Mercedes Ferrer Libri

Focusing on integrated engineering solutions, this comprehensive textbook on geological engineering is divided into four sections: fundamentals, methods, applications, and geohazards. It addresses crucial topics like site investigation, rock mechanics, and slope stability, offering a solid foundation in soil mechanics and hydrogeology. With its extensive illustrations and up-to-date applications, the book serves as an invaluable resource for both students and practicing engineering geologists involved in foundation design and construction.

Fashion is a business of smoke and mirrors, notorious for crushing the souls of most that dare to be part of the industry. Go on a global expedition with New York City-based fashion buyer, strategist, and consultant, Mercedes Gonzalez, as she learns that there is no glamor in fashion and that only cut throat corporate espionage prevails. From politicking with blood diamond dealers and Russian kingpins to living in indigenous villages, she has relied on her street smarts and fear of her uncle in order to outwit the industry tyrants at their own game. The underdog becomes the overlord (at-large). You'll want to grab a notebook for all the business (and life) tips this read has to offer. Advance warning, this book will convince you to become a proponent of child labor, an advocate of GMO, and a cynic of organic cotton.