Proceedings of ARCTD 2021

Proceedings of ARCTD 2021
Author: Evgeny Rybnov
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2022-06-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3030996263

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable territorial development of the Arctic, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Arctic Territorial Development: Challenges & Solutions (ARCTD), held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 29-30, 2021. It covers highly diverse topics, including architecture and urban planning in the Far North, engineering, construction and operation of buildings, utilities and transport infrastructure, development and application of energy-saving materials and technologies for construction, fuel and energy complex and utility services, improving the durability and operational reliability of technological machines, economic potential for sustainable development of the Arctic territories. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

Advances in Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure

Advances in Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure
Author: Jerzy Charytonowicz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030201511

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture. It reports on advanced engineering methods for sustainable infrastructure design, architecture as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the social, environmental, and economic impact of various designs and projects. The book covers a range of topics, including the use of recycled materials in architecture, ergonomics in buildings and public design, sustainable design for smart cities, design for the aging population, industrial design, human scale in architecture, and many more. Based on the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, held on July 24-28, 2019, in Washington D.C., USA, it offers various perspectives on sustainability and ergonomics. As such, it is a valuable reference resource for designers, urban engineers, architects, infrastructure professionals, public infrastructure owners, policy makers, government engineers and planners, as well as operations managers and academics active in urban and infrastructure research.

Intention and Agency

Intention and Agency
Author: Donald F. Gustafson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400945205

The powers of seeing, hearing, re membering, distinguishing, judging, reason ing, are speculative powers; the power of ex ecuting any work of art or labour is active power. Thomas Reid I Some causal efficacy is due to persons. And, some of the causal efficacy due to persons is imparted by, not merely to, them. Further, some of the causal efficacy due to persons and imparted by them is imparted by and not merely to their physical, active bodies. Otherwise there is no agency. I will assume, with everyone at the outset, that the world contains agency of the kind found in some of a person's comings and goings, movings and changing of things. Agency is exhibited in more and in less sophisticated forms, that is, in any sophisticated, artful activity and in less complex, non-articulate physical activities. In both there appears to be more than mere causal efficacy imparted to the environment by a person. In sophisticated agen cy activities are organized, guided, purposive and purposeful comings and goings, movings and changes. And purpose is not absent in less soph isticated purposive activities of active creatures. So I shall argue in what follows. Now is the time for introducing the themes, topics, and issues to be considered, and the plan and purpose in them.

US Wartime Aid to Britain 1940–1946

US Wartime Aid to Britain 1940–1946
Author: Alan P. Dobson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000460088

This book, first published in 1986, examines the American economic aid that was a vital factor in enabling Britain’s success in the Second World War. Whilst Lend-Lease did keep the British war effort alive, the agreement was always a source of great friction between the two countries. This book argues that although Lend-Lease solved Britain’s wartime supply problems, the price was the acceptance of a series of burdens that seriously aggravated the country’s long-term economic decline.

Reflection and Action

Reflection and Action
Author: Nathan Rotenstreich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401097380

Foundations of Ethics

Foundations of Ethics
Author: Leroy S. Rouner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1983
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780268028619

Just when we need them the most, our ethical resources seem least clear and reliable. Hence our search for foundations of ethics. Our intent in this volume has not been to solve any specific moral problem, but to explore basic issues: the prospects for a rational ethic; the relation between ethics and a religious mythos; the challenge of non-Western ethical values; problems raised by the practice of confession, the evaluation of privacy, the ubiquity of science, and more. We obviously have not explored all the foundation issues. We cannot even claim that the ones we have explored are always the most significant. We do claim, however, that these explorations give a vivid picture of our ethical dilemma, and present some of the best thinking currently being done. --from the Introduction

Ebena

Ebena
Author: Patricia E. Sandoval
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781648035531

Ebena known as Hidden Magic: Discovers she was swept away into a magical world called Enchantment throughout her journey of trying to find a way back home. Discovering a little magic of her own with guidance by three sunflower witches named Bianca, Patti and Jasmine as they escape away from wicked magic. Throughout her journey she meets plenty of friends, in a world full of magic who want to help Ebena return back home. A wizard name Ashmar watches and protects the hidden magic girl as she continues to fulfill her destiny to discover who she is. Beside other friends who guide her along the way, to stop the wicked witches of the West along with their great niece Constance devious plots. Only to discover the hidden magic girl from Kansas has returned back home into her Enchantment world. Putting the wicked witches who taunt their world to an end.

THE SECRETS OF THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

THE SECRETS OF THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Author: Arnold Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781802781632

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Michele Nastasi: Arabian Transfer

Michele Nastasi: Arabian Transfer
Author: Nadine Barth
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9783775748735

A photo-tour through six cities on the Arabian Peninsula Photographer Michele Nastasi (born 1980) pictures the boomtowns of the Arabian Peninsula, including Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Manama and Riyadh. Set against rapid urban development, avant-garde architecture and desert landscapes, the cities are also connected by tourism and a transient workforce.