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SPCK Publishing Beyond the Setting Sun
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Not Stated Heroes of Hope 22 inspiring stories of
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Gallaudet University Press Alone in the Mainstream
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£24.70
Swan Isle Press The Men Who Killed My Mother Los hombres que
Book SynopsisA powerful account of the symbolic murder of the poet's mother. From the first poem in this bilingual edition of The Men Who Killed My Mother, it is evident that the mother in Our Mother (Nuestra Madre) is not only Fernando Valverde's. The soulful refrain of mother/madre might be anyone's mother whose suffering is palpable in a world legislated over by men. Issues such as orphanhood, abuse, violence, manipulation, and fear are treated with the rawness of someone who has tasted the venom of betrayal. This is a lyrical dark garden of faith and family, exposing treachery and cruelty, and anger at injustice, from the voice of a son with deep love for his motherfor her honor, dignity, and dreams. Valverde leads us into a forest full of wolves and serpents under the governance of civil society. He has received many awards for his poetry and is recognized as one of the most highly acclaimed poets of his generation in Spain. This heartfelt English translation by Gordon E. McNeer captures the power of Valverde's poetic cadences and its haunting evocative lyricism.
£16.00
Tupelo Press, Incorporated Cyborg Fever
Book SynopsisCyborg Fever addresses timely questions about AI, technology, and their role in shaping relationships. In Cyborg Fever, acclaimed writer Laurie Sheck brings us a probing and lyrical philosophical fiction in the spirit of Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, and Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto that enacts an incisive and moving exploration into what it means to be human in the age of AI and increasing transhumanism. Throughout Cyborg Fever, many strange, surprising facts appear: an artist clones a flower from his DNA and the DNA of a petunia, an astronaut plays golf on the moon, a mathematician on a rest cure rethinks the life of Shakespeare, and particles and antiparticles collide at lightning speed beneath the green hills of Switzerland and France. Threaded throughout, one question lingers: in this age of AI and genetic engineering, how can we come to know more fully what it means to love and be human among the wonders and destructions we have wrought on Earth? At the center of the book is the narrator, Erwin, left as an hours-old infant on the steps of an orphanage where he is named after the renowned physicist Erwin Schrodinger (of the famous Schrodinger's cat experiment). After a traumatic fall into a year-long fever dream, he experiences many visions that take him into many areas of inquiry including the nature of the universe, bioengineering, medical experimentation, cyborgs, AI, and space and time, and ultimately teaches him the nature of love. Along the way, he develops a friendship with a gentle cyborg who has escaped from a Lab involved in covert medical intervention. Guided by the cyborg and a vision of Funes (of Borges's iconic story Funes the Memorious), Erwin experiences the Information Age and the promises of AI in all its beauty and, ultimately, its terror, as he watches the cyborg he has come to love devolve into an unfeeling information machine. Throughout, issues of personhood, human attachment, and the dignity of all living beings pervade Erwin's thinking and leave him with a larger understanding and appreciation of what it means to love.
£15.20
University of Chicago Press Poems Talking to Poems Setting Your Poetry Manuscript Apart
£15.20
Wolters Kluwer Health Essent General Surg Surg Special Int
Book SynopsisCombining general surgery and the specialties in one volume, Essentials of General Surgery and Surgical Specialties, 7th Edition, focuses on the information all medical students need to know to pass the NBME surgery shelf or other surgery rotation examinations. Lawrence’s popular text offers concise, high-yield content and a smaller format ideal for study on the go. Updated to reflect the latest advances in the field and enhanced practice questions, this new edition provides the authoritative, up-to-date content today’s busy medical students need for exam success. UPDATED! Enhanced practice questions with answers and references strengthen test-taking confidence and provide instant remediation for challenging content. Comprehensive scope yields valuable study support for a wide spectrum of medical students. Combined coverage of general surgery and surgical specialties in one volume simplifies exam prep. NEW Condensed online version of the print text
£999.99
John Wiley & Sons The Black Pack Race Resistance and Black
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£21.59
John Wiley & Sons Class Cultures and Social Mobility
£23.39
Yukibooks 100 premiers mots en catalan: Imagier bilingue
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£10.24
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Interoperability – An Introduction to IFC and
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive book explaining the backbone for digital construction methods: the Industry Foundation Classes schema. Interoperable data schemas are the prerequisite to advancing the use of digital methods in the architectural engineering and construction industry. However, the predominant Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) are complex and have been focused on the representation of buildings only. With the extension for infrastructures, Interoperability aims to provide a comprehensive explanation of the IFC structure as well as its application to infrastructure assets. Finally, buildingSMART specifications are presented and contextualized for their use in digital workflows. Table of Contents1. Introduction // 2. Digital representation of built assets: general concepts // 3. The IfcBuiltElement example // 4. Visual representation of the IFC structure // 5. Organization of IFC // 6. buildingSMART specifications for interoperability // 7. IFC for infrastructure // 8. Ifc for roads // 9. Ifc for bridges // Annexe 1: Complementary chapters // 10. Linking Representation and Geometric Modeling in IFC // 11. BIM – GIS integration // 12. Schema modelling of IFC // 13. Development of IFC // Annexe 2: General Matrix // Annexe 3: Partial hierarchical tree for IFC infrastructure objects // Bibliographie
£53.20
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Risk Management Introduction to Insurance
Book SynopsisA guide to both risk management and insurance. Risk management is becoming increasingly important to companies and society in general, and Risk Management & Introduction to Insurance offers an accessible guide for anyone trying to understand it. Divided into two parts, the book first offers an introduction that examines the concept of risk and its historical context while defining the key terminology. In addition, the tools necessary for risk assessment are reviewed and the different steps of the risk management process are discussed. The second part of the book focuses on the economics of insurance, social insurance, and the private insurance market. The different branches and products of private insurance are analyzed, and an overview of the basics of calculating insurance premiums based on contractual benefits and the practice of an actuary is provided. Numerous practical applications (such as cyber risk management), examples, and illustrations complete the book. As a whole, the book is an essential reference for business school students, professionals, and anyone interested in risk management and insurance.
£38.00
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Baukultur
Book SynopsisApplies the concept of Baukultur to specific architectural practices to study their built environment. The notion of Baukultur marked a fundamental step towards a comprehensive definition of the environment. The idea that landscape, historical architectural heritage, and the existing built context could converge to portray the richness and complexity of our future habitat now points to a collective strategic approach to design. In this context, the value of architecture emerges in several economic aspects, but also and essentially as a tool to convey the culture of transition within the Baukultur. Baukultur structures a theoretical framework around these concepts leaning on the research, design, and academic experience of six architectural and urban design practices, as specific readings of the existing built environment.
£41.80
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Composites in Structural Engineering and
Book SynopsisThe personal journey of a designer and scientist through the field of fiber-polymer composites. Composites in Structural Engineering and Architecture is about the author's twenty-five-year journey as a pioneer, scientist, designer, and lecturer in the field of fiber-polymer composites as applied to structural engineering and architecture. Composites are construction materials that offer unique properties when compared to conventional materials such as reinforced concrete or steel. In addition to their excellent mechanical properties, their physical properties including low thermal conductivity, transparency, and colorallow structural building physics and architectural functions to be integrated into individual features of buildings. This merging of functions in buildings, in addition to the modular and hybrid composite construction of bridges, gives rise to novel and compelling solutions regarding structural safety, serviceability, aesthetics, economy, and sustainability. Alongside these opportunities, however, composites may also reveal limitations in their structural application, which can be caused by their anisotropy or viscoelasticity, or in terms of ductility, fatigue, fire resistance, and durability. The monograph first addresses these limitations from a scientific point of view and then demonstrates how they can be overcome through suitable structural and architectural design. Subsequently, it is shown how the opportunities can be explored and the current design space expanded, to allow composites to develop to their full potential in structural engineering and architecture.
£45.60
NuiNui Space XXL popups
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nuinui Tractors
Book SynopsisThis pop-up book explores different types of tractors and their agricultural uses, including combine harvesters. Each of the 10 double pages features a captivating pop-up and interesting facts about how these massive vehicles are used in fields and forests. Part of the Amazing Pop-Up series, the book offers an engaging and entertaining way to learn about tractors.
£11.69
MC - De Gruyter Architecture Transformed
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Birkhauser Hans and Wassili Luckhardt
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Birkhauser Building with Earth
Book SynopsisEarth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? The manual Building with Earth, which has been translated into many languages, describes the building technology of this material. The physical properties and characteristic values are explained in a hands-on manner: with proper moisture protection, earth buildings are very durable, and in particular the combination with wood or straw allows a wide spectrum of design options. Numerous built examples demonstrate the range of applications for this fully recyclable material. Fifth and revised edition of the reference work on rammed earth construction With seven new and relevant international case studies Many drawings illustrate various construction methods
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Birkhauser Conceptual Design of Structures Connecting
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Birkhauser Architecture and Welfare
Book SynopsisThe decades after the Second World War saw ambitious building programs to ensure social welfare. The Scandinavian countries in particular underwent an intense modernisation phase with the aim to distribute welfare to all. Yet, the relationship between welfare values and design in Scandinavia is anything but stable. The spatial and political legacy of post-war construction varies amongst Denmark, Sweden, and Norway and their welfare models have been changed, contested, and copied over time. This book explores how architecture, once seen as a medium for universal welfare, inclusion, and political participation, is now often associated with the opposite, such as alienation, exclusion, and segregation. The volume offers new perspectives on the history and redesign of post-war architecture and urbanity. With attractive photo essays on social housing in Scandinavia Based on an interdisciplinary research project by KTH Stockholm, Oslo School of Architecture, University of Copenhagen Internationally renown contributors shed light on aspects of the relationship between architecture and welfare
£48.60
MC - De Gruyter A History of Collective Living Forms of Shared
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MC - De Gruyter Eine Geschichte des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnens
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MC - De Gruyter Modernism in Africa The Architecture of Angola
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MC - De Gruyter Form Follows Love Deutsche Ausgabe
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£30.15
Birkhauser Temporary Tecture
Book SynopsisContemporary vernacular architecture today - and what we can learn from temporary infrastructures Temporary Tecture is a fundamental statement on the impact and significance of temporary infrastructures in the city: not only do they ensure the functioning of numerous processes - from construction and dismantling to orientation and protection - but they also shape the cityscape significantly as an overarching structure. Despite their omnipresence, these structures of necessity continue to lead a shadowy existence in both professional discourse and public perception. This book opens up a new perspective on what is described here for the first time as contemporary vernacular architecture. It shows that it even offers an architectural language from which architects can learn in terms of adaptability, use of local resources, circular economy and conceptual radicalism. A new perspective on temporary infrastructures An illustrated and inspiring publication With contributions by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Jan De Vylder and Philip Ursprung
£30.15
Diaphanes AG Invented Skins
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging exploration of skin in text, images, and cultural memory. Skin is unique to each individual. Acting as a record, it details aspects of a person and a collective memory. Each skin possesses a sensitivity that touches and it is touched by the world. It mediates temperature fluctuations and is marked by cuts, accidents, and its own history. Skin marks us in the world, giving us the outline of individuals. Invented Skins focuses on the skin to consider the social dimension of texts and images throughout cultural memory, showing that skin is a biological reality that occupies a physical and psychic space but also unfolds in the imagination.
£22.80
Diaphanes ambivalent work8727s queer perspectives and art
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Lars Muller Publishers LIGHT
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£28.00
MC - De Gruyter Toward a New Culture of the Material
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£34.67
MC - De Gruyter Themes in Alternative Investments
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£81.90
De Gruyter Corporate Governance in South Africa
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£81.90
MC - De Gruyter Islamic Microfinance Landscape Models and Future
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£61.65
Thieme Publishing Group Chinese Nutrition Therapy
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£65.25
Campus Verlag Change That Works
Book SynopsisA comprehensive companion for sustainably effective change processes. This playbook is for anyone who wants to drive change or who is asking themselves why change fails. It focuses on success factors, practical guidelines, and valuable recommendations for action to create a powerful transformation journey and tackle the dynamics, power structures, and emotions that influence every change. This book presents fundamental change principles from psychology, sociology, and systems theory in an understandable way and enriches them with the latest findings from neuroscience. An experienced team of over forty consultants from six European countries makes change tangible for topics such as culture, strategy, innovation, intrapreneurship, mergers and acquisitions, digitalization, and leadership. With one hundred change tools available for immediate download, this publication includes a ready-to-use toolbox. Illustrations by cartoonist Tex Rubinowitz also prove that change doesn't always have to be dead serious.
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Taschen GmbH Bookstand. Medium. Crystal Green
Book SynopsisThe TASCHEN bookstand brings your collection out from the confines of your bookshelves, and back to its rightful place on center-stage.The three sizes of medium, large, and extra-large allow for the secure and stylish display of almost our entire spectrum of titles, except for our gargantuan SUMOs. Also reflecting the variety within our editions, four eye-catching colors aqua blue, radiant pink, crystal green, and urban grey and a transparent version provide a fitting foundation to display TASCHEN's big, bright, and bold back catalog.Size M: Fit for Basic Art series, and all regular titlesAlso available: Size L: Can accommodate books up to our XL seriesSize XL: For all of our XXL-sized giants, including Collector's Editions (even enclosed in their clamshell box!)
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De Gruyter Amsterdam
Book SynopsisThe book documents the most exciting projects in Amsterdam's current architectural scene, including floating houses, hotels in former bridge keepers' cottages, and carefully renovated cultural monuments such as the Felix Meritis or a bicycle garage under a harbour basin. The built showcase projects provide an insight into Amsterdam's urban resilience and innovative approaches to housing. Supplementary essays and interviews with the protagonists of architecture take a look behind the scenes of their ideas workshop. They focus, for example, on new forms of housing, adaptive architectural concepts and the rediscovery of the former port and commercial areas on the banks of the IJ. The contributions complete the picture of a vibrant and forward-looking architectural culture.
£43.20
Pie International Co., Ltd. 100 Writing and Crafting Papers - Beautiful
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic The Last Thing
Book SynopsisAn English translation of Slovak Jewish writer Leopold Lahola's collection of short stories that face the atrocities and paradoxes of World War II. Slovak Jewish writer Leopold Lahola was able to escape deportation to a concentration camp and fight in the resistance only to find himself forced into exile by the postwar Communist regime. He emerged from obscurity during the brief thaw of the Prague Spring, when he was able to return to his homeland and thrive as a playwright and film director. It was also in 1968 that his short story collection The Last Thing was published in Slovakia. The collection's title proved sadly prophetic with the author suffering a fatal heart attack in January 1968, just before his fiftieth birthday and as his short stories finally appeared in book form. The nine stories which make up The Last Thing range from the prewar rise of fascism and its dangers for the Jewish community through the concentration camps and the partisan fight against the Germans, concluding in the devastating awareness of all that had been lost and destroyed in the war. Lahola is a master of writing outside of conventional tropes, exploring moral ambivalences where others work within the comforts of good versus evil. He punctures the standard historical image of the partisan fighters by depicting their heroism along with their cruelty and pettiness while also showing how often bravery and madness, kindness and stupidity can coexist. Lahola has written a World War II collection whose translation will offer not only a compelling read but also new perspectives on the tragedy and grandeur of that momentous time in history.
£18.05
HAL LEONARD Violin Positions 4 5
Book SynopsisViolin Positions 4 & 5 - the eighteen exercises and 32 pieces in this volume provide a fine collection of material for further developing your violin playing using the fourth and fifth positions. With this book a sound basis is created not just for playing in the fourth and fifth positions but also for using these in combination with the first three positions. Various styles are featured which adds educational value and makes studying extra fun.
£22.78
Double 9 Books Talks To Teachers On Psychology: And To Students
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Manohar Publishers & Distributors Mostly About Bengal
Book SynopsisThe volume is being reprinted as many of the articles are classics and still referred to by South Asian scholars." About the Author John Broomfield was Professor of modern Indian history at the University of Michigan for twenty years and has written extensively on the impact of the modern West on non-Western peoples.
£56.00
John Wiley & Sons Retelling the Tale of Two Democracies How Shifting UrbanRural Dynamics Shaped Thailands 2023 General Election
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£8.48
Astra Publishing Whos Hiding in This Box
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed creator of Brick by Brick and Peekaboo!: There’s a different animal hiding in each box of this interactive lift-the-flap board book. Follow the clues and lift the flaps to find each one! With fun patterns and footprints, young children will love figuring out who’s in each box before lifting that flap to find the answer. And the last box holds a special surprise.
£10.44
Auzou Toys Pavement Art with Chalks
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£10.63
Independently Published Daniel, Um Homem de Valor
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£7.57
Insight Editions Harry Potter: Hogwarts Stand Together Traveler's
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