Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings

First published in 1979, Airport Engineering by Ashford and Wright, has become a classic textbook in the education of airport engineers and transportation planners.

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis.

Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 3rd Edition is the award-winning, essential textbook and guide for understanding and achieving customer-focused, evidence-based health care design excellence.

Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe.

The must-read book from the creators of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast - perfect for fans of The Art of Thinking Clearly and Factfulness (and all aspiring skeptics)This book will change the way you think about thinking.

In his international bestseller The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Duhigg explained why we do what we do.

How do you know when you've studied enough to pass an exam?

The National Mall in Washington, D.

Developing Hospitality Properties and Facilities sets out some of the key issues in developing hospitality properties from the hospitality manager's perspective.

It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe.

Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Depuis la mythique tour de Babel, les hommes ont toujours tenté d’ériger des monuments à la hauteur de leur ego démesuré.

When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city.

In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the feeling of an unseen presence.

Amherst College: The Campus Guide is an architectural tour of one of North America's most prestigious liberal arts colleges.

When was the last time you spoke to a stranger?

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition.

While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland s identity through its new symbolic landscapes continue.

For over 27 years, Top 10s have been delighting readers with fascinating lists and mindboggling facts.

The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities.

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.

As parents we all want the best for our children, but so often over-manage every aspect of their lives, leaving them overwhelmed, lacking motivation, and at risk of mental health problems as adults.

This book examines the best available empirical evidence regarding one of the most challenging and pervasive questions throughout ages, cultures, and religions: the survival of human consciousness after death.

Design Primer for Hot Climates offers a discussion of architecture and planning for hot climates.

How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognitionAt the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time?

A monumental new history of British conflict, publishing for the eightieth anniversary of VE Day'Impressive.

This book will get you thinking about thinking.

Kathedralen faszinieren seit Jahrhunderten mit ihrer erhabenen Architektur und stillen Größe.

Do you want to live a life driven by intention, not impulse?

From Feydeau to Fitzgerald, from Hugo to Hemingway, the Paris locations that have influenced modern literatureA photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destinationLiterary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home.

Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective.

Publishing to coincide with St Patrick's Day, we arrive in Dublin with the next installment in the Literary Landscapes series.

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

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.

Theatres: Planning Guidance for Design and Adaptation focuses on the design, type and size, safety, acoustics, and lighting systems of theaters.

The many and varied threads of Canada's national life come together in its capital region.

The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behavior more effectivelyWe all have habits we'd like to break, but for many of us it can be nearly impossible to do so.

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world.

Local Plans in British Land Use Planning provides an analysis of the nature, purpose, and operation of development plans in British planning practice.

Drawing on cutting-edge virtual reality, this book unearths the social-political histories and theatrical praxis of five ''lost'' theatres.

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

This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design.

Updated and better than ever, Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities, 3rd Edition includes greatly expanded chapters on gas-liquid separation, gas sweetening, gas liquefaction, and gas dehydration -information necessary and critical to production and process engineers and designers.

From the birth of Berlin's railway network to the time when the bombs of the Second World War and the concrete slabs of the Wall changed the city forever, the Prussian and later German capital counted eight major railway stations.