Subject(s): Architectural drawing | Architectural rendering Summary: This survey presents the private sketchbooks of a wide international spectrum of architects, who use the medium to express their spatial ideas while revealing their unique thought processes. Holdings: ,Book - General,Gombak Campus Library,General Collection,Open S

Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Europe | Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Asia | Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Europe | Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Asia | Global warming -- Government policy -- Europe | Global warming -- Government policy -- Asia Summary: "This book looks at the p

Subject(s): Teacher effectiveness | Teachers -- Rating of | Performance standards Summary: "Techniques for the difficult task of improving teacher quality No one stakeholder group can realize lasting change on their own; nor can any reform initiative focusing on just one type of strategy create the workplace conditions needed to truly buil

Subject(s): Goldberg, Carey, 1961- | Jones, Beth, 1963- | Ferdinand, Pamela, 1965- | Women -- Biography -- United States | Female friendship | Self-realization in women | Man-woman relationships Summary: Carey, Beth, and Pam had succeeded at work but failed at romance, and each resolved to have a baby before time ran out. Just one problem: no m

Subject(s): Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction | Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction | Green technology Review: "This GreenSource guide explains how to transform existing buildings into more energy-efficient, resource-conserving green buildings. The book provides a clear process that guides you, step-by-step, through each p

Subject(s): Social responsibility of business | Corporate culture Summary: "Corporate responsibility has gone global. It has secured the attention of business leaders, governments and NGOs to an unprecedented extent. Increasingly, it is argued that business must play a constructive role in addressing massive global challenges. Business is n

Subject(s): Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy | Artificial intelligence -- Moral and ethical aspects Summary: "The new field of machine ethics is concerned with giving machines ethical principles, or a procedure for discovering a way to resolve the ethical dilemmas they might encounter, enabling them to function in an ethically responsi

Subject(s): Middle-aged women -- Psychology | Middle-aged women -- Attitudes | Middle-aged women -- Physiological aspects | Beauty, Personal | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) | Women -- Psychology | Self-esteem in women | Body image in women Summary: "Boot camp for a younger, hipper makeover, packed with no-holds-barred advice on little beauty

Subject(s): Wolfensohn, James D | World Bank -- Biography -- Presidents | Investment bankers -- Biography -- United States Summary: A memoir by the financier who led the World Bank for a decade recalls Wolfensohn's diverse career as an Olympic fencer, leading banker, amateur cellist, and philanthropist and reflects on his successes and fail

Subject(s): Sustainable architecture | Sustainable design (Buildings) | Environmentally conscious architecture Summary: "Beyond Shelter presents 25 reports from the field written by a wide array of experts who are on the frontlines of disaster prevention and recovery around the world. Together, these stories illustrate new ways of thinking