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  • Teaching Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Through Human Rights Education
    Jing A. Williams / Phyllis Kim
    How can educators engage students in learning about conflict, human rights, and historical remembrance in ways that enhance global awareness, foster empathy, and encourage a commitment to justice? Teaching Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Through Human Rights Education: The Case of the Japanese Military’s 'Comfort Women' meets this challenge. More than a specialized topic, the ...
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    14,90 €

  • Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568
    Cosimo Monteleone / Kim Williams
    A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many years before. Barbaro was the first to publish a formal treatise entirely dedicated to the science of geometric perspective. In an informal style especially addressed to practicing artists and architect...
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    173,56 €

  • Nya Sverige i Nordamerika
    Hans Ling / Kim-Eric Williams / Lundquist
    Nya Sverige i Nordamerika - En stormakts äventyr på 1600-taletÅr 1638 anlände fartyget Kalmar Nyckel till den den Södra Floden - numera Delawarefloden - till den nordamerikanska östkusten. 17 år senare var äventyret över, men det svenska arvet finns fortfarande kvar. Det började i en tid då Sverige som Europeisk stormakt ville utöka sitt inflytande i andra världsdelar, där man ...
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    27,14 €

  • Długa droga do domu
    Kim Dana Kupperman / Karolina Klermon-Williams
    W tej porywającej historii żydowskiej rodziny rozdartej przez wojnę, Józefina wraz z nastoletnią córką i synem zostają zesłani do obozu pracy przymusowej w Związku Radzieckim, a następnie, w apogeum II wojny światowej, znajdują nieoczekiwane schronienie w Iranie.W 1939 roku, tyrania Hitlera zbliża się do zachodniej Polski. Zamożna żydowska rodzina - Juliusz i Józefina Kohnowie ...
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    17,15 €

  • Discovering Intercultural Communication
    Cara Penry Williams / Hyejeong Kim
    This textbook provides a succinct, contemporary introduction to intercultural communication with a focus on actual language use. With English as a lingua franca and Communicative Accommodation Theory as the underpinning concepts, it explores communication, language use, and culture in action. Each chapter includes discourse extracts so that students can apply what they have lea...
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    62,16 €

  • Life on the Streets
    Kim O'Brien-Williams / Kim O’Brien-Williams
    Life on the Streets tells the stories of the homeless or those working on the streets. Learn why people end up homeless or have turned to prostitution.While writing this book, I said to a friend that for me to really write a good book about being homeless, I needed to be homeless, not thinking for a minute that this would happen to me.However, my life took a bad turn and I was ...
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    8,49 €

  • Life Inside the Cordon
    Kim O'Brien-Williams / Kim O’Brien-Williams
    On Feb. 22, 2011, a massive earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people. This book is the diary of my Life Inside the Cordon, working for the New Zealand Army for six months before the cordon, later known as the CBD Red Zone, was opened to the public.It was written as a memoir for my son, James, begun as a diary for him because he was only two years old when...
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    14,63 €

  • Vito Volterra
    Angelo Guerraggio / Giovanni Paoloni / Kim Williams
    ​Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was one of the most famous representatives of Italian science in his day. Angelo Guerragio and Giovanni Paolini analyze Volterra’s most important contributions to mathematics and their applications, as well as his outstanding organizational achievements in scientific policy. Volterra was one of the founding fathers of functional analysis and the autho...
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    39,72 €

  • Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos
    Bruce Williams / Keumsil Kim Yoon
    A war-torn country only 60 years ago, South Korea has since achieved prodigious growth and global integration, experiencing rapid industrialization and seeing its cultural exports gain international popularity. Because of this rapid transformation, an investigation of the Korean ethos--the shared self-concept woven through the divergent social contexts of both South and Nort...
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    57,22 €

  • Crossroads
    Kim Williams
    A follow-up to the volume 'Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800. Essays by David Speiser' (Birkhäuser 2008), this volume contains the essays of David Speiser on relationships between science, history of science, history of art and philosophy. ...
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    68,22 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 14,3
    Kim Williams
    The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 3) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features seven original papers dedicated to the theme 'Digital Fabrication'. Digital fabrication is changing architecture in fundamental ways in every phase, from concept to artifact. Projects growing out of research in digital fabrication are dependent on software that is entirely surface-oriented in its underl...
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    66,80 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 14,2
    Kim Williams
    This volulme features eight original papers dedicated to the theme 'Persian Architecture and Mathematics,' guest edited by Reza Sarhangi. All papers were approved through a rigorous process of blind peer review and edited by an interdisciplinary scientific editorial committee. Topics range from symmetry in ancient Persian architecture to the elaborate geometric patterns and com...
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    66,62 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 14,1
    Kim Williams
    The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal is dedicated to the theme 'Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences'. This is an outgrowth of the session by the same name which took place during the eighth international, interdisciplinary conference 'Nexus 2010: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics, held in Porto, Portugal, in J...
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    66,71 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 13,3
    Kim Williams
    The Autumn 2011 (vol. 13 no. 3) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features nine papers guest edited by José Calvo-Lopez dedicated to the theme 'From Mediaeval Stonecutting to Projective Geometry '. This is an outgrowth of the session by the same name which took place during the eighth international, interdisciplinary conference 'Nexus 2010: Relationships between Architecture a...
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    66,26 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 13,1
    Kim Williams
    The Spring 2011 (vol. 13 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features eight papers that resulted from the 2010 Nexus conference section on Shape and Shape Grammars. Guest editor Lionel March provides an introduction for the entire group. The papers were selected to spread themes as widely and representatively as possible. George Stiny provides a...
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    66,44 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 12,1
    Kim Williams
    Letter From The Editor.- Letter From The Editor.- Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective.- Giotto and Renaissance Perspective.- Perspective, a Visionary Process: The Main Generative Road for Crossing Dimensions.- Perspective in a box.- Juan Bautista Villalpando and the Nature and Science of Architectural Drawing.- Perspective versus Stereotomy: From Quattrocento Polyhedral R...
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    66,84 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 12,3
    Kim Williams
    We grasp and transform the world through interplays of quantification and qualification. The cross pollination of geometric and literary figures is deeply embedded in our cognitive habits, instruments of inquiry and the constructed environment. Through time, thought has reflected on the visible processes and products of material craft to explain and train the invisible workings...
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    66,81 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 12,2
    Kim Williams
    Letter from the Editor.- Letter from the Editor.- Recalling Eero Saarinen 1910-2010.- How the Gateway Arch Got its Shape.- Saarinen’s Shell Game: Tensions, Structures, and Sounds at MIT.- The Next Largest Thing: The Spatial Dimensions of Liturgy in Eliel and Eero Saarinen’s Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis.- Morphocontinuity in the work of Eero Saarinen.- Eero Saarinen, Edua...
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    66,68 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 11,2
    Kim Williams
    From the contents: Letter from the editor.- Continuity versus Discretization.- Cognitive-Mathematical Approaches for Evaluating Architectural Contextual Fit.- Nicola Zabaglia and the School of Practical Mechanics of the Fabbrica of St. Peter’s in Rome.- Mathematics for/from society: The Role of the Module in Modernizing Japanese Architectural Production.- Can Chaos Theory Expla...
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    66,78 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 11,1
    Kim Williams
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    68,16 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 10,2
    Kim Williams
    This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to 'Canons of Form-Making', in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio’s architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from...
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    66,83 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 10,1
    Kim Williams
    Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. This book examines Leonardo’s knowledge of theoretical mathematics, explores how he used concepts of geometry in his designs for architectural projects, and reports on a real-life construction project using Leonardo’s principles. Authors include Sylvie Duve...
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    66,68 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 9,2
    Kim Williams
    This issue is dedicated to Mechanics in Architecture. It explores the latest findings in the science of structural mechanics, including the behavior of structures, internal forces, and deformation. It also explores the development of new structural systems designed to resist thrusts resulting from new architectural forms. Some of the papers published ...
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    84,99 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 9,1
    Kim Williams
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    79,15 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 8,2
    Kim Williams
    This book presents an exploration of the arch from the points of view of architecture, mathematics, engineering, construction history, and cultural symbolism. Leonardo da Vinci described the arch as 'two weaknesses which, leaning on each other, become a strength,' a metaphor for the way that science and art lean on each other to strengthen our lives. ...
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    85,53 €

  • Nexus Network Journal 8,1
    Kim Williams
    From ancient to modern, architects have looked for fundamental underlying principles of geometry and proportion on which to found their designs. Such principles not only provide an order for the formal elements, they ground the architecture in timeless values and provide an order for the formal elements, they ground the architecture in timeless values...
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    60,80 €