Critical Practices in Architecture
Inspired by Jane Rendell’s critical spatial practice, this book shows how socially engaged architects, designers, and artists work to change the world. Bridging global perspectives, it explores urgent themes of equality, ethics, pedagogy, and representation.
This easy-to-follow guide provides the necessary steps in discretizing continuous systems. It covers sampling, reconstruction, stability analysis, and the synthesis of digital controllers, including a practical guide to PID speed control of a DC motor using an Arduino card.
This book describes the principles, applications, and types of analog multiplexers. It explains how they are used to implement both analog function circuits and digital circuits, familiarizing readers with these key components.
An Introduction to the Metaverse
Dive into the metaverse with this guide for tech enthusiasts and developers. Explore technical foundations, legal challenges, and economic implications. Demystify blockchain, NFTs, and digital twins while gaining hands-on experience with Python through real-world examples.
Enabling Techniques for the Internet of Things
Unlock the potential of the Internet of Things. This guide explores the networks, devices, and algorithms driving IoT. Discover practical applications from smart cities to farming, and navigate critical challenges like security, privacy, and sustainability.
From the unique perspective of a solar space scientist turned oilfield engineer, this book takes an honest look at the energy transition. How are oil giants pivoting on climate change? Is the urgency as dire as we’re told? A must-read to understand the reality of climate change.
This book compiles technical publications on the nonlinear analysis of icosahedrons. It covers static and dynamic characteristics, with topics ranging from large displacements and rotations to chaotic behaviour, and includes extensive experimentation.
Explore resonator spectroscopy for analysing atmospheric microwave absorption. This guide details the most efficient method, from molecular spectroscopy basics to landmark investigations in the millimetre and submillimetre-wave range.
Pyrometers are calibrated for blackbodies (BB), but real objects radiate differently, causing measurement errors. This book proposes original correction methods that account for an object’s radiation spectrum and its temperature dependence to increase the accuracy of pyrometry.
Contemporary Architecture
This book offers an exciting journey into recent architectural achievements. In contrast to many books, architecture is not described chronologically here, but independently for each trend. This allows a better explanation of the evolution and continuity of each movement.
This unique monograph explores the in-depth chemistry of allelopathy—the chemical interactions between plants. It covers the development of bioherbicides and the nanoencapsulation of allelochemicals for agriculture, a valuable resource for scientists, students, and industry.
Revolution of Cosmetics
Cosmeceuticals merge cosmetics with pharmaceutical properties. This book clarifies their complex regulatory landscape and explores the latest trends in cosmetic science, evaluating products that claim to deliver positive physiological impacts.
Intelligent Systems in Buildings
This book explores how intelligent systems can enhance the performance of the traditional courtyard house. It identifies key features of these homes and shows how knowledge of intelligent systems is crucial to fulfilling occupants’ needs.
Semiotics for Art History
Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. Learn how to put theory into practice and acquire a new point of view in appreciating art.
This book promotes formal methods for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It presents theoretically driven techniques, from millennial geometry to current shape grammars, to produce better solutions with less testing time in direct confrontation with reality.
The unique experiments, numerous measurements, and resulting data presented here, have been collected over 30 years of research and prove with scientific precision, that consciousness involves more than just the brain, but actually depends on the very fabric of the universe.
This textbook is a unique treatise on the present status of particle physics summarised for physics students at an introductory level: it provides insights into essential experimental and theoretical techniques and will gradually deepen the reader’s understanding of the field.
This book covers Pulsed-Electrochemical Honing (PECH), a hybrid finishing process for intricate components like gears. It details the fundamentals, parameters for finishing straight bevel gears, and recent developments in tools, technologies, controls, and operations.
Philosophical Semantics
This book offers an innovative systematic approach to meaning and reference, unifying insights from philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege while exposing errors of formalists from Quine to Kripke. It shows how the cartography of philosophy of language can be redrawn.
Plasticity in solids is determined not by defects, but by the distribution of valence electrons. An isotropic distribution causes lattice instability, making solids more plastic but less strong. This work introduces a novel model of a plastic crystal based on this concept.