Handbook of Soil Mechanics 
Subtitle: Applications of Soil Mechanics in Practice (Kezdi, Arpad//Handbook of Soil Mechanics Revised Edition)
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: June 1, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780444988430
First sentence: In Soil Mechanics  more often than in any other science  the activity to be performed will consist of the prediction of events, which means the anticipation of occurrences to a certain depth whereby the decision then made is verified in the future.