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  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort

    At the Extremes

    by Susan Roaf, Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys ...
    To remain comfortable in a world of ever more extreme weather events and climate trends, we need a building revolution. Building designers, owners, managers, and occupants must prepare now for future climates with new ways to stay comfortable indoors. This book is a compendium of information on comfort that provides an overview of the complexity of the many ways that comfort is achieved in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Wizardry:Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    by Michael Humphreys ...
    The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one problem has defied solution: estimating runs saved by fielders throughout history. Traditional statistics ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Families with a Difference

    Varieties of Surrogate Parenthood

    by Michael Humphrey, Heather Humphrey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Family
    In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number. Originally published in 1988, this book looks at these ‘alternative’ families and considers the psychological and social consequences of growing up in a family where the genetic link between parents and children is missing or incomplete. The authors discuss adoption, fostering, ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation

    From Terror to Trauma

    by Michael Humphrey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey considers both the unmaking of the world through torture, war, urbicide and ethnic cleansing and the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

    by Michael Humphreys, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf ...
    There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people’s future behaviour based on very little information ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Wizardry

    Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    by Michael Humphreys ...
    The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one problem has defied solution: estimating runs saved by fielders throughout history. Traditional statistics ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Inter-Country Adoption

    Practical Experiences

    Edited by Dr Michael Humphrey, Michael Humphrey ...
    There can be no doubt that intercountry adoption has grown in popularity over the past decade and many childless couples are now considering it as one option in the struggle to achieve a family. By presenting eight first-hand accounts from couples who have adopted from abroad,Inter-Country Adoption offers fascinating insight to the emotional, financial and legal difficulties that prospective ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

    by Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys, Susan Roaf ...
    The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable buildings today ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Courtyards have been used for thousands of years in different climates in the world. In hot climates they provide shading, in humid climates they cause a stack effect helping ventilation, in cold climates they break cold winds and protect their microclimate. In temperate climates (such as of the Netherlands), the thermal behaviour of courtyards has been studied less. In this dissertation, low-rise ... Read more

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  • Eco-resorts

    by Zbigniew Bromberek ...
    Eco-Resorts is a design guide for low impact, environmentally friendly tourist resorts in the tropics. The book is the first to offer architects practical, detailed guidance in developing resort buildings that work with a tropical climate andmeet the needs and expectations of the client and building inhabitants.The book includes both architectural design and material solutions, supported by ... Read more

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  • They F*** You Up

    by Oliver James ...
    Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Don't Be Too Polite, Girls

    A memoir

    by Wendy McCarthy ...
    Educator, activist, agent of change - the life and career of one of Australia's most influential women.'extraordinary'Georgie Dent'a trailblazing headline act'Sandra Sully'one of the great feminist superheroines'Jacqueline Maley'a pleasure and an education'Dr Anne Summers, AO'a national treasure'Dr Kerryn Phelps, AMWendy McCarthy has made her mark on Australia in many extraordinary ways. For... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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