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  • Linee Guida per il superamento delle barriere architettoniche nei luoghi di interesse culturale

    by AA. VV. ...
    Le Linee Guida per il superamento delle barriere architettoniche nei luoghi di interesse culturale sono rivolte a tutti coloro, architetti e ingegneri in primo luogo, funzionari di amministrazioni pubbliche o liberi professionisti, che nel corso della propria attività si trovano ad affrontare, seppur con ruoli diversi (responsabili del procedimento, soggetti finanziatori, progettisti, direttori ... Read more

    23,99 €

  • Never Too Small

    Reimagining small space living

    by Joe Beath, Elizabeth Price ...
    Joel Beath and Elizabeth Price explore this question drawing inspiration from a diverse collection of apartment designs, all smaller than 50m2/540ft2. Through the lens of five small-footprint design principles and drawing on architectural images and detailed floor plans, the authors examine how architects and designers are reimagining small space living. Full of inspiration we can each apply to ... Read more

    15,68 €

  • Building Support Structures, 2nd Ed., Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software

    by Wolfgang Schueller ...
    This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive perspective on the analysis and design of building structures. Striving to bridge the gap between how engineers and architects view structural support, this book’s numerous examples employing SAP2000 illustrate how modern analysis software can provide a common language for understanding and exploring structural behavior. Using an organic approach ... Read more

    12,49 €

  • Disclosing Horizons

    Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

    by Nicholas Temple ...
    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Read more

    Free

  • The Science Fiction anthology

    by Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, Murray Leinster, Lester del Rey, Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Ben Bova ...
    This collection brings together some of the most incredible sci-fi stories ever told in one convenient, high-quality, low-priced Kindle volume!This book now contains several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The Sentimentalists, by Murray LeinsterThe Girls from Earth, by Frank RobinsonThe Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell WrightSong in a minor key, by C.L. MooreSentry of ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Interior Design Handbook

    by Frida Ramstedt ...
    THE BESTSELLING SWEDISH PHENOMENONWhat looks good and why?Design consultant Frida Ramstedt runs Scandinavia's leading interior design blog. In this book she distils the secrets of successful interior design and styling to help you create a home that works best for your space, taste and lifestyle. Filled with practical tips, rules-of-thumb and tricks of the trade, The Interior Design Handbook will ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • The Parthenon

    by Professor Mary Beard ...
    The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess ... Read more

    9,21 €

  • Kemp: An Arrow for the Crown

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 5 - Arrows of Albion
    There's no way out this time An unputdownable medieval adventure from a master of the genreHaunted by guilt and his sins, archer Martin Kemp is in Scotland to collect on a debt when war breaks out afresh. The border erupts in bloody violence.Stalked through heather and forest by French men-at-arms sent to stir up the Scots against the English, Kemp and his friend Ieuan find themselves roped into ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning ... Read more

    7,27 €

  • Curbing Traffic

    The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

    by Chris Bruntlett, Melissa Bruntlett ...
    In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • Integral Facade Construction

    Towards a new product architecture for curtain walls

    by Tillmann Klein ...
    Integral Facade Construction focuses on the future development of the curtain wall. While the requirements on facades have slowly increased over the last decades, the curtain wall has evolved from craftsmanship oriented constructions to highly developed facade systems. But its constructional principle is still the same. Simplified, it can be described as a two-dimensional stick system with infill. ... Read more

    Free

  • Engineering in Plain Sight

    An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

    by Grady Hillhouse ...
    **Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us.Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (over 4.5 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers.**Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field ... Read more

    19,07 €

  • Μέσα Μάνη. Στην εσχατιά της Ευρώπης

    by Denis Roubien ...
    Το βιβλίο αυτό είναι μια ταξιδιωτική ιστορία που περιγράφει μια περιήγηση σε ένα από τα πιο ξεχωριστά μέρη της Ελλάδας. Έχοντας υπάρξει ένα από τα πιο απομονωμένα και δυσπρόσιτα μέρη της χώρας, η Μάνη ανέπτυξε έναν πολύ ιδιαίτερο πολιτισμό. Αν προσθέσουμε σε αυτό ένα πολύ ιδιαίτερο τοπίο, έχουμε μια μοναδική γοητεία. Αυτό το βιβλίο προσπαθεί να παρουσιάσει αυτή τη μοναδικότητα στον επισκέπτη που ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • GIS-Based Simulation and Analysis of Intra-Urban Commuting

    by Yujie Hu, Fahui Wang ...
    Commuting, the daily link between residences and workplaces, sets up the complex interaction between the two most important land uses (residential and employment) in a city, and dictates the configuration of urban structure. In addition to prolonged time and stress for individual commuters on traffic, commuting comes with additional societal costs including elevated crash risks, worsening air ... Read more

    31,74 €

  • Manchester

    Something rich and strange

    Edited by Paul Dobraszczyk, Sarah Butler ...
    What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester in which the majority of Mancunians live, work and play. It tells the story of the city thematically, using concepts such a ‘material’, ... Read more

    11,44 €

  • Architecture's Historical Turn

    Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern

    by Jorge Otero-Pailos ...
    Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed ... Read more

    16,42 €

  • On the Fascination of Objects

    Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection

    by Sally Waite ...
    The Shefton Collection in Newcastle upon Tyne contains a fine array of Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name from its founder Professor Brian Shefton (1919 – 2012). In spite of the importance of this collection it has not been widely published and remains something of a hidden gem. Brian Shefton was an insightful collector, as well as a distinguished scholar of Greek and Etruscan ... Read more

    28,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kemp: Warriors in the Snow

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 6 - Arrows of Albion
    Isolated, frozen to the bone and with no way out Kemp is backBurnt Candlemas. King Edward III invades Scotland in the dead of winter to punish the Scots for their recent attack on Berwick.When the fleet bringing supplies for his army is scattered by a storm, it seems God himself is punishing the English for the arson of a Scottish church. Wrongly blamed for the fire, archer Martin Kemp finds ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • Tidy Up Your Life

    Make Space for What Matters Most

    by Tyler Moore ...
    Bring order to your home and focus to your busy life.This is the step-by-step method from the social media sensation Tidy Dad.A father of three with a stressful job, Tyler Moore felt his life resembled an overstuffed closet: disorganized and overly busy behind the tidy, closed doors. When it all became too much for their 750-square-foot apartment and his nerves, he set out to unpack the physical ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • The Bright Ages

    A New History of Medieval Europe

    by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry ...
    "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate"Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston GlobeA lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common ... Read more

    16,84 €

  • Dit volk heeft zijn god op aarde

    by Michel Krielaars, Hans Driessen, Eva Peek ...
    Op 24 februari 2022 viel Rusland Oekraïne binnen, met een bloedige oorlog in het hart van Europa als gevolg. Ineens drongen de parallellen tussen heden en verleden zich aan alle kanten op. Vooral waar het ging om een samengaan van wreedheid en knulligheid. Dat blijkt ook uit de meer dan honderdvijftig ooggetuigenverslagen in 'Dit volk heeft zijn god op aarde'. Peter de Grote toont het eelt op zijn ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Housing and Social Policy

    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Somerville, Nigel Sprigings ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Read more

    Free

  • Il Paesaggio Agrario: dal vincolo alla gestione negoziata

    by Nicoletta Ferrucci, Marco Brocca ...
    Il paesaggio agrario è un osservatorio privilegiato delle politiche paesaggistiche attuali, di cui denota limiti e potenzialità. Il regime di tipo vincolistico plasmato dal legislatore vale come presidio per la tutela del territorio, ma può anche ostacolare gli usi agricoli e le trasformazioni per finalità economiche proprie del settore agricolo. Il volume sostiene dunque la necessità di non ... Read more

    26,99 €

  • Building and Dwelling

    Ethics for the City

    by Richard Sennett ...
    **'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardian**In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and ... Read more

    17,99 €