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Book SynopsisThis dictionary contains over 9,000 A to Z entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment. Thoroughly revised and updated, it covers the latest research and theories in this fast-moving field. This is a must-have for students of environment and conservation studies and ancillary subjects.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This dictionary is a useful tool. * Austin Williams, TLS *With some bad environmental dictionaries on the market, it is refreshing to find a good one. * Fred Pearce, New Scientist *[its] choices are sound and its decisions solid * New Scientist *

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Book SynopsisAnna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and political principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth.Trade ReviewAnna M. Gade places her arguments within a rich exploration of historical and modern theoretical approaches to the environment and environmentalism. This book is theoretically sophisticated, lively, and interesting. -- Marion Katz, author of Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social PracticeAnna Gade's Muslim Environmentalisms is an instant classic. It is inspired and inspiring, a work that deserves to be read and internalized in scholarly communities, activist movements, and policy circles. Many previous works on the subjects have offered profound philosophical speculations on the theme, but have remained oddly disconnected from the activities of Muslims on the ground. Gade's work brilliantly guides us among the rich discursive terrains of Qur'an and ethics, to the environmentalist movements in Cambodia and Indonesia, and Malaysia. I cannot remember another work that moves with such grace and brilliance, benefitting from the insights of the best of religious studies, anthropology, and more. Muslim Environmentalisms is more than simply a work that sums up or even challenges existing fields. It shines a light on the terrain that must be followed to save our only home. -- Omid Safi, author of Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and PluralismAnna Gade’s original book pushes environmental humanities to open up to concepts and insights from Islamic thinking. Rather than an idealized and static theology, Islam, for Gade, is what Muslims say and do, in their relation to the Qur’an; this already moves us beyond stereotypes and exclusions. Muslim Environmentalisms is a much needed addition to environmental thinking. -- Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global ConnectionMuslim Environmentalisms is a must-read for anyone interested in religion and the environment, and the environmental humanities generally. In contrast to essentializing, monolithic approaches of 'Islam and ecology,' Gade offers a nuanced and grounded portrait of Muslim environmentalisms that advances the project of the environmental humanities beyond romantic, colonial, and Eurocentric frames and inheritances, while staking an original claim for 'the environment' as an inherently ethical category. -- Lisa Sideris, author of Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural WorldAn in-depth and all-encompassing critical survey of how some contemporary Muslims have sought to articulate environmental values in terms of Islamic ethics and norms. -- Richard Foltz Concordia University * AAR Book Review *Recommended. * Choice *A serious, sustained, and precious evaluation. . . . By re-situating the Islamic Humanities on a footing more representative of their actual practice, Gade invites us to comprehend them more accurately and compare them more profitably with other traditions. * Religion and the Arts *This brilliant book...opens a path for scholars, students, and activists alike to focus on ethical commitments and the environmental justice. * Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society *An excellent work. It contributes to the existing literature on religious studies, Islamic studies, religious environmentalism, the anthropology of Islam, Southeast Asian studies, and environmental humanities. * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. History of Religions, Islam, and Environmental Humanities2. Islam and the Environment: Pluralism and Development3. A Qur’anic Environment: Relating Creatures and Resources4. Roots and Branches of Islamic Environmental Justice, Law, and Ethics5. Islamic Humanities: Apprehending Symbol, Expression, and Natural Science6. Muslim Environmentalism as Religious Practice: Accounts of the Unseen7. From This World to the NextNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Section 1 - General introduction on the use of UAS for environmental monitoring • Remote sensing of the environment using unmanned aerial systems • Protocols for UAS-based observation • Using structure-from-motion workflows for 3D mapping and remote sensing Section 2 - Vegetation monitoring • Vegetation mapping and monitoring by unmanned aerial systems (UAS)—current state and perspectives • Monitoring agricultural ecosystems Section 3 - Soil Mapping • Mapping soil properties for unmanned aerial system based environmental monitoring • Soil moisture monitoring using unmanned aerial system Section 4 - River Monitoring • Geometric correction and stabilization of images collected by UASs in river monitoring • River flow monitoring with unmanned aerial system • Monitoring river channel dynamics by Unmanned Aerial Systems Section 5 - Tools and datasets • Tools and datasets for unmanned aerial system applications

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Book SynopsisInterior design has shifted significantly in the past fifty years from a focus on home decoration within family and consumer sciences to a focus on the impact of health and safety within the interior environment. This shift has called for a deeper focus in evidence-based research for interior design education and practice. Research Methods for Interior Design provides a broad range of qualitative and quantitative examples, each highlighted as a case of interior design research. Each chapter is supplemented with an in-depth introduction, additional questions, suggested exercises, and additional research references. The bookâs subtitle, Applying Interiority, identifies one reason why the field of interior design is expanding, namely, all people wish to achieve a subjective sense of well-being within built environments, even when those environments are not defined by walls. The chapters of this book exemplify different ways to comprehend interiority through clearlyTable of ContentsIntroduction Dana E. Vaux and David Wang 1. Focus Groups: Interiority at the Scale of Neighborhoods: Exploring the health experiences of three cultural groups Tasoulla Hadjiyanni 2. Design ethnography: Understanding User Experience Within Flexible Workplaces: An Ethnographic Approach Isil Oygur, Ozgur Gocer and Ebru Ergoz Karahan 3. Narrative inquiry: Narratives of Healing: The Records of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in the Era of the Great Depression Erin Cunningham 4. Applied historic preservation: A Local Meeting Place: The Adaptive Reuse of the Huffman House Lisa Tucker 5. Oral histories: Living and Moving, Thingly (Interior) History Bryan D. Orthel 6. Philosophical method: Interior Design in the Common Sense David Wang 7. Logical argumentation: Understanding Place Meaning through Ethos Intensive Objects Dana E. Vaux 8. Mixed methods: Validating ‘feeling at home’: Developing a Psychological Construct Pattern to aid in the Design of Environments for the Homeless Jill Pable 9. Correlation: Correlating Interior Lighting with Teacher Productivity Levels in the Public preK-12 Classroom Alana Pulay 10. Scale Creation: Measuring the "Thirdplaceness" of Social Media Platform. Michael R. Langlais and Dana E. Vaux 11. Virtual simulation: Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing in a Classroom Design. Saleh Kalantari 12. Creative scholarship: Computational design: organic growth and research tactics. An interview with Andrew Kudless by David Wang and Dana E. Vaux Index

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice.The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Comparative Global Urban Studies in the Making: Welcome to the World of Imperfect and Innovative Urban Comparisons Part I: Introduction: Inheritance: Traditions in Comparative Urban Research Chapter 1 – Beyond the City Limits: Comparison, Global Urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology Chapter 2 – Comparative strategies on and in Latin-American cities Chapter 3 – Comparative urban studies and African studies at the crossroads: From the colonial situation to twilight institutions Chapter 4 – Comparative Urban Studies in Asia: Old Players in Urbanization History or Emerging Game Changers? Chapter 5 – Comparative urban studies in Europe Chapter 6 – Beyond comparison with history and Actor-Network Theory Chapter 7 – Citizenship and Inequality in the Post-Colonial City: Instituted Processes and Causal Mechanisms Chapter 8 – The Role of Comparison in Urban Political Science Chapter 9 – The Contribution of the Sociological Approach to Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 10 – Urban Social Movements: Comparing Conflicts and Mobilizations Part II: Introduction: Methods and Research Design Chapter 11 – A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood-and City-Level Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility Chapter 12 – Making a Comparative Case: The Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei Chapter 13 – Frames and flows: pan-urban policymaking and metropolitan transformation Chapter 14 – From object biographies to data-centred assemblages: two experiments in relational urban comparison Chapter 15 – Internal Migrations and Urban Transitions: A Comparative Perspective Chapter 16 – Odious comparisons in urban studies. A plea for comparative monographs Chapter 17 – A New Era for Commensurable Comparative Urban Research? Machine Learning and/or Propagations Chapter 18 – Methodological manoeuvres: Comparative practices in urban policy making Chapter 19 – Politics and governance in metropolitan areas: a transnational comparative perspective Part III: Introduction: Contexts Chapter 20 – Enabling Connections: Relational Comparison in a Global Conjunctural Frame Chapter 21 – Segregation studies: Overriding context through implicit comparison? Chapter 22 – Specificity and Urbanisation: A Framework for Comparative Analysis Chapter 23 – The Ends of Comparison—calculative logics and racial hauntings Chapter 24 – Cities in Their States Chapter 25 – Social mix, super-diversity, and interactions in the neighborhood: Comparing US and Western European perspectives Chapter 26 – Overcoming the Limitations of Comparative Urban Research in the (Post)Socialist Context Chapter 27 – State entrepreneurialism: theorising urban development politics from China Chapter 28 – Weak Comparisons: Navigating Differences and Commonalities among Cities in Russia and Elsewhere Chapter 29 – The relevance of local factors for understanding Italy: explaining territorial differentiation Part IV: Introduction: Connections Chapter 30 – ‘Coexisting Heterogeneity’: Agrarian Urban Entanglements in India’s Urbanizing Frontiers Chapter 31 – Socialist Worldmaking: Comparative Research between the Socialist and Postcolonial Countries during the Cold War Chapter 32 – Comparative Urban Studies Beyond the City Chapter 33 – Global Cities Research as Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 34 – Genetic Comparisons: Tracing how global infrastructure conditions peri-urban trajectories Chapter 35 – Archipelagic Thinking, Southern Urbanism and Experimental Comparisons Chapter 36 – Allegory, Psychasthenia, Horizon: Comparative Urbanism as Spectral Critique at the Antipodes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative Part V: Introduction: Experiments Chapter 37 – New York and Cairo: a view from street level. Chapter 38 – Emotions as an Analytical Category in Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 39 – Concepts and Principles for Taking Bourdieu into the City Chapter 40 – Covid, contagion and comparative urban research Chapter 41 – Everyday cognition and historical tracing in comparative urban research: Insights from a study of the BRICS Chapter 42 – Quilting Comparison: Wonder, Translation and Theorization Chapter 43 – Tracing Materials to Locate the Urban: The West African Corridor from Lagos to Abidjan Chapter 44 – How India Urbanizes: Multiscalar and Multi-Sited Comparisons Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development.Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes covered include urban growth, decentralisation, path dependence, institutional change, governance, entrepreneurship and culture. Detailed case studies of the history-rich metropolises of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw allow the author to examine the adaptive abilities of cities in flux and draw conclusions with broader international relevance. This text will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers in urban economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and Central European studies.

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Book SynopsisDiverse Practices, the third book in the Active Landscape Photography series, presents a set of unique photographic examples for site-specific investigations of landscape places. Contributed by authors across academia, practice and photography, each chapter serves as a rigorous discussion about photographic methods for the landscape and their underlying concepts. Chapters also serve as unique case studies about specific projects, places and landscape issues.Project sites include the Miller Garden, Olana, XX Miller Prize and the Philando Castile Peace Garden. Landscape places discussed include the archeological landscapes of North Peru, watery littoral zones, the remote White Pass in Alaska, Sau Paulo and New York Cityâs Chinatown. Photographic image-making approaches include the use of lidar, repeat photography, collage, mapping, remote image capture, portraiture, image mining of internet sources, visual impact assessment, cameraless photography, transect walking and interviewing.These diverse practices demonstrate how photography, when utilized through a set of specific critical methods, becomes a rich process for investigating the landscape. Exploring this concept in relationship to specific contemporary sties and landscape issues reveals the intricacy and subtlety that exists when photography is used actively.Practitioners, academics, students and researchers will be inspired by the underlying concepts of these examples and come away with a better understanding about how to create their own rigorous photographic practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diverse PracticesAnne C GodfreyPractice, Methods and Process: Photographic Representation is a VerbAnne C GodfreyPart I: Systems1. Cameraless Photography at the Water’s Edge: Rethinking Collaboration and Exchange in the Littoral ZonePhoebe Lickwar2. Looking Through the Trees: Lidar, Archaeology, and the Possibility of Seeing OtherwiseParker VanValkenburgh3. Between the Rendered and the Real: Photography as a Comparative Analysis ToolAidan Ackerman, Robin Hoffman4. Taking Strolls in Virtual Space: Finding the Stranger’s Path in Google Streetview Context Photography Deni RuggeriPart II: Histories5. Engaged Photography: Revealing the Miller GardenMark R. Eischeid6. Photographs as Tools for Restoring the Historic Landscape of OlanaCharlotte Barrows7. Revealing Landscapes Beyond the Monuments: Matching Past to Present Using Remote Repeat Photography Anna Suet Tiburzi Part III: Narratives8. Repeat Photography's Practical Applications in Contemporary Landscape Planning and DesignRachel Edmonds, Casey Howard, and Laurie Matthews9. XX Miller Prize: Centering Women’s Stories Through PortraitureSahar Coston-Hardy, Rhiannon Sinclair10. Photography and a Dramaturgical Approach to SitesBrian KatenPart IV: Moments11. OverdrawingLiska Chan12. Ways of Seeing; Documenting LandscapeHannah Durham13. Serial Process: Serial photography as Critical PracticeMaura Rockcastle and Ross Altheimer

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Book SynopsisThe demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civil conflict, (un)natural disasters, political instability, and poverty. The number of people fleeing their homes and being displaced by such conflict now totals almost 100 million. Despite the massive human and physical costs of these crises, the number of architects, planners, and landscape architects equipped to work with disaster and development professionals in rebuilding in the aftermath of conflict, floods, fires, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis remains chronically low. Design for Fragility expands the nascent, but rapidly growing field of humanitarian architecture by exploring 13 design responses to such conflict and displacement across 11 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Iran, Pakistan, and the USA. Linked to this displacement is the systemic poverty that often lingers from previous colonial terrTrade Review"Confronted with the intersecting crises of climate breakdown, rising authoritarianism, increasing social inequalities and mass migration, the architectural profession urgently needs to look to new ways of working. Design for Fragility provides very useful insights into how more responsible and equitable design might unfold within current precarious conditions."Jeremy Till, Professor of Architecture, University of the Arts London"Designing for a fragile world inherently means designing for dignity and hope.These outstanding projects testify of how humanitarian architecture upholds the values of our profession, linking entire communities to the prospects of better lives. Whether these are schools withstanding floods or cyclones, maternal wards welcoming newborns in healthier conditions or designing shelter for refugees or indigenous populations, all contribute to building pathways to protect and empower the most unprivileged.The book is a source of inspiration of what can be achieved despite disasters and crises. As long as the problems remain endless, so do the solutions."Sandra D’Urzo, Humanitarian Architect"Design for Fragility offers a wonderful selection of projects that exemplify that people-centered design is more than a tool and, that when it is implemented in ‘fragile’ contexts, it can provoke change, enhance dignity, and promote inclusion. The diverse typology of projects and the reflections of the architects regarding their design process and methodologies which delve into achieving community involvement, offer a useful and relevant guide for future professionals of the built environment that want to make a difference through their work."Dr. Carmen Mendoza Arroyo, Director of the Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture "In the introduction to this book, Brett Moore, Global Shelter Cluster Lead queried ‘Why aren’t architects active in these issues? Has our social agenda been lost?’ The authors - Esther Charlesworth and John Fien - are ideally qualified to assemble their positive answer to this challenge by including thirteen well selected examples of architectural projects under the themes of children, health, housing and justice. Beautifully designed and illustrated, Design for Fragility is a welcome companion to Esther’s 2014 landmark text: Humanitarian Architecture. The result is essential reading for any architect, landscape architect and planner with a concern to meet acute needs by the application of their compassion, skills and experience to the deepening problems of social displacement and the scale and complexity of reconstruction."Professor Ian Davis, author of Shelter after Disaster (1978)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Design for Fragility and Children 2. Design for Fragility and Health 3. Design for Fragility and Housing 4. Design for Fragility and Justice Epilogue Humanitarian Agencies and People

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa. It addresses how these trading environments influence perceptions of place and play an extended social, political, and religious role while adapting to their local climates.Through Archival research and social science methodologies, this book records and maps markets in urban fabrics, expanding on practices underlying the push towards historical listings and the development of markets as landmarks in the urban fabric. The role of markets in delivering sustainable place-making strategies and influencing the development of cities' socio-economic and historical strength is addressed as key to their survival in the urban fabric and as place-making landmarks for preserving tangible and intangible heritage. Going beyond heritage and conservation studies, this book discusses how posit

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Book SynopsisCurrent assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the usersâ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupantsâ needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored.This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge, sustainable buildings in the world, in terms of the usersâ perceived comfort, health and productivity. The author has visited the buildings, interviewed the design teams and examined the findings of a sixty-question standardized user questionnaire. The book provides: thirty case studies covering mixed-mode, passive and environmentally sustainable commercial and institutional buildings detailed insights into the principles underlying the design of sustainable buildings worldwide, over several climatic zones and eleven countries, together with clear explanations and illustrations oTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Overview of the Buildings and their Performance Part 1: Buildings in Cold – Temperate Climates 2. NRG Systems Facility, Hinesburg, Vermont, USA 3. Computer Science and Engineering Building, York University, Ontario, Canada 4. Military Families Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5. SciencePark, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 6. National Works Yard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 7. Liu Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Part 2: Buildings in Medium – Temperate Climates 8. Gifford Studios, Southampton, England 9. Arup Campus, Solihull, England 10. Zicer Building, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England 11. Renewable Energy Systems, Kings Langley, England 12. City Hall, London, England 13. The Foundation Building, Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall, England 14. The Mathematics and Statistics and Computer Science Building, Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand 15. St Mary’s Credit Union, Navan, Ireland 16. Scottsdale Forest Ecocentre, Tasmania, Australia 17. Tokyo Gas, Kohoku New Town, Yokohama 18. Nikken Sekkei Building, Tokyo Part 3: Buildings in Warm – Temperate Climates 19. The Landcare Research Laboratory, Auckland, New Zealand 20. The Campus Reception and Administration Building, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 21. 60 Leicester Street, Melbourne, Australia 22. 40 Albert Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 23. The Red Centre Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 24. Institute of Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 25. General Purpose Building, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia 26. Student Services Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia 27. Natural Resources Defence Council, Santa Monica, California, USA Part 4: Buildings in Hot – Humid Climates 28. Institute of Technical Education, Bishan, Singapore 29. Ministry of Energy Water and Communications Building, Putrajaya, Malaysia 30. Menara Umno, Penang, Malaysia 31.Torrent Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India

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Book SynopsisThe philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908â1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge, Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow and Alberto PÃrez-GÃmez in North America and Juhani Pallasmaa in Finland. Merleau-Ponty suggested that the value of peopleâs experience of the world gained through their immediate bodily engagement with it remains greater than the value of understanding gleaned through abstract mathematical, scientific or technological systems. This book summarizes what Merleau-Pontyâs philosophy has to offer specifically for architects. It locates architectural thinking in the context of his work, placing it in relation to themes such as space, movement, materiality and creativity, introduces key texts, helps decode difficult terms and provides quick reference for further reading.Trade Review'The phenomenological features of Merleau-Ponty’s notion of embodiment have today received extensive support by contemporary biological and neuroscientific research. Hale’s book, which highlights and distills the pivotal insights of the French philosopher, is essential reading for every architect who might ponder how people actually perceive their designed environments.' - Harry Francis Mallgrave, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsSeries Editor Preface. Acknowledgements. Illustration Credits. Introduction. 1. Embodied Space – It’s Not What You Think 2. Expressive Form – Since Feeling is First 3. Tectonics and Materials – The Flesh of the World 4. Creativity and Innovation – From Spoken to Speaking Speech Postscript. Further Reading. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisWeather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider the weather as an architectural author that affects design, construction and use in a creative dialogue with other authors such as the architect and user.Environmental discussions in architecture tend to focus on the practical or the poetic but here they are considered together. Rather than investigate architecture's relations to the weather in isolation, they are integrated into a wider discussion of cultural and social influences on architecture. The analysis of weather's effects on the design and experience of specific buildings and gardens is interwoven with a historical survey of changing attitudes to the weather in the arts, sciences and society, leading to a crTrade Review"Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization is a welcome contribution to the much-needed further exploration of the historical roots of regionalist tendencies in architecture." — Eric Storm, Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands"...the author provides a profound analysis that is rooted as much in natural science, philosophy, and literature as it is in teh history of art, architecture, and landscape design." — Jakob Schoof, DETAIL Green, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Things of a Natural Kind 2. The Seasons of A Life 3. A Life in Ruins 4. The Garden of Architecture 5. Pigments and Pollution 6. The Weather of Our Houses 7. Submitting to the Seasons 8. Fog, Glare and Gloom 9. Sweet Garden of Vanished Pleasures

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Book SynopsisDescribes the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. This book focuses on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organization - individuals, populations, species, and clades.Trade Review"This book will be an important resource for insect ecologists for many years." Choice "A wonderful addition to the field ... Everyone will find something of interest... Provides a wealth of information and approaches to digest." Evolution: Intl Journal Of Organic EvolutionTable of ContentsPreface 1. Chemical Mediation of Host-Plant Specialization--the Papilionid Paradigm 2. Evolution of Preference and Performance Relationships 3. Evolutionary Ecology of Polyphagy 4. Phenotypic Plasticity in Plant-Herbivore Interactions 5. Selection and Genetic Architecture of Plant Resistance 6. Genetic Introgression and Parapatric Speciation in a Hybrid Zone 7. Host Shifts, the Evolution of Communication, and Speciation in the Enchenopa binotata Species Complex of Treehoppers 8. Host Fruit-Odor Discrimination and Sympatric Host-Race Formation in Rhagoletis pomonella 9. Comparative Analyses and the Study of Ecological Speciation in Herbivorous Insects 10. Sympatric Speciation in Herbivorous Insects: Norm or Exception? 11. Insights from Remote Islands on Insect-Plant Interactions 12. Selection by Pollinators and Herbivores on Attraction and Defense 13. Adaptive Radiation: Phylogenetic Constraints and their Ecological Consequences 14. Sequential Radiation through Host-Race Formation: Insect Herbivore Diversity Leads to Diversity in Natural Enemies 15. Host-Plant Range and Speciation: The Oscillation Hypothesis 16. Coevolution, Cryptic Speciation, and the Persistence of Plant-Insect Interactions 17. Cophylogeny of Figs, Pollinators, Gallers and Parasitoids 18. The Phylogenetic Dimension of Insect-Plant Assemblages: A Review of Recent Evidence 19. Evolution of Insect Resistance to Transgenic Plants 20. Exotic Plants in an Altered Enemy Landscape: Effects on Enemy Resistance 21. Life-History Evolution in Native and Introduced Populations 22. Rapid Natural and Anthropogenic Diet Evolution: Three Examples From Checkerspot Butterflies 23. Conservation of Coevolved Insect Herbivores and Plants

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, found itself in an ecological crisis. This book explores Denmark's successful strategies for recovery, and provides an important historical background to the modern ecological crisis.Trade Review"The author presents a great number of data to support his theses, and this reviewer is convinced that Kjaergaard is on the right track. It is to be hoped, that scholars outside Denmark will read the book and make it part of a fruitful debate on an ecohistorical interpretation of history. It deserves it." Sixteenth Century Journal"...a persuasive case for an ecological interpretation--a conclusion supported by an impressive body of primary evidence, as well as chronological logic." John D. Post, Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Denmark, 1500–1750: A Country in an Ecological Crisis: 1. The road to the crisis; 2. The anatomy of the crisis; Part II. The Ecological Revolution: 3. The green revolution; 4. The energy and raw materials revolution; Part III. The New Denmark; 5. Landscape; 6. Labour burden and social structure; 7. The disease pattern; 8. Power; Part IV. The Driving Forces Behind the Danish Revolution, 1500–1800; 9. Agrarian reforms; 10. Technology and communications systems; Part V. The Inheritance: 11. The social and political inheritance: individualism and the liberal democratic society; 12. The ecological inheritance; Appendices; Sources and bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWaste is one of the planet's last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from overcrowded landfills.Yet beyond these benefits, this new resource still poses serious risks to human health and the environment. In this unique book, Kate O'Neill traces the emergence of the global political economy of wastes over the past two decades.She explains how the emergence of waste governance initiatives and mechanisms can help us deal with both the risks and the opportunities associated with the hundreds of millions possibly billions of tons of waste we generate each year.Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies to develop her arguments, including China's role as the primary recipient of recyclable plastics and scrap paper from the Western world, Zero-Waste initiatives, the emergence of transnational waste-pickers' alliances, and alternatives for managing growing volumes of electronic and food wastes, O'Neill shows how waste can be a risk, a resource, and even a livelihood, with implications for governance atlocal, national, and global levels.Trade Review“Kate O'Neill's latest work takes us on an eye-popping journey through rich case studies of wastes and their movement around the planet.”Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland “A marvelously crafted and grippingly written book about one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet. The sooner you read it, the more you will learn about the ways in which we systematically fail to use so much of what we extract and how governments, businesses, and individuals can turn to this expanding ‘global resource frontier’ to reduce our impact.”Ben Cashore, Yale University "In this important book, Kate O’Neill expertly traces the complex international trade flows behind the prodigious volumes of waste generated by global consumer society. A valuable and illuminating contribution to current debates about if and how we make the shift to more sustainable lifestyles."Maurie Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Global Political Economy of Waste Chapter 2: Understanding Wastes Chapter 3: Waste Work Chapter 4: Discarded Electronics Chapter 5: Food Waste Chapter 6: Plastic Scrap Conclusion: A World without Waste? Notes Selected Readings References

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Book SynopsisConservation Basics examines the evolving theories and principles that underpin building conservation in England in the 21st century, and looks at their application in practice. The process of conservation planning for the maintenance and repair of historic buildings and places is described in detail, and is illustrated through case studies. Topics include understanding and assessment, surveys and recording, ecological considerations, planning and managing maintenance and repair programmes, risk management, specifying works, and contract procurement.Trade Review'Students of conservation, trustees and custodians of heritage assets and any practice for whom architectural conservation is a cornerstone of their business, with an interest in maintaining high standards, and a commitment to developing new talent should have a copy of this book on their shelves.' Architectural Technology 'Conservation Basics presents a very good introduction to the integrated approach required for the successful management of historic environments and the heritage assets situated within them by using appropriate maintenance and repair strategies. Each section is presented in a succinct, crisp, easy-to-read style, profusely illustrated with drawings, photographs and diagrams, (it) should be essential reading for all architectural, engineering and surveying students and practitioners who aspire to work on historic building fabric. Likewise, both contractors and specialists who tender for work on older buildings and property managers with historic assets in their portfolios will find this book worthy of their attention'. Journal of Architectural Conservation 'Conservation Basics like its sister volumes, is well-presented. It is a substantial hardback publication of 382 pages with each chapter preceded by a helpful precis. For ease of use, links to other volumes in the series are indicated by a system of symbols. There is generous use of high quality illustrations. This invaluable book is recommended for anyone serious about protecting our historic built environment.' SPAB‘Conservation Basics is a comprehensive resource, full of authoritative material on conservation history, philosophy, and planning … it provides the reader with valuable information for practical application in historic-preservation and heritage-conservation practice.’ – Ilene R. Tyler, FAIA, FAPT, LEED APTable of ContentsThe Evolving Concept of Building Conservation Current Law, Policy and Guidance Survey and Investigation Methods Ecological Considerations Managing Maintenance and Repair Emergency Planning for Heritage Buildings and Collections Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFuneral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superiTrade Review’... provides a valuable and wide-ranging contribution to the understanding of early modern memorializing practices...’ Renaissance Quarterly ’This excellent book is essential reading for anyone interested in the monuments of Early Modern England; indeed its Introduction is highly recommended to anyone interested in monuments... Peter Sherlock has written a humane, learned and illuminating book which will be fundamental to the study of church monuments.’ Church Monuments ’This is a groundbreaking study... The text is copiously illustrated... English tombs have had their interpreters but this text offers many fresh ideas mostly owing to the religious import which Sherlock reads into these post-Reformation statements to their present and future.’ Parergon ’Coupled with a thoughtful critical discussion underpinned by sound, sophisticated research, an elegant, lucid style in which explications are ordered and easy to follow, and forty fascinating illustrations, all subject to insightful commentary, Sherlock’s love of the subject makes the book a joy to read.’ Clio ’... Sherlock provides a well-argued and thoroughly researched account of some of the effects of religious and cultural change on portrayals of the dead.’ Huntington Library Quarterly ’... what we have here is essentially a broad discourse on funerary monuments, remarkably wide-ranging, rich in detailed information, and engagingly presented. ... It is a book to be recommended to anyone wishing to know why monuments contribute so much to our understanding of early modern England.’ Literature & History ’... an extremely valuable new addition to the work on early modern monuments in England, one which convincingly rediscovers their spiritual dimension.’ Ecclesiastical History ’Sherlock’s book is a wide-ranging study, encompassing broad conceptualization and a long time-frame. It is meticulously researched and attractively presented with a set of photographs of funeral monTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Family fictions; Monumental bodies; Life and death; Reformation; Renaissance; Law and order; Word and image; Memory; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisExamines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labour and are subject to violence.

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Book SynopsisDurability and service life design of concrete constructions have considerable socio-economic and environmental consequences, in which the permeability of concrete to aggressive intruders plays a vital role.Concrete Permeability and Durability Performance provides deep insight into the permeability of concrete, moving from theory to practice, and presents over 20 real cases, such as Tokyo's Museum of Western Art, Port of Miami Tunnel and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao sea-link, including field tests in the Antarctic and Atacama Desert. It stresses the importance of site testing for a realistic durability assessment and details the Torrent Method for non-destructive measurement of air-permeability. It also delivers answers for some vexing questions: Should the coefficient of permeability be expressed in m or m/s? How to get a mean pore radius of concrete from gas-permeability tests? Why should permeability preferably be measured on site? How cTable of Contents1. Durability Performance of Concrete Structures. 2. Permeability as Key Concrete Property. 3. Theory: Concrete Microstructure and Transport of Matter. 4. Test Methods to Measure Permeability of Concrete. 5. ‘Torrent’ NDT Method for Coefficient of Air-Permeability. 6. Effect of Key Technological Factors on Concrete Permeability. 7. Why Durability Needs to be Assessed on Site? 8. Why Air-Permeability kT as Durability Indicator? 9. Service Life Assessment Based on Site Permeability Tests. 10. The Role of Permeability in Explosive Spalling Under Fire. 11. Real Cases of kT Test Applications on Site. 12. Epilogue: The Future. Appendix A. Transport Test Methods Other Than Permeability. Appendix B. Model Standard for Measuring the Coefficient of Air-Permeability kT of Hardened Concrete.

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Book SynopsisFrom citrus trees to spring breakers, Transforming the Irvine Ranch tells the story of Orange County's metamorphosis from 93,000 acres of farmland into an iconic Southern California landscape of beaches and modernist architecture. Drawing on decades of archival research and their own years at the famed Irvine Company, the authors bring acollection of colorful characters responsible for the transformation to life, including: Ray Watson, whose nearly century-long life took him from an Oakland boarding house to the Irvine and Walt Disney Company boardrooms Joan Irvine Smith, a much-married heiress who waged war against the US government and the Irvine Foundation''s reactionary board and won William Pereira, the visionary architect whose work became synonymous with the LA cityscape. Spanning the history of modern California from itsGold Rushpast to the late 1970s, Transforming the Irvine Ranch chronicles a storied family's largelyTrade Review"Transforming the Irvine Ranch: The Big Plan is a must read for anyone interested in local community planning, California history, and American real estate development. The authors provide a thorough, thoughtful, and behind-the-scenes account of the birth of a major city, university, and foundation that have had profound impacts on the people of California."- Mark Baldassare, President and CEO, Public Policy Institute of California"Transforming the Irvine Ranch: The Big Plan combines memoir, oral history, and in-depth research to show how big personalities and bigger ambitions propelled Irvine from ranchland to metropolis. Innovative urban planning, corporate infighting, and expansion of California’s university system are part of this fascinating story. Essential for real estate professionals and anyone who cares about the future of California."- D. J. Waldie, author of Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place"In Transforming the Irvine Ranch, [Oliver and Stockstill] lay out in highly readable form the history of this most successful, and epoch-shaping developments. There may be no other place with the resources and locational advantages of the Ranch, but there are many lessons to be learned by the next generation of planners and developers."- Joel Kotkin, author of The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us“For devotees of new towns, Pike Oliver and Michael Stockstill’s book, Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big Plan, is a must read. The book is a compelling, entertaining, and very accessible account of the beginnings and history of Irvine (CA), one of the United States’ pre-eminent new towns… not only enjoyable and hard to put down but also a unique insiders’ perspective of what it takes to build a new town.”- Richard Peiser, Harvard University, USA"Transforming the Irvine Ranch: The Big Plan is a must read for anyone interested in local community planning, California history, and American real estate development. The authors provide a thorough, thoughtful, and behind-the-scenes account of the birth of a major city, university, and foundation that have had profound impacts on the people of California."- Mark Baldassare, President and CEO, Public Policy Institute of California"Transforming the Irvine Ranch: The Big Plan combines memoir, oral history, and in-depth research to show how big personalities and bigger ambitions propelled Irvine from ranchland to metropolis. Innovative urban planning, corporate infighting, and expansion of California’s university system are part of this fascinating story. Essential for real estate professionals and anyone who cares about the future of California."- D. J. Waldie, author of Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place"In Transforming the Irvine Ranch, [Oliver and Stockstill] lay out in highly readable form the history of this most successful, and epoch-shaping developments. There may be no other place with the resources and locational advantages of the Ranch, but there are many lessons to be learned by the next generation of planners and developers."- Joel Kotkin, author of The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us“For devotees of new towns, Pike Oliver and Michael Stockstill’s book, Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big Plan, is a must read. The book is a compelling, entertaining, and very accessible account of the beginnings and history of Irvine (CA), one of the United States’ pre-eminent new towns… not only enjoyable and hard to put down but also a unique insiders’ perspective of what it takes to build a new town.”- Richard Peiser, Harvard University, USATable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. A Decade of Determination. 2. A Planner's Path: Early Life, Education and Real Work. 3. Ray Arrives at a Company on the Brink of Change. 4. "We are not Gods." 5. Athalie. 6. Joan. 7. The Birth of UC Irvine. 8. Inclusions, Exclusions and the Campus that Never Was. 9. Pipes and Plans. 10. Defending the Borders. 11. The Campaign for Cityhood. 12. The New City: Partners of Antagonists, or a Little of Both? 13. The Magic of Planning. 14. From Plans to Reality: Eastbluff and Newport Center. 15. The Tax Reform Act of 1969. 16. Acceleration. 17. Conflicting Visions of the Upper Newport Bay. 18. Politics and media. 19. Low-Cost Housing: "A Problem from Day One." 20. The Jewel in the Crown. 21. The Best of All Possible Coasts. 22. Town and Gown. 23. Joan Redux. 24. Buying Time. 25. Schout's Honor. 26. Wise (and Rich) Men from the East. 27. Going All In. 28. Ray Departs. 29. Villains No More. 30. The Bigs Plans of William Pereira. 31. Reasons for Success. 32. Epilog - Follow the Money. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban spaces of possibilities and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies.The call for sustainability brings with it challenges for which, in view of the urgency of social transformation, institutional innovations are necessary. Sustainable urban development will only succeed through creative impulses, experiments, trying out innovative ideas, and making alternatives visible, in particular through locally rooted urban initiatives, artistic actions, and social movements. Discussing many concrete examples from several years of empirical research in the cities of Hanover and Hamburg (Germany), Baltimore and Chicago (USA), Bangalore (India), St. Petersburg (Russia), Singapore, and Vancouver (Canada), the book connects urban spaces and their actors; looks

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Book SynopsisNow in its 10th edition, Electrical Installation Calculations: Basic has been updated to include any changes required to bring it in line with the 18th edition of the IET electrical wiring regulations (BS7671:2018). Electrical calculations required for exams can prove difficult to master, but for more than 40 years, this book series has proved very helpful to students and professional electrical engineers studying for electrical qualifications. It covers all the calculations required for Level 2 electrical qualifications, along with other useful calculations that may be used in the electrical industry but may not feature in the syllabus of some exams.Although the calculations in this book are referred to as âbasicâ, they form the foundation of all calculations carried out in the electrical industry, which have been set out simply with worked examples along with additional questions and answers. Key terms are explained in a glossary, which can be used to assist with the reader's understanding.Table of Contents1. Use of Calculators. 2. Simple Transposition of Formulae. 3. SI Units. 4. Conductor Colour Identification. 5. Circuit Calculations. 6. Voltage Drop. 7. Areas, Perimeters and Volume. 8. Space Factors. 9. Coulombs and Current Flow. 10. Internal Resistance. 11. Power in a d.c. and Purely Resistive a.c. Circuit. 12. Power Factor. 13. Transformers. 14. Electromagnetic Effect. 15. Induced e.m.f. 16. Self-Inductance. 17. Mutual Inductance. 18. Cable Selection. 19. Earth Fault Loop Impedance. 20. Material Costs, Discounts and Value Added Tax. 21. Electrostatics. 22. Formulae. 23. Electronic Symbols. 24. Glossary. 25. Answers to Exercises. 26. Additional Questions and Answers.

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Book SynopsisUrban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better than others? What specific attributes set some green spaces apart? Can we objectively measure their impact on mental health and well-being? If so, how do we use this evidence to guide the design of mentally healthy cities?The Contemplative Landscape Model unveils the path to answer these questions. Rooted in landscape architecture and neuroscience, this innovative concept is described for the first time in an extended format, offering a deep dive into contemplative design and the science behind it. In the face of the global mental health crisis, and increasing disconnection from nature, design strategies for creating healthier urban environments are what our cities so sorely need. This book delves into the neuroscience behind contemplative landscapes, their key spatial characteristics, and practical applications of the ContemplTrade Review"This fantastic book provides strong evidence of how vital our outdoor spaces are in improving health and well-being, especially post-pandemic. It shows how healthier urban environments can be achieved to mitigate the impacts of climate change, population growth, ageing, and urbanisation. It is a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners and students."Dr Bruno Marques, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), Associate Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand"Creating salubrious landscapes has been a goal of landscape design as old as the landscape architecture profession. This monograph presents a very convincing case of the Contemplative Landscape Model to marry both the goal of aesthetics and health promotion value of landscapes. It will be a very useful reference for researchers, students and practitioners in the field of landscape architecture."Dr Tan Puay Yok, Professor, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore"Whilst there is significant evidence showing the beneficial effects of nature to wellbeing, there is still so much we don’t know about cause and effect. This book presents some new arguments – including a role for our subconscious – and drawing on Jung’s model of the psyche to help account for the profound effect nature has on us, positive and negative."Jenny Roe, Professor in Design & Health, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USATable of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: SCIENCE BEHIND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LANDSCAPES 1. Therapeutic Mechanisms of Urban Green Spaces 2. Brain Response to Contemplative Landscapes and Mental Health Implications 3. How to Benefit the Most from Contemplative Landscape Exposure? PART 2: CONTEMPLATIVE LANDSCAPE FEATURES 4. Character of Peace and Silence 5. Compatibility 6. Layers of the Landscape 7. Landform 8. Biodiversity 9. Color and Light 10. Archetypal Elements PART 3: EXISTING AND FUTURE APPROACHES 11. How to Design Contemplative Landscapes? Best Practices and Case Examples 12. How to Identify Contemplative Landscapes? CLM User’s Manual 13. A Vision of a Mentally Healthy City

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Book SynopsisHoming the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication.To home a digital fabrication machine is to send it back to its origin pointa point that can be specified by the fabricator in advance of the fabrication process or by the defaults that are pre-programmed into the machine. The homing process is necessary and productive since it determines the physical point at which the machine (and the maker) begin makingevery time that architectural designers begin to digitally fabricate something new, they first need to home the machine. This book gathers first- and second-hand accounts of the origins of individual digi-fab practices from the emergence of advanced prototyping tools to the contemporary moment. It features interviews, essays, and case studies organized around three questions: What are the possible histories of digital fab

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Book SynopsisLying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.Where conventional architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the objectification of the maternal body), the bookâin the mode of creative practice researchâpresents a creative-critical autotheory of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist, subjective modes of thinking that travel across disciplines, registers and arguments. The book assesses the transformation of maternity spacesâfrom the female bedchamber of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marital homes, to the lying-in hospitals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries purposely built by man-midwives, to the late twentieth-century spaces of home and the modern hospital maternity wingâand the parallel shifts in maternal practices. The spacTable of Contents1. The Dark and Airless Room 2. The Man-Midwife Enters 3. Building Hospitals, Building Bodies: The Hospital for Lying-In 4. Commonplaces—Species of Maternal Spaces

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book examines the full potential of Digital Twins (DTs) as a means of creating more sustainable urban habitats. It reveals how, in this digitally-enabled age, DTs are increasingly being adopted by cities as a tool for urban governance, with the hope of increasing operational efficiencies and enhancing citizens' lives.While the study and implementation of DTs has been critically explored as virtual, dynamic 3D replicas of physical entities across different disciplines and industries, this book establishes a strategy that recognises the need for the software' behind virtual DT platforms to not only represent the hardware' of our physical cities but also to reflect the heartware' of socio-economic and cultural practices. Knowledge gaps and challenges in existing DTs are identified and insights into rethinking their purpose are provided to propose a new DT paradigm model for city-wide application. With multiple case studies illustrating the different conceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Context 2. Case Studies 3. Digital Transformation 4. Enabling the Digital Twin 5. A National Paradigm Shift 6. Implementing the Digital Twin Conclusion

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Book SynopsisToday, human factors and ergonomics professionals worldwide contribute to the design and evaluation of tasks, jobs, products, environments, and systems in order to make them compatible with the needs, abilities, and limitations of people. By understanding anthropometry, professionals can ensure that our home and working environments are comfortable and designed with the human in mind. This book aims to show how an understanding of anthropometrics can influence workspace design, ergonomics in the office, ergonomics in the home, and health and safety at work.This book discusses the measurement of the human body and human variability. Anthropometry may seem to be relatively simple but the reality is that it focuses on very sophisticated aspects of how to make the products tailor-made to suit specific requirements. As a study, it is useful for a variety of purposes such as workspace design, ergonomics in the office, ergonomics in the home, and health and safety at work. These eleTable of Contents1. Anthropometry: The Past, the Present, and the Future 2. Anthropometry: Definition, Uses, and Methods of Measurements 3. Keyword: Body Sizes of Americans 4. Anthropometric Databases 5. Engineering Anthropometry 6. Anthropometry for Design 7. Ergonomic Workstation Design 8. Anthropometric Topography 9. Anthropometry of Children 10. Anthropometry for the Needs of the Elderly 11. Anthropometry for the Needs of Rehabilitation

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Book SynopsisTerrapsychological Inquiry is a path of storied, imaginative research that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world. This place-rooted approach studies, from the standpoint of lived experience, how the world gets into the heart. Oceans and skies, trees and hills, rivers and soils, and even built things like houses, cities, ports, and planes: How do they show up for us inwardly? How do our moods, feelings, and dreams reflect what happens in the world? Terrapsychological Inquiry evolved over a decade of exploration by graduate students, instructors, ceremonialists, workshop leaders and presenters, and other practitioners of embodied creativity to offer an Earth-honoring mode of storied qualitative inquiry, one that transforms all involved from passive spectators of the doings of the world into active, sensitive participants. Learn how to use this methodology of earthly reenchantment in a variety of settings inside and outside academTable of ContentsIntroduction: Inquiry as Response to the Animate World 1. What is Terrapsychology? 2. Philosophy of the Methodology 3. Preparing for the Work 4. Terrapsychological Inquiry in Practice 5. Analyzing the Data 6. What the Findings Mean 7. Sharing the Results 8. Terrapsychologizing for Life

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Book SynopsisThis revised and updated book provides a definition of dampness in each of its forms, it details the various potential sources, and causes that can result in damage to the building, and damage to the health of the occupiers. It is both practical, and provides an outline of the possible solutions looking at aspects of building design and construction that can reduce or avoid the risk of dampness. It also discusses why dampness is a risk to the health of occupiers and so justifies the need to protect health by reducing or removing it.This book:- Provides a valuable resource for housing, legal and medical professionals- Discusses possible solutions in aspects of building design and construction that can reduce or avoid the risk of dampness, and also the safe removal of mould.- Provides an explanation of the legal framework in the UK and potential legal remedies for adverse health effects as a result of dampnessThe new edition of Dampness in Dwellings includes expanded details on the health implications of dampness in the home, legal updates and new thinking in the wake of the tragic death of Awaab Ishak. It provides a pivotal resource for active professionals in housing, medical and legal sectors.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of autonomous urban mobility, examining its transformative potential and the principles guiding its innovation. This essential resource offers deep insights into the societal, policy, and urban impacts of autonomous vehicles, drawing on an extensive body of research. Beginning with a review of smart urban mobility innovations, the book explores technological advancements such as connected vehicles, mobility-as-a-service platforms, and shared autonomous systems, evaluating their successes and challenges.The book traces the evolution of autonomous vehicle research over the past two decades, identifying key trends, methodologies, and future research directions, underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to address complex challenges. Subsequent chapters critically assess the technical capabilities, societal impacts, and policy frameworks necessary for the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles, with a focus on implications for land use, infrastructure, and environmental planning. Public acceptance is a recurring theme, with an in-depth analysis of socio-demographic, psychological, and contextual factors influencing attitudes towards autonomous mobility. The book also examines the role of shared autonomous systems in addressing urban challenges such as congestion and equity, highlighting their potential to create more sustainable urban transportation networks. Concluding with a discussion on the disruptive impacts of autonomous vehicles on urban form and land use, the authors provide a balanced perspective on the opportunities and risks of mobility-as-a-service.This key reference book equips academics, policymakers, urban planners, and industry professionals with the knowledge to navigate the complex interplay of technology, policy, and societal impact, advancing the vision of smarter and more sustainable cities.This volume, alongside its companion, Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Adoption Parameters, Perceptions, Perspectives, offers a holistic view of Autonomous Urban Mobility.Together, these books provide a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous urban mobility, the principles guiding its innovation, the wide-ranging impacts of its adoption on society, policy, and urban environments and the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles in the future of urban transportation.

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Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to experimental design, field monitoring skills for plants and animals, data analysis, interpretation and reporting This user-friendly book presents field monitoring skills for both plants and animals, within the context of a research project. This text provides a single resource to take the reader all the way through from the planning stage, into the field, guiding through sampling, organism identification, computer-based data analysis and interpretation, and finally how to present the results to maximise the impact of the work. Logically structured throughout, and revised extensively in the second edition, the book concentrates on the techniques required to design a field-based ecological survey and shows how to execute an appropriate sampling regime. It evaluates appropriate sampling and analytical methods, identifying potential problems associated with various techniques and how to mitigate these. The second edTable of ContentsList of Tables xiii List of Figures xv List of Boxes xxi List of Case Studies xxiii List of Plates xxv Preface to the Second Edition xxvii Preface to the First Edition xxix Acknowledgements xxxi About the Companion Website xxxv 1 Preparation 1 Choosing a topic for study 2 Ecological research questions 4 Monitoring individual species and groups of species 4 Monitoring species richness 5 Monitoring population sizes and density 5 Monitoring community structure 6 Monitoring behaviour 6 A note of caution 6 Creating aims, objectives, and hypotheses 9 Reviewing the literature 9 Primary literature 10 Secondary literature 10 Other sources of information 11 Search terms 11 Reading papers 12 Practical considerations 12 Legal aspects 13 Ethical issues 13 Health and safety issues 14 Implementation 16 Equipment and technical support 19 Field/laboratory notebook 19 Pilot studies 21 Time management 22 Statistical considerations in project design 24 Designing and setting up experiments and surveys 26 Choosing sampling methods 26 Types of data 27 Sampling designs 29 Planning statistical analysis 35 Describing data 35 Asking questions about data 36 Predictive analysis 37 Multivariate analysis 38 Examining patterns and structure in communities 39 Summary 39 2 Monitoring Site Characteristics 43 Site selection 43 Site characterisation 44 Habitat mapping 44 Examination of landscape scale 54 Measuring microclimatic variables 55 Monitoring substrates 60 Monitoring water 64 Other physical attributes 67 Measuring biological attributes 70 Identification 76 3 Sampling Plants and Other Static Organisms 85 Sampling for static organisms 88 Seeds, fecundity, and population dynamics 91 Quadrat sampling 92 Density estimation using quadrats 95 Frequency estimation using quadrats 95 Cover estimation using quadrats 96 Biomass estimation within quadrats 97 Quadrat size 99 Nested quadrats 100 Placement of quadrats 101 Quadrat shape 102 Pin-frames 103 Transects 104 Plotless sampling 106 Distribution of static organisms 109 Forestry techniques 110 Tree diameter 110 Tree basal area 113 Height of trees 113 Timber volume 114 Growth 114 Canopy cover 115 Age and mortality 115 4 Sampling Mobile Organisms 119 General issues 120 Distribution of mobile organisms 123 Direct observation 124 Behaviour 124 Indirect methods 130 Capture techniques 130 Marking individuals 133 Radio-Tracking 136 Population dynamics 138 Invertebrates 140 Direct observation 141 Butterfly census method 141 Indirect methods 143 Using insect sounds 143 Capture techniques 144 Killing and preserving invertebrates 145 Marking individuals 145 Capturing aquatic invertebrates 150 Netting 152 Suction sampling 156 Benthic coring 156 Drags, dredges, and grabs 157 Wet extraction 158 Artificial substrate samplers 159 Baited traps and refuges 159 Capturing soil-living invertebrates 161 Sieving 161 Floatation and phase-separation 161 Tullgren funnels and similar methods of dry extraction 162 Chemical extraction 164 Electrical extraction 166 Capturing ground-active invertebrates 167 Pitfall traps 167 Suction samplers 175 Emergence traps 178 Capturing invertebrates from plants 180 Pootering 182 Sweep netting 184 Beating 185 Fogging 185 Capturing airborne invertebrates 187 Sticky traps 190 Using attractants 191 Refuges 194 Flight interception traps 195 Light traps 197 Rotary traps 205 Water (pan) traps 206 Fish 208 Direct observation 210 Indirect methods 211 Capture techniques 211 Nets and traps 212 Collecting fish larvae 215 Electrofishing 215 Marking individuals 215 Amphibians 218 Direct observation 221 Indirect methods 221 Counting egg masses 221 Using environmental DNA (eDNA) 222 Capture techniques 222 Sampling adults in water 223 Sampling adults on land 224 Tadpoles 226 Juveniles/metamorphs 226 Marking individuals 226 Reptiles 228 Direct observation 228 Indirect methods 229 Capture techniques 230 Hand-capture 232 Traps 233 Marking individuals 235 Birds 236 Direct observation 237 Timed species count 239 Common bird census/breeding bird survey 240 Point counts 241 Transect line counts 242 Distance sampling 242 Flush counts 244 Indirect methods 245 Counting nests at a distance 246 Bird song 247 Capture techniques 247 Mist netting 248 Propelled nets 250 Marking individuals 250 Mammals 253 Direct observation 254 Indirect methods 257 Capture techniques 264 Marking individuals 272 5 Analysing and Interpreting Information 275 Keys to tests 278 Exploring and describing data 285 Transforming and screening data 285 Graphical display of data 288 Measures of central tendency and sample variability 290 Spatial and temporal distributions 292 Population estimation techniques: densities and population sizes 292 Richness and diversity 297 Similarity, dissimilarity, and distance coefficients 297 Recording descriptive statistics 300 Testing hypotheses using basic statistical tests and simple general linear models 301 Differences between samples 304 Relationships between variables 307 Associations between frequency distributions 312 More advanced general linear models for predictive analysis 314 Multiple regression 314 Analysis of covariance and multivariate analysis of variance 316 Discriminant function analysis 318 Generalized linear models 319 Extensions of the generalized linear model 323 Extensions of generalized linear models and GAMs into mixed-effects models 324 Statistical methods to examine pattern and structure in communities: classification, indicator species, and ordination 325 Classification 325 Classification techniques when the number of groups is known 326 Significance testing for group membership: analysis of similarity (ANOSIM) 328 Classification techniques when the number of groups is unknown 329 Indicator species analysis 331 Ordination 332 Indirect gradient analysis 333 Comparing ordinations and matrix data 338 Direct gradient analysis 339 6 Presenting Information 343 Written reports 344 Title 345 Abstract 345 Acknowledgements 346 Contents 346 Introduction 347 Methods 347 Results 348 Illustrations (Tables, Figures, Plates, Equations, etc.) 349 Discussion 354 References 354 Citing papers 355 Appendices 358 Archiving data 359 Authors’ contributions 359 Writing style 359 Tense 362 Passive tense 362 Numbers 362 Abbreviations 363 Punctuation 364 Choice of font 365 Common mistakes 366 Computer files 368 Specific guidance for writing for a journal 368 Specific guidance for preparing a poster 371 Specific guidance for preparing an oral presentation 376 Summary 379 Appendix 1 Glossary of Statistical Terms 381 References 387 Index 409

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Book SynopsisThis book is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, which is a qualification aimed primarily at those in business who influence the environmental performance of their organisation by the decisions that they make as managers or the actions that they take as operators. This book aims to provide an introduction to the main areas of concern and how the challenges can be addressed.This new edition takes account of recent changes in international guidance and legislation and the recent update of the International Standard in Environmental Management ISO 14001. The contents are important for businesses that wish to stay within the law and avoid adverse publicity. It explains how the concept of sustainability can be achieved in practice and what benefits â especially financial â that can accrue. Recent developments in the definitions of sustainability and the growing interest in the circular economy are introduced. It pays to be ahead of the game becaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Foundations in environmental management 2 Environmental management systems 3 Environmental impact assessments 4 Control of emissions to air 5 Control of contamination of water supplies 6 Control of waste and land use 7 Sources of energy and energy efficiency 8 Control of environmental noise 9 Planning for and dealing with environmental emergencies 10 The examination for the NEBOSH certificate in environmental management Appendix 1 Units of measurement used in environmental management Appendix 2 Background briefing to some of the terminology used in the text Appendix 3 Some examples of environmental management in practice Appendix 4 Further details on chapter references to UK law

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Book SynopsisLes Goring's book covers all the detailed knowledge required for carrying out first fixing carpentry  such as modern and traditional roofing and fitting and fixing modern and traditional floor joists on new-build sites before plastering or drylining of walls and ceilings takes place and second fixing carpentry  such as fitting staircases, hanging doors, skirting and architraves and kitchen units after dry-lined plastering has taken place and the shell of the building is watertight. In the opening chapters, this work also covers reading-of-drawings'' knowledge, tools and fixing-devices. This new edition, with over 500 coloured drawings supporting its step-by-step approach, has been updated throughout to take into account current industry practices and changes in the UK's Building Regulations. Two new chapters have also been added, covering the formwork carpentry for casting in situ, reinforced concreTrade Review"... indispensable to students ... the book is laid out very neatly ... an excellent glossary of terms."Institute of CarpentersTable of Contents1. Reading construction drawings 2. Tools required: their care and proper use 3. Carpentry fixing-devices 4. Making and fixing shelving arrangements 5. Making site-equipment items 6. Fixing doorframes, linings and Doorsets 7. Fixing wooden and uPVC windows 8. Fixing traditional and modern floor-joists and flooring 9. Fixing interior and exterior timber grounds 10. Fixing stairs and balustrades 11. Stair regulations guide to design and construction 12. Making and fixing formwork for in situ concrete stairs 13. Constructing traditional and modern roofs 14. Erecting timber- and metal-stud partitions 15. Geometry for arch centres 16. Making and fixing arch centres 17. Fixing architraves, skirting, dado and picture rails 18. Fitting and hanging doors 19. Fitting locks, latches and door furniture 20. Fixing pipe casings and framed ducts 21. Designing and installing a fitted kitchen 22. Site levelling and setting out. Glossary of terms. Index

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Book SynopsisHistorically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the construction of temporary buildings, the âdressingâ of existing urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part of the background fabric of the city.This book examines how festivals can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time, or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern urban condition. <Table of ContentsIntroduction Christian Frost, Raymond Lucas, Jemma Browne The Festival in History 1. ‘Pruning and propagating civic behaviour: three feste in and around Santa Maria della Vittoria in Mantua, 1495-97’ - Italy Susan Janet May 2. A Contemporary Reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to Festival and the Elizabethan Notion of ‘Lost Sense of Sight’- UK Constance Lau 3. Festa della Chinea: Tradition and the 'Exotic' in Roman Festival Design –Italy Nicholas Temple 4. "Honneurs et applaudissements": Celebrating the first Jesuit Saints in 17th Century- France Iara Alejandra Dundas The Festival Through History 5. Script and Score: Revisiting Nelson Goodman at Sanja Matsuri- Japan Raymond Lucas 6. The Calcio Storico in Florence: Agonistic Ritual and the Space of Civic Order- Italy Christian Frost 7. The Festal Topography of Andre Breton’s Paris- France Dagmar Motycka Weston 8. The Town of Witches: Triora Transfixed - Italy Grace Alexandra Williams 9. Festival, Ritual and Rhetoric of the Arabian Market Street – Middle East Jasmine Shahin Meaning in the Modern Festival 10. A Better Life For More People: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's contribution for the Festival of Britain -UK Paola Zanotto 11. A Vigorous Corrective: The Ulster ‘71 Festival - Northern Ireland Sarah Anne Lappin and Una Walker 12. The Pope, the Park and the City: Dublin, 1979 -Republic of Ireland Brian Ward and Gary Boyd 13. Urban Fabric: Maria Lai at Ulassai,- Sardinia Italy David Chandler 14. The Social Architecture of Contemporary Cultural Festivals: Connecting People, the Environment and Art in the Setouchi Triennale - Japan Simone Shu-Yeng Chung 15. Tahrir Square’s Festive Imagination- Egypt Hazem Ziada Index

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Book SynopsisKengo Kuma, one of Japan's leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career. In addition to creating many internationally recognized buildings all over the world, he has written extensively about the history and theory of architecture. Like his built work, his writings also reflect his profound personal philosophy. Architecture of Defeat is no exception. Now available in English for the first time, the book explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and tsunami that obliterated much of the built landscape on Japan's northern shore in a matter of minutes in 2011. Asking if we have been building in a manner that is too self-confident or arrogant, he examines architecture's iTable of ContentsPart 1: Disconnection, Criticism, Form 1. From Disconnection to Connection 2. Field and Object 3. What Was Criticality? 4. The Dreariness of Form versus Freedom Part 2: Transparency, Democracy, Materialism 1. De Stijl: A Melancholic Transparency 2. Rudolf Schindler: A Vision of Democracy 3. Yoshichika Uchida: Postwar Democracy 4. Togo Murano: System and Materialism 5. Place, Building, Image: San'ai Dream Center 6. Give Us Houses, Let Us See TV: Venice Biennale 1995 7. Girls and Yogis: Venice Biennale 2000 Part 3: Brand, Virtuality, Enclosure 1. Public, Brand, Private 2. Houses and the Sex Trade 3. Concrete Time 4. Virtuality and Parasite 5. The End of Beauty 6. Enclosure Afterword

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Book SynopsisOne of the most significant occurrences in the history of design was the creation of the English Landscape Garden. Accounts of its genesisthe surprising structural change from the formal to a seeming informal are numerous. But none has ever been quite convincing and none satisfactorily placed the contributions of Stephen Switzer. Unlike his contemporaries, Switzer - an 18th century author of books on gardening and agricultural improvement - grasped a quite new principle: that the fashionable pursuit of great gardens should be rural and extensive, rather than merely the ornamentation of a particular part of an estate. Switzer saw that a whole estate could be enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, and by the process of improving its value, could increase wealth. By encouraging improvers to see the garden in his enlarged sense, he opened up the adjoining countryside, the landscape, and made the whole a subject of unified design. Some few followed his advice immediately, such as BatTrade ReviewBrogden’s approach is chronological. Each chapter identifies stages in Switzer’s progress, with discussions of sites relevant to that period of his career. Thus the first sees him outlining Switzer’ debts to the classics and then, rather cursorily, a cluster of contemporary writers, before moving on to his apprenticeship with London and Wise at Brompton Park Nurseries.At this stage it is hard to see what exactly, if anything, Switzer designed. His writings that talk about key sites –Cassiobury, Castle Howard’ Ray Wood –tell us more about his early ideas on rural gardening than what he did himself to implement them. He worked at Blenheim (digging the foundations for Vanbrugh’ bridge), and formed the gravel pit at Kensington Palace into an amphitheatre.John Dixon Hunt, Historic Gardens Newsletter, January 2018, No. 47Dr William Brogden’s biography of Stephen Switzer fills a wide gap in the history of the English landscape garden during the first half of the eighteenth century. Switzer, uniquely, was celebrated as the author of practical and theoretical books on garden design, as well as a collaborator with Charles Bridgeman, Sir John Vanbrugh, and other pioneers.To make his case, Brogden considers the writings of other scholars, and brings together a range of published, manuscript, and pictorial sources to assess Switzer’s role in the design of the landscapes of Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard, Lumley |Castle and elsewhere. In so doing, Brogden makes a major contribution to our understanding of their evolution. All told, this is an important and original book.Peter WillisThe name Switzer reminds me of my writing up the domestic buildings for Pevsner's Lincolnshire in 1960. I was at Grimsthorpe having enjoyed Lord Ancaster's lunch, and we were standing on the terrace on the garden side of the house, when Ancaster asked, who would have designed the garden, an old formal one that had been landscaped late in the 18th century? My reply was that it could have been Stephen Switzer the author of a treatise called Ichnographica Rustica. Alas, then there was no Bill Brogden to observe in his new and exciting book that Switzer had invented a new landscape design called 'rural and extensive', gardening, intended that a whole estate could be opened up to the surrounding countryside. Rightly Brogden observes that this is a very modern concept, anticipating landscape design in our own day.John Harris, Curator of the Drawings Collection of the RIBASwitzer is the mystery man of landscape history no more, this new study reveals his innovative ideas which will inspire designers in all land management disciplinesJane Brown, author of Lancelot Capability Brown, The Omnipotent MagicianGeorge William Johnson remarks in his History of Gardening (1829) that neglect has pursued Switzer ‘beyond the grave, for his works are seldom mentioned and quoted as authorities of the age he lived in’. He was ‘the best author of his time’ and among the ‘Classic Authors of Gardening’. Modest and candid, he was a ‘sound, practical Horticulturist, a man well versed in Botanical Science of the day, in its most enlarged sense’. This glowing assessment still holds true today: Switzer is among the most original, eloquent, informed and influential garden writers and practitioners of eighteenth-century England, yet his written and practical work has been overshadowed by the achievements of his contemporaries. Brogden’s long-awaited book redresses this deficiency, supplying the first detailed account of this ingenious landscape improver and his rich and varied contribution to contemporary landscape theory and practice. Ichnographia Rustica: Stephen Switzer and the Designed Landscape will ensure that Switzer is finally admitted to the pantheon of British garden greats, and that his name should soon become as familiar as his fellow ‘landskip improvers’ William Kent, Charles Bridgeman and Humphry Repton. Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Lecturer, Historical and Sustainable Architecture, NYU (London)Table of ContentsIntroduction , 1. A Fine Genius for Gardening, 2. Towards a Rural and Farm-like Way of Gardening, 3. Early Landscapes, 4. Country Practice, Nature to Advantage Dress'd, 5. A Public Figure, 6. Essays in the Landscape Style , 7. Furor Hortensis, 8. Legacy.

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Book SynopsisFilm has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film's complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations. The term encompasses both circumstances because these seemingly distinct instances of ecological harm are often related, and even symbiotic: the traumas we perpetuate in an ecosystem through pollution and unsustainable resource management inevitably return to harm us. Contributors to this volume engage with eco-trauma cinema in its three general forms: accounts of people who are traumatized by the natural world, narratives that represent people or social processes which traumatize the environment or its species, and stories that depict the aftermath of ecological catastTable of ContentsIntroduction: Eco-Trauma Cinema Anil Narine 1. Evolution, Extinction and the Eco-trauma Film: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) and A Zed & Two Naughts (1986) Barbara Creed 2. Trauma, Truth, and the Environmental Documentary Charles Musser 3. Great Southern Wounds: The Trauma of Australian Cinema Mark Steven 4. Into the Wilde?: Art, Technologically-Mediated Kinship, and the Lethal Indifference of Nature in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Alf Seegert 5. The Dangers of Bio-security: The Host (2006) and the Geopolitics of Outbreak Hsuan L. Hsu 6. Biting Back: America, Nature and Feminism in Teeth Roland Finger 7. The Spirits of Globalization: Masochistic Ecologies in Fabrice du Welz’s Vinyan Georgiana Banita 8. Love in the Times of Ecocide: Environmental Trauma and Comic Relief in Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E Alexa Weik von Mossner 9. Eavesdropping in The Cove: Interspecies Ethics, Public and Private Space, and Trauma under Water Janet Walker 10. Cooling the Geopolitical to Warm the Ecological: How Human-Induced Warming Phenomena Transformed Modern Horror Christopher Justice 11. Toxic Media: On the Ecological Impact of Cinema Sean Cubitt

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Book SynopsisThis popular guide clarifies the requirements for inspection and testing, explaining in clear language those parts of the IET Wiring Regulations that most need simplifying. In addition to the descriptive and diagrammatic test methods that are required, explanations of the theory and reasoning behind test procedures are given, together with useful tables for the comparison of test results. The book also provides essential information on the completion of electrical installation certificates, with a step-by-step guide on the entries that need to be made and where to source data.With the content suitable for both City & Guilds and EAL Inspection and Testing courses and containing a sample MCQ paper and answers, it is also an ideal revision guide. Fully up to date with the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Simplifies the advice found in the Wiring Regulations, explaining how they apply to working practice for insTrade Review"Excellent book for anyone taking the City & Guilds 2391 Inspection, Testing and Certification course. Good examples in clear English. Easy to read, an excellent book." AMAZON.CO.UK READER REVIEW (review of previous edition) Table of ContentsAn Overview. Initial Verification. Testing Continuity of Protective Conductors (Low-Resistance Ohmmeter). Testing Continuity of Ring Final Circuit Conductors (Low-Resistance Ohmmeter). Testing Insulation Resistance (Insulation Resistance Tester). Special Tests. Testing Polarity (Low-Resistance Ohmmeter). Testing Earth Electrode Resistance (Earth Electrode Resistance Tester or Loop Impedance Testers). Testing Earth Fault Loop Impedance (Earth Fault Loop Impedance Tester). Additional Protection (RCD Tester). Prospective Fault Current (PFC/PSCC Tester). Check of Phase Sequence (Phase Sequence Indicator). Functional Testing. Voltage Drop (Approved Voltmeter). Periodic Inspection. Certification. Sample MCQ Paper and Answers.

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