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 Fostering Innovation; How to Develop Innovation as a Core Competency and Connect the Principles of Lean in Your Organization by Bill Artzberger English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032331364 | 213 pages | True PDF | 13.4 MB  Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture (Writing Architecture) by Andrew Witt English | January 11, 2022 | ISBN: 0262543001 | 432 pages | PDF | 17 Mb An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century.  Asya Metodieva, "Foreign Fighters and Radical Influencers " English | ISBN: 1032227311 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 6 MB This book looks at Salafi influencers and foreign fighters in the Balkans to examine how the origins and dynamics of radical milieus are related to the legacy of the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War.  Fodor's, "Fodor's Essential Italy 2023 (Full-color Travel Guide)" English | ISBN: 1640975497 | 2022 | EPUB | 896 pages | 251 MB Whether you want to visit the Colosseum in Rome, go designer shopping in Milan, or hike the Cinque Terre, the local Fodor's travel experts in Italy are here to help! Fodor's Essential Italy 2023 guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.  Focus: Scottish Traditional Music By Simon McKerrell 2015 | 174 Pages | ISBN: 0415741920 | PDF | 2 MB Focus: Scottish Traditional Music engages methods from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, and media studies to explain how complex Scottish identities and culture are constructed in the traditional music and culture of Scotland. This book examines Scottish music through their social and performative contexts, outlining vocal traditions such as lullabies, mining songs, Scottish ballads, herding songs, and protest songs as well as instrumental traditions such as fiddle music, country dances, and informal evening pub sessions. Case studies explore the key ideas in understanding Scotland musically by exploring ethnicity, Britishness, belonging, politics, transmission and performance, positioning the cultural identity of Scotland within the United Kingdom.Visit the author's companion website at http: //www.scottishtraditionalmusic.org/ for additional resources.
 Fluid-Structure Interaction by Leblond, Cedric;Sigrist, Jean-François; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1789450780 | 400 pages | True PDF | 30.32 MB  Flood Risk: The Holistic Perspective By Zoran Vojinovic 2015 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1780405324 | PDF | 20 MB According to the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT), over the last seventy years, floods have shown the fastest rate of increase relative to any other type of disasters. Devastation due to these events occurs almost daily. Even though our technological capabilities for dealing with floods have advanced rapidly over the same period, and while global economic growth per capita has doubled, flood events have become ever more disastrous. Does this mean that our technological developments have advanced independently from the social and wider ecological needs? Flood Risk: The Holistic Perspective is a direct response to this question and it argues that this paradoxical situation is a result from our narrow and fragmented perception of reality which has been characteristic of our academic disciplines and government agencies. It suggests that the way forward can be found only if we broaden our view and learn how the natural or social phenomena can provoke a response in a society, or a social group, which in turn can trigger the technical developments, and so on, again and again, in what has the potential to become a network of interactions and relationships through positive feedback (or coevolving) cycles. The holistic perspective however may raise the following question: If everything is connected to everything else, how can we ever hope to understand anything? Our response draws from the understandings brought by complexity theory where individual elements coevolve together both in development and application. This recognition opens a new analysis which goes beyond the direct objects or actors of concern (risk forecasting, early warning, land-use planning technology and systems for example), and into the relationships between them. The book suggests that our initial response to this and many other challenges is to change our perception from a disciplinary and defensive one to a progressive (or transcendental) and transdiciplinary, i.e., the one that turns challenges into the possibilities that can re-shape our future. The book is structured in eight chapters. Chapter 1 provides exposure to the complexity of flood-related issues and illustrates diversity of multiple points of view. Chapter 2 elaborates on the history of holistic thinking with connection to the flood resilience process. Chapter 3 discusses the holistic risk governance approach which progresses beyond the integrated urban flood management. Chapter 4 describes the Green Cities Initiative, an initiative which is essentially holistic in its nature as it aims to improve transport, energy efficiency, industrial metabolism including water supply and distribution as well as drainage and sewerage services through the holistic lens of interactions between different sectors. Chapter 5 discusses various risk assessment practices and it concludes that any practice that omits social, ethical and wider ecological points of view will be severely restricted in its scope and its reach. Chapter 6 describes the root causes of floods in the Pasig-Marikina River Basin in Metro Manila, Philippines. Chapter 7 reflects upon the key issues and challenges from 2011 Thailand floods. Finally, Chapter 8 presents some of the key aspects concerning urban stormwater management practice in Beijing, China.
 Five-Star Trails: Louisville and Southern Indiana by Askren, Valerie; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1634043561 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 40.3 MB  Five Horizons by Sanders, Steve; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1784529745 | 280 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.4 MB  Fit at Any Age by Iyer, Air Marshal P. V.; English | 2022 | ISBN: 9789394701113 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 7.61 MB |
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