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Author: G.S.T. Armer
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003-10-04
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780203474532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book forms the proceedings of the international seminar held by the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Building Research Establishment in Brighton in April 1993. It brings together contributions from 20 countries on recent innovations in building and construction.
Author: Peter Reid
Publisher: No Starch Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1593275501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome explore an incredible LEGO® universe in LEGO Space: Building the Future. Spaceships, orbital outposts, and new worlds come to life in this unique vision of the future, built completely from LEGO bricks. A selection of step-by-step building instructions will have you constructing your own cosmic creations to play with at home. Marvel at interstellar battlecruisers, space pirates, charming robots, and other stunning builds from an amazing future!
Author: Ghassan Aouad
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-12-05
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1134222084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive – from development to application Provides a global perspective – many and diverse applications Offers a critique of competing views Accessible – a mix of investigative journalism and traditional academic Each chapter concludes with guidance on best practice
Author: Amy Edmondson
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1626564205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNiccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about--innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable. This demands "big teaming": intense collaboration across professions and industries that may have completely different mindsets and even be antagonistic to each other. To do this successfully requires practicing new forms of leadership that combine an expansive vision with incremental action--not an easy balance. To reveal how pioneers build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of Living PlanIT, an award-winning "smart city" start-up with a breathtakingly ambitious goal: building a showcase high-tech city from scratch to pilot its software. This meant a joint effort spanning a truly disparate group of software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, construction companies, and technology corporations. We get to know Living PlanIT's leaders and follow them and their partners through cycles of hope, exhaustion, disillusionment, pragmatism, and renewal. There are powerful lessons here for anyone, in any industry, seeking to transform the world.
Author: Ghassan Aouad
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-12-05
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 1134222076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis essential book introduces the concept of nD modelling, which takes the theory of computer modelling of the built environment to n dimensions. nD modelling utilizes a decision support tool for systematic assessment and comparison between various design parameters such as cost, accessibility, maintainability, sustainability, crime, energy, whole life costing, acoustics and scheduling among others. Constructing the Future is a comprehensive book which provides a global perspective on the concept of nD modelling and examines its impact on construction, from development to application. The text offers a critique of competing views that seek to justify (or ignore) the role of nD modelling in the future of construction as well as describing developments in this area which are already happening worldwide. Presenting a thorough critique of competing views as well as providing guidance on best practice, Constructing the Future is a bold, well-grounded and illustrated title introducing construction management professionals and researchers to this exciting new development in the quest for a single building and product model.
Author: Darin Detwiler
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0128189533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding the Future of Food Safety Technology: Blockchain and Beyond focuses on evaluating, developing, testing and predicting Blockchain's impact on the food industry, the types of regulatory compliance needed, and other topics important pertaining to consumers. Blockchain is a technology that can be used to record transactions from multiple entities across a complex network. A record on a blockchain cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all preceding blocks and the consensus of the network. Blockchain is often associated with cryptocurrency, but it is being looked at more and more as a solution to food-supply problems. - Presents the latest information on Blockchain's impact in the food industry - Bridges food technology and food safety - Provides guidance and expert insights on the food supply chain
Author: Greg Wilkes
Publisher:
Published: 2019-08-02
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781781333877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding Your Future is a practical business guide for business owners in the construction and service industry who want to grow a highly successful and profitable business while reclaiming time and freedom. This book will give you a solid foundation to completely transform your business and the confidence to take it to the next level.
Author: Kevin Harris
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780750703017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe future of schooling and education, and the role of schools and teachers in social reconstruction is critically examined. The text shows great respect for and understanding of the position of teachers in contemporary society and is internationally orientated.
Author: Maria C.D.P. Lyra
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-02-17
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 3030641759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or her socio-cultural world. Memory is approached as a functional adaption to the environment using the resources of the past in preparation for action in the present. Imagination is tightly related to memory in that both aim to escape the confines of the concrete here-and-now situation; however, while memory is primarily oriented to the past, imagination looks to the future. Both are embedded in the exchanges with the social and cultural milieu, and thus theorizing them has relied on key ideas from Lev Vygotsky, Frederic Bartlett and Mikhail Bakhtin. Thus, this book aims to integrate theories of remembering and imagining, through rich empirical studies in diverse cultural settings and concerning the development of self and identity. These two groups of studies compose the subparts that organize the book.
Author: Brian David Johnson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0062965085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYOUR FUTURE STARTS NOW By the time you reach the end of the book, I promise you will understand your Future You better than ever...you will be able to see yourself in the future you want and know the steps needed to get there. Brian David Johnson has spent a quarter century helping governments, schools, corporations, and small businesses shape the future—now, he wants to help you. In The Future You, Johnson distills his work as an applied futurist and gives readers the practical tools to craft the future they’ve always wanted. Offering a unique combination of practical guidance, interactive workbooks, and compelling real-life stories, The Future You empowers readers to break through the fear of uncertainty. Whether you want to find your new passion, switch your career, or make a personal change, fear holds so many of us captive and prevents us from taking the steps necessary to start now. You no longer have to just dream about a better future, you can turn those plans, those ideas, and those hopes into reality.
