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This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian n…

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on …

Please make the most of what you find in this volume, but please don’t use it merely to achieve compliance. Use it to spark creativity, humanity and u…

A career guide for professionals in sustainable architecture, design, planning, development, and related consulting For those considering a new career…

The ideal hands-on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique–and the perfect companion and next step…

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and …

Everyone involved in a building project wants to achieve a better building but design quality means different things to clients, users, architects, co…

The new student edition of the definitive reference on landscape architecture Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition is a condense…

The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into r…

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores…

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century…

How can you tell if the materials and components you are specifying have a low environmental impact? A full life-cycle assessment is a complex, time-c…

Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environme…

This book provides over 160 model letters, with commentary for use with all the main JCT 2005 building contracts. It concentrates on problems which ca…

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores…

A radical shift in perspective to transform your organization to become more innovative The Design Thinking Playbook is an actionable guide to the fut…

Brazil is a country of city dwellers undergoing radical transformation: over 85 per cent of the country’s citizens live in cities and over 40 per cent…

The CSI Sustainable Design and Construction Practice Guide is a compilation of information and recommended best practices for those who participate in…

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sust…

An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major a…

In clear and easy-to-follow steps, this highly effective textbook sets out everything that students need to know to produce competent and visually exc…

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present…

Written by two leading experts in the field this essential volume offers a step-by-step guide to understanding and evaluating the goals, risks and the…

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, …

Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms…

Everyone in the fashion business needs to develop an essential survival skill: how to interpret the intelligence provided by the fashion forecasting i…

Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call …

A visual journey through the history of landscape design For thousands of years, people have altered the meaning of space by reshaping nature. As an a…

Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centur…

This book can be first considered as a complete synthesis of the EcCoGen ANR project (2011-2012), involving researchers from different French labs (in…

The colour forecasting process is a major driving force in the fashion and textile industries but is complex, highly intuitive and little understood. …

The leading resource for student and professional kitchen designers—completely revised and updated Kitchen Planning is an essential reference for any …

Now available in an updated and expanded third edition, The Codes Guidebook for Interiors incorporates the latest standards for interior projects. The…

Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility…

The essential resource for becoming more effective in the highly competitive architectural marketplace Handbook for the Architectural Manager offers a…

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on …

Complete guidelines to developing and maintaining the most effective, environment-friendly irrigation systems for golf courses Golf Course Irrigation …

Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually. Going beyond the how-to drawing ma…

Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtu…

Третья, заключительная книга трилогии знакомит читателя с обширной и многообразной кинолетописью Беларуси, созданной в последние десятилетия эпохи кин…

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on …

A Room-by-room guide to home interior design More than a decorating guide, Residential Interior Design teaches the fundamental skills needed to plan i…

Incorporate SketchUp into every phase of your design If you want to go beyond the basics and start using SketchUp 3D modeling software in all phases o…

In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary Am…

Раскрываецца працэс зараджэння, фарміравання і развіцця беларускага прафесійнага нацыянальнага драматычнага тэатра ў гістарычнай прасторы XX–XXI ст. А…