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"The intention of the authors is to present the fundamentals of green urban stormwater infrastructure from an engineering design and performance analysis perspective. This book is intended to be used as a textbook in senior-undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in water resources/environmental engineering. It is also envisioned to be a reference for practicing engineers and other water/environment professionals. The book focuses on novel stormwater control measures (SCMs) and related technologies for the reductions of detrimental impacts from urban stormwater. Stormwater challenges have risen in importance as clean water focus has shifted from point to nonpoint source pollution as a source of water impairments. Stormwater also becomes part of the "one water" focus on long-term sustainable urban water. Many novel SCMs are nature-based and are considered as part of a "green infrastructure" approach that includes bioretention, vegetated swales, vegetated filter strips, green roofs, pervious pavements, water harvesting, and wetlands. It is expected that users of this book would have had a course in engineering hydraulics/ hydrology and some exposure to environmental engineering treatment processes and water quality. It is also complementary to graduate surface water hydrology and traditional water and wastewater treatment engineering. While written with an engineering focus, nonengineers such as landscape architects, planners, and environmental scientists should find the text useful. Specific attempts have been made to integrate both English (US customary) and metric units throughout the book. The initial chapters provide background information on urban hydrology, water quality, and stormwater generation and characteristics. The preponderance of the book focuses on stormwater control and improvement via a suite of different green infrastructure technologies and techniques. Within this context, background information on engineering unit processes for affecting the water balance and improving water quality are presented. The evolving challenge of setting and meeting stormwater control metrics is discussed. The latter chapters provide specific details on categories of SCMs; topics such as selection, design, performance, and maintenance are presented in detail. SCM selection, treatment trains, and climate change are included as a final chapter. This text provides a baseline as this topic is a rapidly changing field"--

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Laughing Whitefish is an engrossing trail drama of ethnic hostility and the legal defense of Indian treaties. Young Lawyer William (Willy) Poe puts out a shingle in Marquette, Michigan, in 1873, hoping to meet a woman who will take him seriously. His first client, the alluring Charlotte Kawbawgam, known as Laughing Whitefish, offers an enticing challenge—a compelling case of injustice at the hands of powerful mining interests. Years earlier, Charlotte''s father led the Jackson Mining Company to a lucrative iron ore strike, and he was then granted a small share in the mine, which the new owners refuse to honor. Willy is now Charlotte''s sole recourse for justice. Laughing Whitefish is a gripping account of barriers between Indian people and their legal rights. These poignant conflicts are delicately wrought by the pre-eminent master of the trial thriller, the best-selling author of Anatomy of a Murder. This new edition includes a foreword by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University, that contextualizes the novel and actual decisions of the Michigan Supreme Court ruling in favor of Charlotte.

No one wrote with more warm, down-home affection for fly fishing than the late Robert Traver, the author of "Anatomy of a Murder". This book is a marvelous catch of wit, wisdom, and anecdote sure to delight everyone who enjoys a master storyteller at work.

There''s enough trout magic to rub off on every reader--man, woman, or child.

Robert Traver captures the genuine flavor of backwoods life in this story recounting the escapades of Danny and his four croonies.

From the master author who set the standard for thrilling courtroom drama with the bestselling classic Anatomy of a Murder, another stylish courtroom novel. Laughing Whitefish is a tragic love story based on a 19th-century Indian land case that ended up in the Michigan Supreme Court.

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When beautiful mining heiress Constance Spurrier is murdered, the evidence overwhelmingly points to her young lover, Randall Kirk, but Kirk has no motive and can remember nothing about the crime

After many years, Walt Dressler, small town lawyer and ex-D.A., is contacted by his rich, brilliant, college roommate, Emil Hornstein, who wants him to run for state senator. Dressler is an idealist much concerned with the political and social cancer of his time, the moral corruption of the individual. This idealism leads him into a grueling campaign and also leads him back to the old St. Lorraine House, now the property of the beautiful Lousia Montgolfier, of the sad eyes. His battle with the most powerful newspaper in the state, and with the political columnist who is determined to destroy him, brings into sharp focus the individual responsibility of each person and dramatizes the battle of the forces of good and evil.