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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?

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?