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Publications
LEGIS CORPORATION, in 1991 entered the publishing business with a small book
for safety professionals titled: 1000 Industrial Hygiene Short-Shorts. Thus
LEGIS BOOKS was born. Not long after that, LEGIS published Environmental
Projects in Eastern Europe--Laying the Groundwork. Based on the
author's time spent in Soviet Latvia and Estonia evaluating phenol companies,
shale oil facilities, paper mills and hazardous waste pits, the book described
the various hazards---environmental as well as personal--that the environmental
professional could expect to face in the former Soviet Union. By the mid-1990's,
however, the Soviet Union had vanished and many of the republics discussed in
the book---Estonia and Latvia in particular, were doing so well economically
that many of the envionmental problems--and all of the policical problems discussed
in the book had become outdated. Thus, it was allowed to go quietly out of print.
A recognized problem in environmental work in the early 1990s
involved access to meteological data. For example, while it was relatively
east to obtain wind, temperature and pressure data, it was somewhat more difficult
to access secondary information such as aspergillus counts on a particular
day. So, in 1992, LEGIS published a small book that addressed this issue. It
was titled A
Brief Guide to Meteorological Data for Environmental and Safety Professionals and
detailed a list of sources for the more obscure meteorological data, as well
as a discussion of the means of estimating Gaussian dispersion patterns.
By 2000, however, most (but not all) of the sources listed in the book were
available on the Internet, and thus, this publication was also allowed to
go out of print.
During the mid-1990s, LEGIS supported the publication of other
books somewhat removed from the classic environmental/safety paradigm. As a
result, it was decided to create a separate company within LEGIS that would
have free reign to publish whatever it wanted. And so, Two-Sixty Press was
born. It was named, incidentally, for the small but sturdy eight-cylinder engine
built by the Ford Motor Company for it's 1964 Fairlane 500. According to the
President of LEGIS, the 260 V8 was an engine that could accelerate to 80 mph
within a matter of seconds and could reach 110 mph with no trouble at all.
For an offshoot company, Two-Sixty Press did surprisingly
well, publishing not only one book, but a mini-series (The U.S. Atlas of Nuclear
Fallout) as well as two novels.
While LEGIS CORP focuses on technical matters such
as those listed here, Two-Sixty Press, led by Editor, Kim Shaw, gets into just
about everything else: fiction, music and film.
So, if you are interested in hard science, evidence and good
research, LEGIS CORP is probably for you . If you're interested in reading
about the results of good science--such as in The U.S. Atlas of Nuclear
Fallout--or even fiction about good science, then
Two-Sixty Press is probably for you.
We're glad you stopped by to learn
something about LEGIS!
The LEGIS team.
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Technical Analysis
LEGIS experts use on-site inspections as well as a knowledge
of the latest technical tools to evaluate evidence.
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Causation Analysis
LEGIS experts offer expert assistance in analyzing and evaluating safety and
industrial events as an aid in determining causation.
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LEGIS experts and associates research such issues as population
exposure to radiation, military safety and issues and homeland security.
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Security
LEGIS experts offer assistance regarding site security issues, including an
analysis of geographical and political events and trends that may affect client
assets.
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