Product Description: Unconventional Computing: Design Methods for Adaptive Architecture is an exploration of the emerging terrain of negotiated acts of co-design between humans, nonhumans and matter, where spatial programs are regarded as acts of persuasion, cooperation and symbiosis...read more

Product Description: Throughout the ages architects have attempted to capture the essence of living systems as design inspiration. However, practitioners of the built environment have had to deal with a fundamental split between the artificial urban landscape and nature owing to a technological 'gap' that means architects have been unable to make effective use of biological systems in urban environments...read more

Product Description: Just start walking! That’s the word from internationally competitive athlete and fitness pro Rachel Armstrong, who has created an easy-to-follow program for walking your way to better health. Walking is perfect for anyone looking to lower blood pressure, increase cardiovascular fitness and bone density, assist with weight control, or simply enjoy a healthier lifestyle...read more

Product Description: On a distant planet, Rune 66, an experimental biologist called the Chronicler fortuitously makes contact with humankind. All kinds of trouble break out. The Grays' exploratory encounters with Earthlings lean towards the blatantly sexual...read more

Product Description: This Architectural Design title poses a unique challenge to architects. It incites designers to respond to the limitless potential that outer space presents at the beginning of the third millennium. No longer man's final frontier restricted to the activities of government space agencies, the extraterrestial environment is soon to be opened up by private enterprises and individuals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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