The third volume in Leonard Susskind\"s one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein\"s special relativity and field theory In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical and quantum mechanics, offering readers not an oversimplifi...

This survey of the world’s most innovative and successful examples of pre-fabricated homes explores the full range of possibilities, open to anyone seeking to find clever and up-to-date solutions for building their own home....

The term smart in reference to homes and communities describes places whose function is related to or affected by information technology. In the wake of the on-going digital revolutions of the 21st century, designers and planners are paying......

In recent years, Privacy Preserving Data Mining has emerged as a very active research area. This field of research studies how knowledge or patterns can be extracted from large data stores while maintaining commercial or legislative privacy constraints. Quite often, these constraints pertain to individuals represented in the data stores....

Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal understanding of their environment, presents a well-informed and nuanced account of what has become a widespread art practice....

Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes of the twenty first century. These include the transformation of the family and the rise of the nontraditional household, increases in construction costs, and concerns over climate change and the depletion of natural resources....

Dr. Avi Friedman received his Bachelor\'s degree in Architecture and Town Planning from the Israel Institute of Technology, his Master\'s ...

A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet....

The sleek lines and gleaming facades of the architecture of the late 1940s and 1950s reflect a culture fascinated by the promise of the Jet Age. Buildings like Eero Saarinen\'s TWA Terminal at JFK Airport and Philip Johnson\'s Four Seasons Restaurant retain a thrilling allure, seeming to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary....

Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes of the twenty first century. These include the transformation of the family and the rise of the non-traditional household, increases in construction costs, and concerns over climate change and the depletion of natural resources....

Written by a world expert in the field, Innovative Homes offers information on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with examples of truly outstanding designs. Current modes of dwelling design are facing challenges of both philosophy and form....

Does your work life \"balance\" feel anything but? Most people will probably tell you that you need to be more strict about separating your office and home lives, and WHATEVER YOUA DO, DON\'TA TAKEA THEA OFFICEA HOMEA WITHA YOU! To this, husband-and-wife authors Caitlin and Andrew Friedman say: Think again! In Family Inc....

Ivy League educated Amy Friedman is an American writer living in Ontario, Canada. She\'s a newspaper columnist, and life seems charmed as she writes about life on the sheep farm she shares with her lover, a famous writer; flying a Cessna through a storm; journeys through South Africa and Ireland....

The human genome of three billion letters has been sequenced. So have the genomes of thousands of other organisms. With unprecedented resolution, modern technologies are allowing us to peek into the world of genes, biomolecules, and cells - and flooding us with data of immense complexity that we are just barely beginning to understand....

There is extensive discussion of the concept of \"the stakeholder\" in fields such as Management, Corporate Governance, Accounting and Finance, Strategy, Sociology, and Politics, and in wider public policy debate. Yet the concept is unclear, and research around it often muddled....