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Das Interesse an Lehm als Material ist ungebremst. Leichtlehm, leicht wiegend und auch leicht zu verarbeiten, ist ein vielseitiger und zukunftweisender Baustoff für den modernen computergestützten Holzbau wie für die Erneuerung historischen Lehmfachwerks. Ausgewogene, durch das Mischungsverhältnis steuerbare bauphysikalische Eigenschaften ermöglichen klimagerechtes, ressourcenschonendes Bauen in den verschiedensten Klimazonen. So werden Wärmespeicherung, Feuchte-, Schall- und Brandschutz des üblichen Holzbaus verbessert, die Konstruktionen vereinfacht. Volhards anerkanntes Standardwerk beschreibt detailliert die Herstellungsverfahren, gibt praktische Tipps für den Selbstbau und zeigt die Anwendung von Fertigbaustoffen in zeitgemäßer Bauabwicklung. Die 9. Auflage wurde korrigiert und aktualisiert.

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This volume explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau through the correspondence between Franz Boas and James Teit.

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In this biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the 20th century. The only son of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activist who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, Johnson created controversial and historical structures such as the Glass House, the Roofless Church, the AT & T Building, the Crustal Cathedral, and many more. Johnsons's personal charms paired with his manipulative ploys - like his "borrowing" of designs - shine through in this biography. Drawing on Johnson's correspondence, personal photographs, and speeches, and on interviews with his friends and contemporaries, Schulze fills the biography with information on the architect's family, travels, friends and lovers, and his many buildings and spaces themselves.

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This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology."Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the field of modern anthropology. The book, Race, Language, and Culture, is a collection of some of his most important essays."—David Schneider, University of Chicago "An exceptional book. Exceptional because it brings into one volume sixty-two papers written by the most influential figure in American anthropology. . . . Exceptional in that it exhibits the wide range of interests and scientific exactness which made it possible for one man to exert such a profound influence on the growing science of anthropology. . . . This is a volume every student of anthropology will wish to possess; it will also have a wide distribution among other students of the social sciences, and all interested in the problems of race."—Fay-Cooper Cole, American Anthropologist

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Kafka''s last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John ZilcoskyThe Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.''s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.

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