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ix, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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ix, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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- Catholic Church Italy History 17th century.,
- Catholic Church History 17th century.,
- Église catholique Italie Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Église catholique Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Catholic Church,
- Astronomical observatories Italy.,
- Astronomy, Renaissance.,
- Religion and science Italy History 17th century.,
- Religion and science Italy History.,
- Astronomy history,
- Astronomy - General.,
- Astronomy & Astrophysics.,
- Physical Sciences & Mathematics.,
- Astronomie de la Renaissance.,
- Observatoires astronomiques Italie.,
- Religion et sciences Italie Histoire.,
- Religion et sciences Italie Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Astronomical observatories,
- Religion and science,
- Sterrenkunde.,
- Observatoria.,
- Kathedralen.,
- Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.,
- Astronomie, renaissance.,
- Religion et science.,
- Église catholique Italie Histoire 17ème siècle.,
- Astronomie de la Renaissance Italie.,
- Religion et sciences Italie 1500-1800.,
- Italy,
- Iglesia Católica Italia Historia Siglo XVII.,
- Observatorios astronómicos Italia.,
- Astronomía Renacimiento.,
- Religión y ciencia Italia Historia Siglo XVII.,
- History
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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The sun in the Church : cathedrals as solar observatories / J.L. Heilbron.
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ix, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
The sun in the Church : cathedrals as solar observatories / J.L. Heilbron.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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- Catholic Church Italy History 17th century.,
- Catholic Church History 17th century.,
- Église catholique Italie Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Église catholique Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Catholic Church,
- Astronomical observatories Italy.,
- Astronomy, Renaissance.,
- Religion and science Italy History 17th century.,
- Religion and science Italy History.,
- Astronomy history,
- Astronomy - General.,
- Astronomy & Astrophysics.,
- Physical Sciences & Mathematics.,
- Astronomie de la Renaissance.,
- Observatoires astronomiques Italie.,
- Religion et sciences Italie Histoire.,
- Religion et sciences Italie Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Astronomical observatories,
- Religion and science,
- Sterrenkunde.,
- Observatoria.,
- Kathedralen.,
- Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.,
- Astronomie, renaissance.,
- Religion et science.,
- Église catholique Italie Histoire 17ème siècle.,
- Astronomie de la Renaissance Italie.,
- Religion et sciences Italie 1500-1800.,
- Italy,
- Iglesia Católica Italia Historia Siglo XVII.,
- Observatorios astronómicos Italia.,
- Astronomía Renacimiento.,
- Religión y ciencia Italia Historia Siglo XVII.,
- History
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xxxviii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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xxxviii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- Canals Great Britain Design and construction History 17th century.,
- Canals Great Britain Design and construction History 18th century.,
- Railroad engineering Great Britain History 17th century.,
- Railroad engineering Great Britain History 18th century.,
- Chemins de fer Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Chemins de fer Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.,
- Canals Design and construction.,
- Railroad engineering.,
- Civil engineering History.,
- Canals Great Britain Design and construction History.,
- Railroad engineering Great Britain History.,
- Canals Design and construction History.,
- Railroad engineering History.,
- Great Britain.,
- History.
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Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, ©1997.
Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, ©1997.
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The Civil engineering of canals and railways before 1850 / edited by Mike Chrimes.
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xxxviii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
The Civil engineering of canals and railways before 1850 / edited by Mike Chrimes.
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Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, ©1997.
Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, ©1997.
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- Canals Great Britain Design and construction History 17th century.,
- Canals Great Britain Design and construction History 18th century.,
- Railroad engineering Great Britain History 17th century.,
- Railroad engineering Great Britain History 18th century.,
- Chemins de fer Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle.,
- Chemins de fer Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.,
- Canals Design and construction.,
- Railroad engineering.,
- Civil engineering History.,
- Canals Great Britain Design and construction History.,
- Railroad engineering Great Britain History.,
- Canals Design and construction History.,
- Railroad engineering History.,
- Great Britain.,
- History.
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xvii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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xvii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Kingston, the King's town / by James A. Roy ; foreword by W.A. Mackintosh.
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xvii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Kingston, the King's town / by James A. Roy ; foreword by W.A. Mackintosh.
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xvii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1952.
Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1952.
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the(...)
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the(...)
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Kingdom of characters: The language revolution that made China modern
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. 'Kingdom of characters' follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao’s phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today.
Kingdom of characters: The language revolution that made China modern
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. 'Kingdom of characters' follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao’s phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today.
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January 2023
January 2023
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way(...)
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way(...)
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Things fall together: a guide to the new materials revolution
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. "Things fall together" is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future.
Things fall together: a guide to the new materials revolution
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Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. "Things fall together" is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future.
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June 2021
June 2021
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist,(...)
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist,(...)
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The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria today. This publication collects those images alongside archival documents and Oddy’s further research into Niemeyer’s Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that inspired and formed these buildings.
The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria today. This publication collects those images alongside archival documents and Oddy’s further research into Niemeyer’s Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that inspired and formed these buildings.
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May 2019
May 2019
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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[Place of publication not identified] : FHNW HGK, 2023.
[Place of publication not identified] : FHNW HGK, 2023.
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[Place of publication not identified] : FHNW HGK, 2023.
[Place of publication not identified] : FHNW HGK, 2023.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Goethe-Institut, 2022., [Place of publication not identified] : Norient, 2022.
[Place of publication not identified] : Goethe-Institut, 2022., [Place of publication not identified] : Norient, 2022.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Goethe-Institut, 2022., [Place of publication not identified] : Norient, 2022.
[Place of publication not identified] : Goethe-Institut, 2022., [Place of publication not identified] : Norient, 2022.
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- Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- Travel.,
- Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- Voyages.,
- Rivers.,
- Natural history.,
- Stream ecology.,
- Human ecology.,
- Nature Effect of human beings on.,
- Nature observation.,
- Rights of nature.,
- Cours d'eau.,
- Sciences naturelles.,
- Écologie des cours d'eau.,
- Écologie humaine.,
- Êtres humains Influence sur la nature.,
- Nature Observation.,
- Droits de la nature.,
- natural sciences.
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Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2026.
Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2026.
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Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2026.
Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2026.
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- Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- Travel.,
- Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- Voyages.,
- Rivers.,
- Natural history.,
- Stream ecology.,
- Human ecology.,
- Nature Effect of human beings on.,
- Nature observation.,
- Rights of nature.,
- Cours d'eau.,
- Sciences naturelles.,
- Écologie des cours d'eau.,
- Écologie humaine.,
- Êtres humains Influence sur la nature.,
- Nature Observation.,
- Droits de la nature.,
- natural sciences.
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[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2014.
[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2014.
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From Timbuktu to Fort de France : The Iconic Power of Monuments and Their Destruction.
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From Timbuktu to Fort de France : The Iconic Power of Monuments and Their Destruction.
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[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2014.
[Place of publication not identified] : The Funambulist, 2014.
