MARC details
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| fixed length control field |
02439 am a2200313 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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| control field |
ocm0140219617 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
780302s1978 enkac r 001 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0140219617 (paperback) |
| 029 ## - OTHER SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| OCLC library identifier |
V36505 |
| 029 ## - OTHER SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| OCLC library identifier |
V31856 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Modifying agency |
OCoLC |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
624.171 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gordon, J. E. |
| Fuller form of name |
(James Edward), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1913- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
79493 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Structures, or, Why things don't fall down / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
J.E. Gordon. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Harmondsworth : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Penguin, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1978. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
395 pages, 24 pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, ports ; |
| Dimensions |
18 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
A pelican original |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-390) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The structures in our lives - or how to communicate with engineers -- Part One: The difficult birth of the science of elasticity -- Why structures carry loads - or the springiness of solids -- The invention of stress and strain - or Baron Cauchy and the decipherment of Young's modulus -- Designing for safety - or can you really trust strength calculations? -- Strain energy and modern fracture mechanics - with a digression on bows, catapults and kangaroos -- Part Two: Tension structures -- Tension structures and pressure vessels - with some remarks on boilers, bats and Chinese junks -- Joints, fastenings and people - also about creep and chariot wheels -- Soft materials and living structures - or how to design a worm -- Part Three: Compression and bending structures -- Walls, arches and dams - or cloud-capp'd towers and the stability of masonry -- Something about bridges - or Saint Benezet and Saint Isambard -- The advantage of being a beam - with observations on roofs, trusses and masts -- The mysteries of shear and torsion - or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie -- The various ways of failing in compression - or sandwiches, skulls and Dr Euler -- Part Four: And the consequence was ... -- The philosophy of design - or the shape, the weight and the cost -- A chapter of accidents - a study in sin, error and metal fatigue -- Efficiency and aesthetics - or the world we have to live in. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Structural analysis (Engineering) |
| 9 (RLIN) |
43001 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Structural engineering |
| 9 (RLIN) |
42993 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Pelican original |
| 9 (RLIN) |
49184 |
| 907 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT G, LDG (RLIN) |
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.b10010622 |
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160930 |
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011116 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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0 |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
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c |
| Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) |
011115 |
| Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) |
m |
| First Date, FD (RLIN) |
a |
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eng |
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enk |
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0 |