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Book SynopsisPeter Marshâs book has long been recognized as a standard work. With its emphasis on the commercial aspects of contracting, this book represents an eminently practical guide to this complex subject for purchaser and contractor alike. This edition reflects recent changes in case law and legislation, the major change being the passing of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. The book also charts changes to model forms of contract conditions, in particular the new PACE forms of government contracts. Contracts covered are those for the construction of buildings and civil engineering works, the supply and installation of mechanical, electrical and process plants and also for computer system and facilities management. Methods of contracting, including PFI schemes, are critically examined and reference is made to the Governmentâs latest thinking on prime contracting. As in previous editions, this book covers contract planning and contract administration, deals with boTrade Review’The first two parts deal with procurement issues, tendering and placing the contract. The former concentrates on current trends and provides a good overview of this area. The latter aspects are very thoroughly covered. There is an apparent engineering bias with an element of emphasis on joint venture procurement, as such, could be recommended as further reading for final year undergraduate and post-graduate students and practitioners.’ Building EngineerTable of ContentsContents: Contract Planning: Planning process; The contract plan; Legal issues arising from the contract plan. Tendering and Placing the Contract: Competitive tendering; Single tender negotiation; Planning the tender; Joint ventures and consortia; Tender preparation; Tender appraisal; Placing the contract. Terms and Conditions of Contract: Standard terms of contract - I; Standard terms of contract - II; Contract price; Terms of payment; Time for completion; Sub-contracting; Delivery; Defects - guarantees and remedies; Insurance and indemnity; Functions of architect/engineer/project manager and the purchaser; Variations in price and time; Claims and their negotiation; Dispute resolution; Particular forms of contract. Appendices: Draft instructions to tenderers for a plant contract; Bid desirability questionnaire; Questionnaire for site visits; Index.

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Book Synopsis This handbook explains all the ways trees are essential for our climate, our urban and rural environment, our society and our mental health Table of ContentsIntroduction 6 1 TREES AND THE WORLDTrees and the Climate 14Trees, Soil and Fungi 20Trees and Wildlife 26Agroforestry 32 2 TREES AND HAPPINESSShade and Shelter 42Trees and Pollution 46Why Climbing Trees is Good for You 50Expanding Tree-based Play 52Trees and Mental Health 54Community and Reduced Crime 58 3 GROWING TREESRaising Your Own Trees 64Growing Apple Trees on Their Own Roots 68How to Plant a Tree 70Keeping Your Tree Healthy 74Using Woodchip in Your Garden 76 4 THE FORTY BEST TREESMapleAlderBanksiaBirch BottlebrushChestnutBean TreeCedarCercisDogwoodHazelHawthornHandkerchiefGum TreeSpindleBeechFigAshHoney LocustHollyWalnutMagnoliaAppleRedwoodMulberry IronwoodPinePlane AspenAlmondCherryPlumPearOakMangroveBlack LocustWillowElderSorbusElm Guide to Tree Identification 160 5 TREES AND THE ECONOMYBuy Wood to Save the World 166Working With Trees 170 Further Reading 173Index 174Acknowledgments 176

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book, magisterial in compass, insightful, readable and the footnoted asides are a delight. Students, academics and those unconnected with the world of formal education will find much to enjoy and to inform. -- Kevin Edwards, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Aberdeen This is a worthy book full of rich detail, engaging with political philosophy very much on its own terms. Notably reader-friendly ! Fifty photos plus sixty tailor-made graphics make concepts lucid for non-specialists, and serve as concise summaries for professionals. Explanations of techniques and terminology offer keys which open doors for further reading ! Professor Simmon's book is one many kinds of readers will appreciate ! a book of such scale, so lively in style, inevitably stimulates arguments ! Readers will certainly find both information and enjoyment as I did This is easily one of the more successful and authoritative books on the environmental history of the UK and arguably the most successful to date in bringing the human and environmental together with equal understanding. It is well written, imparts a real breadth to the problem and moves freely between the large-scale perspective and the case study or local illustration. For those who are teaching the environmental history of the UK, this will be a benchmark text. Accessible, entertaining, tremendously well exemplified throughout, and a very thorough overview of British environmental history ! an idiosyncratic and magisterial overview of a complex and fascinating topic Both residents and vistors should find much of value in this informative text. -- K. B. Sterling, formerly Pace University Choice This is an excellent book, magisterial in compass, insightful, readable and the footnoted asides are a delight. Students, academics and those unconnected with the world of formal education will find much to enjoy and to inform. This is a worthy book full of rich detail, engaging with political philosophy very much on its own terms. Notably reader-friendly ! Fifty photos plus sixty tailor-made graphics make concepts lucid for non-specialists, and serve as concise summaries for professionals. Explanations of techniques and terminology offer keys which open doors for further reading ! Professor Simmon's book is one many kinds of readers will appreciate ! a book of such scale, so lively in style, inevitably stimulates arguments ! Readers will certainly find both information and enjoyment as I did This is easily one of the more successful and authoritative books on the environmental history of the UK and arguably the most successful to date in bringing the human and environmental together with equal understanding. It is well written, imparts a real breadth to the problem and moves freely between the large-scale perspective and the case study or local illustration. For those who are teaching the environmental history of the UK, this will be a benchmark text. Accessible, entertaining, tremendously well exemplified throughout, and a very thorough overview of British environmental history ! an idiosyncratic and magisterial overview of a complex and fascinating topic Both residents and vistors should find much of value in this informative text.

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Book SynopsisIn this systematic account of aesthetics in relation to the natural environment, Emily Brady provides critical understanding of what aesthetic appreciation of nature involves and develops her own distinctive aesthetic theory.Trade ReviewEmily Brady's timely Aesthetics of the Natural Environment provides a clear and systematic introduction to central topics in environmental aesthetics ! An excellent resource for anyone new to the area. Admirably comprehensive coverage of the subject. -- Professor Arnold Berleant, Emeritus Professor, Long Island University, USA Emily Brady's timely Aesthetics of the Natural Environment provides a clear and systematic introduction to central topics in environmental aesthetics ! An excellent resource for anyone new to the area. Admirably comprehensive coverage of the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Aesthetic Appreciation; Aesthetic Experience; Aesthetic Qualities; Aesthetic Value; 2. Early Theories of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature; Aesthetic Appreciation before the 18th century; The Beautiful, the Sublime and the Picturesque; Romanticism and After; Towards the Contemporary Debate; 3. Culture, Art and Environment; Nature and Culture; Appreciating Art and Natural Environments; Meaning, Interpretation and Cultural Landscapes; 4. Contemporary Theories of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature; The Contemporary Debate; Cognitive Theories; Non-Cognitive Theories; 5. The Integrated Aesthetic I: Multi-Sensuous Engagement and Disinterestedness; The Integrated Aesthetic; Multi-Sensuous Engagement; Disinterestedness; Disinterestedness and Valuing Nature; 6. The Integrated Aesthetic II: Imagination, Emotion and Knowledge Imagination; Imagination and Natural Environments; The Communicability of Imagination; Emotion, Expressive Qualities and Nature; Knowledge in the Integrated Aesthetic; 7. Aesthetic Judgements of the Natural Environment and Aesthetic Communication; Aesthetic Judgements and Objectivity; Aesthetic Judgements of Nature; Agreement, Disagreement and the Problem of Taste; Aesthetic Communication; Aesthetic Criticism and Environmental Aesthetic Education; 8. Aesthetics, Ethics and Environmental Conservation; Aesthetic Value in Environmental Conservation; Landscape Character and the Integrated Aesthetic; Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Integrity: The Case of the Harris Superquarry; Aesthetics, Ethics and Conservation; Aesthetics and Respect for Nature; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental issues in the USA are more important now than ever before. The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina, growing evidence of global warming, and a struggling national energy supply highlight the unfolding crisis. Environmental fears translate into US automobile giants plying consumers with ''fuel efficient'' cars in the ''MPG Lounge'' of sales. Politicians talk of energy independence and getting tough on polluters. Fears gravitate around a fast-approaching doomsday scenario, an environmental endgame, of wholesale collapse, unless something is done.Yet fears of doomsday are nothing new. John Wills shows how the current environmental crisis is firmly rooted in the past. As well as explaining how today''s problems are manifestations of older systems of economics, culture and politics, he also argues that America has already witnessed a range of ''doomsday scenarios,'' both real and imagined. He identifies and explores a cast of ''doomsday landscapes'' that includes the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, the ''Fable for Tomorrow'' town featured in Rachel Carson''s Silent Spring (1962), and Nevada''s Doom Towns 1 and 2 blown apart by atomic testing in the 1950s. He reflects on contemporary ruminations over whether nature as a category endures given both the rising contamination of the US landscape and consumer proclivity for celebrating fake mementos of the outdoors (such as plastic lawn flamingos and artificial plants). And most significantly, he poses the question of whether Americans have been inviting doomsday through their long-term environmental actions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Border Crossings; 1. First Nations; 2. The Colonial Gaze; 3. The Fur Trade; 4. Forging National Landscapes; 5. Saving Nature; 6. Water Wars; 7. North American Doomsdays; 8. Environmental Protest; 9. Contemporary Boundaries; Conclusion: The 49th Parallel.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental issues in the USA are more important now than ever before. The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina, growing evidence of global warming, and a struggling national energy supply highlight the unfolding crisis. Environmental fears translate into US automobile giants plying consumers with ''fuel efficient'' cars in the ''MPG Lounge'' of sales. Politicians talk of energy independence and getting tough on polluters. Fears gravitate around a fast-approaching doomsday scenario, an environmental endgame, of wholesale collapse, unless something is done.Yet fears of doomsday are nothing new. John Wills shows how the current environmental crisis is firmly rooted in the past. As well as explaining how today''s problems are manifestations of older systems of economics, culture and politics, he also argues that America has already witnessed a range of ''doomsday scenarios,'' both real and imagined. He identifies and explores a cast of ''doomsday landscapes'' that includes the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, the ''Fable for Tomorrow'' town featured in Rachel Carson''s Silent Spring (1962), and Nevada''s Doom Towns 1 and 2 blown apart by atomic testing in the 1950s. He reflects on contemporary ruminations over whether nature as a category endures given both the rising contamination of the US landscape and consumer proclivity for celebrating fake mementos of the outdoors (such as plastic lawn flamingos and artificial plants). And most significantly, he poses the question of whether Americans have been inviting doomsday through their long-term environmental actions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Border Crossings; 1. First Nations; 2. The Colonial Gaze; 3. The Fur Trade; 4. Forging National Landscapes; 5. Saving Nature; 6. Water Wars; 7. North American Doomsdays; 8. Environmental Protest; 9. Contemporary Boundaries; Conclusion: The 49th Parallel.

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Book SynopsisA study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be separated. Vision embraces panoramic seeing from high places, but also the seeing of ghosts and spectres when madness and hallucination impinge upon landscape. The rise of geology and the spread of empires upset the existing comfortable orders of comprehension of landscape. Reverie and imagination produced powerful interpretive actions, while landscape in French culture proved central to the rejection of conservative classicism in favour of perceptual questioning of experience. The experience of subjectivity proved central to the perception of landscape while the visual culture of landscape became of paramount importance to modernity during the period in question.Trade Review'...a consistently illuminating and eloquent study of landscape perception and its metaphoric resonances throughout the visual and literary arts of nineteenth-century Europe. The remarkable breadth of reference and the inter-media range of the book will engage a wide academic audience concerned with the prevailing and interwoven tropes of nature, the visual imagination, and cultural identity during this period...' Brian Lukacher, Vassar College, USA ’In shuttling across the field of landscape and visual culture, Charlesworth does not restrict himself to landscape painting, but rather widens his view, developing, as a result, a highly inter-textual treatment of the field of landscape and visual culture. The resulting volume is a rich exploration of the intersections across the registers of cultural media, taking in painting, literature novels, gardens and public entertainments. ...the result of reading this volume is a sense of time well spent and of many things having been learned, the sort of polymathical education that too few contemporary volumes manage to deliver.’ Landscape HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Panorama; Ghosts and visions; Into the abyss of time; Reverie and imagination; Cythera and the loss of Venus in France; The 'new Cythera': Bougainville, Hodges, Gaugin in Tahiti; Monet re-states and Mallarmé suggests the subject matter; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisRetrieving the term 'baroque' from the margins of art history, where it has been sidelined as 'anachronistic', scholars from a range of disciplines reconsider the usefulness of the term 'baroque'. This book attempts re-engagement with the term 'baroque' - its promise, its limits, and its overlooked potential - in relation to the visual arts.Trade ReviewWinner, Paul Mellon Centre Publication Grant 'The baroque - the concept, not the period - has had a paradoxical destiny in the last few decades. Prudently shunned by academic historians of seventeenth-century European art and culture, it reemerges regularly - if uncritically - in textbooks and art exhibitions, on the one hand, and as an adjective in discussions of contemporary, postmodern culture on the other. Rethinking the Baroque from a serious, scholarly point of view, is thus a well-needed enterprise, and this collection of essays by some of the most important thinkers of our time marvelously tackles the task.' Renaissance Quarterly '... this book’s greatest contribution is that it prompts historians of Baroque art and architecture to look again at the term and its implications, and with the aid of Deleuze’s "fold" reassess the period through the prism of its very construction and history as an archive worthy of study.' The Burlington Magazine 'Perhaps we sympathize with the baroque today because, as participants in a postmodern world, we are painfully aware of being suspended between the epistemological and the ontological-that is, between the way things seem and the way they are. We can no longer speak of the past in confident positivist terms and are only too cognizant that, like Walter Benjamin, we are blindly collecting shards of history for our own use. The question of what we as scholars, educators, and students do with these fragments is one of the many perplexing ones raised by this stimulating volume.' CAA Reviews 'Hill's purpose in assembling such a vibrant and diffuse collection of essays on the baroque was to 'trouble the smooth waters of a linear historicism' (p. 91), and this collection certainly succeeds in doing that ... Together, the essays offer a stimulating demonstration of the breadth of approach currently being taken in relation to the baroque.' Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsContents: Section I Rethinking the Baroque: Introduction: Introduction: rethinking the Baroque, Helen Hills; The Baroque: the grit in the oyster of art history, Helen Hills. Section II Baroque as Style: On sculptural relief: malerisch, the autonomy of artistic media and the beginnings of Baroque studies, Alina Payne; Ottoman Baroque: the limits of style, Howard Caygill. Section III Rethinking Baroque Art History: Discomfited by the Baroque: a personal journey, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; Reframing the Baroque: on idolatry and the threshold of humanity, Claire Farago. Section IV Baroque Traditions: Nicholas Hawksmoor's drawing technique of the 1690s and John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Anthony Geraghty; The real in the Rococo, Glenn Adamson. Section V Benjamin's Baroque: Benjamin and the Baroque: posing the question of historical time, Andrew Benjamin. Section VI Baroque Folds: Baroque matters, Mieke Bal; The Baroque fold as map and as diagram, Tom Conley; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisToday's facility manager is faced with a cross-section of job responsibilities and functions. Facility Management Reference Library CD, Second Edition is a comprehensive 11-volume reference library covering, from a facility manager's perspective, everything from water systems, facility assessment, air quality, lighting, boilers, and pumps to asset protection and terrorism. With more than 3,800 pages of text and graphics, this CD is an economical training, research, and reference resource. This powerful information tool allows you to print, create custom documents, and easily find the information that you need.Table of ContentsBioterrorism: A guide for facility managers. Cyber terrorism: A guide for facility managers. Facility manager's guide to security: Protecting your assets. Handbook of facility assessment. Water quality & systems: A guide for facility managers, second edition. Disaster & recovery planning: A guide for facility managers, third edition. Facility manager's handbook. Indoor air quality: A guide for facility managers, second edition. Lighting upgrades: A guide for facility managers, second edition. Boiler operator's handbook. Pump user's handbook: Life extension.

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Book SynopsisWhy do we treat our dogs as people but prefer pigs as bacon?‘Lucid, informed and persuasive’ Evening Standard ‘Thought-provoking’ Daily Mail ‘An extraordinary book’ Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer The history of humanity’s relationship with other species is baffling. Without animals there would be no us. We are all fellow travellers on the same evolutionary journey. By charting the love-hate story of people and animals, from their first acquaintance in deep prehistory to the present and beyond, Richard Girling reveals how and where our attitudes towards animals began - and how they have persisted, been warped and become magnified ever since. In dazzling prose, The Longest Story tells of the cumulative influence of theologians, writers, artists, warriors, philosophers, farmers, activists and scientists across the centuriesTrade Review‘Informed and persuasive… By the end, you wonder why the animals have put up with us.’ * Julian Glover, Evening Standard *‘Thought-provoking.’ * Mark Mason, Daily Mail *‘An extraordinary book, brimming with wisdom and insight. Richard Girling holds up a horrifying mirror for us: how can the cleverest creature on earth be so unutterably stupid?’ -- Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer‘The Longest Story is a compelling and thought-inspiring search inside our moral selves. Through masterful introspection, Girling delves into our relationships, fascinations and follies with animals. He tracks the origins of attitudes, unpacks contradictions and asks whether our interactions with other species holds the key to our own survival. In an age of extinction, this is essential reading.’ -- Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming and author of Farmageddon: The true cost of cheap meat‘A brilliant book. Absorbing and – yes – shaming.’ -- Stanley Johnson, Ambassador, Compassion in World Farming; Winner of RSPCA Richard Martin Award‘The Longest Story blends natural history, philosophy, and narrative artistry to explore the connections between humans and animals, from prehistory to the present and the future. Written in descriptive, almost lyrical prose… The Longest Story is brimming cover to cover with fascinating facts.’ * Midwest Book Review *‘Girling brings immediacy to his engaging commentary, whether he’s exploring ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, or the twenty-first century… This thoughtful offering is a plea for readers to respect life in all forms.’ * Booklist *‘Richard Girling’s The Longest Story is a social science examination of the relationships between humans and animals – a topic that’s seldom considered, but is close at hand and environmentally relevant… mythic in scope and style… it works toward a stunning conclusion about where humans should look for wisdom.’ * Foreword Reviews *

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Book SynopsisFlourish by Design brings together a range of established and emerging voices in design research for a collection that provides original provocations on topics of global significance. It is an insightful guide to original theory and practice concerning how we can design for a better tomorrow.Featuring contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds and professions, this edited book explores the difference that design and design research can make for people, organisations, and the planet to prosper now and in the future. It offers a range of ideas and techniques through practical examples and ongoing projects showing how applied design research can respond to global challenges. Covering topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired materials, more-than-human design, sustainability, and urban acupuncture, it shares interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design research not just to demonstrate what could be plausible in the near future but also toexplain whTable of ContentsIntroduction: flourish by design: agendas and practices for positive change Part 1: Flourishing together 1. Flourish together 2. Flourishing, design, and the brain 3. Designing more-than-human urban places 4. Why a design attitude matters in a world in flux 5. Flourish(ing) by design? 6. Memes—designed to flourish or doomed to divide? 7. Can designers and AI flourish together? 8. Challenging capitalism through design for commonism 9. How cross-relational design research can foster pandemic recovery 10. Flourishing in joyful discovery: scaffolding new thinking 11. Build together a flourishing world: let’s give a shit and plant seeds Part 2: Flourishing organisations 12. Flourishing organisations 13. What organisations will flourish in the future and why we need a new design culture that is fit for the 22nd century? 14. Flourishing for all: the imperative for design research to go beyond academia 15. The shadow side: why embracing death and decay is essential to flourishing 16. Making design research work by flourishing through disappearance 17. Working at the junction: reconciling numbers and vulnerabilities 18. Public value by design: toward a flourishing design culture in public services 19. What schools do we need? 20. Evolutionary change of organisations and its flourishment over the design paradigms 21. It is time for radical co-design 22. Design after things Part 3: Flourishing in the world 23. Flourishing in the world 24. Making a difference by design 25. Transdisciplinary design: next generation bio-inspired building materials 26. Can design heal a city? 27. The idea of ‘agency’ in design today 28. The Anthropocene warrants a new standard time 29. Just toys? From material sustainability to co-design and degrowth 30. Legacy and sustainability in design research: A global dialogue 31. Falling UP and caring for better 32 Sustainability: designing for a technological utopia or dystopia? Afterword: to flourish or not to flourish by design

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Book SynopsisThe Concrete Solutions series of International Conferences on Concrete Repair began in 2003 with a conference held in St. Malo, France in association with INSA Rennes. Subsequent conferences have seen us partnering with the University of Padua in 2009 and with TU Dresden in 2011. This conference is being held for the first time in the UK, in association with Queenâs University Belfast and brings together delegates from 36 countries to discuss the latest advances and technologies in concrete repair.Earlier conferences were dominated by electrochemical repair, but there has been an interesting shift to more unusual methods, such as bacterial repair of concrete plus an increased focus on service life design aspects and modelling, with debate and discussion on the best techniques and the validity of existing methods. Repair of heritage structures is also growing in importance and a number of the papers have focused on the importance of getting this right, so that we may preserve Table of ContentsPreface, About the editors, Keynote papers, Design for concrete durability: From deemed-to-satisfy to dreamed-to-satisfy, Turkey’s grand challenge: Disaster-proof building inventory within 20 years, Managing post-tensioned bridges – better than before, Patch and crack repair, Two-stage concrete as a repair method, Self-healing behavior of concrete cracks, Concrete repair bond: Evaluation and factors of influence, Ureolysis and denitrification based microbial strategies for self-healing concrete, Self-healing of dynamic concrete cracks using polymer precursors as encapsulated healing agents, Patch repair: Compatibility issues, Properties of alkali-activated fly ash/slag repair mortars, Corrosion behavior of steel bars in reinforced concrete slabs repaired by partial patching, Formulation of a repair mortar based on dune sand and natural microfibers, Alternative repair system for concrete using microencapsulated healing agents, Towards cost efficient bacteria based self-healing marine concrete, A proposal on repair methods for freeze-thaw damaged concrete with least re-deterioration, Self-compacting repair mortars according to BS EN 1504-3, Can self-repair of concrete cracks help to obtain durable concrete?, Influencing factors affecting microbial metabolic processes of bio materials used for leakage repairs, Field performance of bacteria-based repair system: Pilot study in a parking garage, Study on the preparation of polymer modified mortar and its application on the rapid repair of a ballastless track, Electrochemical repair, Field experience of remote monitored and controlled CP systems, The impact of the interruption of impressed current cathodic protection on the steel/concrete interface, Cathodic protection for the remediation of swimming pools, Site performance of galvanic anodes in concrete repairs, Anode performance: The use of ballasted mixed metal oxide coated titanium anodes in impressed current systems installed within historic steel frame masonry clad structures, Cathodic protection of steel in concrete – experiences on parking garages in Germany, Issues using potential decay techniques to assess a cathodic protection system of steel in concrete caused by macrocell corrosion, Numerical simulation of the current and potential distribution of surface applied CP-anode systems, A novel assessment of the electrochemical lithium impregnation treatment used to mitigate alkali-silica reaction in concrete, Experience and recent innovations in cathodic protection of steel in concrete, Durability aspects of electrochemical realkalisation treatment, Maintenance and repair of steel reinforced concrete structures by simultaneous galvanic corrosion protection and chloride extraction, Extending residual service life of steel reinforced structures by the use of galvanic anodes, Study on lithium migration for electrochemical treatment of concrete affected by alkali-silica reaction, Evaluation of electrochemical repair effects using near-infrared spectroscopic technique, Strengthening materials and techniques/Repair with composites, State-of-the-art review on FRP strengthened concrete columns, Strengthening of concrete ground floors in industrial halls – a case study, Experimental evaluation of RC beams defected in both concrete strength and steel reinforcement and retrofitted by fiber reinforced polymers, Flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete beams with prestressed externally bonded CFRP sheets, Experimental study concerning the material behavior of CFRP confined plain and reinforced concrete, Proposal of a material model for FRP confined, circular, short concrete columns with and without internal reinforcement, Behaviour of ferrocement jacketed cylindrical concrete specimens under compression, Strains in CFRP – strengthened reinforced concrete beams, Rehabilitation of concrete beams pre-failed in shear using near-surface-mounted composite strips, Flexural strengthening for R.C. beams using CFRP sheets with different bonding schemes, Nonlinear finite element modeling of reinforced concrete beams in shear – strengthened with near surface mounted laminates, Ductility of FRP reinforced RC structures: A critical review of definition and expressions, Cracking in polymer concrete pipes-comparison of exact events in a pipe jacking project and numerical 3D modeling analyses, Effect of thermal cycling on the behaviour of CFRP-to-concrete joints, Retrofitting of RC panels subjected to blast effects using elastomeric polymer coatings, Modeling of continuous composite girders partially reinforced with CFRP, Experimental study on shear strengthening of R.C. beams using FRP repair techniques, Response of 4×4 bays, 15 storey RC building frames with and without external steel bracings and internal steel bracings, Surface protection methods and materials, Performance of silane impregnants for the protection of reinforced concrete, Effect of silicate-based surface penetrant on concrete durability, Hybrid surface protection repair system using UHP-SHCC for concrete structures – from design to application, The impact of curing compounds on the leaching from concrete, Determination of chloride ion diffusion coefficient in outer layer of concrete with silicate-type surface penetrant, Performance of concretes with surface treatment based on silicate solutions (liquid glass), Design of a cementitious coating system for corrosion protection: Phase 1 binder materials selection, Microstructural and permeability changes due to accelerated Ca leaching in ammonium nitrate solution, Efficiency of materials used for repair measures of concrete structures exposed to chlorides, Fundamental research on the carbonation control effect by coating materials, Development and use of flowable calcium aluminate mortars in sewer environments, The application of modified hydrotalcites as chloride scavengers and inhibitor release agents in cement mortars, Repair of fire damage, Effects of Micromist fire extinguishing on the residual strength of heated and cooled concrete, Fire damage evaluation and repairs for reinforced concrete turbine table top foundation, Durango, Mexico, Evaluation and repair of fire damage to the concrete structures of a high-rise building, Behaviour of High Strength Concrete (HSC) under high temperatures, Evaluation of geopolymer concrete for repair of rocket test facility flame deflectors, NDT and diagnosis of problems, Combination of NDT techniques for studying external repair patches in concrete, Determining bond strength of repair coatings on deformable substrates, Prioritizing repairs to reinforced concrete water storage elevated tanks regarding seismic risk, Estimation of the main factors influencing potential mapping, Freeze-thaw resistance testing of concrete railway sleepers, Importance of proper site evaluation and sample selection in non-destructive testing, Diagnosis methodology in concrete structures reinforced with braided cable, Corrosion of steel in cracked concrete: A microscale study, Lock-in thermography approach to discriminate surface preparation in CFRP reinforced concrete, Stress wave velocity tests in early-stage of concrete piles, Instant and solid corrosion diagnosis on reinforced concrete structures with galvanostatic pulse measurement, Ultrasonic non-destructive testing techniques for diagnosing concrete damage, Suitability of embedded RFID-sensors for concrete bridge structures, Detection of chloride and carbonation induced corrosion in reinforced concrete structures using piezo sensors via electro-mechanical impedance technique, Monitoring the development of microcracks in reinforced concrete caused by sustained loading and chloride induced corrosion, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) – alternative to wet chemistry and micro-XRF, Repair and preservation of heritage structures, roman cement, Wotruba Church and Cologne Opera: Aspects of concrete aging, Corrosion condition evaluations of historic concrete icons, The role of material microstructure in the durability of historic buildings, Realkalisation of a late 19th century bridge, Comparative analysis of the Transylvanian Jesuit churches from the XVIIIth century, Service life modelling, Study on autogenous shrinkage stress considering dependence on temperature in early age, Durability of fly ash concrete exposed to slow freeze-thaw cycles, Correlation research on the electrical resistivity of concrete and its other electrical properties, Effect of internal cracking on mass transfer resistance of cover concrete, Study on effects of distribution of chloride ions by differences of pore structure with various conditions, Case studies, Examples of concrete structural elements in early 20th century buildings in Wroc?aw (Poland) – case studies, Repair of a reinforced concrete tower tank for water, Maintenance and preservation of the Royal National Theatre, London, Natural draft cooling towers with flue gas inlet, The strengthening and repair of the pierhead at Gorey in the Channel Island of Jersey, Technical diagnosis and recommendations for repair of RC tanks for water and liquid waste, Investigation of distress in a post-tensioned slab, The current situation of concrete crash barrier walls on the city bridges of Harbin and the design concept of new fabricated protective plates, Insitu strength assessment, Improved artificial neural network prediction of concrete strength based on non-destructive test results, Local concrete characterization assessment by the means of non-destructive tests (NDT) methods, Concrete strength evaluation through indirect UPV, Assessment of insitu structural capacity of aged buildings, Evaluation of the mechanical integrity of a concrete surface by means of combined destructive methods, Structural modelling/finite element analysis, Damage model for the analysis of structural response of RC columns subjected to corrosion phenomena, Mechanical properties of corroded rebar in deteriorated reinforced concrete members, Effect of corrosion cracks in the compression zone on the bending performance of deteriorated RC members, Author index

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Book SynopsisThe Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation and simulation tools that integrate all ecodesign aspects (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, impact on biodiversity, depletion of resources, etc.) and provide genuine decision-aid instruments, based on a scientific approach, to all those involved in the urban environment (i.e. designers, builders and users).The present book takes stock of five years of research under the Chair. It starts by presenting some methodological bases of ecodesign, life cycle assessments, impact studies, and methods for planning and transport. Several specific subjects are then covered, i.e. public transport, parking, road traffic, the environmental profile of building materials, building retrofits, energy management, and biodiversity. The last part of the book sets out how the knowledge and tools developed under the Chair were applied to a case study: Cité DeTrade Review"The book is well-presented and is a good mix between new insights on a theoretical level, detailed description of models and tools and application possibilities in the case study. It is founded on well-known environmental approaches and builds on new insights into current sustainable-oriented techniques.Due to the multiple approaches, the book is of interest to a large community of urban and transportation planners, architects, building-oriented engineers and contractors. It is aimed at professionals researchers and teachers in the field of energy, life cycle and environmental impact as well as local authorities and teachers."Prof. Niklaus Kohler, professor at the Department of Architecture, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.Table of ContentsForeword. Methodological Bases. Using Eco-Design Tools as a Cognitive Support for Creating the Urban Fabric. Life Cycle Assessment Applied to Neighbourhoods. Methods for Evaluating Environmental Impacts. Analysis and Proposals. The Planning of Territorial Facilities Taking an Ecodesign Approach: Principles and Methods for Land Use and Transportation. Practicing eco-design. Urban Economics and Passenger Transportation: Concentrate Flows, Design Lines. The Eco-Design of Parking Systems: Systemic Analysis and Simulation Tool. Eco-operation of road traffic. A model of passenger traffic in public transport, sensitive to capacity constraints. Environmental information module of construction materials Retrofitting buildings. Energy efficient building control strategies. Ecodesign in practice: How does urban biodiversity fit in? Application to a case study, Cité Descartes. Extended Cité Descartes: a territory to ecodesign. Territory and transport in a metropolitan context. Activities, Accessibility and Mobility at neighbourhood scale. Comparison of urban morphologies using life cycle assessment. Study of Cité Descartes: Application of tools to consider biodiversity for urban developments. Annexes. Conclusions and perspectives. Epilogue: the corporate point of view.

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Book SynopsisBooks orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists' books in particular that is, a book made as an original work of art, with an artist, designer or architect as author have certain qualities and characteristics, quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality, the structure and objecthood of the book, and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way, the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived, constructed Table of ContentsPart I Field: the scope of the book. 1. Artists’ books: historical context2 Qualities and characteristics of artists’ books3 Architecture and printed media4 Recording time, place and memoryPart II Page: the book as cumulation5 The line within architectural documentation6 Architectural drawing and the pagePart III Volume: the book as vessel7 The objecthood of the book8 The book as folded model9 The temporality of interiorityPart IV Series: the book as sequence10 The reproducibility of drawings / buildings / books11 The book as exhibitionConclusion BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures: they act as collective enterprises which have to valorize rare resources, such as spectacular landscapes. While primarily rural in nature, they often border large cities, and the development of industries such as hydroelectric power and the rapid development of tourism can bring about sweeping socio-economic change and vast demographic alterations.The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions describes the socio-economic changes and spatial impacts of the last four decades, with the transformation of mountain areas held up as an example. Much of the real-world context draws on the Alps, spanning as they do the significant economies of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Chapters address academic discourse on regional development in these mountain areas and suggest alternative approaches to the liberal-productivist societal model.This book will be essential reading for profesTrade Review"It is an important scientific mountain book, based on in-depth and years-long research. It makes a major contribution to the questioning of the political positioning of mountain regions in the contemporary world. The critical approach, running through the book, is a goldmine providing an abundance of thoughts and of new avenues of research to examine and discuss the mountain problematique."Gilles Rudaz, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 39, No. 4.Table of ContentsList of Figure. List of Tables. List of Plates. List of abbreviations. Preface. Part I: Space, environment, and culture as a social question. 1 Why study mountains? Mountains as a laboratory and pertinent indicator. 2 The theoretical approach to mountain research from the socio-economic point of view. 3 The issue of spatial inequality in a new light. Part II: Devaluation and revaluation of territorial capital in mountain areas. 4 Spatial and socio-economic processes in mountains. 5 The new role of mountains as global suppliers. Part III: A new level of inequality. 6 The shift from state-organized to liberal-productivist regimes. 7 The new spatial disparities. Part IV: The new disparities and possible alternatives. 8 Liberal-productivist mountains: three main aspects. 9 Three possible trajectories for mountain regions. 10 Beyond liberal-productivism. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisScott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities and has been teaching at the University of Idaho, USA, since 2012previously he was a professor at Texas State University and the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment for ASLE and Oxford University Press. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-seven books, including, most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran). His forthcoming books include Nature in Literary Studies (coedited with Peter Remien) for Cambridge University Press's Critical Concepts Series. He coedits Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Routledge EnvironmentTrade ReviewThe first of its kind at the intersection of the titular fields, is a timely and welcome contribution to bridge the gap between medical, environmental, and literary-cultural studies. ... the medical-environmental humanities have its new reference guide for graduate students and scholars in the field. * Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment *This volume proves an invaluable addition to the study of narrative medicine and public health, and the links between the clinical and the ecocultural. With a fascinating array of cultures and approaches, the essays offer a full-belly intervention into the field. * Journal of Ecohumanism *This collection offers a crucial intervention at an urgent time. The pandemic has driven home the inseparability of human health and environmental health. The first to bring together the medical and environmental humanities in a global conversation, this book outlines how we might better align the health of the planet with the health of human minds and bodies. -- Sarah Jaquette Ray, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies, Humboldt State University, USA, and author of 'A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet'Located at a crucial juncture in the precarious age when ‘health’ – of individuals, communities and the planet – is at risk, this volume defines the future of academic work in environmental and medical-health humanities. Mapping debates and methodologies across literary-cultural studies, this is an indispensable exploration as to the importance of human and nonhuman lives. -- Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad India, author of 'Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic' and 'Ecoprecarity'Together, the dozens of fascinating and insightful essays included in Slovic, Rangarajan, and Sarveswaran’s Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities do much more than explore convergences between two closely related yet seldom intersecting fields. They additionally chart timely and welcome paths for news ways of engaging with global challenges – including pandemics and climate disruption – that are becoming only more severe. -- Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA, author of 'Ecoambiguity' and 'Global Healing'Table of Contents1. Acknowledgments 2. Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Introduction Part 1. Conceptualizing Convergence: Econarratology and Narrative Medicine, Graphic Medicine and Environmental Texts, Virology, Grey Ecology, and Ecopsychology 3. Eric Morel, Narrative Knowing and Narrative Practice 4. Mita Banerjee, Black Lives Matter in Flint, Michigan 5. Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Chinmay Murali, Graphic Medicine, Ecological Consciousness 6. Maria Whiteman, Fungi Umwelt 7. Z. Gizem Yilmaz Karahan, Contagious History 8. Lars Schmeink, The Grey Ecology of Zombie Fiction 9. Tathagata Som, Climate Change and Grief 10. Samantha Walton, Eco-Recovery Memoir and the Medical Environmental Humanities Part 2. Environmental Toxicity and Public Health 11. Sofia Varino, Pathogenic (Auto)Ecologies 12. Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, Toward an Ethics of Transcorporeality and Public Health in Taiwanese Ecopathodocumentary 13. Heather Leigh Ramos, Resisting Slow Violence, Environmental Toxins, and Systemic Racism 14. Kathryn Yalan Chang, 'Reframing Care’ in the Age of a Novel Corona Virus 15. Nikoleta Zampaki, Poetry and Art in the Age of Anthropocene Part 3. Varieties of Entanglement: Landscapes, Bodyscapes, Micro- and Macro-biota 16. Susanne Lettow, Health, Disease, and the Body in Ecofeminist Theory 17. Jorge Marcone, A Gut Feeling 18. Henry Obi Ajumeze, Performing Damaged Land/Body-scape in the Niger Delta 19. Chia-ju Chang, Pathological Mimesis and Buddhist Phármakon in the Anthropocene Pandemic 20. Françoise Besson, Fighting the Spread of Disease through Words 21. Animesh Roy, From the Clinical to the Ecocultural Part 4. Exemplifying Specific Cultural Approaches to the Convergences of Environment, Health, and the Arts 22. Raghul V. Rajan, Ayurvedic Vision on Health and Environment 23. Animesh Mohapatra and Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Health and Hygiene Discourses in the Early Twentieth Century 24. Marcos Colón, (Un)sustainable Ecology 25. Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu, Nature and Traditional Medicine in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart 26. Kiu-wai Chu, The Tales of Chinese Herbs 27. John Charles Ryan, ‘Into the Sap Stream’ 28. Fazila Derya Agis, Turkish Classical Songs’ Lyrics and Related Idioms for a Literary Therapy for Curing Ecodepression 29. Tess Maginess, Expressing Concepts of Environment through Concepts of Madness in Some Irish Literature 30. Epilogue: Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Planet Scott Slovic, You Don’t Know What You Got ‘Til It’s Gone Swarnalatha Rangarajan, The Gasping Turtle and Other Hypoxia Narratives: Prana in a Threatened World Vidya Sarveswaran, Dying to Breathe

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Book SynopsisTo stop the downward spiral of intensifying environmental violence that inevitably leads to social violence we, as humans, need to better understand what is at stake and to determine how to make changes at the root levels. Ecopedagogy is centered on understanding the struggles of and connections between human acts of environmental and social violence. Greg W. Misiaszek argues that ecopedagogies grounded in critical, Freirean pedagogies construct learning that leads to human actions geared towards increased social and environmental justice and planetary sustainability. Throughout the book he discusses the need for teaching, reading, and researching through problematizing the causes of socio-environmental violence, including oppressive processes of globalization and constructs of development, economics, and citizenship, to name a few, that emerge from socio-historical oppressions (e.g., colonialization, racism, patriarchy, neoliberalism, xenophobia, epistemicide) and dominance over the rTrade ReviewThis thoughtful book poses inconvenient and uncomfortable questions to neoliberal development models and provides critical thinking to read the “World” as part of the “Earth”. Ecopedagogy reinvents environmental education and sustainable development to be more effective in achieving global social justice and planetary environmental justice. Greg Misiaszek takes readers – scholars, students and educators – on a journey based on Freire’s later writing and critical pedagogy exploring the need of a paradigm shift in the environmental pedagogies, challenging us to rethink sustainable development and to critically deconstruct SDGs. * Massimiliano Tarozzi, Co-director of the Development Education Research Centre, UCL Institute of Education, UK and Professor of Education, University of Bologna, Italy *Ecopedagogy is an important contribution to critical studies in education. * International Review of Education *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Introduction to Ecopedagogy 1. Ecopedagogy: An Introduction 2. Ecopedagogical Literacy: Reading the World within Earth Part II: Foundations of Ecopedagogy 3. Freirean Reinventions: Ecopedagogy 4. Teaching for Ecopedagogical Praxis: Theories, Disciplines, and Positionalities Part III:Teaching Ecopedagogical Reading 5. Reading Through Diverse Epistemologies and Methodologies 6. Reading Through Citizenships: “Development,” “Livelihood,” and “Sustainability” Part IV: Conclusion: Ecopedagogical Possibilities and Challenges 7. Limit situations of Ecopedagogies: Post-Truthism and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) References Index

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Book SynopsisLakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters tells the story of Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece on the shores of the Prespa lake. This village, which is in many ways a completely typical Greek settlement and yet remains unconventional in its way of life, embodies the many contradictions of modern history and in exploring its roots James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers skilfully uncover the wider social, cultural and political history of this lake region.Drawing from oral testimonies and attentive to the construction of national histories, this book considers how the development of international borders, movement of people and role of national identities within imperial borderlands shaped Macedonia today. What is more, by centering the lakes and making use of an innovative environmental historical methodology, Pettifer and Vickers offer the first environmental history of this multi-ethnic borderland region shared by Greece, North Macedonia and AlbTrade Review[An] ambitious project… interesting not only in terms of informativeness but also in methodology… the concentrated result of the long-term work of two first-class Balkan history specialists. * Slavic World Journal (Bloomsbury Translation) *This is historical writing at its best. Rich in detail -- from Macedonian lions and gladiators in ancient times to women gathering cow dung for fertilizer in the late 20th century -- this volume uses the Prespa lake region, wedged between Albanian, Greece, and North Macedonia, as a prism through which to understand the politics affecting the Balkans as a whole. Reflecting nearly three decades of research, this is an amazing book written by two veteran Balkanists at the height of their powers. * Sabrina P. Ramet, Professor Emerita, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway *Table of ContentsList of Maps Preface 1. The Prespa Lakes: Ecology and Human Settlement 2. Prespa Lake Communities from Prehistory to the Ottoman Conquest 3. The Lake Communities in the Ottoman Empire, 1380-1863 4. Prespa and the Struggle for Ottoman Macedonia, 1863-1914 5. 1914 to 1923: New Nations and New Borders Divide the Lakes 6. Nivica becomes Psarades: The Construction of Greek Macedonia, 1924-1939 7. Prespa under the Axis Occupation, 1939-194 8. Freedom and Civil Conflcit, 1945-1949: The Centrality of Prespa 9. Exile and Return: The Cold War Years, 1950-1990 10. The Prespa Lakes: Peace and Environmental Crisis, 1991-2018 Appendix I. Place Name Usage in Late Ottoman and 20th Century Prespa Appendix II. Religious and Ethnic Identities in Prespa Villages in FYROM/RM Appendix III. Some Non-Greek Terms Relating to Prespa Village Toponyms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious décor and spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetics and culture. Why did the Rococo, ostensibly the least spiritual style in the pre-Modern canon, transform into one of the world's most important modes for adorning sacred spaces? And why is Rococo still treated as a decadent nemesis of the Enlightenment when the two had fundamental characteristics in common? This book seeks to answer these questions by treating Rococo as a global phenomenon for the first time and by exploring its moral and spiritual dimensions through the lens of populist French religious literature of the day-a body of work the author calls the 'Spiritual Rococo' and which has never been applied directly to the arts. The book traces Rococo's development from France through Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil, and South America by following a chain of interlockiTrade Review'Bailey’s book expands upon our understanding of rococo art and architecture in two significant ways. It proposes that there was a spiritual component to the rococo from its inception, detectable even in its secular applications. It also reveals how spirituality enabled rococo design to become a global phenomenon, ranging beyond France to Germany, Brazil, and Argentina. This is a stimulating, provocative study that reveals how much the rococo mattered to eighteenth-century societies.' Michael Yonan, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA '[This book is] wide-ranging and formidably well-researched ... Bailey maps this process with breadth, depth and precision, and with plentiful, and telling illustrations. This is a brilliant, potentially game-changing book.' Art and ChristianityTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; ’The dream of happiness’: the literature of the spiritual Rococo and the Christianity of reason; ’As bizarre a style as ever occurred’: Rococo in France; ’Bright shining as the stars’: spiritual Rococo in Central Europe; ’Irregular ornament in the finest French taste’: spiritual Rococo in Portugal and Brazil; ’O happy vision!’: spiritual Rococo in Spain and Spanish South America; Epilogue: ’Superfluous stucco and laughable decoration’: Rococo, religion, and the global enlightenment; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism, taking the form of a project for The Corviale Void, a one kilometre long strip of urban space, immured in the notorious Corviale housing development in the Southwestern sector of Rome. Corviale is a bizarre object, single-minded in its idea, the history of Corviale can be traced to debates in Italian architecture culture of the 1960's, including Aldo Rossi's objection to urbanisation, as articulated in his books and projects. On the one hand the project for the Corviale Void begins with one of the original theorists of modern urbanisation and architecture, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, looking into his fascination with the insides of walls. On the other hand the project begins with a new material form, The Air Grid. Like the forms appearing in Piranesi's etchings, Air Grid is made from a kind of hatching, but Air Grid is hatched out of colour vectors, literally drawn into the air. The human eye is easily mesmerised by Trade Review'A flight into the poetics of gossamer, the metaphysics of optics, and the most imaginative reaches of architectural thought, Victoria Watson's book is indeed a utopian adventure, leading the reader on an exhilarating excursion into a project of late-modern Italian urbanism, on the wings of robot beetles.' Joan Ockman, Columbia University, USA ’What to do with unloved public housing projects is a perennial source of controversy and debate. Those assertive, post-War concrete giants prompt apoplexy throughout much of middle England, with dynamite and wrecking balls often the preferred solution. In the final chapter of a new book, architect and historian Victoria Watson proposes an extraordinary use for the defining feature of a grim Italian estate - fill it with millions of robot beetles.’ The Telegraph 'Watson’s adventure links the thinking of a series of artists, architects and philosophers in a fascinating, mind-bending trip. Side-stepping the usual debates over utopian mid-century architecture [...] her text opens questions about the role of the aesthetic and the monumental in the city, challenging materialist and economically rationalist ideas of city making.' LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The origins of architecture; The origins of air grid; The origins of urban design; Architecture and non-sense; The Corviale void; Index.

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Book SynopsisAnalysing the decorative programmes of the most opulent European palaces of the time, Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf investigates how meaning was conveyed through display and visual effects. She explores the visual meaning inherent in the scheme of spatial relations; in effects of scale, perspective, lighting, figures'' positions and postures; and in relations among image types. The analysis concerns the interrelations of various kinds of images in the ensembles; the relations between images and physical site; and the address to the beholder. Lagerlöf considers the visual impact of the imagery in conjunction with ''readable'' or symbolically ''coded'' meanings; thus, the study does not merely subject these decorations to formalist aesthetic principles. She shows the visual meaning generally to sustain the verbal or readable messages, but often in subtle ways, extending or elaborating the meaning. Occasionally, the visual meaning comes forth as an undercurrent or complication, deviating fTrade Review'...Significant and original ... Lagerlöf assembles here a group of monuments from France, Rome, and Stockholm, which allows for a synchronic interpretation and reading of significant issues of visuality and content across power regimes and the long time period of the Baroque style in Europe ... it is the first comprehensive examination in the history of art of these galleries, and as such makes an important scholarly contribution from which others may draw further conclusions.' Catherine M. Soussloff, University of British Columbia, Canada 'Four words featured in the title of this book-fate, glory, love, and power-are among the most salient concerns of the Baroque period. Margaretha Rossholn Lagerlöf's book examines their manifestations in the spectacular cycles decorating the representative architectural spaces of sovereignty.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'Lagerlöf ... brings these places to thought-provoking life.' Seventeenth-Century News 'Lagerlöf deserves praise for being the first to study gallery decorations as a separate genre developing through time, with a focus on the establishment of traditions ...' Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; La Galerie de François 1er at Fontainebleau (1530-1539) - the balance of fortune; The Galleria Farnese in Rome (1597-1600): knowing the human passions; La Galerie des Glaces at Versailles (1678-1684): omnipotence in reflection; Karl XI’s gallery in Stockholm (1694-1702): Nordic light; Final discussion: the four cases as configurations of meaning; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisImpeccably researched and richly detailed, this book addresses the issue of translation between visual arts and landscape design in the 50 more years career of Patricia Johanson, an important artist in the second half of the twentieth-century. Examining the artist's search for an art of the real as a member of the post-World War II New York art world, and how such pursuit has led her from painting and sculpture to public garden and environmental art, Xin Wu argues for the significance of the process of art creation, challenging the centrality of art objects. This book is an insightful study to confront a crucial question in the history of art through the work of a contemporary artist. It therefore converses with art historians and critics alike, as well as advanced readers of twentieth-century art. Following Johanson''s artistic development, from its formation in the 1960s American art scene to the very present day, across the fields of art, architecture, garden, civil engineering andTrade Review'... a meaningful contribution to the artist’s oeuvre that provides insight into her creative impact on public environmental art. This work would make a great addition to academic libraries that collect materials related to garden history, earthworks, or Johanson’s work as an artist.' ARLIS/NA Reviews '... a welcome and timely addition to the literature of landscape design.' Studio International 'Xin Wu’s recent study of Johanson explores the artist’s work as negotiating between these multiple fields as well as meriting consideration within art historical chronologies. For Wu, Johanson’s art constitutes a new-and relevant-form of contemporary public art practice.' Journal of American CultureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Transformation: from painting to sculpture, 1958-1968; The invention of form: House & Garden commission, 1969; Translating the order of nature; Garden metamorphoses, 1975-1985; Functionality into public place; ’The garden of art’ in garden-cities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey and its architecture, as well as a consideration of the political and cultural standing of the abbey both within Papal Rome and within the Cistercian order. Furthermore, it considers the commission of the fresco cycle, the circumstances of its making, and its position within the art historical context of the Roman Duecento. Examining the unusual blend of images in the Vita Humana cycle, this study offers a more nuanced picture of the iconographic repertoire of medieval art. Since the discovery of the frescoes in the 1960s, the iconographic programme of the cycle has remained mysterious, and an adequate analysis of the Vita Humana cycle as a whole has so far been lacking. Kristin B. Aavitsland covers this gap in the scholarship on Roman art circa 1300, and also presents the first interpretative discussion of the frescoes that is up-to-date wiTrade Review'Overall, Aavitsland’s book is a tremendous contribution to the understudied subject of painting in medieval Rome. Ashgate is to be commended for this addition to their list of excellent recent titles exploring medieval Italy.' CAA Reviews 'The author brings an impressively wide range of iconographic comparative material to bear...' Burlington Magazine '... Aavitsland takes the scholarship of Roman Duecento to a new level, and one that shows great promise. ... Aavitsland has not merely provided us with a new and compelling understanding of a fresco program that has remained enigmatic among art historians for half a century, but she has also given late-duecento painting in Rome the broader artistic and intellectual context that it so often has been denied.' SpeculumTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: the Vita Humana cycle at the abbey of Tre Fontana; Part I Contexts: The settings of the Vita Humana cycle; Learning, piety and the rhetoric of images. Part II Analyses: Paradise lost; The man in the tree of life; The eagles; The fisherman; The wheel of senses and the ages of man; The harvest of fruit in the garden of life; Birds and cages; The Vita Humana cycle: a visual florilegium? Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a crucial moment in their histories. Each of the organizations that forms the basis for this study oversaw renovations that included decorative programs centered on the apostles. At the complex of Gesà Pellegrino a fresco cycle represents the apostles in their roles as Christâs disciples and proselytizers. At the oratory of the company of Santissima Annunziata a series of frescoes shows their martyrdoms, the terrible price the apostles paid for their mission and their faith. At the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo a sculptural program of the apostles stood as an example to each confratello of how Christian piety had its roots in collective effort. Douglas Dow shows thatTrade Review'This impressive volume by Dow ... helps fill a scholarly void in books on religious painting in the last quarter of the 16th century in Florence. ... The text is meticulous and scholarly, supported by copious notes, bibliography, and original illustrations appropriate to such an ambitious and groundbreaking study. ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.’ Choice 'Dow's book uses a rich quantity of illustrations to make his point, both plans and reproductions of the frescoes and some of the statues ... Dow brings to light much detail regarding the confraternities' organisation and motivation in commissioning new works of art both as embellishment of the oratories and as education material for the confratelli.' Sehepunkte 'More than just a window onto a neglected field, it is a thorough, meticulous study based on archival research and stylistic analysis, in one case including a methodical reconstruction of a long-lost interior. It represents the kind of scholarship that has too often fallen by the wayside in an era when detail (and often accuracy) are neglected in favour of the big, interdisciplinary picture. Contributions such as Dow's are especially needed in places like post-Tridentine Florence, where the literature simply has not yet done the groundwork: we will not be able to see the big picture until we get our facts straight.' Burlington Magazine '... Dow focuses new attention on Florentine confraternal identification with the apostles at a time when the Church was asserting its own claims as a purified paleo- Christian institution. This exemplifies yet another dynamic way in which sodalities responded to and shaped the prevailing religious culture.' Renaissance Quarterly'This important, lucid, and elegantly written book is in part a product of the spatial and sensory turn that has driven much recent research. It will be of interest not only to art historians but also to scholars in other disciplines who are concerned with the process by which traditional forms of devotion, and the desired ends of Church reformers, converged and mingled with the city’s artisan culture and patronage relations. In a wider sense, Dow’s evocation of the resulting mélange, and his explication of how urban culture took visual and spatial form, teaches us more about how citizens, including non-elites, inhabited and negotiated the early modern European city.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Alessandro de’ Medici and the Florentine archdiocese at the end of the cinquecento; ’Maledictus enim homo, qui opus Dei facit negligenter’: Giovanni Balducci’s frescoes of the Risen Christ and the Apostles in the church of Gesù Pellegrino; ’Essere amorevole della casa’: the sculptures of the Apostles in the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo; ’Far bene per i vivi, e morti’: the frescoes of the martyrdoms of the Apostles in the atrium of the oratory of Santissima Annunziata; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of leading scholarly articles addresses the international dynamics of emergency policy and practice. In a world of increasing technological, economic and political interdependency, it is no longer feasible for states to ignore the pervasive influence of globalisation. The crises wrought by industrial disasters, catastrophic weather events, pandemics, financial implosion and cyber intrusion now transcend and challenge national interests with increasing frequency. The case-studies collected here explore these global dimensions of crisis and the state through the lenses of planning and prevention, acute responses, recovery and reconstruction, and learning about crisis. This collection is essential reading for academics, policy officials and practitioners with an interest in emergency management, risk management and issues of national/global security. In original introductory and concluding chapters to the volume, Legrand and McConnell provide a critical perspective on the chTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Prevention and Planning in a Globalized World: Preparing for the world risk society: towards a new security paradigm for the European Union, Arjen Boin and Magnus Ekengren; Governing by looking back: historical analogies and crisis management, Annika Brändström, Fredrik Bynander and Paul 't Hart; Crisis management: toward a new informational 'localism' in local government reform, Alan Jarman, Kevin Sproats and Alexander Kouzmin; A new cosmology of risks and crises: time for a radical shift in paradigm and practice, Patrick Lagadec; Megacities as global risk areas, Frauke Kraas; Preventing transboundary crises: the management and regulation of setbacks, Emery Roe; Strategies for high risk reduction and management as global responsibility, Lorenzo Miccoli and Francesca Destefano. Part II Acute Responses and Influences Beyond the Nation-State: Managing transboundary crises: identifying the building blocks of an effective response system, Chris Ansell, Arjen Boin and Ann Keller; International crisis response and a Canadian role, Jane Boulden; Institutional and political leadership dimensions of cascading ecological crises, Victor Galaz, Fredrik Moberg, Eva-Karin Olsson, Eric Paglia and Charles Parker; The policy-media interaction model: measuring media power during humanitarian crisis, Piers Robinson; September 11: public administration and the study of crises and crisis management, Uriel Rosenthal; Communication management during risk events and crises in a globalised world: predictability of domestic media attention for calamities, Bastiaan C.J. Zoeteman, Wouter C. Kersten, Wiebe F. Vos, Lieke van de Voort and Ben J.M. Ale; Globalisation, complex humanitarian emergencies and health, T.J.D. O'Dempsey and B. Munslow. Part III Recovery and Reconstruction in the Shadow of Globalization: Towards the development of a standard in emergency planning, David Alexander; Enhancing disaster recovery: lessons from exemplary international disaster management practices, Jeffrey D. Garnett and Melinda Moore; Post-disaster recovery dilemmas: challenges in balancing short-term and long-term needs for vulnerability reduction, Jane C. Ingram, Guillermo Franco, Cristina Rumbaitis-del Rio and Bjian Khazai; The shock doctrine: a discussion, Naomi Klein and Neil Smith; Humanitarian crises: what determines the level of emergency assistance? Media coverage, donor interests and the aid business, Gorm Rye Olsen, Nils Carstensen and Kristian Høyen; Neoliberalism, INGO practices and sustainable disaster recovery: a post-Katrina case study, Loretta Pyles; The international humanitarian system and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis, John Telford and John Cosgrave. Part IV The Possibilities of Crisis Learning in a Globalized World: Coastal oil pollution: spills, crisis, and policy change, Rick S. Kurtz; Learning from exemplary practices in international disaster management: a fresh avenue to inform US policy?, Melinda Moore, Horacio R. Trujillo, Brooke K. Stearns, Ricardo Basurto-Davila and David K. Evans; Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration, Lisa Schipper and Mark Pelling; Resisting neo-liberalism: the poisoned water disaster in Walkerton, Ontario, Laureen Snider; Rethinking the nature of disaster: from failed instruments of learning to a post-social understanding, Stewart Williams; Conclusion; Name index.

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Book SynopsisSpeed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture continue to act as an important cultural signifier? Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture, time and history, this book offers insights on issues still relevant today-the struggle between imitation and innovation, the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience, the grounds of architectural judgment (who decides and how), or fundamentally, how to act (i.e. build) when there is no longer a single grand narrative but a plurality of possible histories. Six drawings provide the foundation of an itinerary through Charles Robert Cockerell's conception of architecture, and into the depths of drawings and buildings. Born in England in 1788, Cockerell sketched as a Grand Tourist, he charted architectural history as RoyaTrade Review'Bordeleau’s complex and theoretically rich book on Cockerell brings readers into contact with the heart of his belief that "The architect adds the substantial and enduring merit of utility, to the glory of beauty of fine arts and transcend (sic) them all ... He then is the true historian of his times". The Victorian 'By closely assessing Cockerell’s drawings and architecture, and by drawing parallels between his contemporaries’and architects’ practice across periods, the study provides insight not only into Cockerell’s work, but also into wider questions on the relation of architecture to time and history.' The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsCharles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time

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Book Synopsis1. Real-Time Modeling Of Power Networks.- 1.1 Security Concepts.- 1.2 Network Model Builder.- 1.3 Conventional State Estimation.- 1.4 Economy-Security Control.- 1.5 Generalized State Estimation.- 1.6 Historical Notes and References.- References.- 2. Least-Squares And Minimum Norm Problems.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Linear Least-Squares Problem.- 2.3 Linear Minimum-Norm Problem.- 2.4 Observability and Controllability.- 2.5 Geometric Interpretation.- 2.6 Overdetermined Nonlinear Models.- 2.7 Historical Notes and References.- 2.8 Problems.- References.- 3. DC State Estimator.- 3.1 Overview of the DC State Estimator.- 3.2 State Variables.- 3.3 Measurement Model.- 3.4 Solving the Normal Equation.- 3.5 Phase-Shift Estimation.- 3.6 Parameter Estimation.- 3.7 Physical Level Modeling.- 3.8 Historical Notes and References.- 3.9 Problems.- References.- 4. Power Flow Equations.- 4.1 Network Branch Model.- 4.2 Active and Reactive Power Flows.- 4.3 Nodal Formulation of the Network Equations.- 4.4 Basic Power Flow Problem.- 4.5 Newton Raphson Method.- 4.6 P?-QV Decoupling.- 4.7 Linearization.- 4.8 Matrix Formulation.- 4.9 DC Power Flow Model.- 4.10 Historical Notes and References.- 4.11 Problems.- References.- 5. Network Reduction And Gauss Elimination.- 5.1 Bus Admittance Matrix.- 5.2 Network Reduction and Expansion.- 5.3 LDU Decomposition.- 5.4 Using LDU Factors to Solve Linear Systems.- 5.5 Path Finding.- 5.6 Pivot Ordering to Preserve Sparsity.- 5.7 MDML and MLMD Ordering Schemes.- 5.8 Blocked Formulation of Newton Power Flow.- 5.9 Gain Matrix.- 5.10 Factorization of Rectangular Matrices.- 5.11 Matrix Inversion Lemma.- 5.12 Historical Notes and References.- 5.13 Problems.- References.- 6. Network Topology Processing.- 6.1 Conventional Topology Processing.- 6.2 Generalized TopologyProcessing.- 6.3 Network Reduction.- 6.4 Historical Notes and References.- 6.5 Problems.- References.- 7. Observability Analysis.- 7.1 Bus/Branch Network Model.- 7.2 Bus-Section/Switching-Device Network Model.- 7.3 Measurement Addition to Improve Observability.- 7.4 Historical Notes and References.- 7.5 Problems.- References.- 8. Basic Techniques for Bad Data Processing.- 8.1 Review of the DC State Estimator.- 8.2 Covariance Matrices.- 8.3 Normalized Residuals.- 8.4 Hypotheses Testing.- 8.5 Historical Notes and References.- 8.6 Problems.- References.- 9. Multiple Bad Data Processing Techniques.- 9.1 Estimation Residuals.- 9.2 Multiple Normalized Residuals.- 9.3 Hypotheses Testing.- 9.4 Testing Equality Constraint Hypotheses.- 9.5 Strategies for Processing Interacting Bad Data.- 9.6 Robust Estimators.- 9.7 Historical Notes and References.- 9.8 Problems.- References.- 10. AC State Estimator.- 10.1 Review of the Problem Formulation.- 10.2 Flow Measurements.- 10.3 Bus Injection Measurement.- 10.4 Historical Notes and References.- 10.5 Problems.- References.- 11. Estimation Based on Multiple Scans of Measurements.- 11.1 State Estimation.- 11.2 Parameter Estimation.- 11.3 Historical Notes and References.- 11.4 Problems.- References.- 12. Fast Decoupled State Estimator.- 12.1 Decoupled Solution of Linear System of Equations.- 12.2 Fast Decoupled Power Flow.- 12.3 Decoupled Solution of Overdetermined Systems.- 12.4 Fast Decoupled State Estimator.- 12.5 Historical Notes and References.- 12.6 Problems.- References.- 13. Numerically Robust State Estimators.- 13.1 Normal Equation.- 13.2 Sparse Tableau Formulation.- 13.3 Peters Wilkinson Method.- 13.4 Blocked Sparse Tableau.- 13.5 Mixed Pivoting for Indefinite Matrices.- 13.6 Orthogonal Transformation Approach.- 13.7 Historical Notes and References.- 13.8 Problems.- References.- Appendices.- A-Statistical Properties of Estimated Quantities.- A.1 Distribution of State Estimate.- A.2 Rank of Weighted Sensitivity Matrix.- A.2.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.- A.2.2 Weighted Sensitivity Matrix.- A.2.3 Trace of Covariance Matrix of Measurement Estimates.- A.2.4 Diagonalization of the Weighted Sensitivity Matrix.- A.3.2 Orthogonal Transformation.- A.3.3 Covariance Matrix of Transformed Residuals.- A.4 Testing Equality Constraint Hypotheses.- A.5 Historical Notes and References.- References.- B-Givens Rotation.- B.1 Orthogonal Matrices.- B.1.1 2x2 Orthogonal Matrices.- B.1.2 Rotations and Reflections.- B.2 Givens Rotations.- B.2.1 Standard Givens Rotations.- B.2.2 Fast Givens Rotations.- B.2.3 Triangular Factorization.- B.2.4 The 2-multiplication Algorithm.- B.3 Historical Notes and References.- References.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Foreword. 1. Real-Time Modeling of Power Networks. 2. Least-Squares and Minimum Norm Problems. 3. DC State Estimator. 4. Power Flow Equations. 5. Network Reduction and Gauss Elimination. 6. Network Topology Processing. 7. Observability Analysis. 8. Basic Techniques for Bad Data Processing. 9. Multiple Bad Data Processing Techniques. 10. AC State Estimator. 11. Estimation Based on Multiple Scans of Measurements. 12. Fast Decoupled State Estimator. 13. Numerically Robust State Estimators. A: Statistical Properties of Estimated Quantities. B: Givens Rotation. Index.

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Book SynopsisGeneral Directories.- 1. General EIS-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 2. Legal-Related Agencies and Organizations.- Physical Directories.- 3. Air-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 4. Earth-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 5. Noise-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 6. Plant/Animal-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 7. Water-Related Agencies and Organizations.- Cultural Directories.- 8. Archaeology/History-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 9. Energy/Utility-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 10. Health-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 11. Housing-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 12. Population-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 13. Recreation-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 14. Transportation-Related Agencies and Organizations.- A. EIS-Related Libraries.- B. EIS-Related Newspapers.Table of ContentsGeneral Directories.- 1. General EIS-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 2. Legal-Related Agencies and Organizations.- Physical Directories.- 3. Air-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 4. Earth-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 5. Noise-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 6. Plant/Animal-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 7. Water-Related Agencies and Organizations.- Cultural Directories.- 8. Archaeology/History-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 9. Energy/Utility-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 10. Health-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 11. Housing-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 12. Population-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 13. Recreation-Related Agencies and Organizations.- 14. Transportation-Related Agencies and Organizations.- A. EIS-Related Libraries.- B. EIS-Related Newspapers.

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Book SynopsisThrough cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture. Nature is examined in a raw intermediary state, where it is noticeable as nature, despite, but at the same time through, man's effort at creating form. This is done by approaching nature from the perspective of architecture, understood, not only as concrete buildings, but as a fundamental human way both of being in, and relating to, the world. Man finds and forms places where life may take place. Consequently, architecture may be understood as ranging from the simple mark on the ground and primitive enclosure, to the contemporary megalopolis. Nature inheres in many aesthetic forms of expression. In architecture, however, nature emerges with a particular power and clarity, which makes architecture a raw kind of art. Even though other forms of art, as well as aesthetic phenomena outside the arts, are addresseTable of ContentsRaw: Architectural Engagements with Nature

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Book SynopsisThe touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache's career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the medieval use oTrade Review"The editors and authors have done a fine job celebrating Prache’s great intellectual acumen, diplomatic gifts, and warmth as a human being, while leaving behind erudite 'memories' and a wealth of new ideas."- CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Foreword, Kathleen Nolan and Dany Sandron; Preface; Anne Prache: a distinctive approach to the history of architecture, Dany Sandron; Introduction, Kathleen Nolan. Part I Architecture: The 13th-century foundations of Notre-Dame de Reims: new evidence for the construction history of the cathedral, Walter Berry; Cathedral, palace, hôtel: architectural emblems of an ideal society, Michael T. Davis; Ambulatories, arcade screens, and visual experience from Saint-Remi to Saint-Quentin, Ellen M. Shortell; Roriczer, Schmuttermayer, and two late Gothic portals at The Cloisters, Nancy Wu. Part II Stained Glass: Stained glass and the chronology of Reims Cathedral, Sylvie Balcon-Berry; Joseph's Dream in the Thomson Collection: reconsidering the reconstruction of the Infancy of Christ window from Suger’s Saint-Denis, Michael W. Cothren; The west rose window of the cathedral of Chartres, Claudine Lautier; Out with the new and in with the old: Jacques Coeur’s Annunciation window and its reception in Bourges Cathedral, Philippe Lorentz. Part III Sculpture: Teachers, preachers, and the Good Shepherd at Reims Cathedral: another look at the radiating chapel sculptures, William W. Clark; The function of drawings in the planning of Gothic sculpture: evidence from the archivolts of the central portal of Bourges Cathedral, Fabienne Joubert; Joseph at Chartres: sculpture lost and found, Charles T. Little; Filiae Hierusalem: female statue-columns from Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, Kathleen Nolan and Susan Leibacher Ward; A little-known work from the 14th century: the façade of the cathedral of Lyons, Nicolas Reveyron. Afterword, Gérard P. Prache; Index.

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Book SynopsisThough portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship to date, of portraits of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of religious reform, the lives of women and the family came under increasing scrutiny. Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior draws on a wide range of primary visual sources, including portraits, religious images, architectural views, prints and drawings, as well as extant palazzi and case, furnishings, and domestic objects created by the leading artists in Bologna, including Lavinia Fontana, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Denys Calvaert, and the Carracci. The study also draws on an array of historical sources - including sTrade Review'This is a work of careful reconstruction, deep archival documentation, and sensitivity to the lived experience and material context of portraiture. Campbell proves that old women of the later Renaissance were far from invisible: especially in Bologna, they were pictured, commemorated, and their likenesses revered as symbols of family identity and tools of memory. Her work shows that portrayals of elderly women were not limited to witches, crones, or hags. Rather, old women's roles of piety, authority, and virtue found expression in their portraits. These same vivid, striking portraits adorned family homes, shaping and re-shaping behavioral codes and family memory. This provocative, well-illustrated work will alter our understanding of the history of Renaissance portraiture, the Italian domestic interior, and patriarchy itself among the patrician class.' - Renée Baernstein, Miami University, Ohio, USA'Although portraits of old women were commissioned by families to be viewed in domestic interiors, Campbell convincingly argues that their influence extended well beyond the confines of the palace to the larger civic community. ... Noting the “hollow, sunken cheeks and thin lips” and bodies in many Bolognese portraits of old women, Campbell convincingly ties the suffering of old age to the reforms of Paleotti and the virtue of their families and their city.' - CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Old women, portraiture, and the early modern domestic interior1 Portraits of old women and the domestic meshwork2 Prophets and saints3 Matriarchs4 Old women in frames5 Old age, women, and the signs of suffering

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Book SynopsisOutlandia is an off-grid artists' fieldstation, a treehouse imagined by artists London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson) and designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, situated in Glen Nevis, opposite Ben Nevis. It is performative architecture that immerses its occupants in a particular environment, provoking creative interaction between artists and the land. This book explores the relationship between place and forms of thought and creative activity, relating Outlandia and the artists there to the tradition of generative thinking and making structures that have included Goethe's Gartenhaus in Weimar, Henry Thoreau''s cabin at Walden Pond and Dylan Thomas's writing shack in Laugharne. Based on a series of residencies and radio broadcasts produced by London Fieldworks in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm, the Remote Performances project enabled twenty invited artists to consider and engage in transmissions, sound performances and dialogues on their artmaking strategies immersedTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Jo Joelson; A survey of the terrain, Francis McKee; Kelpies, banshees and pibrochs heard in these parts, Geoff Sample; Like like, Michael Pederson; Selections from The Hut Book, Alec Finlay; From a train, Goodiepal; The sound of Lochaber, London Fieldworks and Mark Vernon; Geo graphy, Tracey Warr; There's a monster in the nest-box, Clair Chinnery; In search of silence, Lisa O'Brien; Composing with place, Kirsteen Davidson Kelly; A sense of distance, Lee Patterson; Notes for a video, Benedict Drew; The contemporary remote, Bruce Gilchrist; Second sketch for ascent and descent, Ed Baxter; Euphonium at sea, Sarah Kenchington; Notes after a week of wandering, Bram Thomas Arnold; Echo. Genius loci, Ruth Barker; Into Outlandia, Johny Brown; High-lands, Tony White; Endnotes on remoteness, Clair Chinnery, Lisa O'Brien and Bram Thomas Arnold; Further resources; Index.

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Book SynopsisSustaining our agricultural landscapes is no longer just a technical, scientific or even political problem, but it has evolved into a socially complex, so-called wicked problem of conflicting social governance and economics. This creates an extreme economic obstacle where the value of ecosystem services remains low and diffuse and the transactions costs remain high and multiple.Using Uber-like business platform technology and a shared governance model, a symbiotic demand for environmental benefits is created. Enabling multi-sector transactions for environmental benefits, this platform innovation would remedy the tragedy of the commons; the economic nemesis to achieving landscape sustainability. In a nutshell, to sustain our agricultural landscapes a transdisciplinary approach supported by a shared governance model housed within a multi-sided platform in needed. This book introduces an assessment framework identifying governance actors, styles and ratios for socio-ecological systems.Trade Review"I like the clear communication style as Timothy Gieseke takes readers on a journey. He systematically builds his arguments and clarifies the issues in a field that has evolved to be very complex and confusing."—Leon Cavalli, Hannabell Electronics, Queensland, Australia"Timothy M. Gieseke brings fresh new insights and understanding to the problem of how to create sustainable forms of agriculture. A compulsory read for anyone involved in sustainability science, agricultural policy planning, or integrated landscape design."—Valerie Payn, Integrated Landscape Designer, Port Shepstone Area, South Africa"This is a superbly researched and written text."—Joseph M. Bradley, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA"This book is a timely contribution to sustainability in agricultural and rural landscapes."—Alan Carter, Celto Canadian, Vancouver, Canada"The strength of the book lies in the application of the model of sustainability governance to eleven case studies, which greatly enriches understanding of processes necessary for the environmental market signal to have meaning."— Cornelia Butler Flora, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA"Tim Gieseke has authored an important big picture contribution to the scientific literature on today’s seemingly intractable, environmental problems associated with agricultural production. The book provides an excellent overview of the nature of landscape-scale ecological problems, often referred to in government regulatory terms as non-point source problems."— Andrew Manale, US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy (retired), Washington, D.C., USA"Timothy Gieseke’s book Shared Governance for Sustainable Working Landscapes is a tour de force on how to effectively manage the 'wicked problems' of unsustainable agricultural systems. This book, which is a novel addition to the growing library of books on sustainability, would be highly useful to policy makers on agricultural systems as well as conservation planners and managers. Also, the book is great for practitioners who are interested in recognizing and managing wicked problems in domains other than agriculture." — Rod King, Consultant on conversational project management, Clovis, California, USA"Tim Gieseke’s book takes us exactly in the direction we need to go – exploring new business models for investing in and sustaining the wide range of goods and services provided by landscapes. Overall, this book is an ambitious effort to develop actionable ways forward for sustaining the lands and waters on which we all rely." — Brad Gentry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA"In simple language, following in the footsteps of Ostrom and Meadows, Gieseke explains "easy-to-use" systems-level frameworks so you too can analyze, assess, and determine sustainable landscape strategies. Whether you work as a financial analyst, urban planner, corporate strategist, or in agriculture production, Shared Governance for Sustainable Working Landscapes adds one more excellent set of tools to add to your sustainability tool chest." — Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, Climate Advisers, Washington, DC, USA"The author sets out to test whether a multisided shared governance platform, supporting an eco-commerce ecosystem, could deliver a solution that all reasonable stakeholder groups might embrace. Starting at the landscape – as the "point of service" – is interesting; whether governance systems can be designed with sophistication to deliver the desired, share outcome, readers will need to establish for themselves. Even more intriguing is the possibility that valued landscape components might be delivered through the creation of e-commerce ecosystem service values." — Richard Wakeford, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom"Farmers and all the players in the Ag game have, different visions, different solutions, different problems, different motives, different interests. Mr. Gieseke writes of the wicked problems that come from conflicting interests and provides solutions with his talk of Platforms and E-Commerce Ecosystems, Shared Governance and Environmental Market Signals. Mr. Gieseke spent long nights studying and developing his ideas on Sustainability. Through it all, Tim never forgets his roots as a fourth generation farmer, providing solutions so that fifth generation can smell the smells of a barn in the morning and walk in the footsteps of their forefathers."— Merle Hanson, Author of Portraits, Winona, Minnesota, USA"Through the nodes of ecology, economy, natural capitals, governance, and stakeholder values, this volume converges towards the definition of glocal business ecosystem, a concept transcending sector boundaries. More than a set of ingenious suggestions and opportunities to change resource management, this book is a source of inspiration to tackle current challenges with a holistic vision. It is a manual with guidelines to innovate and renew our way of building society, with approaches suggested by nature itself, and a license to rethink our world imaginatively." — Fanny Barsics, Formerly of the University of Liège, Belgium"On many levels, rich and thought-provoking writing. Indigenous innovation and science partnerships engage millennia old landscapes, and its critical, egalitarian customary governance and management practices. Tim’s writing raises a unique question for sustainability science: ‘What can we learn in terms of policy, planning and management?’ from the dynamic function of customary governance and its transdisciplinary approaches to sustaining complex natural capital." — John Locke, BioCultural Consulting Pty Ltd, Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction. An enduring wicked problem. Natural capital outputs and outcomes. Disparate stakeholder strategies and values. Conflicting governance styles. Devising a wicked solution. A landscape language. Aligning sustainability activities. A shared governance platform. Governance of the glocal commons. Designing a business ecosystem. Enabling an eco-commerce ecosystem. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisBlom’s hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little optimistic. The idea can be put like this: climate change changes everything' John Lanchester, New Yorker In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Europe. While hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, by the end of the sixteenth century the temperature plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbours were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and ‘frost fairs’ were erected on a frozen Thames – with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and sweeping consequences of this ‘Little Ice Age’, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had ineradicably changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While apocalyptic weather patterns destroyed entire harvests and incited mass migrations, Blom brilliantly shows how they also gave rise to the growth of European cities, the appearance of early capitalism, and the vigorous stirrings of the Enlightenment. A sweeping examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected change, Nature’s Mutiny will transform the way we think about climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond.Trade ReviewA book that skilfully creates a historical panorama, in such a gripping and thrillingly informative way that it’s a joy. * Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung *An exciting history book, and an educational one. * Stern *A case study that connects the birth of the modern world with the climate change of the time. A fascinating panorama of a whole era. * Freie Presse *An imposing panorama of politics, economics and intellectual history ... [Blom] has written an informative history of the early modern age, which also prompts us to think about the connections between climate and innovation. * Deutschlandfunk Andruck *Drawing on rich sources, including diaries, letters, account ledgers, paintings, and religious sermons as well as data gleaned by climate historians and scientists, journalist and translator Blom creates a vivid picture of the European landscape during the Little Ice Age and of social, political, and cultural changes that may have been accelerated by climate change ... An absorbing and revealing portrait of profound natural disaster. * Kirkus Reviews *A sweeping story, embracing developments in economics and science, philosophy and exploration, religion and politics. Blom delivers much of his argument through compressed, beautifully clear life sketches of prominent men. […] Blom’s hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little optimistic. 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