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Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate: An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production
by Chad SchwartzThis anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environment – place, material, and assembly. These catalysts provide the organizational framework for a collection of essays discussing their significant influence on the processes of architectural design and construction. With content from a diverse collection of notable architects, historians, and scholars, this book serves as a theoretical structure for understanding the tectonic potential of architecture. Each chapter is thematically driven, consisting of a pair of essays preceded by an introduction highlighting the fundamental issues at hand and comparing and contrasting the points of view presented. Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate offers an opportunity to explore the essential topics that affect the design and construction, as well as the experiential qualities, of our built environment.
Situated Ethics in Educational Research
by Robin Usher Helen SimonsEthics has traditionally been seen as a set of general principles which can be applied in a range of situations. This book argues that in fact ethical principles must be shaped within different research practices and hence take on different significances according to varying research situations. The book develops the notion of situated ethics and explores how ethical issues are practically handled by educational researchers in the field. Contributors present theoretical models and practical examples of what situated ethics involves in conducting research on specific areas.
Situating Intersectionality Politics, Policy, And Power
by Angelia R. WilsonA new generation of political science scholars who are comfortable employing intersectional analysis are emerging and their work hones in directly on the complexity of politics, governance and policy making in an increasingly small, technologically connected, ideologically nuanced, global Public Square.
Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour
by James E. RogersFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria
by Peter Dennis Simon DunstanOsprey's examination of Jordan and Syria's involvement in the Six Day War (1967). Following the lightning destruction of the Egyptian forces at the outbreak of the Six Day War, Israel turned to the forces of Jordan and Syria, with whom Egypt had signed a mutual-defence pact, and who had now entered the war. Jordan's army moved against West Jerusalem and central Israel, while Syria began shelling Israeli towns from the seemingly impregnable Golan Heights. The IDF's invasion of the Golan was as daring and successful as its more famous Egyptian victory, but its success in Jordan - taking the West Bank - sowed the seeds of its future troubles. Comprehensively illustrated with artwork, maps and battlefield views, this new history brings one of the most important of 20th century campaigns to life.
Six Minutes a Day to Perfect Spelling
by Harry ShefterPeople make spelling mistakes simply because they have never formed the right spelling habits. Here is a proven method that will make you a master speller.
Six Minutes for the Patient: Interactions in general practice consultation
by Enid Balint J S NorellTavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1973 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Six Words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs: And Other Fascinating Facts About The English Language
by Katherine BarberA delightfully addictive compendium of fascinating word facts that does for the dictionary what Eats, Shoots, and Leaves did for the manual of style. <P> With the easy erudition and lively wit that have won her legions of fans, Canada's "Word Lady" reveals the entertaining histories behind 500 of the most common words and phrases in the English language. Who knew that 'travel' is derived from an instrument of torture? That "tragedy" originally had something to do with goats? That "glamour" and "grammar" started out as the same word? <P> Katherine Barber's captivating collection is organized by season, so readers can open to Valentine's Day to learn about the origins of "passion fruit" or flip to Thanksgiving to find out why there aren't any turkeys in Turkey. An irresistible blend of entertainment and enlightenment, this delightful book will captivate the word lover in all of us.
Sixguns and Bullseyes and Automatic Pistol Marksmanship: A Comprehensive Manual on Target Shooting
by William ReichenbachWhether you're a target shooting enthusiast, an experienced shooter, or someone who has never held a gun, Sixguns and Bullseyes and Automatic Pistol Marksmanship will help you explore different types of handguns, fundamental shooting skills, and expert tips to gain marksmanship precision.This edition combines two classic shooting manuals from the 1930s in one volume for modern audiences. Author and gun enthusiast William Reichenbach’s conversational, down-to-earth writing style makes this primer very approachable to all types of readers and shooters. He describes his seven key points—hold, stance, relaxation, moving the gun into position, sighting, squeeze, and breathing—as a basis to target shooting, as well as other topics, including:Ascent to the OlympTime and Rapid FireTrimming Your GunAmmunition WrinklesThe Ideal AutomaticThe “Draw”Preparing for the FrayHomo Sapiens and Other GameComplete with diagrams of important steps and stances as well as illustrations of classic revolvers and automatic pistols, this practical, easy-to-read, and surprisingly timely book will certainly guide interested shooters to that "elusive ten"!
The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies
by Monte CookDid the noble order of the Knights Templar guard a secret about Jesus’ birth?Was the moon landing faked in a Hollywood movie studio?Is the government keeping the remains of an alien spacecraft in the top-secret Area 51?Monte Cook takes a look at conspiracy theories—ranging from the historically complex to the seriously whacked out. With a disbelieving eye, he traces the history of some of the world's weirdest ideas and even includes a chart showing readers how to make up conspiracy theories for themselves.Scattered through the book are the paranoid "notes" of an anonymous reader who claims to know what's really going on. You can make up your own mind as to who's telling the truth!
The Skeptic's Guide To Conspiracies: Uncovering the [Real] Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Conspiracy Theories
by Monte CookA look at conspiracy theories - ranging from the historically complex to the seriously whacked out.
Skills And Techniques For Human Service Professionals: Counseling Environment, Helping Skills, Treatment Issues
by Edward NeukrugSkills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals provides helpers with important knowledge in three areas: The counseling environment, helping skills, and treatment issues.
Skills for Living
by Frances Baynor Parnell Joyce Honeycutt WootenSkills for Living is a comprehensive text designed to help you meet the challenges of daily life with confidence. It will help you develop a range of skills related to interpersonal and family relationships, healthy living, getting and keeping a job, foods and nutrition, management, clothing, and housing.
Skills for Personal and Family Living
by Frances Baynor Parnell Joyce Honeycutt WootenComprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences text helps secondary level students meet the challenges of their daily lives with confidence. It will help you develop a range of skills related to interpersonal and family relationships, getting and keeping a job, management, healthy living, foods and nutrition, clothing, and housing.
Skincare Decoded: The Practical Guide to Beautiful Skin
by Victoria Fu Gloria LuDepending on who you listen to, the secret to beautiful skin is microbiomes. Or Korean rice water. Or maybe a dermaplaning tool. It feels like you need a degree in chemistry to even understand what these products are, and if they live up to the hype. Luckily, Victoria Fu and Gloria Lu, professional skincare chemists have done that work so you don&’t have to. The science may seem complicated, but this book will show you how simple it can be, giving you what you need to make informed decisions about your skin (and your wallet). Skincare Actives? Technically, cat sneezes could count. SPF? Yep, super important. Caffeine serums? The science is still out. CBD additives? Not enough studies yet, so the jury&’s still out. The authors are the creators behind the popular Chemist Confessions Instagram, and this book brings the sass, humor, and solid inLayoution they&’re known for. Additional chapters address the best ingredients for every skin type, and reveal the only four products you really need.
The Skincare Hoax: How You're Being Tricked into Buying Lotions, Potions & Wrinkle Cream
by Fayne L. FreyFeel Empowered and Beautiful at Any Age with This Groundbreaking Guide to Skincare We all want to have young and healthy skin, yet the beauty industry is so mixed in its messages that most consumers have no way to tell which skincare products are helpful and which claims are pure hype. In The Skincare Hoax, skincare expert Dr. Fayne Frey explores the &“essential&” product categories that are entirely unnecessary, exposes how many well-known skincare ingredients have no scientific basis, and recommends truly effective skincare products and regimens that are easy and affordable.Key points include:Why an over-the-counter wrinkle cream that removes wrinkles would be in violation of federal lawThe one and only true anti-aging productWhat moisturizers actually do Reveal the healthiest and most informed choices for your skin with The Skincare Hoax.
Skinny Bitch Book of Vegan Swaps
by Kim BarnouinFrom the #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Skinny Bitch, earth-friendly meat- and dairy-free alternatives for all your cooking and dining needs. Thinking of going vegan? Nutritionist Kim Barnouin makes becoming vegan a no-brainer with this handy reference book featuring vegan ingredient substitutes for all your favorite recipes. There&’s even a helpful guide to eating vegan while dining out—or while stuck at the airport. For the vegan-curious, Barnouin offers a weekend menu plan filled with meal and snack ideas that will make vegan nutrition fun and easy. With everything from label-decoding guidelines to recipe ideas and shopping tips, Skinny Bitch Book of Vegan Swaps will make living a healthy and sustainable lifestyle easier than ever!Praise for Kim Barnouin &“I absolutely love how Kim has made vegan cooking so simple and delicious.&” ―Sophie Uliano, author of Gorgeously Green on Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook &“Chapter by chapter, [Barnouin] calls out nasty and/or cruel ingredients . . . offering planet- and human-friendly alternatives.&” —Publishers Weekly on Skinny Bitch: Home, Beauty & Style
Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures: Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors
by Mayine L. YuIntegrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work using this book as a resource to help you… With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from prehistory to the present, this book illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors. Six chapters organized by wall types, from hand-set monolithic walls to digitally fabricated curtain walls, each have a material focus section to help you understand their intrinsic properties so that you can decide which will best keep the weather out of your building. Examples from the ancient world, including the Pyramids and the Great Wall, through a range of renowned modern architects, such as Studio Gang, Sauerbruch Hutton, Herzog and deMeuron, and Rafael Moneo, illustrate how significant works in the history of architecture explored innovative use of materials – stone, brick, concrete, glass, and aluminium. Along the way, principles of construction from masonry and basic framing through ever more sophisticated envelope systems address classic problems presented by gravity, wind, rain, and sun with studies of lateral forces, building movements and materials that bridge the gaps in between them.
Skuse'S Complete Confectioner
by SkuseFirst published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sky at Night: My Essential Guide to Navigating the Night Sky
by Dr Maggie Aderin-PocockLook up...The Art of Stargazing is the ultimate insider's guide to the night sky in which award-winning space scientist and The Sky at Night presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock shares her expertise and unique insights into the marvellous world of stars. Take a tour of the 88 constellations and explore the science, history, culture and romanticism behind these celestial bodies.In this must-have handbook for budding stargazers - and anyone looking for a little more wonder in their lives - Maggie will help you to identify stars and teach you the basics of naked-eye observation, offering fascinating facts plus advice on kit, 'dark sky' locations and much more. Also included are beautiful illustrations to accompany each constellation and an easy-to-read sky map. With Maggie by your side, the night sky will truly come alive.
The Sky Atlas: The Greatest Maps, Myths, and Discoveries of the Universe
by Edward Brooke-HitchingThe Sky Atlas unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during humankind's quest to map the skies above us. This richly illustrated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography—a glorious art often overlooked by modern map books—as well as medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogs, antique instruments, and other curiosities. This is the sky as it has never been presented before: the realm of stars and planets, but also of gods, devils, weather wizards, flying sailors, ancient aliens, mythological animals, and rampaging spirits. • Packed with celestial maps, illustrations, and stories of places, people, and creatures that different cultures throughout history have observed or imagined in the heavens• Readers are taken on a tour of star-obsessed cultures around the world, learning about Tibetan sky burials, star-covered Inuit dancing coats, Mongolian astral prophets and Sir William Herschel's 1781 discovery of Uranus, the first planet to be found since antiquity.• A gorgeous book that delights stargazers and map lovers alikeWith thrilling stories and gorgeous artwork, this remarkable atlas explores our fascination with the sky across time and cultures to form an extraordinary chronicle of cosmic imagination and discovery.The Sky Atlas is a wonderful book for map lovers, history buffs, and stargazers, but also for those who are intrigued by the many wonderful and bizarre ways in which humans have sought to understand the cosmos and our place in it.• A unique map book that expands beyond the terrestrial and into the celestial• A wonderful book for map lovers, obscure-history fans, mythology buffs, and astrology and astronomy lovers• Great for those who enjoyed What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky by Kelsey Oseid, Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, and Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will by Judith Schalansky
A Sky Full of Birds
by Matt Merritt'Prose from a poet and a personal take on the spectacles' Chris Packham, author of Fingers in the Sparkle JarShortlisted for Richard Jefferies Society & White Horse Bookshop Literary Prize 2017Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2017Britain is a nation of bird-lovers. However, few of us fully appreciate the sheer scale, variety and drama of our avian life. From city-centre hunters to vast flocks straight out of the Arctic wilderness, much-loved dawn songsters to the exotic invaders of supermarket car parks, a host of remarkable wildlife spectacles are waiting to be discovered right outside our front doors.In A Sky Full of Birds, poet and nature writer Matt Merritt shares his passion for birdwatching by taking us to some of the great avian gatherings that occur around the British isles – from ravens in Anglesey and raptors on the Wirral, to Kent nightingales and Scottish capercaillies. By turns lyrical, informative and entertaining, he shows how natural miracles can be found all around us, if only we know where to look for them.A Sky Full of Birds is the perfect read for avid birdwatchers and a beautiful gift for lovers of nature and poetic prose.
Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations
by Meg ThacherThe sun, moon, stars, and planets have been a source of wonder and fascination for as long as humans have inhabited the earth. In Sky Gazing, a highly visual guide to observing the sky with the naked eye, kids aged 9–14 will delve into the science behind what they see, whether they live in a dark rural setting or under the bright lights of the city. Exploring astronomical objects and events, this captivating book takes young readers on a tour of our solar system and deep space beyond, with explanations of how objects like Earth&’s moon were formed and the &“why&” behind phenomena such as eclipses, northern lights, and meteor showers. Curious sky gazers will discover how to find and observe planets — no binoculars or telescopes required! — and star charts will guide them in spotting constellations throughout the seasons and in both hemispheres while they learn about constellation myths from cultures around the world. Activities include tracking the cycles of the sun and moon and observing the sky during daylight hours or on a cloudy night, while astronomer profiles and sidebars on space technology and current issues such as light pollution help ground kids&’ discoveries in the ancient and enduring science of studying the sky.
The Sky in Early Modern English Literature
by David H. LevyAstronomy is not just a subject unto itself. We all look at the sky, and it has always been a fertile source of guidance and inspiration in art, music, and literature. This book explores the sky's appearances in music and art, but focuses most on the sky's enormous presence in early modern English literature. The author concentrates on William Shakespeare, whose references to the sky far exceed the combined total of all his contemporaries. Venturing into the historical context of these references, the book teaches about the Supernovae of 1572 and 1604, the abundant comets of this period, eclipses, astrology and its relation to the night sky at the time, and the early years of the telescope and how the literature of the time relates to it. This book promises to open doors between two great fields of study by inspiring readers to look for their own connections between astronomy and literature, and by helping them to enjoy the night sky itself more completely.
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like ... Whatever
by Leslie SavanIn this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we're all talking the talk--Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!--and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as "no-brainer"s) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a "slam dunk"). Real people create these catchy phrases, but once media, politics, and businesses broadcast them, they burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and powerful. Witty, fun, and full of thought-provoking stories about the origins of popular expressions,Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries of language.