Product Description: What do we see when we look at a building? From the classical Parthenon in Greece to the simple fisherman's shacks in New England to the post-modernist Pompidou Center in France, Philip Isaacson explores what gives buildings their character...read more

Product Description: Architects design buildings, from simple homes and businesses to towering skyscrapers and more. Discover what it takes to work in this challenging field in Architect.

A study of general pathology, updated due to a number of developments, enabling many seemingly disparate pathological processes to be seen as integral components of the body's defence system. Pathology is related to broader aspects of biology throughout, especially ecology and natural selection. New features include the effects of low levels of radiation, new theories to explain anorexia and details of cancer-causign viruses. The text also includes extra or new material on complement, immunodeficiency, leucotriene, tissue growth factors, interleukins, the role of IL-1, tumour growth factors and HLA disease. The text is intended for students of medicine, dentistry and veterinary science, though it should prove useful to workers in all branches of science who wish to learn about the essential disease processes. It contains enough information to enable readers to reach a satisfactory standard of knowledge of general pathology in all qualifying examinations including the MB examination of English universities or its overseas equivalents or its counterparts in dentistry and veterinary science.

What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer, client, and citizen. By analyzing famous and everyday buildings while presenting and questioning the positions of important architects and theorists, this book will help you to evaluate and decide what qualities, ideas, and values you believe are important in architecture. You'll learn: -How various definitions of "architecture" establish different relationships with all buildings, and even non-buildings;-How buildings express and accommodate ideas of the sacred, the family, and the community;-What an architect is, and what priorities they bring to design and construction;-How an architect’s expertise relates to that of the engineer, and why these are distinct disciplines;-About values like beauty, originality, structural expression, and cultural memory and their purpose in architectural design;-About the interests and ethical values that architects, and architecture, serves and promotes. Topics include sacred spaces, the house, the city, architects and engineers, aesthetics and design, originality and method, technology and form, memory and identity, and power and politics.

Product Description: Discover the most amazing building designs since 1900. From the Empire State Building to modern design, this book charts the story of design that led to some amazing games and gadgets. We look at the needs that prompted their design,  the architects responsible for breaking boundariesand the technology that made them possible...read more

Product Description: Plastics Now addresses one primary question: why do we build with plastics the way that we do? For decades, plastics have been described over and over again as "the future," yet we still do not know precisely what to do with them...read more

The best-selling series spun off from a Japanese animated cartoon and role-playing game continues as a mysterious spaceship arrives from Tirol and sparks an intense arms race, leading to all-out war. Original.

Product Description: *** Featuring a foreword by Pritzker Prize Winner Shigeru Ban *** Bringing together experts from research and practice, Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques...read more

Product Description: Expand your knowledge of the world around us. Look up. Look around. There’s architecture everywhere, from the homes in which we live to the buildings where we work, the historical sites we visit on vacation to the shopping malls we frequent on a daily basis...read more

Product Description: "Hello, I am Speck. Come along, come along!Architecture According to Pigeons is a fun, lively introduction for children to world’s most beautiful buildings. In this delightful book, Speck Lee Tailfeather reveals that he and his fellow pigeons are in fact great aficionados of architecture...read more

Product Description: There was an old lady who lived in a shoe...but how was her shoe house designed? Students will love learning how their favorite storybook characters thought up and designed their quirky homes.