Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches to research and intervention in the home.Presenting a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for both ethnographers and designers, the authors examine ‘hot’ topics – ranging from movements and mobilities to im/material environments, to digital culture – and confront the challenges of a research and design environment which seeks to bring about the changes required for a sustainable, resilient, ‘safe’, and comfortable future.Written by leading experts in the field, the book draws on real-life examples from a wide range of international projects developed by the authors, other researchers, and designers. Illustrations throughout help to convey the methods and research visually. Readers will also have access to a related website which follows the authors’ ongoing research and includes video and written narrative examples of ethnographic research in the home.Transforming current understandings of the home, this is an essential read for students and researchers in fields such as design, anthropology, human geography, sociology, and media and communication studies.
Not knowing that he is dead, Benjamin is dumbfounded when he comes across his own dead body. He also finds a comic book that was in his hand when he died. Will it have the answers he is looking for? Benjamin tries to understand his predicament as the comic book starts taking over his mind. Read along to experience an adventure of time and magical destiny.
Design for Sustainability is a practical approach to design which focuses on the challenges and issues faced by those designing consumer products in the 21st Century. It is written from a design perspective and aimed at both professional and student industrial and product designers, and those involved in managing design. The book begins by summarising the historical and current issues of the environmental debate in the context of sustainable product development, highlighting the benefits gained from considering the impact on the environment and issues of sustainability when designing. The authors answer the questions: What is sustainable product development and why is it important? What are the main drivers of sustainable product development? They explain how design can help to control human impact on the environment by not only minimising pollution, waste, energy use and use of scarce resources, but also by thinking outside the box to create systems and services that can reduce the number of products manufactured. The aim is to put sustainable development within a commercial context and introduce a new focus for design. Design for Sustainability outlines and assesses the methods, tools and techniques available to designers, both for design innovation and design improvement. A wide range of case studies are presented across a number of product sectors including electrical goods, IT and furniture. Initially they demonstrate product improvement and redesign, examples include those that reduce waste, pollution and energy consumption, designing for recycling and reuse of parts. Further examples are then provided exemplifying the more radical approach of system and service design. The final section takes the reader through a whole sustainable design project from start to finish, from brief to manufacture. References and sources of information are also included.
A spiritual person is when their mind becomes one with the Creator God. Then, the mind absorbs the qualities of God and acts like a spiritual master. He is no more under the effects of Maya, which is another of Gods creation in which the mind is prisoner and to its five vices (lust, anger, greed, attachments and ego). It becomes calm, quiet, peaceful, acts to the Will of God and is in bliss always. It happens when the Mind is meditating on God and thinks about God always. For this spiritual mind, everything happening in the world is OK as its happening to His Will. He lives a life of truthful dealings with other persons, earns an honest living and shares with others. He becomes pure in thoughts, words and deeds. His mind becomes pure like its Creator, Himself. He is the most dependable friend and reliable companion. The above qualities can be achieved by one who only lives for the service of people and to whom everybody is the child of God. This person has no desires for him and lives for his family and others. His happiness lies in service and the welfare of others. Such a person has no desires and attachments in this world and lives a worry free life; always content with his/her lot. This book tells how to achieve such a state of mind. The mind is Gods child and we here, on Earth, to play in the hands of God as per destiny written by Him. If we accept Him, pray to Him and meditate on him in the way this book guides, there is a chance to win freedom from the cycle of births and deaths and live with him in peace and bliss forever. The path to bliss and peace is fully explained in this book.
Learn to play traditional rhythms such as Bhangra beats and Chaal within minutes of picking up your drum! Keda's revolutionary Indian Drum Notation makes it easy for students, teachers, and composers to play the Dhol and enjoy its powerful, energetic sounds. This breakthrough in music-education makes this iconic drum accessible to musicians from all backgrounds and cultures. In this Read & Play course, easy to follow modules include Practice Exercises, Solo Pieces and Traditional Punjabi Rhythms.
Learn to play the Tabla in the comfort of your own home! Keda's revolutionary Indian Drum Notation makes it easy for students, teachers, and composers to play this beautiful sounding instrument and enjoy its calming and meditative sounds. This breakthrough in music-education makes the Tabla accessible to musicians from all backgrounds and cultures. In this Read & Play course, easy to follow modules include Practice Exercises and Solo Pieces along with Group Pieces written specially for Tabla together with other instruments. A thorough online resource includes simple, clear tutorials, Play Along backing tracks and a wealth of over 30 jargon-buster videos.
In the urgency to respond to the challenges posed by diversity in contemporary societies, the discussion of normative foundations is often overlooked. This book takes that important first step, and offers new ways of thinking about diversity. Its contribution to an ongoing dialogue in this field lies in the construction of a normative framework which endeavours to better understand the challenges of justice in diverse societies. By applying this normative framework to specific and broader examples of injustices in the spheres of religion, culture, race, ethnicity, gender and nationality, the book demonstrates how constitutional pluralist discourses can contribute both to new and legal responses to diversity. The book will be of interest to legal professionals, policy makers, law students and scholars concerned with exploring diversity in the 21st century.
Learn to play the Tabla in the comfort of your own home! Keda's revolutionary Indian Drum Notation makes it easy for students, teachers, and composers to play this beautiful sounding instrument and enjoy its calming and meditative sounds. This breakthrough in music-education makes the Tabla accessible to musicians from all backgrounds and cultures. In this Read & Play course, easy to follow modules include Practice Exercises and Solo Pieces along with Group Pieces written specially for Tabla together with other instruments. A thorough online resource includes simple, clear tutorials, Play Along backing tracks and a wealth of over 30 jargon-buster videos.
and postgraduate (MA/MSc) students of mathematics, and conforms to the course curriculum prescribed by UGC. The text is broadly organized into two parts. The first part (Lessons 1 to 15) mostly covers the first-order equations in two variables. In these lessons, the mathematical importance of PDEs of first order in physics and applied sciences has also been highlighted. The other part (Lessons 16 to 50) deals with the various properties of second-order and first- order PDEs. The book emphasizes the applications of PDEs and covers various important topics such as the Hamilton Jacobi equation, Conservation laws, Similarity solution, Asymptotics and Power series solution and many more. The graded problems, the techniques for solving them, and a large number of exercises with hints and answers help students gain the necessary skill and confidence in handling the subject.
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THEIS IS THE SECOND PART OF BACK 2 BACK lUCY NAD BENJMAIN ARE REALLY BUSY AS THEY MET AGAIN AFTER A SHORT SPLIT LUCY HAS GOT BENJMAIN IN TO TROUBLE MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW AFTER A LONG RIDE TO HIS FATHERS LODGE HE IS FORCED IN TO AN ADVENTURE THAT IS CAUSED BY lUCY WHO HE NEVER THOUGHT HE WOULD SEE AGAIN SO SOON AS THE BAD GUYS WNAT THE MICROCHIP WHICH NEOTHER OF THEM HAVE ARE SENT ALL THE WAY BACK IN TIME AND FORWARDS IN TO THE PAST AS THEY HAVE TO LOCATE IT. it is harder than they think with the worst kind of aliens in their universe and being watched by space beings. after long drives and lots of running and action Lucy and Benjamin are both fighting for their lives figuring out that they are being conned and after Benjamin's home both of them in different times had been destroyed leaving Benjamin with no place to go it is an opportunity to kick ass.as Benjamin is figuring out where the microchip and code only to find that it is in two parts one hidden in Lucy and the other supposedly TO BE HIDDEN ONLY ONCE THEY ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER LUCY AND BENJAMIN WILL BE ABLE TO BY BACK THERE FREEDOM.
Learn to play traditional rhythms such as Bhangra beats and Chaal within minutes of picking up your drum! Keda's revolutionary Indian Drum Notation makes it easy for students, teachers, and composers to play the Dhol and enjoy its powerful, energetic sounds. This breakthrough in music-education makes this iconic drum accessible to musicians from all backgrounds and cultures. In this Read & Play course, easy to follow modules include Practice Exercises, Solo Pieces and Traditional Punjabi Rhythms.
SPIRIT FIVE, This is a high hitting roller coaster of a ride its the read of my life action almost all the way through with lots of bumps all the way through. the robot is back he had changed his name and benjmain and Lucy are doing well as for the hitman and the oxygen well there still trying to figure thinks out not cure weather Benjamin is a true child of god a peace maker. other than that Lucy is playing it cool and with the sunflowers to keep them all busy and in good moods there target on the [planet earth is being protect and is on the run not just from one authority but all three of them space, earth and cyber police. will benjmain get him first or will the cyber police the hitman and the oxygen do enough to persude Benjamin to leave the victim to them.
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