Case Studies in Parametric Design is a guide to scripting digital models for architects, designers, and builders. The use of parametric design in architecture has afforded the realization of incredible built work; modelling software can resolve complex geometry and aid in the development of stunning creations. Methods for creating the digital models to achieve these results, however, can be perplexing. Learning curves are steep, and benefits garnered from adapting existing workflows to incorporate new tools may appear trivial. This book describes programming techniques for a variety of buildings and provides novices an understanding of language and processes, challenges intermediate users with rigor and intentionality, and offers proficient practitioners objectives beyond novel form-making. The case studies consist of six mass topologies and six facade topologies; each includes sample topology models and scripts, descriptions of steps for generating customizable parametric models, and suggestions for additional modelling inquiries. This is essential reading for students and practitioners interested in harnessing the full potential of parametric design.
Jeffrey Leroy Collins was born on March 12, 1964, to the proud parents of R. Eugene and Juanita Collins. For the first eight years, he spent a lot of time in Kosair Children's Hospital until he walked out of his braces. A lot of years have passed; then one day, when he was nineteen, he began to write about his childhood. He soon after that decided to write more. He discovered that he had a special gift from God. So he began to write about all of his pathways and lifestyles. Throughout his life, everything that happened to his life, he wrote into a poem-all of his love and all of his broken heart. He decided one day for all of his babies to come to life. So he decided to write a book where everybody in the world can not only enjoy the poem but also can relate to it. Sometimes when something makes it to the news, he writes about the situations and puts it into a poem. After forty years of writing, he decides the time has finally arrived for the world to be introduced to all of his poetry. He realized that he has a great God gift and is blessed to have many people who have so much love and respect to his poetry.
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes's accommodation with England's revolutionary regime. In sustaining these conclusions, Professor Collins foregrounds the religious features of Hobbes's writings, and maintains a contextual focus on the broader religious dynamics of the English Revolution itself. Hobbes and the Revolution are both placed within the tumultuous historical process that saw the emerging English state coercively secure jurisdictional control over national religion and the corporate church. Seen in the light of this history, Thomas Hobbes emerges as a theorist who moved with, rather than against, the revolutionary currents of his age. The strongest claim of the book is that Hobbes was motivated by his deep detestation of clerical power to break with the Stuart cause and to justify the religious policies of England's post-regicidal masters, including Oliver Cromwell. Methodologically, Professor Collins supplements intellectual or linguistic contextual analysis with original research into Hobbes's biography, the prosopography of his associates, the reception of Hobbes's published works, and the nature of the English Revolution as a religious conflict. This multi-dimensional contextual approach produces, among other fruits: a new understanding of the political implications of Leviathan; an original interpretation of Hobbes's civil war history, Behemoth; a clearer picture of Hobbes's career during the neglected period of the 1650s; and a revisionist interpretation of Hobbes's reaction to the emergence of English republicanism. By presenting Thomas Hobbes as a political actor within a precisely defined political context, Professor Collins has recovered the significance of Hobbes's writings as artefacts of the English Revolution.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in sports has become an important international public health issue over the past two decades. However, until recently, return to play decisions following a sports-related traumatic brain injury have been based on anecdotal evidence and have not been based on scientifically validated clinical protocols. Over the past decade, the field of Neuropsychology has become an increasingly important component of the return to play decision making process following TBI. Neuropsychological assessment instruments are increasingly being adapted for use with athletes throughout the world and the field of sports neuropsychology appears to be a rapidly evolving subspecialty. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the application of neuropsychological assessment instruments in sports, and it is structured to present a global perspective on contemporary research. In addition to a review of current research, Traumatic Brain Injury in Sports: An International Neuropsychological Perspective, presents a thorough review of current clinical models that are being implemented internationally within American and Australian rules football, soccer, boxing, ice hockey, rugby and equestrian sports.
This indispensable monograph synthesizes current debates and offers a new historical and literary analysis of the book of Deuteronomy “In this exciting addition to the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, Stackert offers something genuinely new: he brilliantly weaves together biblical scholarship, cuneiform literature, and contemporary literary theory. This clearly written and engaging volume examines how the concept of scripture shaped ancient readers’ understanding of Deuteronomy.”—Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota The book of Deuteronomy introduces and develops many of the essential ideas, events, and texts of both Judaism and Christianity, and it has thus been a resource—and in some instances even a starting point—for investigations of themes and concepts beyond it. In this volume, Jeffrey Stackert deftly guides the reader through major topics in the interpretation of Deuteronomy and its relationship to the other four pentateuchal books. Considering subjects such as the relationship between law and narrative, the role of Deuteronomy in Israel’s history, its composition and reception history, the influence of cuneiform legal and treaty traditions, textual and archaeological evidence from the Levant and Mesopotamia, and the status of Deuteronomy within the larger biblical canon, this book introduces ongoing debates surrounding the book of Deuteronomy and offers a contemporary evaluation of the latest textual and material evidence.
The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide range of topics from the history, culture and societies of the Middle East and North Africa as well as neighboring regions in central, south and southeast Asia.
This interdisciplinary volume explores and engages the key thinkers and ideas of the Austrian School of political economy to better understand aspects of the market process and its implications for everything from disaster recovery and political development to morality and monetary policy.
JC Collins who heads UNIVERSAL DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION and FAMOUS RECORDS is also currently senior Business Consultant for several Major Artists & Entertainment Companies.Educated in England, he majored in Music & Economics. Following stints running an Agency and booking well known acts such as Joe Cocker, Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Lonnie Donegan and Dusty Springfield and managing soul singer Donnie Elbert and the Warren Davis Monday Band he began building a chain of retail record stores and a wholesale distribution company throughout the 1970's & early 80's, he also began producing recording artists and developed his first record labels: ECHO RECORDS & VISTA SOUNDS made up mostly of Reggae Albums. This vocation brought him together with more internationally known artists & producers, not only in Europe & Jamaica but also in the USA, where, in 1983 he set up an office & recording studio in Englewood, New Jersey.From this base he was able to successfully work with the likes of: - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS / KRS-ONE, G-DEP, FATHER MC, GRAVEDIGGAZ, BRENDA K. STARR, COLONEL ABRAMS, READY FOR THE WORLD, CHILL ROB G., WU-TANG CLAN Members, SUNZ OF MAN, POSITIVE K., RAM SQUAD and a host of other artists that obtained "major label recording deals" with MCA, JIVE, KOCH, and others. His book "A Life Full of Music" explains how his love of music has kept him in the Music Industry for the last 60+ years!
The Archipelagos of Summer: Poems of the Greek Islands is a one-of-a-kind lyrical excursion of the major island and sacred sites ion the Greek islands and on the mainland. This volume of poetry takes the reader on an Odyssean voyage of discovery, one that illuminates the history, myth, archaeological finds, sights, and sounds of sites and Islands, ranging from the Parthenon to Corinth, from Santorini to Patmos. These poems can help travellers see into the depths of the mystery of each place, connects a voyager to deep spiritual mysteries, and invigorates travel to the islands the Gods and great philosophical minds and artistic souls once inhabited, and in some ways, still do.
This book challenges the perceived underlying causes and culprits of the ongoing challenges in Canadian defence procurement, arguing that although headlines often put the blame on the political leadership, the defence procurement bureaucracy, ongoing pressures in the defence industry and continuous demands placed on Canada though its alliances also carry a large part of the responsibility. Focusing on four main case studies: the Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Plane, the Joint Support Ships, the Medium Support Vehicle System and the Halifax Class Modernization, the author offers a comparative analysis of how these ongoing procurement efforts were dealt with by different administrations, from Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin to Stephen Harper.
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