Peter F Smith: 13 books
Building for a Changing Climate
The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we can do to mitigate the damage we are causing, it is becoming increasingly clear that a large part of our resources will have...
The Dynamics of Delight
Architecture and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Rounding off decades of exploration into the various ways in which buildings and urban sequences make an impact on the mind, The Dynamics of Delight emphasizes the qualitative aspects of form and space, providing designers with an analytical framework in which to evaluate projects on an aesthetic...
by Peter F. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book was first published in 1977.
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage
A Race against Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate. More recently modern methods of warfare have exposed the vulnerability of the artefacts of civilisation. Bringing together a range of subjects - from science, energy and sustainability to aesthetics theory and civilization theory...
by Peter F Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology.
Including new material on wind generation, domestic water...
by Peter F. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.
For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk.
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
by Peter B. Smith, Dr. David C. Thomas, Dr. Mark F. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
Renowned international experts Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson, and David C. Thomas, editors of the The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management, have drawn together scholars in the field of management from around the world to contribute vital information from their cross-national studies to this innovative,...
by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Abraham Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
CONTENTS: ABRAHAM MERRITT 1. The People of the Pit AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG 2. Omega ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD 3. Ooze ARTHUR TRAIN 4. The Nth Power CLARK ASHTON SMITH 5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum DAVID H. KELLER 6. The Jelly-Fish DAVID H. KELLER 7. The Rat Racket DAVID H. KELLER 8. The Worm DONALD ALLEN...
Sound as Popular Culture
A Research Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound.
The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...