Thomas Fisher: 24 books
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Envisioning what we need, when it doesn’t yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world—functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities—why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services and systems...
Designing To Avoid Disaster
The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing...
Ethics for Architects
50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In this new Architecture Brief, Ethics for Architects, Thomas Fisher presents fifty case studies representing a broad range of ethical dilemmas facing today's architects, from questions regarding which clients to work for, to the moral imperatives of reclaiming building materials for construction...
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book, Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics.
The Architecture of Ethics helps...
by Thomas Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves.
As we find ourselves on the steep...
Designing for Designers (Routledge Revivals)
Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
First published in 2007, this book examines the designs of seventeen architecture and design schools and answers questions such as: How has architectural education evolved and what is its future? Are architectural schools discernible types of designs and what are their effects on those who experience...
Simple Secrets to Motivating People Over the Long Term
Understanding What Makes Each Person Want to Act
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want (ISBN: 9780132344456) by Edward G. Muzio, Deborah J. Fisher, and Erv Thomas. Available in print and digital formats. The latest research on how to motivate people: grounded in the experiences...
by Richard Templar, Paula Caligiuri, Edward G. Muzio
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
3 expert guides to supercharging your career… wherever you are, wherever you want to be!
Three great books help...
Making It Work at Work
A Guide to Career Development and Fulfillment (Collection)
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Master Powerful Ways to Find Purpose, Fulfillment, and Greatness at Work!
Four great books show you how to find purpose, fulfillment, and greatness at work--no matter where you work or how fast your workplace is changing! Imagine the leaders of one of New York’s top real-estate firms coming...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I. Corré
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal...
Four Secrets to Liking Your Work
You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Stop dreading Monday morning! Wherever you work, whatever you do, you can make your work life more fulfilling, more joyful...and it starts right here, right now, with this book. You’re holding the first practical, start-to-finish program for transforming your work life: all the tools, tricks, ideas,...
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