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  • Business Expert Press Greatness in Construction History: Human Stories of Great People and Great Projects

    Book SynopsisThis book takes the reader to a journey through times and spaces to live the stories and glories of some eight great projects shaping the world's skyline. It uncovers the secrets of construction greatness through living the project stories first-hand, meeting with the great builders and world leaders behind the projects.The reader will witness the merger of souls into bodies of the newborn buildings, live their lives, and sometimes even their death. The journey begins with the pyramids of ancient history, on to the magic of the middle ages, to the passion of the renaissance era, down to the industrial revolution and modern ages. The book contains PMBOK Guide, Agile, and Design-Build project management reviews, hence good for both project managers and construction history fans, alike. Enjoy!

    £29.66

  • Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies,

    Rutgers University Press Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies,

    Book SynopsisFashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory and precarious moment when masculinities are defined by protests and pandemics whilst being problematized across class, ethnicity, race, gender and sexuality. Whilst a majority of men might still define themselves as ‘traditional,’ post-millennials are now talking about how they envision a future without gender boundaries and borders. Rather than being defined as a gender, masculinity has now become a style that can be worn and performed as traditional and normative codes of masculinity are modulated and manipulated. This volume includes original essays on musical pop sensation Harry Styles, rapper and producer “Puff Daddy” Sean Combs, lumbersexuals, spornosexuals, sexy daddies, and aging cool black daddies. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, this book interrogates and challenges the meaning of masculinities and the ways that they are experienced and lived. Trade Review"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"Contributors include some of the best minds in their field ... and the book’s 16 chapters are accessible to anyone interested in gender and clothing. ...Fashionable Masculinities picks apart our understanding of manhood, showing how 'masculinity has become a style that can be worn, assumed — or abjured.'" -- Derek Guy * Vulture.com & New York Magazine *Table of ContentsForewordChristopher BrewardIntroductionVicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, and Pamela Church Gibson1 Harry Styles: Fashion’s Gender ChangelingVicki Karaminas and Justine Taylor2 Puff Daddy’s Mogul Style: Penis in Furs or Surface Tensions?Nigel Lezama3 Daddy Cool: Aging Black Male Bodies and Embodied Stylin’Michael McMillan4 Unisex and Individuation: Contemporary Russian Fashion and Men’s (Self)-StylingVlad Strukov5 Spectacularizing the Male Body: Fashionable Physiques in the Age of InstagramJay McCauley Bowstead6 One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad “Bods” and the Popular Romance NovelJonathan A. Allan7 The Bodyclad Cinematic Hero: Aging, Masculinity, and Technological MediationAdam Geczy8 The Rise of the Bottom: Counterdiscourse to Challenge Heteronormativity within the Gay CommunityAndrew Reilly9 Unfashionable Goodes: The Wrong Kind of Blak and the Scandalization of Indigenous Masculinities in Settler-AustraliaBarry Judd and Nikita Vanderbyl10 The Rough and the Smooth Revisited: Masculinity, Fashion, and James Bond for a New MillenniumPamela Church Gibson11 “Coming Out” and Fitting In: The Role of Dress and Style in Fashioning Gay Men’s Identities in the New MillenniumShaun Cole12 Crip Masculinities and Everyday Dress: Intersectional Narratives of Imagination, Access, and OwnershipBen Barry13 Dandyism Revisited: From the English Gent to the SapeurOlga Vainshtein14 Beard-Grooming Brands and Products as Representations of MasculinityVictor Vey15 Gent-rifying the Stylish Neighborhood: An Examination of Retail Accommodation for the Asian Urban Male ConsumerAnne Peirson-Smith and Jennifer Craik16 A Vision of a Modern DandyJulio Mompó with Olga VainshteinAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

    £39.95

  • Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies,

    Rutgers University Press Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies,

    Book SynopsisFashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory and precarious moment when masculinities are defined by protests and pandemics whilst being problematized across class, ethnicity, race, gender and sexuality. Whilst a majority of men might still define themselves as ‘traditional,’ post-millennials are now talking about how they envision a future without gender boundaries and borders. Rather than being defined as a gender, masculinity has now become a style that can be worn and performed as traditional and normative codes of masculinity are modulated and manipulated. This volume includes original essays on musical pop sensation Harry Styles, rapper and producer “Puff Daddy” Sean Combs, lumbersexuals, spornosexuals, sexy daddies, and aging cool black daddies. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, this book interrogates and challenges the meaning of masculinities and the ways that they are experienced and lived. Trade Review"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities." -- José Blanco F. * Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois *"This text represents the future of men’s fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men’s fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men’s appearances, fashion, and lifestyles." -- Joseph H. Hancock, II * professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia *"Contributors include some of the best minds in their field ... and the book’s 16 chapters are accessible to anyone interested in gender and clothing. ...Fashionable Masculinities picks apart our understanding of manhood, showing how 'masculinity has become a style that can be worn, assumed — or abjured.'" -- Derek Guy * Vulture.com & New York Magazine *Table of ContentsForewordChristopher BrewardIntroductionVicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, and Pamela Church Gibson1 Harry Styles: Fashion’s Gender ChangelingVicki Karaminas and Justine Taylor2 Puff Daddy’s Mogul Style: Penis in Furs or Surface Tensions?Nigel Lezama3 Daddy Cool: Aging Black Male Bodies and Embodied Stylin’Michael McMillan4 Unisex and Individuation: Contemporary Russian Fashion and Men’s (Self)-StylingVlad Strukov5 Spectacularizing the Male Body: Fashionable Physiques in the Age of InstagramJay McCauley Bowstead6 One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad “Bods” and the Popular Romance NovelJonathan A. Allan7 The Bodyclad Cinematic Hero: Aging, Masculinity, and Technological MediationAdam Geczy8 The Rise of the Bottom: Counterdiscourse to Challenge Heteronormativity within the Gay CommunityAndrew Reilly9 Unfashionable Goodes: The Wrong Kind of Blak and the Scandalization of Indigenous Masculinities in Settler-AustraliaBarry Judd and Nikita Vanderbyl10 The Rough and the Smooth Revisited: Masculinity, Fashion, and James Bond for a New MillenniumPamela Church Gibson11 “Coming Out” and Fitting In: The Role of Dress and Style in Fashioning Gay Men’s Identities in the New MillenniumShaun Cole12 Crip Masculinities and Everyday Dress: Intersectional Narratives of Imagination, Access, and OwnershipBen Barry13 Dandyism Revisited: From the English Gent to the SapeurOlga Vainshtein14 Beard-Grooming Brands and Products as Representations of MasculinityVictor Vey15 Gent-rifying the Stylish Neighborhood: An Examination of Retail Accommodation for the Asian Urban Male ConsumerAnne Peirson-Smith and Jennifer Craik16 A Vision of a Modern DandyJulio Mompó with Olga VainshteinAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

    £107.20

  • Designing the City of People 4.0: Reflections on

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Designing the City of People 4.0: Reflections on

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    Book SynopsisThis book collects a set of reflections concerning the planning of contemporary cities by urban design, with a special emphasis on some needs and shortcomings emerged during the coronavirus pandemic. With the ultimate goal of designing accessible, inclusive and welcoming green cities, it discusses the urgent need for new systems of public spaces across the city, together with alternative solutions for individual mobility (especially slow mobility) and social interaction. It is intended for a broad readership, including designers, engineers, architects, social scientists, stakeholders, and public administrators, who deal with various aspects of the realization of the City 4.0.Table of ContentsHow Covid-19 has opened our eyes.- How people experience the city.- How people experience their home and the public spaces.- How human languages change.- How to improve our real-world settings.

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    £104.49

  • Industrial Design of Experiments: A Case Study

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Industrial Design of Experiments: A Case Study

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    Book SynopsisThis textbook provides the tools, techniques, and industry examples needed for the successful implementation of design of experiments (DoE) in engineering and manufacturing applications. It contains a high-level engineering analysis of key issues in the design, development, and successful analysis of industrial DoE, focusing on the design aspect of the experiment and then on interpreting the results. Statistical analysis is shown without formula derivation, and readers are directed as to the meaning of each term in the statistical analysis. Industrial Design of Experiments: A Case Study Approach for Design and Process Optimization is designed for graduate-level DoE, engineering design, and general statistical courses, as well as professional education and certification classes. Practicing engineers and managers working in multidisciplinary product development will find it to be an invaluable reference that provides all the information needed to accomplish a successful DoE. Table of Contents1) Presentations, Statistical Distributions, Quality Tools and Relationship to DoE2) Samples and Populations: Statistical Tests for Significance of Mean and Variability3) Regression, Treatments, DoE Design and Modelling Tools. 4) Two-Level Factorial Design and Analysis Techniques5) Three-Level Factorial Design and Analysis Techniques 6) DoE Error Handling, Significance and Goal Setting 7) DoE Reduction Using Confounding and Professional Experience 8) Multiple Level Factorial Design and DoE Sequencing Techniques9) Variability Reduction Techniques and Combining with Mean Analysis 10) Strategies for Multiple Outcome Analysis and Summary of DoE Case Studies and Techniques

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    £56.99

  • Design Commons: Practices, Processes and

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Design Commons: Practices, Processes and

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    Book SynopsisThis book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications. It draws out material conditions in four areas of design interest: social design, commons and culture, ecology and transdisciplinary design. As a collection of positions, the diversity of arguments advances the understanding of the commons as both concepts and modes of thinking, and their material translation when contextualised in the domain of design questions. In other words, it moves abstract social science concepts towards concrete design debates. This text appeals to students, researchers and practitioners working on design in architecture, architecture theory, urbanism, and ecology. Table of Contents1. Introduction Gerhard Bruyns and Stavros Kousoulas Part I Design, the Commons and the Social 2. Commoning as a Material Engagement of Resistance: The Struggle to Save the Albanian National TheaterDorina Pllumbi 3. AutoCostruzione-SelbstBau: Design as a Practical Knowledge Translation Process Maria Reitano and Nikolaus Gartner 4. Scaling Out, Up and Deep: Understanding the Sustainment and Resilience of Urban Commons Chun Zheng 5. Alignments of Architecture and Commoning in Tai O Village: Architecture Critique and Fields of Adversity Daniel Elkin, Chi-Yuen Leung and Xiao Lu Wang Part II Design, the Commons and Culture 6. Persistent Modeling of the Built: A Collective Experiment Merging Structural Preservation and Digital Design Between Academia and Industry Frank Bauer and Lasse Sehested Skafte 7. The Commons in African Spatial Production: A Critical Review of Geographies of Power Gert van der Merwe 8. Expressing Urban Commons: Architectural Ambiguity in the Construction of an Improvisational Future Nicholas Frayne Part III Design, the Commons and Ecology 9. Intriguing Human-Waste Commons: Praxis of Anticipation in Urban Agroecological Transitions Markus Wernli 10. The Secondary Use Group: Unlocking Waste as a Common Pool of Resources in the 1970sPiero Medici 11. Reclaiming the Habitat: Food, Fire and Affordance in Designing and Living the Urban Liana Psarologaki and Stamatis ZografosPart IV Design, the Commons and Transdisciplinarity12. Design and Commons: A Lacanian Approach Dora Karadima 13. ‘Matters of Care’ in Spaces of Commoning: Designing In, Against and Beyond Capitalism Katharina Moebus 14. Design as Commoning: Drawing Together with Care Contingent Collective (Lőrinc Vass, Roy Cloutier and Nicole Sylvia) Biographical Notes

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    £104.49

  • Creativity in Art, Design and Technology

    Springer International Publishing AG Creativity in Art, Design and Technology

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    Book SynopsisThis is an open access book.Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions. Technology can enable artists to be more creative. Scientific and artistic thinking give us two complementary tools to understand the complexity of the world, with science reducing subjective experience to essential principles and art intensifying and expanding our experiences. These examples also show how artists can push the boundaries of technology into exciting new realms that have not been explored before. The impact that art and art practice can have on culture, society, and social responsibility is explored in detail through examples and case studies. In addition, the book presents how artists are creating and reflecting cultural and societal resonance in their work. Can other disciplines help artists to be more creative? All are part of an interrelated wider society and enables artists to develop artwork fit for highly interfaced and conceptually broad contemporary contexts. This is illustrated with examples which show exciting and challenging results. Creativity in Art, Design and Technology is relevant for artists, designers, scientists and technologists. All can benefit in a major way from a greater understanding of creativity, and the ways in which mutual interaction and collaboration enables all areas to develop. The potential for the future is immense and this book signposts the way forward. Trade Review“The book is an easy read, no math or complex computer concepts, but full of inspiring and thought-provoking ideas and questions. The book does an excellent job in explaining how creativity and imagination can benefit design and implementation. … The artwork in the book is delightful, surprising, and even inspiring.” (Jon Peddie, Jon Peddie Research, jonpeddie.com, March 31, 2023)Table of ContentsPreface.- Acknowledgments.- About the Authors.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Creativity in the Arts: Traditional and New Media.- 3 Creativity and Artist Technologist.- 4 Creativity and Virtual Worlds.- 5 The Creative Process and Social Responsibility.- 6 Digital Communication as a Creative Tool.- 7 Artificial Intelligence and Creativity.- 8 Art Thinking and Design Thinking.- 9 Time and Temporality: Creative Reception and Repetition.- 10 How can Art assist Science and Technology?.- 11 Research and Development in Creativity.- 12 Epilog

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    £23.74

  • Experimental Investigation of Deep‐Sea Oil Spills

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Experimental Investigation of Deep‐Sea Oil Spills

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    Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the “Deepwater Horizon” oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the need arose for experimental data on oil and gas hydrodynamics and particle formation under deep-sea conditions. This work presents a new High-Pressure Test Center that allows for experimental oil spill research under artificial deep-sea conditions. It also contains experimental data on drop formation processes and oil drop size distributions generated within this test center and a modeling approach based on the turbulent energy dissipation that has been developed to predict the droplet sizes of an oil-and-gas jet under high pressure.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- State of Knowledge.- Development of the High‐Pressure Test Center.- Experimental Determination of Oil Droplet Sizes in an Artificial Subsea Blowout.- Summary and Outlook.- References.

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    £113.99

  • Biomimetics Biodesign and Bionics

    Springer International Publishing AG Biomimetics Biodesign and Bionics

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    Book SynopsisNature is a vast source of inspiration and information for the resolution of complex problems and can influence many varieties of design. Therefore, design, engineering, and architecture projects can benefit from solutions that were already tested and verified through evolution in the natural world.

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    £123.49

  • ExFormation

    Lars Muller Publishers Gmbh ExFormation

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  • Technology Development: Lessons from Industrial Chemistry and Process Science

    De Gruyter Technology Development: Lessons from Industrial Chemistry and Process Science

    Book SynopsisCompanies often struggle to turn successful research into viable commercial products, processes and systems. This book defines technology development and reveals methods to successfully evaluate, fund and commercialize a technology. Cases studies help the reader evaluate the connection between a technology and potential markets, set useful hypotheses, develop statistically valid conclusions, and apply those conclusions to business goals. Table of ContentsIntroduction to Technology DevelopmentTechnology Development and the Chemical Industry Method of Successful Technology Development Case Studies

    £62.10

  • Screw Compressors: Mathematical Modelling and Performance Calculation

    Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Screw Compressors: Mathematical Modelling and Performance Calculation

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    Book SynopsisAlthoughtheprinciplesofoperationofhelicalscrewmachines,ascompressors or expanders, have been well known for more than 100 years, it is only during the past 30 years that these machines have become widely used. The main reasons for the long period before they were adopted were their relatively poor e?ciency and the high cost of manufacturing their rotors. Two main developments led to a solution to these di?culties. The ?rst of these was the introduction of the asymmetric rotor pro?le in 1973. This reduced the bl- hole area, which was the main source of internal leakage by approximately 90%, and thereby raised the thermodynamic e?ciency of these machines, to roughly the same level as that of traditional reciprocating compressors. The second was the introduction of precise thread milling machine tools at - proximately the same time. This made it possible to manufacture items of complex shape, such as the rotors, both accurately and cheaply. From then on, as a result of their ever improving e?ciencies, high rel- bility and compact form, screw compressors have taken an increasing share of the compressor market, especially in the ?elds of compressed air production, and refrigeration and air conditioning, and today, a substantial proportion of compressors manufactured for industry are of this type. Despite, the now wide usage of screw compressors and the publication of many scienti?c papers on their development, only a handful of textbooks have been published to date, which give a rigorous exposition of the principles of their operation and none of these are in English.Table of ContentsScrew Compressor Geometry.- Calculation of Screw Compressor Performance.- Principles of Screw Compressor Design.- Examples of Modern Screw Compressor Designs.- Conclusions.

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  • Seasonal Affective Disorder and Light Therapy:

    Springer Seasonal Affective Disorder and Light Therapy:

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    Book SynopsisJannik Götz develops a treatment concept for sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder, commonly known as winter depression. Unlike existing solutions that focus on medical remission only, the author aims at creating a user experience that is alleviating symptoms of this disease in a motivating and hassle-free way. By utilizing a variety of research techniques, the author gains valuable user-driven insights that are directly transformed into a novel approach to light therapy. The result is a light lamp that resolves shortcomings and issues of current treatment approaches. A business plan and its associated requirements complement the overall concept.Table of ContentsSeasonal Affective Disorder and its Characteristics.- Human-Centered Design Research.- Design and Product Development.- Business Plan.

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  • German Standards: Best of German Industry

    Prestel German Standards: Best of German Industry

    Book SynopsisWide ranging and full of insightful facts, this volume features dozens of profiles of German companies that are leading the way in technology, innovation and sustainability. Germany has long been home to industries that are dedicated to high quality manufacturing, focused on technological advancements, committed to sustainability and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit. Even in uncertain economic times, the nation's leading industries manage to be both nimble and competitive. This exciting book brings together the most exemplary of those companies in an elegant and accessible format. Each company is profiled with an insightful text that presents its history, evolution, challenges and successes. Readers will learn how Germany's industrial leaders are responding to demands for deindustrialization, concerns around offshore manufacturing, and calls for climate neutrality. Multiple images include photographs of each company's products, headquarters, factory floor, offices, and the individuals behind their success. A fascinating look into what makes Germany such an industrial success story, this book is an inspiring and informative resource for anyone interested in understanding the key attributes and practices that have made German companies world leaders in their respective fields.

    £31.20

  • Geometric Trend

    Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Geometric Trend

    Book SynopsisWhether used in fashion and textiles, print or online, as tattoos, in jewellery or home furnishings, geometric patterns are one of the most recognisable and popular design trends of the last few years. The concept is simple, to use clean and unembellished lines to create a unique image. Geometric Trend serves as both a showcase for talented designers from around the world, and a source of inspiration for those looking to create a geometric themed project.

    £16.79

  • Food Trucks

    Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Food Trucks

    Book SynopsisFood Trucks are something of an institution in American culture, where they have been around for more than a century, and are now becoming a regular feature in cities across the world. These days there is a huge range of gastronomic treats available, dished up out of an incredible variety of vehicles from caravans, station wagons and vans to trucks, buses... all decorated in their own distinctive and charismatic style. This superbly illustrated volume not only takes us journey around the world to discover some of the most exciting and creative food trucks in countries including Spain, France, Brazil, the USA, and Mexico. Not only are readers introduced to the gorgeous trucks themselves, but they also learn more about the design themes behind each truck, and the mouth-watering food each pop-up serves including recipes for signature dishes!

    £14.39

  • Legible - Visible: Between the Film Frame and the

    Editorial Tenov S.L. Legible - Visible: Between the Film Frame and the

    Book SynopsisLegible-Visible explores the relationship between print publications and audiovisual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time--and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mela Davila and Maite Munoz here show how the arrival of inexpensive home video technologies in the 1970s and then of digital media at the turn of the millennium sparked revolutions in the creation and diffusion of both video artworks and artists' publications. Davila proposes a theoretical and historical framework for works long dismissed by the market because of their serial nature, while Munoz shows how artists have taken advantage of the permeability between publications and audiovisual elements. The first book-length work to study artists' publications and video in relation to each other, Legible-Visible will enable new ways of thinking about a number of contemporary artists and their work.

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  • 3D Printing Architecture: Workflows,

    Springer Verlag, Singapore 3D Printing Architecture: Workflows,

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    Book SynopsisThis book investigates how architectural design advances as a result of the rapid developments in 3D Printing. As this technology become more powerful, faster and cheaper, novel workflows are becoming available and revolutionizing all stages of the design process, from early spatial concepts, to subsequent project development, advanced manufacturing processes, and integration into functional buildings. Based on a literature review and case studies of ten built projects, the book discusses the implications of the ongoing manufacturing revolution for the field of architecture.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Architecture.- 3. Optimized Structures: AirMesh.- 4. Architectural Ornament: Timescapes.- 5. Architecture Meets Organic Matter: Sombra Verde and White Spaces.- 6. Interfacing Printed and Standard: OH Platform, Metadata, and Makerspace.-7. Systems Integration.- 8. Realtime Costing: v-Mesh.- 9. Assembly Strategies: AirTable.- 10. Outlook.

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  • Editorial Gustavo Gili Cuatro Horizontes: Una Visita a la Capilla de

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  • Editorial Gustavo Gili Conversación Polifónica Sobre Diseño Y Otras

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  • Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacin Cientfica de la Universidad de Mlaga La crítica de diseño gráfico en la revista Arte Comercial 19461952

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Digital Video for the Desktop

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  • Taylor & Francis Managing Complexity and Creating Innovation through Design

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd CyberneticExistentialism Freedom Systems and

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    Book SynopsisCybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the universal science' of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique art. In this study, Steve Dixon examines how a range of artists' works reveal the ideas of Existentialist philosophers including Kierkegaard, Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal recurrence, the absurd, and being-for-others. Simultaneously, these artworks are shown to engage in complex explorations of concepts proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Shannon, and Bateson on information theory and noise', feedback loops, circularity, adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence. Dixon's groundbreaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledTable of Contents1. Introduction: Cybernetics and Existentialism in Arts and Popular Culture; 2. Visual Art: The Aesthetics of Systems; 3. Interactive Art: Communicating, Controlling and Being-for-Others; 4. Participatory Art: Autopoiesis with Strangers; 5. Theater Art: Staging Cybernetics, Dread, and the Existential Crisis; 6. Performance art: actualizing science fiction and invoking transcendence; 7. Identity Art: The Adaptive System of the Authentic Self; 8. Uncanny Art: Existential Absurdity within Cybernetic Environments; 9. Conclusion: the eternal return and being-in-new-systems

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  • Taylor & Francis No Plastic Sleeves

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    Book SynopsisA polished and professional portfolioâincluding both print pieces and an online presenceâis more important than ever for photographers, graphic designers, and other creative professionals to make a great first impression and secure employment. This new third edition of No Plastic Sleeves has been thoroughly updated across all facets of portfolio production, including increased coverage on self-promotion, social media, branding, online promotion, new and updated interviews, case studies, and more. Including hundreds of photos, examples of successful design from both students and professionals, and interviews with industry professionals, this text will guide you through the complete process of conceptualizing, designing, developing, branding, and promoting all the interconnected aspects of your total portfolio package, including teaching you how to: Objectively evaluate and edit your work Develop a distinguishing brand concept and iTable of Contents1. Authors’ Note 2. Step 1: Evaluate and Edit 3. Step 2: Branding 4. Step 3A: Cover Design 5. Step 3B: Materials and Forms 6. Step 4: Interior Book Pages 7. Step 5: Book Construction 8. Step 6: Portfolio Website & Online/Social Presence 9. Step 7: Self-Promotion 10. Step 8: Professional Materials 11. Contributors

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode

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  • Taylor & Francis Making Architecture Through Being Human

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