Roll, Slope, and Slide
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781404819092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains how and why ramps and other inclined planes are used in everyday life.
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Ramp Hollow
Author: Steven Stoll
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1429946970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.
Ramp Rats
Author: Liam O'Donnell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1551438828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFresh from his adventures in Wild Ride, Marcus is back and helping his cousin, Bounce, learn to skate. Between learning how to ollie and do a 50-50 grind, Bounce and his friends also have to avoid the skate-park goons and take on the outlaw bikers who are terrorizing the small town. Excitement, action and some radical skating tips. Hang on for another wild ride!
Truck Escape Ramps
Author: David K. Witheford
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780309053051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis synthesis will be of interest to highway design engineers, maintenance personnel, safety and enforcement officials, traffic engineers, and others responsible for the safe operation of large trucks on highways. Information is provided on the critical aspects of site location, design criteria, and maintenance procedures, and their relationship to truck escape ramp performance. The safety of truck drivers, other road users, and occupants of roadside properties is often imperiled by the combination of heavy trucks and steep downgrades on highways. Frequently, gearing down, applying the brakes, and using the retarding power of the engine are not sufficient to control the truck, and serious crashes can result. Many states have constructed truck escape ramps to safely remove runaway trucks from the traffic stream. This report of the Transportation Research Board provides information on the location, design, construction materials, geometrics, and construction costs of truck escape ramps. Operational considerations, such as descriptions of advance warning signs, traffic control devices at the ramp, and vehicle removal procedures are described. Information on frequency and type of usage, maintenance of the ramps, and driver-related issues is also included.
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
Author: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2007-05-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1422159833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway? By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate them if they’ve already left, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps answers this critical question. Working closely with companies such as Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, General Electric and others, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett identifies what works and why. Based on firsthand experience with these companies, along with extensive data that provides the most comprehensive and nuanced portrait of women's career paths, this book documents the actions forward-thinking companies must take to reverse the female brain drain and ensure their access to talent over the long term.
Off Ramp
Author: Hank Stuever
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780312424886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"We visit discount funeral homes ("Let's say you're dead..."), campgrounds where international bonds are formed ("We are from Netherlands, and we are for two days wonderink, who it is you are"), and storage facilities where America keeps its strangest secrets. We meet the men who drew the comic-book characters (including Wonder Woman) Stuever loved as a child, professional bowlers, waterbed aficionados, and some Texans on "debris drives" in search of pieces of the fallen Columbia shuttle. Finally, we travel to Stuever's hometown of Oklahoma City where the bombing of the Alfred P.Murrah federal building has created a kind of Elsewhere he has never seen before."--BOOK JACKET.
The Revenue Ramp
Author: Lisa Cole
Publisher: Demand Accelerated LLC
Published: 2021-06-25
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781736433454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stress of the economic downturn is taking its toll on you and your team. You're being pushed to generate more leads, but there are already tons of marketing leads that have been ignored or mishandled. Your demand generation engine is stalled because of market disruption, rapidly changing buyer preferences and the inability to depend on in-person events as a source of low-cost leads. Despite the pressure for more leads, your budget has been reduced to bring operating expenses in line with lower than expected revenues. You know the answer cannot simply be do more and even if your team was able to deliver more, you're worried that you won't be able to prove that Marketing was a significant driver of your company's revenue recovery. If this sounds familiar, this book is for you. Following the proven step-by-step process outlined in The Revenue RAMP, you will fix the leaks in your revenue pipeline, change Sales' perception of Marketing and lead quality, enable your prospective customers to make smarter buying decisions and unlock the true potential of your team to build the ramp your business needs to grow revenue. All without stretching your team too thin, compromising lead quality, or begging for more resources.
Having Your Ramps and Eating Them Too
Author: Glen Facemire
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780870127830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkateboarding: Ramp Tricks
Author: Evan Goodfellow
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
Published: 2006-06-28
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1935937243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRamp tricks—skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipes—are a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs. A brief history of ramp skateboarding examines the birth of the genre as well as champions of the sport, including the pioneering Dogtown Crew and current stars Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk.
Exit Ramp
Author: David P. Spears II
Publisher:
Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780983671947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever wondered how much that guy with the cardboard sign makes? One economics student did and he decided to find out. During the summer of his senior year at college, while earning a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, David P. Spears spent eighty hours undercover as a panhandler. Systematically recording every transaction at the exit ramp, Spears captured a rarely seen picture of how modern urban charity works. This book is the record of his adventures, part economic research, part investigative journalism. Both the numbers and the stories behind the numbers provide answers to the questions we've all been wondering: Who gives more to panhandlers-men or women? What percentage of drivers roll down their windows to donate? And most important of all, how much can a panhandler earn per hour? Get out your bi-weekly pay stub-by the end of this book you'll know if you make more or less than the guy with the cardboard sign.
