NFPA 25 was first released in 1992 with the declared purpose being the promote the activities and certain sections were specifically pertaining to fire pumps. NFPA fully recognizes that the installation standards such as NFPA 20 or maintenance document such as NFPA 25 must be suitable for enforcement and, as a result, must be concise and without explanatory text. Additionally, it must be acknowledged that such standards cannot be written to cover every situation that could be encountered.

Therefore, NFPA 20 and NFPA 25 must be applied with judgment, the application of good sense, and an awareness of the rationale for the requirements. To assist in this task, NFPA, in partnership with the NFSA, has developed the Fire Pump Handbook. The present publication is intended to provide users of NFPA 20 and applicable portions of NFPA 25 with background information on certain requirements.

The book also contains some suggestions on how certain provisions of the standards can be implemented effectively. The contents of the handbook are intended to provide users of NFPA 20 and NFPA 25 with a better understanding and appreciation of the documents. However, the reader is cautioned to look upon the commentary and other supporting information as views of the editors and contributing authors. Only the contents of NFPA 20 and NFPA 25 are considered the official position of NFPA.

This book sets out to describe the major warships of the great naval powers engaged in the bitter struggles of World War II. on the Allied side these comprised the fleets of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, together with the United States and France, which were ranged against the Axis navies of Germany, Italy and Japan. There were, of course, numerous other navies involved at various times but it is not possible to include a description of these forces in a book of this size.

The following very brief outline of the naval war between 1939 and 1945 is intended to give a broad backdrop against which the role of the various navies and their warships can be assessed. The content of the book demonstrates the great effort made by the author trying to provide readers with all information they will require. According to the numerous positive feedbacks received from the readers from all parts of the planet, this is a really excellent source of information giving readers lots of historical and technical knowledge.

The author has described all major warships of the past related to the main combatant navy fleets in the history of naval wars. The list of vessels covered within the present publication includes aircraft carriers and battleships, escort vessels and battle-cruisers, destroyers etc. Note that the submarines are also covered...

The present volume may be treated as a truly excellent guidance to all important aspects of the structural FEM, with some of the sections being dedicated to the other relevant disciplines, We would describe this book as a guide on how the FEM shall be really utilized; the author - Robert Cook - discusses the appropriate level of theory and provides readers with a lucrative and easy-to-follow instructions of the actual using of the subject method for the modeling of the real-life systems.

The content of the book will be very useful for all people using the FEA, especially to the students doing their first steps in this field. The author has made a fantastic job trying to explain the element formulations and the associated limitations without going too deep into the variational calculus which would definitely make this book not too reader-friendly. For sure, every final element analysis shall be familiar with the content of the present volume, because, according to what has been pointed by the author, final element modeling in much more than just the meshing/pre-processing - it is a good numerical method to be applied for the solution.

The stress analysis by means of the FEM has been discussed in detail. The publication has been written in a form of the textbook making it very accessible to all people with the interest in the FEM. 

Another compendium of the articles relating to the latest developments in the ship stability and collected during the Fifth International Workshop dedicated to the stability and operational safety of the vessels. Among the topics covered by the programme of the conference there were wave environment monitoring, guidance to the heavy weather sailing and assessment of the risk of capsizing, case studies on SEM (static equivalent method), design of the fishing vessels in a regulation-driven environment, operational requirements and practical experience for the risk management under the conditions of marginal stability, newly developed methods of analysis of the ship and MODU dynamics in a realistic seaway, probability of capsizing of a vessel in random beam waves, model experiments to analyze damage stability of the ro-ro ferries, memory effect for prediction of the ship's capsizing and its importance, some of the newly established guidelines to conduct the HSC model tests, violent free surface flow, direct/parametric excitation analysis, numerical simulation, direct freak waves simulation, nonlinearity effect in yaw motion, non-ergocity of rolling motion of large amplitude, asymmetric surging and surf-riding etc.

Since this book is very easy to read, it is highly recommended to anyone fairly new to the construction or repair of the fiberglass boats. However, it will also be very useful for those people who are experienced since reading it will definitely increase their confidence, and this is important. This book has already helped a lot of people with their fiberglass boatbuilding and boat repair projects due to the numerous useful and practical instructions provided by the author.

Just try to follow the suggestions and instructions in this book and you will see that any difficult project may become much easier for you. Subject instructions are supplemented with a number of full colour and step-by-step image sequences as well as line drawings which were included to present readers with the very basics in a digested form.

The readers will learn how to work with different sorts of materials, e.g. fiberglass, carbon fiber, epoxy, polyester etc., improve the safety, value and appearance of their boats, save time and money when performing the repairs, fix the leaks and cracks happening to the hulls etc. and even fabricate some new components. Some other activities like restoring the gelcoat have also been discussed. This is a really nice entry-level guidance.

This is a practical and very comprehensive handbook of literary, oratorical and conversational terms, striking similes, pertinent expressions, for the embellishment of literature and speech - it will be very useful for all people who are trying to speak, read write and read in English.

The writer of this publication, Grenville Kleiser, was famous for his numerous works on inspiration and positive thinking - he is also the author of several exceptional guides on personal development and oratorical success. The title of the book is pretty self-explanatory. It presents a dynamic and very powerful method that may easily be used by all learners of English willing to attain a large vocabulary.

When applied in a correct way, the book will help readers to significantly increase their inventory of words. According to the customer reviews, the book shall be top rated because of the incredible work that has been performed by the author.

It is a very handy publication as it contains so many colourful phrases an will also be very useful for the public lecturers. Let us underline that this book will be a good choice for all lovers of the English language and prolific readers. We recommend this book to anyone working on the vocabulary and proper usage of words.

An excellent manual prepared by the professionals team of the Stanford Power Generation company. The publication contains the useful technical information concerning the recommended instruments for electrical metering and testing, provides readers with explanation of the commonly used electrical terminology and popular abbreviations; of course, as it is implied by the title of the manual, the main focus in it has been made by the authors on the generator fault finding methods - note that for the purpose of this publication, subject methods have been divided into two main groups - the group A includes the methods applicable to all generators while the group B is described in two separate chapters.

The first one is dedicated to the self-excited generators only - in this case the AVR, i.e. automatic voltage regulator, is being powered from the generator output; the second one addresses the separately excited generators, and in this case the AVR powers from the permanent magnet generator. Finally, the closing chapter of the book provides instructions on parallel operation and fault finding that are applicable to all generators. The manual will be useful for ship mechanics and electricians dealing with the maintenance of the generators.

There have been so many studies performed with the intention to find the ways of how to reduce the port turnaround times. So much of technological and logistical ingenuity was deployed by the industry professionals, such as naval architects, transport planners, production and civil engineers etc. to ensure that the vessels spend the maximum of their time at sea not in the port.

However, the application of all this energy has ever been matched by relevant studies of the effects  that these "efficiency gain" have to the lives of the seamen. This report appears to be the first detailed comparative analysis of port turnaround timing. It is also aimed to offer readers some preliminary exploration of the social cost that is incurred by seamen. The report also includes comparison between different types of vessels, such as car carriers, dry bulk and liquid bulk carriers, container ships, forest products carriers, tankers etc.

There is valuable information and tips on living in the fast turnaround vessels, including the decline in levels of manning, lack of shore leave, physical and mental wellbeing, port environments and locations etc. The publication presents a result of a very serious and practical research and is therefore recommended.