This world travel journal is a candid visual and sensory experience. Quickly paced with vivid details of stunning events, smells, sights. Un opinionated observations are written in a tumble of adjectives more poetry than narrative. The effect is a sense you are in the middle of it all. Vivian a lone female traveler to multiple corners of the globe with a small backpack for the love of exploring culture, history and spirituality. "The Peruvian market was a jungle of slats, vines and tables and stilts. The Amazon River had receded and the stinking muddy isles of fish, monkey meat with their feet still on, claws, teeth, guts, tongues, medicinal branches, pastes, potions, coke bottles of herbs, gasoline and hard liquor were for sale." From working in the Arctic, climbing Kilimanjaro to busing though Saudi Arabia, this collection of snappy email entries come alive, sharing the tantalizing sensual richness of 45 different countries.
Sustainable Construction Technologies: Life-Cycle Assessment provides practitioners with a tool to help them select technologies that are financially advantageous even though they have a higher initial cost. Chapters provide an overview of LCA and how it can be used in conjunction with other indicators to manage construction. Topics covered include indoor environment quality, energy efficiency, transport, water reuse, materials, land use and ecology, and more. The book presents a valuable tool for construction professionals and researchers that want to apply sustainable construction techniques to their projects. Practitioners will find the international case studies and discussions of worldwide regulation and standards particularly useful. Provides a framework for analyzing sustainable construction technologies and economic viability Introduces key credit criteria for different sustainable construction technologies Covers the most relevant construction areas Includes technologies that can be employed during the process of construction, or to the product of the construction process, i.e. buildings Analyzes international rating systems and provides supporting case studies
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