Anthropology for Architects: Social Relations and the Built Environment (Lucas Ray)(Paperback)

Anthropology for Architects: Social Relations and the Built Environment (Lucas Ray)(Paperback)

What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design

The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy (Cheshire David)(Paperback)

This book is a call to arms to all architects, designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment, the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from the very beginning of the design process

Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design (Robinson Sarah)(Paperback)

Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being.Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts,

Social Identity and Intergroup Relations (Tajfel Henri)(Paperback)

This study of intergroup relations remained for long on the periphery of mainstream social psychology. However, fresh research and thinking did much to overcome this neglect of one of the fundamental issues of our time, so that it became a clearly visible and major trend of research within European

Accountability, Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Accounting for Society and the Environment (Gray Rob)(Paperback / softback)

Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Guest Kenneth J.)(Paperback)

From the book's signature 'toolkit' approach to the new chapter on the Environment and Sustainability to the accompanying videos and interactive learning tools, all aspects of Ken Guest's Cultural Anthropology work together to inspire students to use the tools of anthropology to see the world in a

Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment (Chancel Lucas)(Pevná vazba)

A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa.Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to

Essentials of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Guest Kenneth J.)(Paperback)

From the book's signature 'toolkit' approach to the new chapter on the Environment and Sustainability to the accompanying videos and interactive learning tools, all aspects of Ken Guest's Essentials of Cultural Anthropology work together to inspire students to use the tools of anthropology to see

Architecture and Health: Guiding Principles for Practice (Battisto Dina)(Paperback)

Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession. Over 40 international award-winning projects are included to explore innovative design principles linked to health outcomes. The book is organized into three

BTEC First Construction and the Built Environment Student Book (Topliss Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Lab Manual and Workbook for Physical Anthropology (France Diane L.)(Paperback)

Master the concepts of physical anthropology with LAB MANUAL AND WORKBOOK FOR PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY With hands-on lab assignments that help you apply physical anthropology perspectives and techniques to real situations, this lab manual walks you through difficult topics such as genetics and the

Writing Built Environment Dissertations and Projects: Practical Guidance and Examples (Farrell Peter)(Paperback)

Writing Built Environment Dissertations and Projects will help you to write a good dissertation or project by giving you a good understanding of what should be included, and showing you how to use data collection and analysis tools in the course of your research. Addresses prominent weaknesses in

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain (Wetherell Sam)(Pevná vazba)

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private

Soils and Foundations for Architects and Engineers (Duncan Chester I.)(Paperback)

Soils and Foundations for Architects and Engineers, Second Edition is a practical guide to the technology of soil mechanics and foundations, and the application of that technology to the design and construction process. This text provides an up-to-date overview of the classification of soils, the

Long Term Economics Issues and the Green Built Environment(Spiral bound)

Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (Monaghan John)(Paperback)

'If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do,' write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with

Research for Social Workers: An introduction to methods (Alston Margaret)(Paperback)

Research for Social Workers has built a strong reputation as an accessible guide to the key research methods and approaches used in the discipline. Ideal for beginners, the book outlines the importance of social work research, its guiding principles and explains how to choose a topic area, develop

Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method (Candea Matei)(Paperback)

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth

Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation (Harrison Faye V.)(Paperback)

'provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology.' Bolles American Ethnologist, 1994 'groundbreaking' Levinson The Teachers College Record, 2008 DECOLONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY is part of a broader effort that aims to advance the critical reconstruction of

Changeling - The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield (Oldfield Mike)(Paperback / softback)

Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment and possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of

Introduction to Architecture (Ching Francis D. K.)(Paperback)

A survey of the built environment distills the work of legendary author and illustrator Francis D. K. Ching into a single volume Introduction to Architecture presents the essential texts and drawings of Francis D. K. Ching for those new to architecture and design. With his typical highly graphic

The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society (Han Sallie)(Paperback)

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural

DESIGNING A SAFER BUILT ENVIRONMENT (CARPENTER JOHN)(Paperback)

A complete guide to the management of design

A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Pandian Anand)(Paperback)

In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envision the world as it yet may be? The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and