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economically that many of the envionmental problems--and all of the policical problems discussed in the book had become outdated.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.

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The LEGIS team.

Technical Analysis LEGIS experts use on-site inspections as well as a knowledge of the latest technical tools to evaluate evidence.

Causation Analysis LEGIS experts offer expert assistance in analyzing and evaluating safety and industrial events as an aid in determining causation.

LEGIS experts and associates research such issues as population exposure to radiation, military safety and issues and homeland security.

Security LEGIS experts offer assistance regarding site security issues, including an analysis of geographical and political events and trends that may affect client assets.