Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings

This book presents the proceedings of an international symposium which aimed to establish at the highest level the best practice and research in three important scientific and technical themes within the domain of residential buildings across the European Community: quality management and liability building economics construction management.

Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience?

Lean-Led Hospital Design explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste, lowering costs, and easing some of healthcare's most persistent problems.

This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.

This book examines ancient Roman monuments made by the Augustales, civic groups composed primarily of wealthy ex-slaves.

Historically researchers of neuroscience and psychology have believed that the cerebral cortex produces the unique mental capacities of human beings.

An artists canvas reflects the face he chooses to show to the world, but the place in which that art is made is seldom revealed.

Why is a forgery worth so much less than an original work of art?

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

This book provides practical information and insights to library administrators and building plan team members at academic and public libraries who are considering or starting a library expansion or reconfiguration of existing space.

Learn how to control your perceptions and emotions, minimise dysfunctional thinking and achieve greater success in life.

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

An in-depth look at Boston's Prudential Center and what its story reveals about the evolution of the modern American city The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower.

A fun and fact-filled AZ treasury for anyone with a head on their shouldersNeuropedia journeys into the mysteries and marvels of the three pounds of tissue between your earsthe brain.

Radicals, Rebels and Royals is the perfect combination of Britain's two favourite past-times - talking about history and going to the pub!

'Compassionate and wide-ranging' The TimesWe are often told that depression is 'all in the mind'.

Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings.

A detailed look at the expansion and renewal taking place on the three U of I campuses The University of Illinois System's universities have undergone a dramatic transformation.

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

Fondé en 1852, le cimetière Mont-Royal est depuis longtemps un espace public cher aux Montréalais.

L'inici de l'arquitectura baluardada al regne de València, a la fi del segle XV, coincideix amb l'inici d'una llarga crisi que es va manifestar també en l'arquitectura militar.

London is the theatre capital of the world.

From antiquity to the present day, this book offers a fascinating insight into the histories, movements and conflicts which have come to shape our world, viewed through the stories of the destruction of 21 statues.

The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself.

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.

Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterwordFrom the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E.

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.

Following on the widely-read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today's generation of museum directors, New York-based author and cultural strategy advisor Andras Szanto's new compilation turns its attention to architects.

How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible?

A unique look inside 30 of Cape Towns most notable buildings.

The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers, engineers, security specialists, managers, building and grounds superintendents, and/or supervisors and responsible-managers-in-charge.

Immer mehr Menschen im Dritten und Vierten Lebensalter suchen Wohnformen, die ihre Bedürfnisse und ihre Interaktionsansprüche bestmöglich verbinden.

This book explores the importance of architecture designed for the well-being of users.

A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists'' work.

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The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture.

often described as the "e;fifth facade"e;, the flat roof is extremely popular with architects.