This book examines the psycho-social factors of depression in the elderly: sudden retirement, loss, poverty, and social isolation. It will appeal to professionals and families willing to help their ageing relatives avoid depression.
MIMED Forum IV
This book explores the vital debate on flexibility in architectural education. As globalization risks making curricula uniform, a critical question arises: If the discipline’s autonomous nature resists, how will this occur and what will the impact be?
Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
This volume examines the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban form. Going beyond stereotypes, this study reveals the temple as a complex cultural entity: both monumental and modest, historic and modern, and deserving of a far deeper understanding.
Outer Space Development, International Relations and Space Law
The development of outer space is happening now, but few are aware. The vast wealth it generates threatens to create unprecedented inequality. This is a call to action to ensure the final frontier benefits all of humanity, not just a select few.
Developing big information systems is inefficient. This book presents Knowledge Based Automated Software Engineering (KBASE), a method to improve the process by automatically generating the final software product from a verified business model.
The Mediterranean Basin’s high biodiversity and 8000 years of history face a great threat from urbanisation and habitat destruction. Both its historical heritage and geography are at risk. This book synthesises knowledge to increase awareness and save the basin.
Housing the Environmental Imagination
For writers like Thoreau, Jeffers, and Snyder, the writing project is inseparable from the living project. This book examines how their houses shaped their work, asking a larger question: How shall we live the best lives we can, every day?
This book presents a novel approach, Design for Reliability Predictability (DRP). DRP helps predict system reliability from its components and their interactions by integrating precise design, specification, and documentation. A case study demonstrates its application.
From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics
Explore the 20th century’s foundational crisis in mathematics. From early paradoxes to the rise of logicism, intuitionism, and formalism, this guide examines the quest for certainty and the lasting impact of Gödel’s revolutionary theorems.
Architecture
The author’s writings are based on his 1968 Yale University lecture series, “Architecture: The Making of Metaphors”.
For students, researchers, and developers, this book offers a snapshot of ongoing European research and development in cloud computing. It covers the latest hot topics, including services, management, automation, and adoption.
Technical Chemistry
Discover new results in organic chemistry, materials science, and nanotech. A vital guide for developers balancing product innovation with economic, safety, and environmental demands.
The Future of Post-Human Performing Arts
This book offers a new transdisciplinary theory of performing arts to go beyond existing traditions. This seminal project will fundamentally change how we think about the arts from the combined perspectives of the mind, society, and culture.
Compelling Form
Compelling Form argues that architecture is as capable of social influence as speeches or advertisements. The book demonstrates how the visual design of diverse structures—from cathedrals to skyscrapers—affects the viewer and has lasting social impact.
Theorising the Project
This book explores a thematic approach to architectural design. It argues design is not the expression of meaning, but the framing of strategic conditions for emergent sense. For students and practitioners, it offers a framework to widen their creative scope.
Atmosphere Aerosol, Phytoplankton and its Influence on Climate Forming in the Pacific Ocean
This collection of new articles presents an overview of current research on atmosphere aerosol and phytoplankton communities. Born from a unique sailing conference, it investigates climate change’s influence and is of interest to specialists in ocean monitoring.
This book helps students and professionals understand the language of architecture and civil engineering and improve their linguistic skills. It includes practical exercises, a compilation of technical terms, and is written in an accessible yet rigorous style.
Simulation-based Medical Training
This volume explores the user-centred development of a Virtual Reality (VR) and web-based medical training system. It shows how a democratic arrangement between users and developers is beneficial, using prototypes to bridge the knowledge gap.
IMVIP conferences bring together academics and practitioners to share cutting-edge research in image processing. These proceedings contain papers from the 14th event, hosted by the University of Limerick, Ireland in 2010.
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
A critical re-reading of early modern architectural history. Through post-war theory, this book unpacks the canon of Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion, extending the critical historiography of Frampton and Tafuri.