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• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Construction of Hoover Dam: Preliminary Investigations, Design of Dam, and Progress of Construction (Washington: GPO, 1933), by Ray L. Wilbur, Elwood Mead, and United States Department of the Interior
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity: Letter From the Secretary of the Interior Transmitting Pursuant to Law a Report by the Director of the Reclamation Service on Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity With Respect to Irrigation from the Colorado; Together With the Proceedings of the Conference on the Construction of the Boulder Canyon Dam Held at San Diego, Calif. (Washington: GPO, 1922), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know (second edition, 1993), ed. by Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Kentucky Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction and Initial Operations of the Kentucky Project (TVA technical report #13; Washington: GPO, 1951), by Tennessee Valley Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nile Reservoir Dam at Assuân, and After (second edition; London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1903), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Assuân Reservoir and Lake Moeris (London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1904), by William Willcocks
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kortes Dam and Powerplant: Technical Record of Design and Construction (1959), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Habitability of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision on the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rock Tunneling With Steel Supports; With An Introduction to Tunnel Geology (Youngstown, OH: Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co., 1946), by Robert V. Proctor, Thomas L. White, and Karl Terzaghi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Clandestine Service History: The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956 (written in 1967; redacted declassified version released 2017), by United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations (PDF at cia.gov)

• Pothole Blasting for Wildlife (Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Publication 352; 1965), by Harold A. Mathiak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Control of Explosives: Administration and Execution of the Laws Pertaining to the Control of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session (10 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage: Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications (1995), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• 11 Steps to Survival (1969 edition), by Canada Emergency Measures Organization (PDF at webpal.org)

• The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the DICE THROW Event (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1978), by Cresson H. Kearny and Conrad V. Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Fallout Shelter: Snack Bar, Basement Location, Plan D (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), by United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 1966 Architectural Awards: Buildings With Fallout Shelter (1967) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Concrete Cross Tie and Fastener Loads (US Dept. of Transportation interim report; 1977), by R. H. Prause, H. D. Harrison, James C. Kennedy, and R. C. Arnlund (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elementary Arithmetic: Its Meaning and Practice (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1947), by B. R. Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretic Arithmetic, in Three Books (London: Printed for the author by A. J. Valpy, 1816), by Thomas Taylor (PDF at djm.cc)

• An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1897), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google)
• The Foundations of Mathematics: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Geometry, by Paul Carus (page images at Cornell)

• Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; or, The Hidden City of the Andes, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow: Contemporary Understanding and Applications (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Principles of Soil Mechanics (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1963), by Ronald F. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soil Mechanics (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1962), by Alfreds R. Jumikis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subsurface Exploration and Sampling of Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes: Report on a Research Project of the Committee on Sampling and Testing, Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, American Society of Civil Engineers (Vicksburg, MS: Waterways Experiment Station, 1949), by Mikael Juul Hvorslev and American Society of Civil Engineers Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1948), by Donald W. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

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