

Mary Jo ORear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. In Barr...

London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transfo...

From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King Johns galleys to se...

Do you remember the docks? In its heyday, the Port of London was the biggest in the world. It was a sprawling network of quays, wharves, canals and...

First came the awful news that 12 boys and their football coach were missing. Then came the flickering video of the boys found by a pair of British...

An updated edition of a classic: an indispensable companion for a new era in cycling. The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines ...

An introductory engineering textbook by an award-winning MIT professor that covers the history of dynamics and the dynamical analyses of mechanical...

Flood risk is increasing across the UK and globally. This book provides a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the ways in which the built ...

One-third of the annual natural disasters and economic losses, and more than half of the associated victims are flood related. A burgeoning global ...

Floods remain a significant hazard in the United States. Developing and investing in flood-prone areas represents a trade-off between the location'...

Even with all the advances in technologies, humans continue to suffer from the consequences of flooding century after century. This book covers two...

Ask yourself this: Are my home and loved ones safe from floods? Most people know that levees are structures built near rivers and lakes to reduce t...