We are in a climate emergency. Architects must be part of the radical change needed. This book guides architecture student to create truly sustainable designs. Demonstrating holistic design approaches through 10 key themes, it guides students through the different stages of the design process in five illustrated chapters. Reflecting the years of study, it provides step-changes towards eventual architecture practice. Unique features include key checklists, case studies, student examples and an extensive glossary.
World Bank Technical Paper No. 408. This report is a critical review of the technical, economic, and institutional constraints on improving soil fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the actions recommended to address them. Action plans prepared for Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Mali examine the demand for and supply of mineral fertilizers, the exploitation of local mineral resources, the prevention of soil erosion and increasing soil-water retention, and soil fertility management using organic technologies and management practices.
Detailed botanical classic presents all the know orchids of Guatemala and Belize — a total of 527 species and 25 varieties in 89 genera. 204 b/w illus.
James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century. He demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system. From their introduction in 1791 as an expression of the sovereignty of the people through the early 1900s, argues Donovan, juries often acted against the wishes of the political and judicial authorities, despite repeated governmental attempts to manipulate their composition. High acquittal rates for both political and nonpolitical crimes were in part due to juror resistance to the harsh and rigid punishments imposed by the Napoleonic Penal Code, Donovan explains. In response, legislators gradually enacted laws to lower penalties for certain crimes and to give jurors legal means to offer nuanced verdicts and to ameliorate punishments. Faced with persistently high acquittal rates, however, governments eventually took powers away from juries by withdrawing many cases from their purview and ultimately destroying the panels' independence in 1941.
Designing the Compassionate City outlines an approach to urban design that is centred on an explicit recognition of the inherent dignity of all people. It suggests that whether we thrive or decline—as individuals or as a community—is dependent on our ability to fulfil the full spectrum of our needs. This book considers how our surroundings help or hinder us from meeting these needs by influencing both what we can do and what we want to do; either inspiring us to lead healthy, fulfilled lives or consigning us to diminished lives tainted by ill health and unfulfilled potential. Designing the Compassionate City looks at how those who participate in designing towns and cities can collaborate with those who live in them to create places that help people to accumulate the life lessons, experiences and achievements, as well as forge the connections to meet their needs, to thrive and to fulfil their potential. The book explores a number of inspiring case studies that have sought to meet this challenge and examines what has worked and what hasn’t. From this, some conclusions are drawn about how we can all participate in creating places that leave a lasting legacy of empowerment and commitment to nurturing one another. It is essential reading for students and practitioners designing happier, healthier places.
The Fighting Irish have not only the most successful college football program in history but the most devoted fans. In their 110-year history, Notre Dame has compiled a phenomenal 747-222-31 record, including eleven national championships! Now the millions of Notre Dame fans can find what they're looking for in this A-to-Z compendium of 500 lively entries -- from John Adams to Chris Zorich -- packed with scores, records, polls, and profiles of players and coaches. Here are all the facts about George Gipp, Joe Montana, Knute Rockne, Ara Parseghian, the Four Horsemen, and more. The appendix includes a complete player roster, all-time results, NFL draft picks and players, a year-by-year history, and even an All-Time Notre Dame Dream Team.
This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural livelihoods at both personal and community level. Developed around four intersecting themes: explaining houses and housing in rural settings; exploring affordability in the context of aspirations and vulnerability; rural development agendas involving housing and communities; and construction for resilience in rural communities, the book provides an overview of some of the little understood and sometimes counter-intuitive best practices on rural affordability and affordable housing that have emerged in developing economies over the last thirty years. Drawing on practice-based evidence this book presents innovative ideas for harnessing rural potential, and empowering rural communities with added affordability and progressive development in the context of housing and improved living standards. For a student aspiring to work in rural areas in developing countries it is an introduction to and map of some key solutions around the critical area of affordable housing For the rural development professional, it provides a map of a territory they rarely see because they are absorbed in a particular rural area or project For the academic looking to expand their activities into rural areas, especially in rural housing, it provides a handy introduction to a body of knowledge serving 47% of the world's population, and how this differs from urban practice For the policy makers, it provides a map for understanding the dynamics around rural affordability, growth potential and community aspirations helping them to devise appropriate intervention programs on rural housing and development
Taking control of your healthy lifestyle and making simple, delicious recipes go hand-in-hand with Nutri-Blender Recipe Bible! Use the easiest, no-fuss kitchen appliance out there to enjoy as many as 150 incredible meals that detoxify, protect, replenish, and revitalize your health. From superfood smoothies, enriching soups, and zesty dressings, to bars, burgers, and cakes, each meal is easy to prepare, easy to clean up, and retains all of the most nutritious elements of your fruits and vegetables. These recipes go beyond the traditional smoothie, as the nutri-blender holds onto fiber and essential nutrients and minerals that juicers toss away. Nutri-Blender Recipe Bible is the all-in-one resource for easy-to-follow, flavorful recipes that lead to a healthier you. Never miss an opportunity to use your nutri-blender with this outstanding collection of nourishing, energizing, and flavorful meals. · Lose weight and feel great with nutrient-rich recipes! · Make healthy eating a breeze with all-in-one nutri-blender recipes · Enjoy 150 smoothies, spreads, snacks, and more!
The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending. This is certainly true from the perspective of food prices in the short run, but also from the perspective of sustainability and reducing the impact of the environmental credit crunch. The economic changes we experience now have a bearing on our ability to manage the environmental credit crunch that looms. Food Policy and the Environmental Credit Crunch: From Soup to Nuts elaborates on the issues addressed in the authors’ first book, From Red to Green?,and asks whether the financial credit crunch could ameliorate or exacerbate the emergent environmental credit crunch. The conclusion drawn here is that a significant and positive difference could be made by changing some of the ways in which we procure, prepare, and consume our food. Written by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the economic and environmental implications of how we treat food. The book examines each aspect of the ‘food chain’, from agriculture, to production and processing, retail, preparation, consumption and waste.
Master the art of convection cooking with the comprehensive guide from The Complete Convection Oven Cookbook From juicy meats to flaky pastries, your convection oven is the perfect solution for cooking food evenly and fast. But figuring out how to use your oven and what recipes to make in it can be tricky. The Complete Convection Oven Cookbook teaches home chefs everything they need to know to master the art of convection cooking. With over 75 recipes, resources for all types of convection ovens, and menu-planning tips, this convection oven cookbook is your best reference for cooking with convection. More than just a convection oven cookbook, The Complete Convection Oven Cookbook includes: A User-Friendly Guide providing special techniques and advice on how to calibrate your oven's unique temperature Recipe Adaptations adapting traditional oven recipes to suit convection cooking, this convection oven cookbook is suitable for built-in models, countertop models, toaster ovens, and halogen ovens Over 75 Recipes serving American family favorites, international classics, and holiday hits for the ultimate convection oven cookbook Time and Temperature Chart for cooking various foods with the right time and temperature Tips from planning a holiday menu to defrosting and cooking frozen food Recipes in this convection oven cookbook include: Pecan Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Chocolate Swirl, Maple-Glazed Brussels Sprouts, Oven-Fried Fish & Chips, Spinach & Feta Stuffed Chicken Breasts, Garlic Roast Beef with Red Wine Gravy, Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits, and much more! Become a fan of perfectly cooked food with The Complete Convection Oven Cookbook.
The experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like our food diet, our experience diet influences our health and so our chances of finding happiness and fulfilling our potential. A healthy experience diet offers inspiration, reassurance, delight, and play. It nurtures physical, cognitive, and emotional health, builds resilience, and fosters confidence and self-esteem. An unhealthy experience diet lacks these things and consigns people to lives diminished in quantity and quality. Recipes for Urban Happiness offers an innovative way of looking at the relationship between people and place and redefines what good urban design is. The book outlines what designers and non-designers can do to create urban places where nurturing behaviours are both possible and preferable. Recipes for Urban Happiness will be relevant to public health, community development, and design practitioners, as well as students and academics.
A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century--- Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow. The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters--- in particular upon the "new women's" rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote. Reorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as Ethan Frome, Summer, My Antonia, Barren Ground, and others. Josephine Donovan's books include Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism; New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition; and Sarah Orne Jewett. She is on the faculty of the University of Maine.
It takes seven years to digest swallowed gum. A penny placed on a train track can cause a train to derail. The average human consumes four spiders per year while sleeping. You may have heard some of these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven using science? Let’s investigate seventeen statements about familiar items and everyday events and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones still stump scientists! Find out whether eggs will really stand on their ends during the vernal equinox! Discover whether it’s true that you can swing 360 degrees on a swing set! See if you can tell the difference between fact and fiction with Is That a Fact?
Create a Lucrative Business with Minimal Effort Dreaming of a profitable venture with low overhead and incredible flexibility? Dive deep into the world of vending machines–a business opportunity that's making waves among aspiring entrepreneurs. In Automated Wealth: The Ultimate Guide to Vending Success, unlock the secrets that turn a humble vending machine into a money-making marvel. This comprehensive guide takes you from the genesis of the vending industry, through the nuances of location scouting and machine selection, to advanced strategies in marketing and financial management. Imagine having your own fleet of vending machines generating steady, passive income. From setting clear goals to negotiating prime spots, every chapter is infused with practical advice and real-world examples that empower you to take action immediately. Understand the importance of demographics, learn how to analyze your competitors, and discover the art of selecting the perfect product mix to cater to diverse tastes. But it doesn't stop there. Elevate your brand with expert insights on creating captivating names, logos, and innovative marketing strategies. Master the intricacies of legal considerations, impeccable customer service, and the latest technological advancements. Witness the transformative power of automation tools that simplify your operations, reduce manual labor, and catapult your business to the next level. Don't worry about the learning curve. This guide holds your hand through common pitfalls with sections on machine maintenance, troubleshooting, and dealing with competition. Explore thought-provoking case studies of successful vending entrepreneurs, gaining invaluable lessons to fuel your aspirations. Ready to embark on a journey towards financial freedom? This is your go-to resource for creating a lasting legacy in the vending industry, designed to help you seize opportunities, mitigate risks, and ultimately, achieve unparalleled success.
Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...
Or true story of two friends who gave up valuable franchise selling T-shirts to find meaning & adventure in Iraq where they became employed by the Occupation...
This all-access, inside-out view of what the American occupation of Iraq really looks like on the ground is the story of two young Americans who went to Baghdad without any real plan and discovered they weren't the only ones. Underqualified but ingenious, Ray and Jeff found work with the Coalition Provisional Authority providing humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people amid an appalling atmosphere of corruption, incompetence, and horror. Gritty and irreverent, this is a wild ride inside the Red Zone and a strikingly original portrait of the real Iraq.
In the tradition of their highly successful Pokemon Trading Card Guides, the team at Sandwich Islands Publishing ventures into the world of Digimon. This all new guide will feature a collector's guide for U.S. and Japanese trading cards, in-depth playing strategies, English translations of Japanese cards, and Deck Constructions tips. Bonus chapters will feature strategies for the PlayStation role-playing game Digimon World, a collector's guide to Digimon toys, character profiles, and much more.
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