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The Illusion of Certainty

The Illusion of Certainty: Health Benefits and Risks peels away the "veneer of certainty" which many of us attach to health ...

The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016

This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of ...

The Landscapists / Ed Wall

Who defines the landscapes around us? What practices are employed as contemporary landscapes are produced? This issue argues ...

The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy

This book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they ...

The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors

This book contains general (tutorial) and topical reviews, written by leading researches in the area of organic superconductors ...

The Physics of Semiconductors

The Physics of Semiconductors provides material for a comprehensive upper-level-undergrauate and graduate course on the subject, ...

The Poetics of Arabian Suqs : A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present / Jasmine Shahin

Investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ...

The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics

These papers cover a wide range of topics; what ties them together is the rational spirit. Clifford Truesdell, in his address ...

The Seine River Basin

This book reviews the water-agro-food and socio-eco-system of the Seine River basin (76,000 km2), and offers a historical ...

The Simplicity Principle : Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World / Julia Hobsbawm

The Simplicity Principle challenges the assumption that all things that are complex have to stay that way. It helps keep ...

The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power

Discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance ...

The Territorial Future of the City

The volume brings together contributions by leading scholars and young academics with experience in the urban potential of ...

The Urban Sketching Handbook Techniques for Beginners : How to Build a Practice for Sketching on Location / Suhita Shirodkar

Learn the basics of value, color mixing, and perspective through helpful studies and exercises, whether at home, in studio, ...

The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics

This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives—historical, philosophical, psychological, ...

The Work: Architecture, Urban Design, Drawings, and Sculptures / Rob Krier

After graduating, Krier first worked with O. M. Ungers and Frei Otto before setting up his own studios in Vienna and Berlin. ...

The boundary element method with programming : For engineers and scientists

This thorough yet understandable introduction to the boundary element method presents an attractive alternative to the finite ...

The complete urban sketching companion : essential concepts and techniques from the urban sketching handbooks / Gabriel Campanario, Stephanie Bower, Shari Blaukopf

Provides instruction and inspiration for sketching architecture, cityscapes, people, and motion, plus lessons on perspective ...

The power of scarcity : leveraging urgency and demand to influence customer decisions / Mindy Weinstein

Drive revenue and grow your business by using the powerful concept of scarcity.

Thin Place Design : Architecture of the Numinous / Phillip James Tabb

Aims to expand the discussion about thin places, how they work and why they are important. It explores the origins and characteristics ...

Thin-Walled Composite Beams

A decisive factor that has fueled thisgrowing activity was generatedby highdiversity and severity ofdemandsand operating ...

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