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A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980

This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...

A Language of Contemporary Architecture : An Index of Topology and Typology / Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim

Provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary ...

Advanced REIT Portfolio Optimization : Innovative Tools for Risk Management / W. Brent Lindquist,

This book provides an investor-friendly presentation of the premises and applications of the quantitative finance models ...

Advances in Control, Signal Processing and Energy Systems

Covers topics on both theoretical control systems and their applications across engineering domains such as automatic control, ...

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities : A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece / Sofia Voutsaki, Paul Cartledge

Sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century ...

Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe : Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space / J.R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge, Pieter Martens, R.L.M. Morris

Draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, ...

Basics design and living / :Jan Krebs

Residential Buildings are normally the first design projects encountered by the student in his or her training. The focus ...

Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design / Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Sabine T. Kriebel

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and ...

Best of detail : Holz / wood / Christian Schittich

Brings together highlights from DETAIL about wood as a material. Besides a theoretical basis, the publication also offers ...

Building Children's Worlds : The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks / Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, Emma Hayward

Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed ...

Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This collection of papers ...

Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden

Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...

Chemistry from First Principles

This book examines the appearance of matter in its most primitive form, from the vacuum and the diversity that results from ...

Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness

This edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within ...

Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States

This book explores a collective action perspective on the formation of pre-modern states, but does not only promote a new ...

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England : Ravenous Natures

Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...

Contemporary Qualitative Research

This volume offers a unique set of research exemplars for science, mathematics and technology educators. The volume explores ...

Critical practices in architecture : the unexamined / Jonathan Y Bean; Susannah Dickinson; Aletheia Ida; Jane Rendell

Embraces the idea that in today's complex world, multiple, emerging perspectives are critical to the design fields, the ...

David Chipperfield Architects = Architektur und Baudetails : Architecture and Construction Details / Sandra Hofmeister

De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...