The Urban Microclimate as Artifact: Towards an Architectural Theory of Thermal Diversity

Reducere. Elevated temperatures and extreme temperature gradients arise in a large variety of engineering problems, and often produced thermal stresses and t...

Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radical...

Linking together the nonlinear interactions of heat, light, power and colour, this is a groundbreaking guide to Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Systems ...

Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navar...

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Reducere. I.B.Tauris is delighted to announce the reissue in paperback in three volumes of the definitive, most comprehensive edition, in the finest translat...

Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categorySocial ScienceThis ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, outlines a theory of publishing that allows...

Clare Shaw's fourth collection shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are - and especially how we feel - as psychology. The book is inha...

This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business has evolved historically in the influential management theories and concepts. It lo...

This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1...

Sou Fujimoto (born 1971) is a Japanese architect noted for his delicate light structures and permeable enclosures. In 2014, after three years of re...

Reducere. DescriptionONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER PUBLSHED, it's the work of a creative genius whose observation, analysis, ingenuity, and daring lai...

Reducere. Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims' journey to and settlement in America. But how much of the story surrounding it is true? W...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.Publisher: Liverpool University ...

A cross-disciplinary tour-de-force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology and cultural...

Reducere. Just over 180 years ago, the city of Houston was nothing more than an alligator-infested swamp along the Buffalo Bayou that spread onto a flat, end...

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Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Luis M. A. BettencourtIllustration(s): 156 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 568Publication date: 20...

This book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian topology of cross-cultural boredom, it g...

In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not bo...

Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the CityAuthor(s): James GrahamNumber of pages: 224Collection: GSAPP TranscriptsPublication date: 201...

Reducere. In Walkscapes Francesco Careri explores the act of walking, taking a deeper look at three important moments of passage in art history-all absolutel...

Reducere. DescriptionA museum researcher must solve a decades-old mystery before she becomes the killer's next victim in this riveting dual timeline thriller...

A rigorous yet readily understood introduction to the basics of whole plant interactions with the aerial environment. It makes the mathematical asp...

Plants and Microclimate: A Quantitative Approach to Environmental Plant Physiology - Hamlyn G. Jones

Reducere. With the Declaration of Independence, the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, later ...

Publisher: Merrell Publishers LtdNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 226 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera fa...

The titles in our best-selling Design Brief series are highly praised by graphic design students, educators, and professionals worldwide as invalua...

Reducere. The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle wa...

Reducere. At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a ...