Richard J Williams: 31 books
Sex and Buildings
Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Massive modern skyscrapers, obelisks, towers—all are structures that, thanks to their phallic shape, are often associated with sex. But other buildings are more subtly connected, as they provide the frameworks for our sexual lives and act as reminders of our sexual memories. This relationship between...
The Architecture of Art History
A Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now?
Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture – sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a...
Brazil
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Set against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty, Brazil’s striking modernist architecture has long garnered international acclaim. But these well-known works are not fully reflective of the built environment of Brazil, and with this volume, Richard Williams unearths the rich architectural...
Remote Observatories for Amateur Astronomers
Using High-Powered Telescopes from Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Amateur astronomers who want to enhance their capabilities to contribute to science need look no farther than this guide to using remote observatories. The contributors cover how to build your own remote observatory as well as the existing infrastructure of commercial networks of remote observatories...
The Anxious City
British Urbanism in the late 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In the Western world, cities have arguably never been more anxious: practical anxieties about personal safety and metaphysical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in culture are the small change of journalism and political debate. Cities have long been regarded as problems, in need of...
Michael
And the Manacle of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Throughout the centuries there have been many wonderful stories told. Stories of gods, heroes, monsters and the individuals who have changed their own fates, and the story that is about to be told is no different. This is the story of an average boy who will learn what it means to be a hero and how...
1865
America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the...
The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China
The Flowering of Early Animal Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of ancient mudstone, about 520 million years old, have yielded a spectacular variety of exquisitely preserved fossils that record the early diversification...
Ocean Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle
Principles and Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students presents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ocean circulation and how it drives and controls marine biogeochemistry and biological productivity at a global scale. Background chapters on ocean physics, chemistry and biology provide...
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.
This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human...
by Bruce Holland Rogers, Denise E Dora, Jamie Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
From "Jurassic Park" to "Godzilla," dinosaurs have a rich history of exploring the idea of the creatures of the past. We love dinosaurs because they are big, we love them when they are terrifying, and we love them because they are dangerous.
Think Like A Dinosaur by James...
A Fistful of Dinosaurs
Epic Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
From “Jurassic Park” to “Godzilla,” dinosaurs have a rich history of exploring the idea of the creatures of the past. We love dinosaurs because they are big, and we love them when they are terrifying, we love them because they are dangerous.
Think Like A Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly
Dinosaurs...
by Laird Barron, Richard Kirk, Stephen Graham Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Weird Tales 359 presents interviews with Laird Barron and Richard Kirk, features on books and weird music, and short stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Evan J. Peterson, Tom Underberg, Leena Likitalo, Joel Lane, and Conrad Williams -- plus poetry and the usual features.