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  • The Village Inn of Secret Dreams

    The joyfully heartwarming read from Alison Sherlock

    by Alison Sherlock ...
    Series Book 3 - The Riverside Lane Series
    From the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely HeartsAfter escaping her parents’ unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever.But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be found … quickly.So, when her oldest friend Pete Kennedy returns from working abroad with ... Read more

    RM 15.96 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kominka

    The Beauty and Wisdom of Japanese Traditional Folk Houses

    by Kazuo Hasegawa ...
    For centuries, traditional wooden folk houses known as " kominka" have embodied the cultural values of the agrarian, merchant, and samurai societies of pre-modern Japan. Their huge sturdy posts and powerful beams have withstood earthquakes and other natural disasters, demonstrating the artistry of Japanese carpenters and the strength of handcrafted wood joinery. Preserved and reconstructed today, ... Read more

    RM 65.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building-Integrated Photovoltaics

    A Technical Guidebook

    Edited by Nuria Martín Chivelet, Costa Kapsis, Francesco Frontini ...
    Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is an innovative technology offering a variety of building envelope solutions, materials, and colours for virtually any building surface. These BIPV products generate on-site renewable electricity, turning buildings from energy consumers to producers. BIPV is expected to play an indispensable role in the transition towards decarbonisation and energy ... Read more

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  • How to Enjoy Architecture

    A Guide for Everyone

    by Charles Holland ...
    Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architectureArchitecture is bound up with our daily lives but, for most of us, it is experienced as a blur of habit. Our reactions towards the buildings that surround us are often culturally generated, and we experience them in ways that are immediate but often mundane. ... Read more

    RM 71.59

  • Smart Buildings

    Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology to Improve Energy-Efficiency and Environmental Performance

    by Marco Casini ...
    Smart Buildings: Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology to Improve Energy Efficiency and Environmental Performance presents a thorough analysis of the latest advancements in construction materials and building design that are applied to maximize building efficiency in both new and existing buildings. After a brief introduction on the issues concerning the design process in the third millennium, ... Read more

    RM 626.39

  • Sustainable Thermal Storage Systems Planning Design and Operations

    by Lucas Hyman ...
    A practical guide to SUSTAINABLE THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEMSSustainable Thermal Storage Systems: Planning, Design, and Operations offers proven techniques for reducing energy costs, on-peak demand, capital costs, and pollution using thermal storage systems. Written by an expert in the field, this book discusses sustainability requirements, advantages and disadvantages of various systems, and the ... Read more

    RM 363.99

  • The Art of Money Getting

    by P.t. Barnum ...
    Don't Mistake Your Vocation - Select the Right Location - Avoid Debt - Persevere - Whatever You Do, Do It with All Your Might - Use the Best Tools - Don't Get Above Your Business - Learn Something Useful - Let Hope Predominate, But Be Not Too Visionary - Do Not Scatter Your Powers - Be Systematic - Read the Newspapers - Beware Of "Outside Operations" - Don't Indorse Without Security - Advertise ... Read more

    RM 3.94 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Funicular Structures

    The Art of Building Efficiently

    by Damon Bolhassani ...
    Funicular structures are structural skeletons designed using methodologies that analyze the flow and direction of forces, which can be categorized as compression, tension, or a combination of both. They are not only elegant, resembling naturally occurring forms, but also highly efficient and can be built with minimal use of relatively low-strength materials, thus minimizing their negative ... Read more

    RM 242.54

  • Watts Pocket Handbook

    The Essential Guide to Property and Construction

    Edited by Trevor Rushton ...
    This milestone 30th edition of the Watts Pocket Handbook has had a thorough overhaul and renews its commitment to share industry knowledge by providing technical and legal information across a comprehensive spread of property and construction topics.The Handbook provides specialist information and guidance on a vast selection of related subjects including:Environmental and sustainability issues ... Read more

    RM 170.96

  • Building and Unbuilding the City Museum

    From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad

    Edited by Sarosh Anklesaria, Lily Chi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future. This book examines Sanskar Kendra both as a physical artifact and as a site of broader cultural debates.Originally conceived as a Citizens' Cultural Center to serve India's emerging modern society, the building was ... Read more

    RM 258.45

  • Haus voller Aufgaben

    Familie und Wohnen im Wandel

    by Caspar Edelhain ...
    Familienhäuser vereinten lange Schlaf, Arbeit und Versorgung unter einem Dach. Das Buch zeigt, wie getrennte Räume neue Vorstellungen von Privatheit schufen. ... Read more

    RM 41.99

  • 智慧楼宇实践

    by 张徐 ...
    本书分为两篇8章：第一篇的内容包括智慧楼宇概述、智慧楼宇在世界各地的发展情况、智慧楼宇的支撑技术；第二篇的内容包括智慧楼宇子系统的建设、建筑设备管理系统的建设、智慧楼宇安防系统的建设、智慧楼宇能效管理系统的建设、智慧楼宇综合管理系统的建设。通过阅读本书，读者能切身体会到智慧楼宇建设构成的方方面面以及国内外智慧楼宇的建设成果，以及我国在智慧楼宇领域的努力方向及建设思路。本书供从事智慧楼宇实践的产品生产厂商、智慧楼宇建设的负责人、智慧楼宇方案提供商及相关从业人员阅读和参考。 ... Read more

    RM 97.42

  • Henry VI (Complete Plays)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1588–1590. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First Tetralogy". The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, or Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed written in approximately 1590-91. It is the second part of the trilogy on ... Read more

    RM 3.94 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Codesign e arquitetura para a saúde

    by Michele Caixeta, Gabriela Camelo, Marcio Fabricio ...
    Codesign e arquitetura para a saúde é um livro planejado para orientar projetistas e pesquisadores no envolvimento efetivo de usuários no processo de projeto, através da compilação de resultados de diversas pesquisas nesta temática, em âmbito nacional e internacional, dirigidas por seus autores. O codesign tem o papel de ampliar a comunicação entre os usuários e os profissionais de projetos, ... Read more

    RM 47.68

  • Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners

    Edited by Reid Ewing, Keunhyun Park ...
    Series series APA Planning Essentials
    In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stories and narratives that explain various planning issues. Particularly, in the era of big data and data mining, there is a stronger demand in planning practice and research to increase capacity for data-driven storytelling.Basic Quantitative Research ... Read more

    RM 210.73

  • Materials

    An environmental primer

    Edited by Hattie Hartman, Joe Jack Williams ...
    The environmental impacts of construction are momentous. How can architects minimise these by making responsible material choices? Material choices have a global impact. The design and construction industry are responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world. Despite the great desire among architects to address this, it can be difficult to compare materials directly, let alone understand ... Read more

    RM 238.41

  • InnovatiON-Architecture

    Design, Laboratory, Technology, and Emotion

    by Eduardo Gutiérrez, Jordi Fernández ...
    Compiles ON-A work philosophy: a constant search for innovative ad hoc solutions for each project, using the most updated technologies and design research.This book exposes and collects the innovations developed through 15 years of work at ON-A, through lengthy conversations between its founders and directors (Eduardo Gutiérrez and Jordi Fernández) and the editor. This is not a usual monograph, ... Read more

    RM 85.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midsummer Night's Dream

    by William Shakespeare ...
    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The ... Read more

    RM 3.94 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind Architectural Filters

    Phenomena of Interference

    by Miguel Guitart ...
    Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory charged spatial experiences. The book addresses how the material and the psychological strategies of permeable physical boundaries determine our perceptual experiences of the spaces we occupy.This book explores architectural filters as connecting mechanisms ... Read more

    RM 218.68

  • Il Progetto colore

    by Elena Confortini ...
    Scopri come trasformare la tua casa nella sua versione migliore e senza ristrutturare con il Progetto colore.Questa piccola guida tutta al femminile analizza gli elementi che compongono l'immagine della tua casa, illustra gli strumenti decorativi di cui puoi disporre per cambiarla - pitture, carte da parati, decorativi materici, cornici multifunzionali, battiscopa, boiserie - e delinea un metodo ... Read more

    RM 31.77

  • Shell Structures for Architecture

    Form Finding and Optimization

    Edited by Sigrid Adriaenssens, Philippe Block, Diederik Veenendaal, Chris Williams ...
    *** Featuring a foreword by Pritzker Prize Winner Shigeru Ban ***Bringing together experts from research and practice, Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to ... Read more

    RM 278.33

  • Staircases

    History, Repair and Conservation

    Edited by James W. P. Campbell, Michael Tutton ...
    The staircase dates back to the very beginning of architectural history. Virtually every significant building from the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, has not only contained one or more staircases, but has celebrated them. For such an apparently simple part of a building they have been made in a bewildering variety of forms and from a wide range of materials. Every age has ... Read more

    RM 481.15

  • Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture

    Edited by Dak Kopec ...
    Winner of the 2018 IDEC Book AwardWith fifteen essays by scholars and professionals, from fields such as policy and law, Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture asks readers to consider climate, geography, and culture alongside human biology, psychology, and sociology. Since designers play such a pivotal role in human interaction with interior and architectural design, this book sheds ... Read more

    RM 282.31

  • Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality

    Volume 2

    by Tom Woolley ...
    In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems. Chapters in this volume reinforce previous arguments and present new ones covering:Further ... Read more

    RM 278.33