Similar to other Sports Publishing "instant" books that celebrate the achievements and championship seasons of American sports teams, Tough As Steel, Pittsburgh Steelers: 2006 Super Bowl Champions is certain to be a cherished keepsake for fans of the National Football League's best team.Follows in the tradition of recent titles like Chicago White Sox: 2005 World Series Champions with the Chicago Sun-Times. The book is packed with color photos of the team and its many Pro Bowl players and fan favorites in action, along with columns, stories, stats, and profiles first found in the pages of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.Tough As Steel, Pittsburgh Steelers: 2006 Super Bowl Champions is certain to help fans remember a truly unbelievable season for years to come.

The ideal structural steel combines high strength with high fracture toughness. This dissertation discusses the governing principles of strength and toughness, along with the approaches that can be used to improve these properties and the inherent limits to how strong and tough a steel can be.

The commanding officer of an infantry battalion in Vietnam in 1969 recounts how he took over a demoralized unit of ordinary draftees and turned it into an elite fighting force, and describes its accomplishments.