Authors:Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Nicolas Favet,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: technologien, beispiele, german, konzepte, stã¤dtebau, architektur, und, nachhaltigkeit
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $60.62
ISBN-10: 3764366583
ISBN-13: 9783764366582

Das Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit fordert und erfordert umwelt- und sozialverträgliche Produktion und Nutzung - auch im Bauwesen. Im Rahmen der Architektur bedeutet dies den Einsatz von intelligenter Technik, innovativen Konstruktionen, ökologisch verträglichen Materialien und umweltbezogener Energiewirtschaft. Das Buch gibt zunächst eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Entwicklungsrichtungen in der umweltbezogenen Architektur, gefolgt von einer ausführlichen Darstellung des nachhaltigen Städtebaus unter Einbeziehung verschiedener europäischer Beispiele. In einem dritten Teil werde

Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas, Eric S. Belsky, Nicolas P. Rets
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: programs, priorities, policies, housing, rental, revisiting
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0815774117
ISBN-13: 9780815774112

Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and exposure to health hazards in the home. These challenges can be costly and difficult to address. The time is ripe for fresh, authoritative analysis of this important yet often overlooked sector. In Revisiting Rental Housing, leading housing researchers build on decades of experience, research, and evaluation to

Author: A. Nicolas
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: structural, geology, petrology, deformation, rock, principles
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1987-01-31
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 9027723680
ISBN-13: 9789027723680

Author: Nicolas J. Cerf
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: atoms, light, variables, continuous, information, quantum
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2007-02-06
List price: $164.00
ISBN-10: 1860947603
ISBN-13: 9781860947605

This book presents the state of the art of quantum information with continuous quantum variables. The individual chapters discuss results achieved in QUICOV and presented at the first five CVQIP conferences from 2002 2006. Many world-leading scientists working on continuous variables outside Europe also contribute to the book.

Author: Nicolas Guilhot
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: international, order, rights, human, makers, democracy
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-03-15
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0231131240
ISBN-13: 9780231131247

-- Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics and Political Science

Author: Nicolas Tredell
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: gatsby, fitzgerald, scott
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-09-15
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0231115350
ISBN-13: 9780231115353

More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald´s novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby´s place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques and explore the influence of this "Lost Generation" work on later American writings. In considering secondary sources from the twenties to the present, this smart and sophisticated study guide offers readers an invaluable resource on

Author: Nicolas Berdyaev
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: arbor, paperbacks, ann, communism, russian, origin
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1960-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472060341
ISBN-13: 9780472060344

Examines the forces of national history and character that shaped Soviet communism