Subject(s): Office layout | Offices -- Design | Work environment -- Design | Office decoration | Public spaces -- Design Summary: "Life of Work: What Office Design Can Learn From the World Around Us sets out to make the twenty-first century workplace a more dynamic, engaging, colourful, flexible and inclusive place. Jeremy Myerson and Imoge

Subject(s): Green roofs (Gardening) | Urban landscape architecture | Greenways Summary: With the progress of urbanisation worldwide, the conflict between architecture and green areas in the urban context is becoming increasingly pressing. The concept of integrated landscape arises as an important approach to increase green areas while not occup

Subject(s): Money -- United States | Dollar, American | Monetary policy -- United States | International finance Summary: ""Money clearly illustrates that sound money is an essential foundation for a free and prosperous society and that the Federal Reserve's current polices are a greater threat to the economic future of the U.S. tha

Subject(s): Abduction -- Fiction | Selective mutism -- Fiction | Country life -- Fiction Summary: Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town, Roswell Sation. Two years later, only Judith returned, her tongue cut out -- she can't speak and is reviled and ignored by her family and friends. But when her close-

Subject(s): Islam -- Social aspects | Islam -- Customs and practices Summary: Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig analyzes the salient characteristics of Islam and contemporary Muslim society from the perspective of traditional cultural anthropology. By highlighting socio-cultural configurations, the universals they repre

Subject(s): International relations | International relations -- Philosophy Summary: "This book is the first full length manuscript to draw on the the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influenced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the

Subject(s): Land use, Urban -- Netherlands | Cities and towns -- Netherlands | Cost and standard of living -- Netherlands | Urban economics Summary: After a long period of suburbanization, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city centre than on a large hous

Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Growth -- 21st century | Squatter settlements | City planning -- Congresses -- Social aspects Summary: "Almost one billion people today live in conditions that UN-Habitat classifies as slum households, out of approximately 3.9 billion people who live in cities. If the UN's estimates are accurate, approxim

Subject(s): Digital media -- Social aspects | Digital media -- Economic aspects | Digital communications -- Social aspects | Digital communications -- Economic aspects | Information society Summary: The objective of this book is to present a comprehensive evaluation of the smart revolution, including its social and economic impacts. It proposes

Subject(s): Managerial accounting Summary: "This chapter's focus company is The Walt Disney Company. This -entertainment services company is a giant in the industry with theme parks, feature film studios, animation studios, television broadcasting, hotels and resorts, and retail stores. Using The Walt Disney Company as an illustration,