A complete guide to load path calculations in complex structures―fully updated for current practices and regulations

This thoroughly revised guide shows, step by step examples, how to calculate load paths—including for wind and seismic forces—in complicated structures. Written by a team of seasoned structural engineers and a certified building official, The Analysis of Irregular Shaped Structures: Wood Diaphragms and Shear Walls, Second Edition contains clear explanations of current topics, including cross laminated timber (CLT). You will get thorough coverage of newly developed structure types and new design solutions. The book has been overhauled to reflect the most recent codes and standards, including ASCE 7-16, 2021 IBC, and 2021 SDPWS.

Comprehensive coverage includes:

Code sections and analysisDiaphragm basicsDiaphragms with intermediate offsetsDiaphragms with vertical offsetsDiaphragms with openingsOpen front, cantilever diaphragmsComplex diaphragms with combined offsets and openingsStandard shear wallsShear walls with openingsDiscontinuous and offset shear wallsThe portal frameCLT diaphragmsCLT shear wallsAnd much more

The Colonial Century is a work of historical and political analysis that examines Israel and Palestine not as an isolated conflict, but as a modern expression of settler colonial power adapted to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Rather than beginning in 1948 or treating the conflict as a tragic clash of identities, this book traces the deeper architecture of domination that shapes land, law, borders, and daily life in Palestine.The book situates Zionism within a longer colonial lineage, comparing its structures to earlier European settler projects while examining the specific historical conditions that allowed it to persist into the modern era. It shows how colonial governance evolved after the formal collapse of empire, shifting from overt conquest to bureaucratic control, legal fragmentation, surveillance, and permanent emergency. Occupation, settlement expansion, checkpoints, walls, and population management are examined not as temporary security measures, but as central mechanisms of rule.Drawing on history, political theory, international law, and contemporary evidence, The Colonial Century explores how land seizure is normalised through legal instruments, how demographic engineering is justified through security language, and how violence is rendered administrative rather than exceptional. Particular attention is given to the role of international actors, especially the United States and Western institutions, in sustaining this system through diplomatic protection, military aid, and selective enforcement of international law.Rather than framing Israel as an anomaly, the analysis places it within global patterns of power. The book argues that the endurance of settler rule in Palestine exposes a broader failure of the post-war international order to confront colonial violence when it remains politically or strategically useful. Human rights frameworks and peace processes are examined critically as mechanisms that often manage injustice rather than dismantle it.The Palestinian experience is presented as a lived reality shaped by restricted movement, fragmented sovereignty, economic dependency, and recurring military force. Resistance, accommodation, and survival are explored as complex responses to structural domination rather than symbolic gestures.Written for general readers and students of history and politics, The Colonial Century offers no easy solutions. It asks why settler colonial structures persist long after they have been discredited elsewhere, and what their persistence reveals about power, law, and accountability in the modern world.

The Doomsday Clock is Ticking. Modern war is not a series of exceptional events. It is a permanent, profitable, and invisible system – one that makes civilian harm foreseeable, repeated, and disproportionate, while hiding its true costs behind language, law, and distance. The same systems support extractive enterprises and environmental destruction. (Chapter Ten, Ownership of Harm, examines who profits from this destruction and who pays the price.)In twelve interlinked essays, Terry Malone traces the architecture of permanent war from the battlefields of Gaza and the West Bank to the command centres of the American empire.This book moves from personal testimony, a family shaped by generations of war, to structural diagnosis. It examines the language that reframes violence as necessity, the myths that legitimise displacement, and the moral gap between knowledge and action. It documents eight decades of U.S. interventions, from Korea and Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the 2026 strikes on Iran. It names the defence contractors, asset managers, and political elites who profit from continuous war.But this is not only a record of harm. It is a call to interrupt it.Malone sketches four points of action: reclaiming language, applying financial pressure, holding governments to their own laws, and building a positive vision beyond ceasefires. The book ends with an unavoidable question: will those who see the system clearly organise to change it, or will they watch it continue?

Israel's Nuclear Monopoly: The Nuclear Trigger That Could Ignite the Middle East examines one of the most dangerous contradictions in the modern international order: Israel possesses nuclear weapons outside the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, while Iran, a treaty member, has faced sanctions, sabotage, assassinations and military attack over a nuclear programme it maintains is not intended to produce a weapon.The book traces the history behind this unequal nuclear order, from the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and Western support for the Shah, through the Iran-Iraq War, Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, the creation and destruction of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and the escalating confrontation involving Israel, Iran and America.It asks a fundamental question: can a non-proliferation system remain credible when nuclear restraint is demanded from some states while nuclear possession, expansion and strategic ambiguity are tolerated in others?The danger extends far beyond Iran. Israeli political figures have openly discussed extreme military options, America continues to modernise its nuclear forces, Saudi Arabia has warned that it could pursue nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them, and Australia's involvement in AUKUS brings nuclear-powered military technology deeper into the Indo-Pacific security order.At the centre of the book is a broader warning. Nuclear proliferation is not driven only by ambition. It can also be driven by fear, insecurity and the belief that nuclear weapons provide protection against attack or regime change. Every exception granted to a powerful ally weakens the rules imposed upon everyone else.Israel's Nuclear Monopoly is an examination of nuclear inequality, strategic power and the political choices that could turn a regional confrontation into a catastrophe whose consequences would reach far beyond the Middle East.

The United States emerged from a revolution against empire and became the most influential republic in modern history. It championed constitutional government, individual liberty and democratic ideals while building unprecedented economic, military and political power.America's rise has always contained a tension at its core.The same nation that proclaimed universal rights tolerated slavery. The same democracy that expanded political participation also generated profound inequalities of wealth and influence. The same state that helped shape the post-war international order repeatedly confronted questions of intervention, accountability and the application of the principles it claimed to defend.Liberty and Power traces this tension from the Revolution and westward expansion to industrialisation, global conflict, the Cold War and the emerging multipolar world of the twenty-first century.Neither a celebration nor a condemnation, it examines one of the defining questions of the modern age:Can a republic founded on liberty reconcile its ideals with the realities of power?

Palestine did not begin as a refugee camp, a battlefield or a humanitarian crisis. It was a living society of towns, villages, farms and religious communities whose people had deep roots in the land.Palestine: 78 Years of Dispossession, a Century of Violent Displacement traces how that society was dismantled through European political Zionism, British imperial policy, the Nakba of 1948, military occupation, settlement expansion, blockade and repeated war.Terry Malone challenges the habit of beginning the story with Palestinian resistance while treating occupation and dispossession as background. He examines how wartime displacement became permanent exclusion, how the Oslo process preserved Israeli control beneath the language of peace, and how Gaza became the most extreme expression of a system built upon enclosure, fragmentation and unequal rights.The destruction that followed 7 October 2023 did not emerge from nowhere. It grew from decades of policies that denied Palestinians sovereignty, freedom of movement, return and political equality.Drawing upon historical scholarship, official records, international law and documented testimony, this book places the present catastrophe within the longer history that made it possible. It distinguishes between established fact, allegation, institutional finding and unresolved legal judgment while refusing to treat unequal power as though it were balanced.This is not a history of an ancient religious war. It is an account of political decisions, imperial power, organised dispossession and a people's continuing struggle against erasure.

A complete guide to load path calculations in complex structures―fully updated for current practices and regulations

This thoroughly revised guide shows, step by step examples, how to calculate load paths—including for wind and seismic forces—in complicated structures. Written by a team of seasoned structural engineers and a certified building official, The Analysis of Irregular Shaped Structures: Wood Diaphragms and Shear Walls, Second Edition contains clear explanations of current topics, including cross laminated timber (CLT). You will get thorough coverage of newly developed structure types and new design solutions. The book has been overhauled to reflect the most recent codes and standards, including ASCE 7-16, 2021 IBC, and 2021 SDPWS.

Comprehensive coverage includes:

Code sections and analysisDiaphragm basicsDiaphragms with intermediate offsetsDiaphragms with vertical offsetsDiaphragms with openingsOpen front, cantilever diaphragmsComplex diaphragms with combined offsets and openingsStandard shear wallsShear walls with openingsDiscontinuous and offset shear wallsThe portal frameCLT diaphragmsCLT shear wallsAnd much more

The Colonial Century is a work of historical and political analysis that examines Israel and Palestine not as an isolated conflict, but as a modern expression of settler colonial power adapted to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Rather than beginning in 1948 or treating the conflict as a tragic clash of identities, this book traces the deeper architecture of domination that shapes land, law, borders, and daily life in Palestine.The book situates Zionism within a longer colonial lineage, comparing its structures to earlier European settler projects while examining the specific historical conditions that allowed it to persist into the modern era. It shows how colonial governance evolved after the formal collapse of empire, shifting from overt conquest to bureaucratic control, legal fragmentation, surveillance, and permanent emergency. Occupation, settlement expansion, checkpoints, walls, and population management are examined not as temporary security measures, but as central mechanisms of rule.Drawing on history, political theory, international law, and contemporary evidence, The Colonial Century explores how land seizure is normalised through legal instruments, how demographic engineering is justified through security language, and how violence is rendered administrative rather than exceptional. Particular attention is given to the role of international actors, especially the United States and Western institutions, in sustaining this system through diplomatic protection, military aid, and selective enforcement of international law.Rather than framing Israel as an anomaly, the analysis places it within global patterns of power. The book argues that the endurance of settler rule in Palestine exposes a broader failure of the post-war international order to confront colonial violence when it remains politically or strategically useful. Human rights frameworks and peace processes are examined critically as mechanisms that often manage injustice rather than dismantle it.The Palestinian experience is presented as a lived reality shaped by restricted movement, fragmented sovereignty, economic dependency, and recurring military force. Resistance, accommodation, and survival are explored as complex responses to structural domination rather than symbolic gestures.Written for general readers and students of history and politics, The Colonial Century offers no easy solutions. It asks why settler colonial structures persist long after they have been discredited elsewhere, and what their persistence reveals about power, law, and accountability in the modern world.

The Doomsday Clock is Ticking. Modern war is not a series of exceptional events. It is a permanent, profitable, and invisible system – one that makes civilian harm foreseeable, repeated, and disproportionate, while hiding its true costs behind language, law, and distance. The same systems support extractive enterprises and environmental destruction. (Chapter Ten, Ownership of Harm, examines who profits from this destruction and who pays the price.)In twelve interlinked essays, Terry Malone traces the architecture of permanent war from the battlefields of Gaza and the West Bank to the command centres of the American empire.This book moves from personal testimony, a family shaped by generations of war, to structural diagnosis. It examines the language that reframes violence as necessity, the myths that legitimise displacement, and the moral gap between knowledge and action. It documents eight decades of U.S. interventions, from Korea and Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the 2026 strikes on Iran. It names the defence contractors, asset managers, and political elites who profit from continuous war.But this is not only a record of harm. It is a call to interrupt it.Malone sketches four points of action: reclaiming language, applying financial pressure, holding governments to their own laws, and building a positive vision beyond ceasefires. The book ends with an unavoidable question: will those who see the system clearly organise to change it, or will they watch it continue?

Israel's Nuclear Monopoly: The Nuclear Trigger That Could Ignite the Middle East examines one of the most dangerous contradictions in the modern international order: Israel possesses nuclear weapons outside the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, while Iran, a treaty member, has faced sanctions, sabotage, assassinations and military attack over a nuclear programme it maintains is not intended to produce a weapon.The book traces the history behind this unequal nuclear order, from the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and Western support for the Shah, through the Iran-Iraq War, Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, the creation and destruction of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and the escalating confrontation involving Israel, Iran and America.It asks a fundamental question: can a non-proliferation system remain credible when nuclear restraint is demanded from some states while nuclear possession, expansion and strategic ambiguity are tolerated in others?The danger extends far beyond Iran. Israeli political figures have openly discussed extreme military options, America continues to modernise its nuclear forces, Saudi Arabia has warned that it could pursue nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them, and Australia's involvement in AUKUS brings nuclear-powered military technology deeper into the Indo-Pacific security order.At the centre of the book is a broader warning. Nuclear proliferation is not driven only by ambition. It can also be driven by fear, insecurity and the belief that nuclear weapons provide protection against attack or regime change. Every exception granted to a powerful ally weakens the rules imposed upon everyone else.Israel's Nuclear Monopoly is an examination of nuclear inequality, strategic power and the political choices that could turn a regional confrontation into a catastrophe whose consequences would reach far beyond the Middle East.

The United States emerged from a revolution against empire and became the most influential republic in modern history. It championed constitutional government, individual liberty and democratic ideals while building unprecedented economic, military and political power.America's rise has always contained a tension at its core.The same nation that proclaimed universal rights tolerated slavery. The same democracy that expanded political participation also generated profound inequalities of wealth and influence. The same state that helped shape the post-war international order repeatedly confronted questions of intervention, accountability and the application of the principles it claimed to defend.Liberty and Power traces this tension from the Revolution and westward expansion to industrialisation, global conflict, the Cold War and the emerging multipolar world of the twenty-first century.Neither a celebration nor a condemnation, it examines one of the defining questions of the modern age:Can a republic founded on liberty reconcile its ideals with the realities of power?

Palestine did not begin as a refugee camp, a battlefield or a humanitarian crisis. It was a living society of towns, villages, farms and religious communities whose people had deep roots in the land.Palestine: 78 Years of Dispossession, a Century of Violent Displacement traces how that society was dismantled through European political Zionism, British imperial policy, the Nakba of 1948, military occupation, settlement expansion, blockade and repeated war.Terry Malone challenges the habit of beginning the story with Palestinian resistance while treating occupation and dispossession as background. He examines how wartime displacement became permanent exclusion, how the Oslo process preserved Israeli control beneath the language of peace, and how Gaza became the most extreme expression of a system built upon enclosure, fragmentation and unequal rights.The destruction that followed 7 October 2023 did not emerge from nowhere. It grew from decades of policies that denied Palestinians sovereignty, freedom of movement, return and political equality.Drawing upon historical scholarship, official records, international law and documented testimony, this book places the present catastrophe within the longer history that made it possible. It distinguishes between established fact, allegation, institutional finding and unresolved legal judgment while refusing to treat unequal power as though it were balanced.This is not a history of an ancient religious war. It is an account of political decisions, imperial power, organised dispossession and a people's continuing struggle against erasure.