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...