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  • With a Vengeance

    A jaw-dropping and addictive thriller packed with twists

    by Riley Sager ...
    One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.Twelve years ago, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Now, she's ready for retribution, and she's laid a trap to get revenge on them all . . .One train. Six passengers. Fourteen hours with no escape until everyone's paid the price.But trapped on board as the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear Anna's not the only ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • 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

  • Elon Musk

    Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

    by Ashlee Vance ...
    A New York Times BestsellerIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.”Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon ... Read more

    9,32 €

  • The Brilliance of Bioenergy

    In Business and In Practice

    by Ralph E H Sims ...
    The time for modern biomass has come. It has long been overshadowed by other, more widely-publicized renewable energy technologies such as wind, solar and hydro, and still retains an outmoded image in comparison to its apparently more attractive cousins.The potential for biomass to act as a store of solar energy, and yet to be converted efficiently when required into heat, power, transport fuels ... Read more

    65,94 €

  • Sustainable Concrete Solutions

    by Costas Georgopoulos, Andrew Minson ...
    The challenges facing humanity in the 21st century include climate change, population growth, overconsumption of resources, overproduction of waste and increasing energy demands. For construction practitioners, responding to these challenges means creating a built environment that provides accommodation and infrastructure with better whole-life performance using lower volumes of primary materials, ... Read more

    68,99 €

  • The Ultimate ENGAA Collection

    3 Books In One, Over 500 Practice Questions & Solutions, Includes 2 Mock Papers, 2019 Edition, Engineering Admissions Assessment, UniAdmissions

    by Dr Rohan Agarwal, Madhivanan Elango, Peter Stephenson ...
    Your complete learning resource for the ENGAA This ENGAA collection gives you the resources for the ENGAA in one fully comprehensive guidebook. This collections book consists of 3 full books - you get all guides and practice papers in one single volume. This allows you to plan your preparation more thoroughly, whilst benefiting from the convenience and savings of a single preparation book. Start ... Read more

    23,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction To Civil Engineering

    by Abdullah Fettahoglu ...
    This book aims to make You love civil engineering and I am sure that at the end of this course You all be happy about selecting Civil Engineering proficiency. First, the life of civil engineers and famous civil engineering structures as a great success of us are introduced. Later some technical knowledge is given to civil engineering candidates. Subsequently, civil engineering candidates are ... Read more

    Free

  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Edited by Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... Read more

    70,82 €

  • 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 €

  • The Gecko’s Foot

    How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book

    by Peter Forbes ...
    A cutting-edge science book in the style of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘Chaos’ from an exciting and accessible voice in popular science writing.Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials such as spider ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

    Free

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • The Woman on the Bridge

    You saw The Girl on the Train. You watched The Woman in the Window. Now meet The Woman on the Bridge

    by Holly Seddon ...
    'Strangers On A Train meets The Pact in this high concept thriller: daring, dramatic and totally original, I loved it.' Gillian McAllisterHow far would you go to save a perfect stranger?Maggie is trapped. Dumped on her wedding day, rejected by her family and hounded by a man determined to make her suffer.Charlotte is desperate. Double-crossed by her only friend and facing total ruin, she wi... ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • Crossings

    How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

    by Ben Goldfarb ...
    **Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 Banff Mountain Book CompetitionWinner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental JournalismFinalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismFinalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardFinalist for the Reading the West Book Award in NonfictionFinalist for the Colorado Book AwardNamed a Best Book of the ... Read more

    13,35 €

  • 水利工程数值模拟方法及应用

    by 王娟, 郭进军, 张鹏 ...
    我国的水利水电建设发展迅速，特别是在近三十年，已建、在建和拟建的水利工程在规模上、难度上均超过现有的世界水平，将面临诸多关键科技难题。水利工程建设中的水工材料和水工结构设计和安全评价等都面临着新的形势。随着混凝土结构工程应用条件复杂性的增加，对水工建筑物等结构设计、性能评价、寿命预测等仅依靠传统理论求解方法已无法满足要求，需结合数值模拟方法，更为精确地模拟水利工程实际结构、基础、荷载等施工期和服役期条件，分析水利工程结构安全和服役性能变化。全书主要内容包括：水利工程发展概况；水利枢纽概述；水利工程设计计算方法；水利工程中有限元法的应用；有限元法基本理论；混凝土重力坝静动力分析；拱坝静动力分析；大体积混凝土温度应力计算；土石坝渗流分析；混凝土强度细观计算。　　本书主要阐述了传统的有限元方法、离散元方法以及新型发展的数值计算方法，并结合水利工程中静力分析、动力特性分析、温度应力分析、渗流分析 ... Read more

    13,97 €

  • Fabrikarchitektur im 20. Jahrhundert: Die Wilkhahn-Bauten in Bad Münder

    Hintergründe, Entstehung, Kontexte

    by Reinhard A. Müller ...
    Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
    Der Autor stellt in diesem Buch die Planungs- und Baugeschichte der Werksarchitektur des 1907 als Stuhlfabrik gegründeten Möbelproduzenten Wilkhahn in Bad Münder dar. Schwerpunkt der Abhandlung ist die Entstehung der Bauten von Frei Otto (1988) und Thomas Herzog (1992), die zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Industriebauten ihrer Zeit gehören. Zur Untersuchung der Hintergründe und Kontexte ihrer ... Read more

    49,07 €

  • Urban Infrastructure for a Turbulent and Uncertain Future

    Proceedings of International Conference on Urban Infrastructure Development (ICUID 2025)

    Edited by Tri Basuki Joewono, Andreas Wibowo, Kohei Nagai, Fuyuan Gong ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents original and peer-reviewed research papers presented in the International Conference on Urban Infrastructure Development (ICUID 2025), held at Bandung, Indonesia from 8th-9th September 2025. The conference is organized by Centre of Excellence in Urban Infrastructure Development (CUID), Universitas Katolik Parahyangan. ICUID 2025 explores the innovative strategies and resilient ... Read more

    266,16 €

  • Energy Efficiency in Motor Systems

    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference EEMODS’22, 3-5 May 2022, Stuttgart, Germany

    Edited by Peter Radgen, Paolo Bertoldi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Motor Systems (EEMODS'22), held in Stuttgart, Germany from May 3-5, 2022. As with previous conferences in this series, EEMODS’22 provided a scientific forum to discuss and debate the latest developments and impacts of electrical motor systems on energy and the environment, ... Read more

    266,16 €

  • Energy-efficient Buildings in the Mediterranean: Challenges, Strategies, and Innovations

    Edited by Ioannis Vardopoulos, Constantinos Vassiliades ...
    Series series River Publishers Series in Energy Sustainability and Efficiency
    This volume reimagines the built environment not as a passive backdrop, but as a contested site where architecture, engineering, climate extremes, energy imperatives, and socio-economic inequalities converge. Sustainability is shown not as a universal mandate, but as a condition continually negotiated across uneven terrains of policy, design, and everyday inhabitation.Through contributions from ... Read more

    134,34 €

  • The Evolution of the Vehicle Routing Problem

    A Survey of VRP Research and Practice from 2005 to 2022

    by Bruce Golden, Xingyin Wang, Edward Wasil ...
    Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 12
    This book presents state-of-the-art research and practice in optimization routing, specifically the vehicle routing problem (VRP). Since its introduction in the late 1950s, the VRP has been a very significant area of research and practice in operations research. Vehicles are used to make deliveries and for pick-ups every day and everywhere. Companies such as Amazon, UPS, FedEx, and DHL use route ... Read more

    25,75 €

  • The New Country

    City style for rural living

    by Dean Keyworth ...
    Your client has decided to move out of the city to a country property. But they want to create a stylish, urban home in their new rural idyll. As a designer, it can seem difficult to recreate a metropolitan style while working within the more confined parameters of the country. This book shows you how to create a sophisticated scheme while also understanding the practicalities of designing for ... Read more

    48,84 €

  • Quartierssanierung im Kontext urbaner Resilienz

    Der Beitrag von Business Improvement Districts als Beteiligungsansatz zur Förderung der urbanen Resilienz in innerstädtischen Quartieren

    by Benjamin Willi, Lucas Falter, Thomas Glatte ...
    Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
    Städte und ihre Quartiere sind Transformationsprozessen unterworfen und stehen nach Krisen wie der Corona-Pandemie vor großen Herausforderungen.Diese Publikation aus der Reihe „Studien zum nachhaltigen Bauen und Wirtschaften” untersucht in welcher Konstellation und unter welchen Bedingungen Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) als ein Beteiligungsinstrument der Quartiersentwicklung für die ... Read more

    49,07 €

  • Géospatial à la rescousse

    by Albert Hilaire Anoubon Momo ...
    Les technologies géospatiales se sont imposées comme des outils puissants pour relever les grands défis du développement. Cet ouvrage explore l'articulation entre ces technologies et les dynamiques de développement, en mettant en lumière leurs applications dans divers secteurs ainsi que leur potentiel pour soutenir les efforts en matière de développement durable.Il examine comment les technologies ... Read more

    8,99 €