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 Dominique Perrault: Selected and Current Works By Images Publishing Group 2006 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 1864700548 | PDF | 28 MB Dominique Perrault's architecture and urban designs are strictly modern, yet his simple and efficient shapes contain a classical and timeless element. He constantly manages to satisfy the need to be reasonable without sacrificing the aesthetic awareness that breathes life into his buildings. Perrault's work is without a predictable set of standards or style. He gives no specific meaning or system to his designs, but a uniqueness from start to finish. Perrault's portfolio of work includes Biblioth,que nationale de France, APLIX Factory, The Great Greenhouse, Book Technology Centre, Water Purification Plant for S.A.G.E.P., University for Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Olympic Velodrome and Swimming Pool in Berlin.  Dinner at My Place by Tyler Florence English | February 4th, 2020 | ISBN: 0696241587 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 64.92 MB * A peek into life at home with Tyler. He shares the dishes he likes to prepare for his family and friends when he's off the clock.  Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music By Robert Chase 2003 | 730 Pages | ISBN: 0810846640 | PDF | 39 MB Traditional requiem texts, among them the anonymous medieval Latin poem Dies Irae (_Day of Wrath_), have inspired an untold number of composers in different ages and serving different religions, Western and Eastern. This book, the first comprehensive survey of requiem music for nearly half a century, provides a great deal of diverse and detailed information that will be of use to the professional musician, the musical scholar, the choral conductor, the theologian and liturgist, and the general reader.  Design Ethnography: Epistemology and Methodology by Francis Müller English | PDF,EPUB | 2021 | 98 Pages | ISBN : 3030603954 | 2.3 MB This book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice.  Creating Gender-Inclusive Organizations: Lessons from Research and Practice by Ellen Ernst Kossek, Kyung Hee Lee English | April 13th, 2020 | ISBN: 1487503733 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.53 MB With fresh insights on diversity, inclusion, and female leadership, this book will guide managers and organizations as they bridge the gap between research and practice, and better position women in work spaces. Creating Gender-Inclusive Organizations addresses how to improve the climate for gender inclusion; leverage the benefits of gender diverse teams; advance and retain women in STEM; support women in entrepreneurial and high growth firms; and implement D & I initiatives.  Chemistry and Technology of Polyols for Polyurethane By Mihail Ionescu 2008 | 605 Pages | ISBN: 1859575013 | PDF | 11 MB Polyurethanes have become one of the most dynamic groups of polymers and they find use in nearly every aspect of modern life, in applications such as furniture, bedding, seating and instrument panels for cars, shoe soles, thermoinsulation, carpet backings, packaging, and as coatings. The main raw materials used for the production of polyurethanes are polyols, isocyanates and propylene oxide. The first of these is the subject of the latest Rapra Handbook: Chemistry and Technology of Polyols for Polyurethanes. This book considers the raw materials used to build the polyurethane polymeric architecture. It covers the chemistry and technology of oligo-polyol fabrication, the characteristics of the various oligo-polyol families and the effects of the oligo-polyol structure on the properties of the resulting polyurethane. It presents the details of oligo-polyol synthesis, and explains the chemical and physico-chemical subtleties of oligo-polyol fabrication. This book attempts to link data and information concerning the chemistry and technology of oligo-polyols for polyurethanes, providing a comprehensive overview of: Basic polyurethane chemistry Key oligo-polyol characteristics Synthesis of the main oligo-polyol families, including: polyether polyols, polyester polyols, polybutadiene polyols, acrylic polyols, polysiloxane polyols, aminic polyols Polyols from renewable resources Chemical recovery of polyols Relationships between polyol structure and polyurethane properties This book will be of interest to all specialists working with polyols for the manufacture of polyurethanes and to all researchers that would like to know more about polyol chemistry.  Steven Vogel, Kathryn K. Davis, "Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People" English | 2000 | ISBN: 0393319903, 0393046419 | 382 pages | EPUB | 6.47 MB Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our technology goes around on wheels-and on rotating pulleys, gears, shafts, and cams-yet in nature only the tiny propellers of bacteria spin as true wheels. Our hinges turn because hard parts slide around each other, whereas nature's hinges (a rabbit's ear, for example) more often swing by bending flexible materials. In this marvelously surprising, witty book, Steven Vogel compares these two mechanical worlds, introduces the reader to his field of biomechanics, and explains how the nexus of physical law, size, and convenience of construction determine the designs of both people and nature. "This elegant comparison of human and biological technology will forever change the way you look at each."-Michael LaBarbera, American Scientist
 Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason (Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times) by Martijn Konings English | January 23, 2018 | ISBN: 1503604438 | 184 pages | AZW3 | 0,297 MB Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major economic crises? To make sense of this, Capital and Time advances an understanding of economy as a process whereby patterns of order emerge out of the interaction of speculative investments.  Breville Smart Air Fryer Oven Cookbook 2021: 600 Economical, Flavorful and Easy to Follow Recipes to Live a Healthy Lifestyle with Less Fat and Oil By Rachel Copp English | 2020 | ASIN : B08P5ZNLK5 | 420 pages | EPUB | 3.3 MB  Elizabeth Reis, "Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex" English | 2012 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 1421405830 | PDF | 3,2 mb What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day. From the beginning, intersex bodies have been marked as "other" as monstrous, sinister, threatening, inferior, and unfortunate. Some nineteenth-century doctors viewed their intersex patients with disrespect and suspicion. Later, doctors showed more empathy for their patients' plights and tried to make correct decisions regarding their care. Yet definitions of "correct" in matters of intersex were entangled with shifting ideas and tensions about what was natural and normal, indeed about what constituted personhood or humanity. Reis has examined hundreds of cases of "hermaphroditism" and intersex found in medical and popular literature and argues that medical practice cannot be understood outside of the broader cultural context in which it is embedded. As the history of responses to intersex bodies has shown, doctors are influenced by social concerns about marriage and heterosexuality. Bodies in Doubt considers how Americans have interpreted and handled ambiguous bodies, how the criteria and the authority for judging bodies changed, how both the binary gender ideal and the anxiety over uncertainty persisted, and how the process for defining the very norms of sex and gender evolved. Bodies in Doubt breaks new ground in examining the historical roots of modern attitudes about intersex in the United States and will interest scholars and researchers in disability studies, social history, gender studies, and the history of medicine. |
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