Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan

The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education)

A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education.From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst ...

City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism

The city of Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, is everything the Arab world isn’t: a freewheeling capitalist oasis where the market rules and history is swept aside. Until the ...

Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

"I assume the presidency under extraordinary circumstances." --President Gerald R. Ford, August 9, 1974 Gerald R. Ford stepped into the American presidency during a constitutional crisis that ...

The Vision Of Elena Silves

In the Amazon city of Bel-n, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when ...

The Vision of Emma Blau

From the acclaimed author of Stones from the River comes a luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy and redemption. At the heart of this multigenerational ...

Computer-Aided Manufacture in Architecture - The Pursuit of Novelty

Computer Aided Manufacture in Architecture is both a critical introduction and a practical guide to CAM. It argues that our understanding and exploration of CAM requires more than knowledge of the ...

Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self: Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D.,…

Encyclopedia of Malaysia V05: Architecture (The Encyclopedia of Malaysia)

Malaysia's architectural heritage is explored in detail, presenting the charm of the country's traditional houses, temples, palaces and mosques. A look at Colonial influences leads to the rapid ...

Vertical Ecoinfrastructure: The Work of T.R. Hamzah & Yeang

Ecoinfrastructure is the continuous 'green' subculture which runs throughout a building integrating inorganic mass with the organic content of the green ecoinfrastructure, imitating the balance of ...

How to Attain Enlightenment: The Vision of Nonduality (Spirituality Religious Experie)

This complete guide to enlightenment presents the wisdom of the ancient science of self-inquiry, a time-tested means for achieving spiritual freedom. The author convincingly refutes the popular view ...