Like the meandering Missouri River nearby, the riveting history of Drake-Williams Steel flows through 125 years of the American industrial revolution mostly under the direction of one family with three sets of brothers. The venerable Hugh Williams joined a fledgling boiler company in 1897 about the time of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. His sons Arthur and Walter operated the company through the Great Depression in an era of dragline buckets, boilers, and tanks. The company had built the largest and tallest smokestack and was proud of it. Arthur s sons Hugh (the author of this book) and Mike grew the company into the era of structural steel fabrication through boom-and-bust times in the construction industry. Today the company continues to expand under the able leadership of Hugh s sons David and John as Drake-Williams Steel supplies structural steel to help fuel Omaha's and the Midwest's upward growth and quite literally provides the framework for many of the area's most prominent buildings. This is not the story of buildings and structures, but of the strength and fortitude of strong men (and a few women) in a business that celebrates its 125th anniversary and has no intention of slowing down.

The Cardwells and Savages are back in Steel Resolve, the first book in Cardwell Ranch: Montana Legacy, a new series by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels—plus the bonus classic that started it all! Steel Resolve Mary Cardwell Savage never meant to send that letter to her ex, Chase Steele. How could she know her words would bring the gorgeous cowboy back to Big Sky, Montana—with an unstable and dangerous stalker following close behind? Now Chase wants to prove that their love deserves a second chance. And this time, nothing will keep him from his heart’s desire…not even a killer. Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on Hudson Savage again. Until a bunch of old bones turn up on her family ranch. Now the interim marshal, Hud, is back in her life to investigate the decades-old crime. And Dana is the unsuspecting target of a killer in the canyon—and on round-the-clock watch for Hud’s heartload of regret.

This book tells the story of how THE BOW – the tallest office tower in Western Canada – came to be, resulting in an architectural marvel and new icon for the energy industry in Calgary.

As a runaway, Josie Edwards has no idea of the dangers and hardships that lurk within the black swamp regions of Ohio when she runs away from home after the death of her mother. It doesn’t take long for trouble to find her and soon she’s running from more than just home. When she meets a handsome town sheriff, she quickly realizes that even he may not be able to save her from the clutches of evil within the muddy trenches of the region. The worst of it is that the new friends and even enemies she’s made just may pay the price with her as an outlaw chases her down and seeks revenge, ravishing everything he touches. She finds that she has a lot of forgiving to do and a lot to be thankful for, and hopes in the end that others can do the same.

The character-driven short fiction and poetry of Susan Knier are on full display in her fifth collection, “The Week Before Evanston.” In these pages, you will meet a U.S. president hilariously in touch with his inner child, a woman who fabricates her history in a desperate bid to win friends, a grandfather harboring a life-altering secret and many memorable others. These stories speak to the core of human motivation: Why do we behave as we do, especially if the results are unpredictable, disappointing or perhaps dangerous? The engaged, open-minded reader will find much to ponder in the author’s dream accounts. These pieces crisscross genres and sometimes defy categorization. Dystopian scenarios, humor and social commentary stand next to encounters with rogue creatures and even a classic nightmare or two.

Although the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering have both experienced their own historical development, their interaction has resulted in many fascinating and delightful structures. To take this interaction to a higher level, there is a need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persuade architects and structural engineers to further collaborate in this process, exploiting together new concepts, applications and challenges. This set of book of abstracts and full paper searchable CD-ROM presents selected papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Structures and Architecture Conference (ICSA2016), organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal (July 2016), to promote the synergy in the collaboration between the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering.