Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings

Presents a panoramic history of transformations in our global imaginings of war from 1914 to the present.

Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated.

Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift.

Trained as an architect in the early twentieth century, Hugh Ferriss possessed a vision of form that surpassed the traditional blueprints of his peers—and it showed in his distinctively moody renderings.

Summarizes the latest neuroscience of sleep and dreams, as well as the evolutionary background to their potential functions.

A curated guide to the best of London's museums and galleries.

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that?

The colorful story behind one of America's greatest monuments and of the ancient obelisks of Egypt, now scattered around the world.

A history of U.

The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire.

"e;Statuomania"e; overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony.

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center.

Shajar al-Durr--known as "e;Tree of Pearls"e;--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt.

"e;No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell.

This book demonstrates how powerfully triumphal monuments shaped Roman experience of military victory and, consequently, of Roman identity.

The National Mall in Washington, D.

This book provides the guidelines and fundamental methods of estimation and calculation needed by maintainability engineers.

The remarkable family of proteins that can make us very illbut can also be linked to long-term memory, immunity, and the origin of lifeOver the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins.

A New Way of Living tells the broad story of the development of new towns in the Scottish Highlands and Islands post-1750.

Essential information for the design of college and university facilities Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the planning process and successfully complete the design of college and university buildings, large or small, on time and within budget.

This book offers the first, comprehensive guide to planning and conducting intracranial EEG studies, and analyzing intracranial EEG data.

In einer Welt, die zunehmend von Urbanisierung und Dichte geprägt ist, stehen Städteplaner und Architekten vor der Herausforderung, Lebensräume zu schaffen, die nicht nur funktional, sondern auch lebenswert sind.

A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.

Adults don't talk about the business of doing our business.

The classic guide to one of America's architectural treasures-now with magnificent new color photos and a foreword by Princeton's dean of religious lifeLike the medieval English cathedrals that inspired it, the Princeton University Chapel is an architectural achievement designed to evoke wonder, awe, and reflection.

This book includes selected peer reviewed articles from The 5th International Conference on Communications and Cyber-Physical Engineering (ICCCE 2022), held on 29th  and 30th  April 2022 in Hyderabad, India.

A history of beloved cricket grounds from around the world.

Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment.

Microclimate for Cultural Heritage: Conservation and Restoration of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments, Second Edition, is a cutting-edge, theoretical, and practical handbook concerning microclimate, environmental factors, and conservation of cultural heritage.

Discover new approaches to green design and sustainable building with this comprehensive guide There's a substantial amount of information designers and architects need to understand about sustainability and commercial projects, especially as expectations for professionals in the industry become clearer.

Along with the settlement of the Texas frontier came rustlers, public drunks, gunfighters, and other outlaws.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

This is the fourth book in the Neural Network series.

A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and WalesDeep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches.

Handbook of Urban Landscape deals with aspects most related to architecture while, at the same time, it aims to serve the landscape profession itself.

In Victorian Bradford, when death came, there was only one real place to be buried.

After the end of the apartheid regime in the 1990s, South Africa experienced a boom in new heritage and commemorative projects.

This "e;fascinating, engaging"e; history of St.

In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished.

The book goes beyond the assembly line to examine the physical environment of the industrial landscape.

Finalist for a 2017 Hamilton Literary Award, the Kerry Schooley AwardUnbuilt Hamilton presents the Ambitious City at its most ambitious, exploring the origins and fates of unrealized building, planning, and transportation proposals from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first.

Winner: Southwest Book AwardA great white angel spreading her wings across the Moreno Valley: this is how one visitor described the memorial standing atop a windswept prominence in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos, New Mexico.

This book explores how public space in Republican Rome was an unstable category marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.

Presents a panoramic history of transformations in our global imaginings of war from 1914 to the present.

In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city.

Essential information for the design of college and university facilities Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the planning process and successfully complete the design of college and university buildings, large or small, on time and within budget.

Guide to London's Contemporary Architecture provides a guide to the wealth of architecture completed in London.

'[A] creative and original book on resilience through crises' DAVID MILIBAND '[A] fascinating book is full of insights .

Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited.