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  • ARCTIC POWER: GREENLAND’S STRATEGIC RISE

    Shaping Greenland's Future, Securing Strategic Ground, Unlocking Arctic Wealth, Dominating the Polar Landscape, and The U.S. Role in Arctic Sovereignty

    by Benjamin Cole ...
    Series series Lifestyle Collection
    Why Greenland MattersGreenland is more than a geographical curiosity; it is a geopolitical prize. As the world warms and Arctic ice recedes, the island’s vast reserves of rare earth elements and critical minerals have drawn the attention of the United States, China, and Russia. These resources are essential for producing advanced technologies, including renewable energy systems, military equipment ... Read more

    $7.12 USD

  • Making Markets Making Place

    Geography, Topo/graphy and the Reproduction of an Urban Marketplace

    by Benjamin Coles ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines place and place-making in London’s Borough Market. In particular, it uses topo/graphy (‘place-writing) to interrogate the ways in which Borough Market’s material, social-sensual and discursive relations assemble to reproduce Borough Market as a place, market and marketplace. Its central premise is that market-processes – the negotiation and exchange of commodities –are place ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Changing Face of Terrorism

    How Real is the Threat from Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Weapons?

    by Benjamin Cole ...
    Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), terrorism and the 'war on terror' are major features of international relations and global concern. Terrorist threats and actual violence have become increasingly dangerous and lethal since the 1970s. However, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 heralded a new era in terrorist action and were the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia

    Edited by Benjamin Cole ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    There are many different kinds of sub-national conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001 these have been increasingly portrayed as part of the global terrorist threat, to be dealt with by the War on Terror.This major new study examines a wide range of such conflicts, showing how, despite their significant differences, they share the role of the media as ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Design

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Heskett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and 'desire' in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user's identity and aspirations through its form and decoration ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • A City is Not a Tree

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas

    Edited by Nicholas Ray ...
    A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion

    Markets and Value in Clothing and Modelling

    by Dr Joanne Entwistle ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected, distributed and ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Design and Ethics

    Reflections on Practice

    Edited by Emma Felton, Oksana Zelenko, Suzi Vaughan ...
    The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling.Approaches to design recognise design as a practice that can transform human experience and understanding, expanding ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Urban Design Reader

    by Steve Tiesdell, Matthew Carmona ...
    Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Architectural Design and Regulation

    by Rob Imrie, Emma Street ...
    From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects’ actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building regulations specifying detailed elements of design in relation to the safety of building structures ... Read more

    $115.00 USD

  • Urban Design: Method and Techniques

    by Rafael Cuesta, Christine Sarris, Paola Signoretta, J.C Moughtin ...
    This book deals with a wide range of techniques used in the urban design process. It then goes on to relate these techniques to a unique, comprehensive account of method. A method of urban design is developed which has sustainability and environmental protection at the centre of its philosophy. Previously, literature regarding the urban design method has been almost totally neglected; this book ... Read more

    $77.99 USD