Subject(s): Architecture, Domestic -- History -- 21st century -- Japan | Architecture, Domestic -- Pictorial works -- Japan | Dwellings -- Pictorial works -- Japan Summary: This overview of fifty recently built Japanese houses includes projects by three Pritzker Prize-winners-- Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima --as well as by lesser-kn

Subject(s): Islamic art | Islamic architecture Summary: "In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thou

Subject(s): Structural engineering Summary: "The bestselling structural design reference, fully updated and revised Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders is the go-to reference on structural design, giving architects and designers a concise introduction to the structures commonly used for typical buildings. The clear, accessibl

Subject(s): Building -- Data processing Summary: ""In this comprehensive book, Professor Randy Deutsch has unlocked and laid bare the twenty-first century codice nascosto of architecture. It is data. Big data. Data as driver.This book offers us the chance to become informed and knowledgeable pursuers of data and the opportunities it off

Subject(s): Nanostructured materials -- Industrial applications | Photocatalysis | Solar energy Summary: "This book concentrates on the emerging area of the utilization of (solar) photon energy for catalyzing useful chemical reactions (also called artificial photosynthesis) including water splitting, CO2 reduction, selective epoxidation, se

Subject(s): English language -- Study and teaching Foreign speakers Textbooks | Language and languages -- Study and teaching | Multicultural education Summary: "This book examines the complexities of the multiple discourses, texts and voices that are embedded in teaching and learning materials from different language contexts. Each chapter

Subject(s): Witches -- Fiction | Drug addicts -- Fiction | Paranormal fiction Summary: "The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of real truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tat

Subject(s): Hyde, William -- Fiction | Elmet, Melissa (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Elopement -- Fiction | Romance fiction Summary: Orphan William Hyde and professor's daughter Melissa Elmet fell passionately in love as teenagers at Oxford. But, after her family intervenes, their secret marriage is

Subject(s): Architectural drawing | Visual communication in art Summary: "Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually. Going beyond the how-to drawing manual, this book provides an instrumental approach to drawing, especially computer-generated drawings; it outlines how

Subject(s): Lebanon -- History Summary: Overview: In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived s