The theme of the 31st US Symposium on Rock Mechanics is 'Rock Mechanics contributions and challenges', having as objective the examination and quantification of the progress that has been achieved in addressing the major practical challenges facing the science of rock mechanics and mine design. The 124 papers included in the proceedings cover areas such as: experimental studies (laboratory and field); conceptual, analytical, and numerical modeling; design and construction methods. 35 papers deal with practical mining problems and include information on rock reinforcement technology, blasting, rock bursts, open pit mining, remote sensing and borehole geophysics, mechanical fragmentation, and subsidence. Areas emphasized are coal and metal mine design problems. Other papers deal with the newest computer models, new instruments, fracture mechanics, new laboratory testing techniques, and in situ testing.

G.A. Johnson's debut novel mixes spirituality and with the brutality and filth of street life and addiction.

Life after witnessing his father's murder at the hands of the Klan was a narcotic waste land that took Murphy Johnson from Neshoba County, Mississippi to Denver, Colorado. He was the man the world walked around; he held a blank cardboard sign, and his eyes were a frozen river. Nothing seemed to move on the surface, but the water was flowing beneath an expression frosted over by four-decades of drugs, alcohol, and concrete beds. Until he reemerged into consciousness under a tree in Civic Center Park.

The Shiner explores the gamut of political chasms in society. The man the world walked around becomes the man who changes the world around him. Murphy is entangled in the lives of an ensemble cast of street dwellers, suburbanites and aristocrats. Besides fighting the ghosts of his past and the desire to fall back into addiction, he fights for survival on the streets and in the world of his new employer-an escort service pimp. Villains are not what they seem and the innocent are less than so, but Murphy embraces them all with a child's love-even the man who is trying to kill him.

Full Title: "In the Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1889. Thomas Cunningham, Sheriff of the County of San Joaquin California, Appellant, vs. David Neagle.} No. 1472. Brief for Appellant"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++MonographHarvard Law School LibrarySacramento: State Office:: : J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing. 1889