Personally speaking, I found it more pleasant to read Hammett than Chandler. Both writers are great, and deliver the best in the prose, character development, settings and all, but I found The Maltese Falcon more interesting than The Big Sleep and Farewell, my Lovely. Hammett's prose is straightforward.
The Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association (BHMA) is the trade association for North American manufacturers of commercial builders hardware. BHMA is involved in standards, code and life safety regulations and other activities that specifically impact builders hardware. more.
Brahma is Tad, or the impersonal, unconscious All-Soul. This word Brahma, from meaning originally sacred sacrificial food, came to be used for the Supreme being out of which the universe comes and unto which it returns. In later days Atman, or Highest Self, becomes the starting point of Indian cosmogonies.