Dit boek is een ingrijpende herziening van de in 2005 bij uitgeverij ThiemeMeulenhoff verschenen tiende druk van Geschiedenis van de bouwkunst, verzorgd door Bart Verbrugge, na twee voorgaande drukken die waren geschreven in samenwerking met de in 2004 overleden architectuurjournalist Wim J. van Heuvel. Een aantal zaken, zoals de hoofdopzet en de doelgroep, is voor…
Architekten sehen sich in den letzten Jahren mit einem gewandelten Markt, mit ver?nderten Aufgabenstellungen und neuen Anforderungen konfrontiert. Mit welchen Strategien k?nnen sie vorgehen, um Auftr?ge zu erlangen oder f?r ihre Projekte interessieren? Anhand ausgew?hlter Beispiele analysiert der Autor die Vorgehensweise einzelner Architekten seit den f?nfziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts. Ausgehend von den Anf?ngen des…
Der Einsatz von Schutzmaßnahmen vor Naturgefahren ist zentraler Aspekt der alpinen Kultur. Dabei verwundert es, dass die Diskussion darüber fachintern geführt wird, in der Öffentlichkeit jedoch kaum wahrzunehmen ist. Die Zusammenschau von Schutzarchitekturen, dem imaginierten Bild der Alpen und dem langsamen Prozess der Adaptierung der öffentlichen Bildwelten an den Zustand der Verbauungen, führt nun zusammen…
.Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia,…
Active (imaging radar) and passive (radiometer) microwave systems are increasingly used for Arctic ecological research. Unfortunately, until now ecologists interested in remote sensing often lacked access to the full suite of physical and analytical techniques of microwave systems, data processing, and ecological applications because a suitable refArctic Ecological Research from Microwave Satellite Observations 1st Edition…
The modern shipping industry has reached maturity; market demand and landscape shifts force industry agents to find new pathways to successful development. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) as a new pathway between Europe and Asia brings both opportunities and challenges to global logistics systems. These circumstances make commercial exploitation of the route a subject of…
Arduino, Teensy, and related microcontrollers provide a virtually limitless range of creative opportunities for musicians and hobbyists who are interested in exploring “do it yourself” technologies. Given the relative ease of use and low cost of the Arduino platform, electronic musicians can now envision new ways of synthesizing sounds and interacting with music-making software. In…
Are You The King, Or Are You The Joker?: Play Math For Young Children This unique book ? based on the author’s experience in teaching his grandchildren mathematics the fun way ? provides the knowledge and skills to teach math to young children, through learning games with playing cards.Children grow to associate math with fun,…
Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt’s ideas intersect in an important way. This book demonstrates for the first time…
Disability is a thorny and muddled concept – especially in the field of disability studies – and social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly politicized debates. Sustained theoretical scrutiny has sometimes been lost amongst the controversy and philosophical issues have often been overlooked in favour of the sociological. Arguing about Disability…
.Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly grasped. Few people understand the circumstances requiring a jihad, or “holy” war, or how Islamic militants justify their violent actions within the framework of the religious tradition of Islam. How Islam, with more than one billion followers, interprets…
The first and most thoroughly developed audience-oriented argumentation text has been updated to its 8th edition:? Argumentation and Critical Decision Making presents argumentation as a cooperative, communicative process.This text examines the general principles of argument in a rigorous yet readable manner and then applies those principles to different spheres of life ? law, science, religion,…
Widely praised, ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE, 13E, uses a clear, concise, and engaging presentation that makes even complex material easy for students to understand. The authors have adapted the text over the years to match changing practices in debate and teaching while preserving classical and conventional approaches to learning debate. This edition retains its rhetorical roots…
Im Fokus dieses Buches steht die Frage der Argumentationsindikatoren, das heißt der typischen Wörter und Ausdrücke, die bei der Identifizierung der Argumentationsvorgänge behilflich sein können. Der Autor exemplifiziert die aufgelisteten Indikatoren im Kontext der Interviews und Diskussionen. Die Pragma-Dialektik setzt voraus, dass der Gedankenaustausch zwischen den Diskutanten auf einem Verhältnis zwischen dem Standpunkt und dem…