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Engineering (R0) Serie de eBooks

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  • Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment

    Edición de Claudia Basta, Stefano Moroni ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared by planning theory, architectural research, design and ethical inquiry. The contributors gathered in 2010 at the Ethics of the Built Environment seminar organized by the editors at Delft University of Technology. Both prominent and emerging scholars presented their researches in the areas of aesthetics, technological risks, ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Either/Or

    A Fragment of Life

    de Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard ...
    Traducido por Alastair Hannay ...
    In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Soil Ecology

    de David C. Coleman, D. A. Crossley Jr. ...
    This fully revised and expanded edition of Fundamentals of Soil Ecology continues its holistic approach to soil biology and ecosystem function. Students and ecosystem researchers will gain a greater understanding of the central roles that soils play in ecosystem development and function. The authors emphasize the increasing importance of soils as the organizing center for all terrestrial ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The Five Senses

    A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

    de Professor Michel Serres ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The ... Leer más

    $28.39 USD

  • Spoil Island

    Reading the Makeshift Archipelago

    de Charlie Hailey ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valuation of landscapes of waste. To explore these islands, Spoil ... Leer más

    $129.99 USD

  • Geographic Information Science and Public Participation

    de Laxmi Ramasubramanian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads. In the early heady days of the digital revolution, access to "high" technologies such as GIS promised the empowerment of marginalized communities by providing data and information that was previously hidden away from public view. To a great extent, this goal has been achieved at least in the U.S. and Western Europe – data about a range of ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Art’s Claim to Truth

    de Gianni Vattimo ...
    Traducido por Luca D'Isanto ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality rather than a futuristic anticipation of it. Following Martin Heidegger's interpretation of the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Writing through Music

    Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics

    de Jann Pasler ...
    Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for the first time in English, ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    de Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Suspended Matter in the Aquatic Environment

    de Doeke Eisma ...
    The purpose of this book is to give an introduction to the most important aspects of suspended matter in the aquatic environment: its origin and composition, the concentration distribution, transport and deposition, and the most important physical-chemical-bio logical process that affects suspended matter: flocculation. In Chap ter 1 the development of suspended matter observation and study ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

    de Hermann Kappelhoff ...
    Traducido por Daniel Hendrickson ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD