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Matter in the Floating World

Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers

By: Blaine Brownell

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Matter in the Floating World

Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers

By: Blaine Brownell

It can be argued that Japan contains a higher number of internationally significant architects and designers relative to its geographic size than anywhere else in the world. Japanese designers regularly implement radical experiments in new materials and building systems that successfully address imminent energy and resource challenges. These technological achievements are combined with an acute awareness of the ephemerality of existence, creating a rich dialogue between the concrete and the abstract.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568989962

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Transmaterial Next

A Catalog of Materials that Redefine Our Future

By: Blaine Brownell

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Transmaterial Next

A Catalog of Materials that Redefine Our Future

By: Blaine Brownell

Virtually every revolution in architecture has been preceded by a revolution in materials: think iron, glass, steel, concrete, plastics, or composites. What is the next revolutionary material that will reshape the very nature of architecture? A solid that's lighter than air, metal latticework so delicate it rests on a dandelion, building insulation made from processed seaweed, self-generating microbial glue that repairs cracks in concrete, or transparent solar panels? Materials expert Blaine Brownell, author of our bestselling Transmaterial series, reveals emerging trends and applications that are transforming the technological capacity, environmental performance, and design potential of architecture in Transmaterial Next. This book is an essential compendium for thinking architects, designers, and other creative professionals passionate about materials and looking for their bleeding edge and practical implementation.

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Chronicle Books

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1616896213

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Material Strategies

Innovative Applications in Architecture

By: Blaine Brownell

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Material Strategies

Innovative Applications in Architecture

By: Blaine Brownell

Blaine Brownell s best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built environment. In our new Architecture Brief, Material Strategies, Brownell shows architects how creative applications of these materials achieve such transformations. Chapters based on fundamental material categories examine historical precedents, current opportunities, and future environmental challenges. Case studies featuring detailed illustrations showcase pioneering buildings from today s most forward-thinking architectural firms.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1616891890

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Transmaterial Next

A Catalog of Materials that Redefine Our Future

By: Blaine Brownell

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A Catalog of Materials that Redefine Our Future

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1616896213

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The Pandemic Effect

By: Blaine Brownell

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The Pandemic Effect

By: Blaine Brownell

In The Pandemic Effect, 90 leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities—and propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics, viruses, and contagious diseases on every scale, from surfaces to society. Safety and sustainability in buildings and cities have taken on new meaning during the COVID -19 pandemic. Buildings became magnifiers of contagion instead of shelters for protection. In this essential resource for both practitioners and students of architecture, interior design, and urban design, 90 of the world's leading experts investigate a variety of approaches to future-proof architecture and buildings against widespread disease. These inoculation strategies are organized into five chapters: "Histories" offers an overview of past pandemics and prior architectural approaches; "Inside / Outside" addresses the roles of building envelopes and mechanical systems in improving indoor environmental quality; "Interventions" consists of contemporary methods for direct prevention and control; "New Strategies" consists of various architectural analyses and proposals for design changes; and "The Public Realm" considers the urban landscape and related social questions. This broad collection of perspectives explores the transformations underway in the built environment—and offers design strategies to limit the severity of subsequent pandemics.

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Chronicle Books

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1648961924

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The Pandemic Effect

By: Blaine Brownell

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By: Blaine Brownell

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The Science of Virtue

A Framework for Research

By: Blaine J. Fowers,Bradford Cokelet,Nathan D. Leonhardt

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The Science of Virtue

A Framework for Research

By: Blaine J. Fowers,Bradford Cokelet,Nathan D. Leonhardt

By integrating psychological and philosophical perspectives, this book explains how and why scientists study moral virtues.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108490050

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Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: Bruce E. Blaine,Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley

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Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: Bruce E. Blaine,Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity offers a highly accessible examination of diversity to show students how to understand social and cultural differences in today’s society. Taking a psychological perspective, authors B. Evan Blaine and Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley explore how individuals construct their view of social diversity and how they are defined and influenced by it. The book covers traditional topics like categorization and stereotypes, sexism, racism, and social stigma, as well as non-traditional topics like sexual orientation-based prejudice, weight and appearance-based prejudice, diversity on television, and age stereotypes and ageism. The Fourth Edition confronts the credibility crisis that has surfaced in the academic psychological research community by following parameters for the research that is presented.

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SAGE Publications

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1544381093

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Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: Bruce Evan Blaine

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Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: Bruce Evan Blaine

Diversity is a term that incorporates social difference, social inequality, and the problems inherent to inequality. Understanding the Psychology of Diversity, Second Edition a wide-ranging textbook that covers the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of prejudice attached to all forms of inequality, and will be a very useful textbook for an array of students. The book features chapters on traditional prejudice topics such as categorization and stereotypes, sexism, racism, and social stigma. Mixed in with this content are further chapters that explore newer and more nontraditional diversity topics, such as sexual-orientation and social class-based prejudice, weight and appearance-based prejudice, and diversity on television. Key Features: ′Diversity Issue′ boxes, spotlighted in each chapter, center around recent issues, or research findings related to prejudice or social stigma′Making Connections′ questions interspersed throughout chapters stop readers and encourage them to think more deeply about issues/ concepts just coveredIncludes Summaries, Key Terms, Further Readings, and interesting Websites Understanding the Psychology of Diversity will be a perfect textbook for courses on the Psychology of Diversity, Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination as well as Race and Gender.

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1452203334

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Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: B. Evan Blaine,Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley

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Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

By: B. Evan Blaine,Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley

The updated Third Edition of this best seller presents a highly readable examination of diversity from a unique psychological perspective to teach students how to understand social and cultural differences in today’s society. By exploring how individuals construct their view of social diversity and how they are defined and influenced by it, author B. Evan Blaine and new coauthor Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley present all that psychology has to offer on this critically important topic. The new edition features chapters on traditional topics such as categorization, stereotypes, sexism, racism, and sexual prejudice, in addition to chapters on nontraditional diversity topics such as weightism, ageism, and social stigma. Integrated throughout the text are applications of these topics to timely social issues.

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345

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SAGE Publications

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1483319210

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Horse Trails to Regional Rails

The Story of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland

By: Jim Toman,Blaine S. Hays

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Horse Trails to Regional Rails

The Story of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland

By: Jim Toman,Blaine S. Hays

The history of public transportation in Greater Cleveland spans two centuries. From the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal to the opening of the new waterfront rapid transit, this book traces the changing contours of a metropolitan area and the modes of transport available to its public.

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Kent State University Press

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0873385470

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9780873385473

Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

By: Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

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Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

By: Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major historical issue or event. Written in a narrative style, this text offers students new and intriguing perspectives about major issues in the nation's political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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144220558X

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9781442205581

The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation

By: Raymond Blaine Fosdick

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The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation

By: Raymond Blaine Fosdick

Since its original publication in 1952, Fosdick's book has been the single most reliable treatment of one of the most important philanthropies in the United States and indeed the world. Fosdick served as president of the foundation for twelve years, from 1936 to 1948, when it was the largest grant-making endow-ment in the world. As Steven Wheatley notes in his valuable new introduction, in part The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation was intended as an instrument of institutional self-defense. When it was written, the foundation community was under mounting political attack from the right, and the book was meant to help balance the Scales by cataloging the foundation's good works. As a deliberate self-portrait, the book conceals as much as it reveals, while in the process it reveals a good deal about the author. Fosdick sees politics, like bureaucracy, as perhaps an avoidable problem and not an inevitable consequence of foundation activity. He sees foundations as engaging in the application of scientific, tech-nical, and organizational solutions to public problems through a "venture cap-ital" approach to discovering how to resolve them. Fosdick's "higher ground" approach became established philanthropic practice far beyond the Rockefeller Foundation. Consequently, this volume is significant as an institutional history as well as a charter for American foundations.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412839203

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Secret Intelligence

By: Ernest Volkman,Blaine Baggett

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Secret Intelligence

By: Ernest Volkman,Blaine Baggett

A companion volume to the PBS-TV series of the same name is a lucid review of the development of U.S. Based on interviews with spies, policymakers, and former CIA directors, this is the fascinating history of American espionage--from the 1919 Red Scare to Watergate and the Iran-Contra affair. Photographs.

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Berkley

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0425120082

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9780425120088

Hypernatural

Architecture's New Relationship with Nature

By: Blaine Brownell,Marc Swackhamer

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Architecture's New Relationship with Nature

By: Blaine Brownell,Marc Swackhamer

Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself. In Hypernatural architecture and material experts Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer present an international collection of forty-two case studies that illustrate astonishing new applications possible in this rapidly growing field, from Echoviren, a botanical pavilion that was designed to wilt into its surrounding redwood forest in Northern California, to the MIT Media Lab's Silk Pavilion, constructed by the threads of silkworms as they passed over scaffolding. Together, these projects show that by looking to nature, design can be a tool that makes our built environment more efficient, sustainable, and, most of all, livable.

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176

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1616892722

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Materials Experience

Chapter 5. Manipulating the Material Code: The Transformation of Material Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Design

By: Blaine Brownell

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Chapter 5. Manipulating the Material Code: The Transformation of Material Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Design

By: Blaine Brownell

Materiality is known to be a critical dimension in the design of products and environments, yet the influence of material properties on the user experience is not well understood. A collection of examples produced by representatives of the current Japanese design vanguard reveals an astute understanding of audience expectations of material behaviors. By intentionally manipulating the expected material properties in their designs, these practitioners demonstrate the extent to which the act of transforming material characteristics can elevate user consciousness. This chapter highlights five primary strategies of material transformation employed by these designers: sensory manipulation, quasi-mimesis, transliteration, repurposing, and aggregation. Although these methods are presented in the context of Japanese design, the intent is to address universally applicable strategies that are not limited to a single culture or society.

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0128055847

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Book's by Blaine Brownell

Matter in the Floating World

Matter in the Floating World

Transmaterial Next

Transmaterial Next

Material Strategies

Material Strategies

Transmaterial Next

Transmaterial Next

The Pandemic Effect

The Pandemic Effect

The Pandemic Effect

The Pandemic Effect

The Science of Virtue

The Science of Virtue

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity

Horse Trails to Regional Rails

Horse Trails to Regional Rails

Lives and Times

Lives and Times

The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation

The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation

Secret Intelligence

Secret Intelligence

Hypernatural

Hypernatural

Materials Experience

Materials Experience

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