Birkhäuser sep 2018 (111 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Gion Caminada is well-known far beyond Switzerland's borders: as an architect, whose work is developed out of - and gives new life to - its context. The award-winning renewal of his native community of Vrin, the renaissance of the village of Valendas with its inn and village hall, the buildings in and around Disentis Abbey that contributed to the abbey's revival, and many more. He passes on his experience in his role as a professor of architecture and design at the ETH. His contribution to architecture is being presented at the 2018 Venice Biennale. In this illustrated interview Gion Caminada tells of his path to building, of old villages, of working together with engaged citizens, and of the ideas that drive him forward in life.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Architectural models are used at various stages of a project. As working models they support the design process: they are made up from time to time using simple materials, such as cardboard, without any attempt at accuracy, and continue to be adjusted and added to as the ideas and the design progress. The point here is to swiftly check a design idea, to allow it to be continued or dismissed. Presentational models are more involved; at this stage the design has been completed and the purpose of the model is to convey the ideas to the potential user in a clear and easy-to-understand way. The book Architecture and Model Building includes outstanding examples explaining the possibilities of this medium and, at the same time, provides comprehensive information on materials and techniques.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The 19th-century German architect and artist, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, was among the great personalities in the world of architecture. Classicism and Romanticism moved towards Modern Architecture in his buildings; his Collection of Architectural Designs led the way to our contemporary understanding of the work of the architect; and as a state master building he shaped the architectural culture of his time. A universal scholar and versatile artist, Schinkel led an intensive, if not boundless exchange with the society and the developments of the 19th century. The (equally) ingenious portrayal by one of the most renowned art and architectural historians of our time displays in richly illustrated thematic chapters the dialogue between Schinkel as a person, his oeuvre and his cultural world. ; Karl Friedrich Schinkels (1781-1841) vielfältige Verbindungen mit Wissenschaft, Kunst und Architektur verliehen ihm eine eminent kulturelle Präsenz. Ein erfindungsreicher Szenograf und passionierter Leser, zudem musikalisch und zeichnerisch begabt, erdachte Schinkel eine Fülle von Projekten für Berlin, Preußen und Orte wie Athen und die Krim. Versiert und ästhetisch anspruchsvoll im Umgang mit allen Aspekten der Architektur, begann er seine Projekte und Bauten in Stichserien herauszugeben und erfand damit die erfolgreichste Form der Architekturpublikation überhaupt. Seine Architekturbilder bereicherte er mit Erfahrungen auf dem Theater; er verlieh seinen Bauten eine stark affektive Wirkung, die weit über funktionale und technische Belange hinausweist. Weitgereist zwischen Sizilien, Schottland, Polen und Frankreich erdachte Schinkel Bauten, die sich im internationalen Vergleich zu behaupten vermögen und als Bauideen bis heute eine nachhaltige Wirkung zeitigen.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Architekturmodell ist ein Arbeits- und Entwurfswerkzeug und Teil der Architekturdarstellung wie die Präsentationszeichnung. Mit seiner Hilfe wird Architektur erfunden und entwickelt. Mit einfachen Mitteln wie Pappe können schnell Proportionen und Raumzusammenhänge überprüft werden. Keine andere Darstellungsform ermöglicht die sinnlich-haptische Wahrnehmung von Raum und Architektur, ihrer Oberflächen und ihrer Plastizität. 250 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Architekturmodell ist ein Arbeits- und Entwurfswerkzeug und Teil der Architekturdarstellung wie die Präsentationszeichnung. Mit seiner Hilfe wird Architektur erfunden und entwickelt. Mit einfachen Mitteln wie Pappe können schnell Proportionen und Raumzusammenhänge überprüft werden. Keine andere Darstellungsform ermöglicht die sinnlich-haptische Wahrnehmung von Raum und Architektur, ihrer Oberflächen und ihrer Plastizität. 250 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Architekturmodell ist ein Arbeits- und Entwurfswerkzeug und Teil der Architekturdarstellung wie die Präsentationszeichnung. Mit seiner Hilfe wird Architektur erfunden und entwickelt. Mit einfachen Mitteln wie Pappe können schnell Proportionen und Raumzusammenhänge überprüft werden. Keine andere Darstellungsform ermöglicht die sinnlich-haptische Wahrnehmung von Raum und Architektur, ihrer Oberflächen und ihrer Plastizität.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Das Architekturmodell ist ein Arbeits- und Entwurfswerkzeug und Teil der Architekturdarstellung wie die Präsentationszeichnung. Mit seiner Hilfe wird Architektur erfunden und entwickelt. Mit einfachen Mitteln wie Pappe können schnell Proportionen und Raumzusammenhänge überprüft werden. Keine andere Darstellungsform ermöglicht die sinnlich-haptische Wahrnehmung von Raum und Architektur, ihrer Oberflächen und ihrer Plastizität.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Ludwig II of Bavaria (1864-1886) is more internationally known for his royal palaces than hardly any other regent of the 19th century. They are the symbol of a personal architectural vision which, to this day, fascinates people from all over the world. However, the fame of his palaces has eclipsed other construction activities in the Kingdom of Bavaria: urban developments, hospitals, and schools, theatres and museums, but also factories, railway stations, apartment blocks, churches, and synagogues were created under his regency. This book, for the first time, sheds light on the broad architectural activities in this epoch. Essays and overview illustrations of the building projects of the time provide insights into the diversity of the then building culture and, at the same time, open up a new perspective on the royal palaces. ; Ludwig II. von Bayern (1864-1886) ist durch seine Königsschlösser international so bekannt wie kaum ein anderer Regent des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie sind das Symbol einer persönlichen Architekturvision, die bis heute ein Publikum aus aller Welt fasziniert. Der Ruhm seiner Schlösser hat den Blick auf die andere Bautätigkeit im Königreich Bayern jedoch überstrahlt: Städtebau, Krankenhäuser, Schulbauten, Theater und Museen, aber auch Fabriken, Bahnhöfe, Mietshäuser, Kirchen und Synagogen entstanden unter seiner Regentschaft. Das Buch beleuchtet erstmals das breite Architekturgeschehen dieser Epoche. Essays und Überblicksdarstellungen zu den Bauaufgaben der damaligen Zeit geben Einblicke in die Vielfalt der damaligen Baukultur und rücken die Königsschlösser zugleich in eine neue Perspektive.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Architekturmodell ist ein Arbeits- und Entwurfswerkzeug und Teil der Architekturdarstellung wie die Präsentationszeichnung. Mit seiner Hilfe wird Architektur erfunden und entwickelt. Mit einfachen Mitteln wie Pappe können schnell Proportionen und Raumzusammenhänge überprüft werden. Keine andere Darstellungsform ermöglicht die sinnlich-haptische Wahrnehmung von Raum und Architektur, ihrer Oberflächen und ihrer Plastizität.De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 250 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Midcomfort ist die Wiederentdeckung der Reformarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Und gleichzeitig die Absage an eine gefeierte Avantgarde mit ihrer unreflektierten Fortschrittsgläubigkeit. Jenseits der Ideologie des forciert Neuen schöpft Midcomfort aus der Tradition des wohnlichen Bauens und stellt die Bedürfnisse und Wünsche der Bewohner in den Fokus. Die Grundregeln eines Bauens, das Bestand hat und nach Jahrzehnten noch funktioniert, werden als Perspektive für eine zukunftsfähige Wohnarchitektur entfaltet. Anhand von historischen und zeitgenössischen Beispielen zeigt das Buch, dass eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung zu gestalterisch und funktional dauerhaften Wohnbauten auf höchstem Niveau führt. Die Neuauflage wurde durchgesehen, korrigiert und um neues Bildmaterial ergänzt.De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin Deutsch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Neben der Vermittlung technischer Grundlagen zeigen die Autoren dieses Sonderbandes auch jene Voraussetzungen auf, deren Erfüllung Parkhäuser und Garagen für Nutzer sinnvoll und für Betreiber attraktiv macht: Es werden Planungen erläutert, die hohen technischen, organisatorischen und kaufmännischen Anforderungen entsprechen und voll automatisch funktionieren. Die Aktualisierung umfasst die erneuerten Richtlinien und Vorschriften für das Straßenwesen, die die Planung von Parkhäusern betreffen. Eingearbeitet sind auch neue Beiträge zu den Themen Fußgänger in Garagen, Garagenlüftung und Entwässerung. Ebenso werden neue Anforderungen wie die Einrichtung von Ladestationen für Elektroautos, Sicherheit für NutzerInnen und Fahrradabstellplätze, auch durch neue Bildbeispiele, thematisiert. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book concisely presents the fundamental aspects of the theory of operators on Hilbert spaces. The topics covered include functional calculus and spectral theorems, compact operators, trace class and Hilbert-Schmidt operators, self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators, and one-parameter groups of operators.The exposition of the material on unbounded operators is based on anovel tool, called the z-transform, which providesa way to encode full information about unbounded operators in bounded ones, hence making many technical aspects of the theory less involved. 212 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book offers models and frameworks to analyze your service delivery systems as a whole. It presents the framework to solve customer problems by delivering the right knowledge at the right time to the right place and take advantage of the efficiency that technology and algorithms offer.Why do so many brilliant plans fail to deliver in practice Why can¿t your employees just do what you want them to do In most cases, because the operations eco-system in which those plans must be deployed fails to fully understand the problem that needs to be solved.The fourth industrial revolution is seeing advances in Artificial Intelligence industrialize the service sector. But, despite the cost-cutting that these advances offer firms are still struggling to stay competitive. That is because they think that cost-cutting delivers increased efficiency whereas it is the other way around: increased efficiency cuts costs. And the heart of efficiency in delivering services is people andtheir knowledge.As industrialization drives ever more standardized offerings and ever little human contact it is in those rare moments of human interaction where the greatest opportunity to add or destroy value lies. It is human brains and the knowledge they contain that are best suited to problem-solving and individualizing client solutions. The real competitive edge will become the ability to foresee and individualize problem-solving.To do this, firms must start thinking of knowledge as inventory ¿ who knows what, who needs to know what and where and when do they need to know it.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 396 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book concisely presents the fundamental aspects of the theory of operators on Hilbert spaces. The topics covered include functional calculus and spectral theorems, compact operators, trace class and Hilbert-Schmidt operators, self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators, and one-parameter groups of operators.The exposition of the material on unbounded operators is based on a novel tool, called the z-transform, which provides a way to encode full information about unbounded operators in bounded ones, hence making many technical aspects of the theory less involved.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 212 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Offers state-of-the-art European Union financial regulation with future agendaSpringer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 500 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Distributions in the Physical and Engineering Sciences is a comprehensive exposition on analytic methods for solving science and engineering problems which is written from the unifying viewpoint of distribution theory and enriched with many modern topics which are important to practitioners and researchers. The goal of the book is to give the reader, specialist and non-specialist usable and modern mathematical tools in their research and analysis. This new text is intended for graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. The careful explanations, accessible writing style, and many illustrations/examples also make it suitable for use as a self-study reference by anyone seeking greater understanding and proficiency in the problem solving methods presented. The book is ideal for a general scientific and engineering audience, yet it is mathematically precise. The present, softcover reprint is designed to make this classic textbookavailable to a wider audience.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 356 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides a detailed analysis of the dimensions and dynamics of the role of international aid in the reform and capacity development of public service in post-communist Albania. It challenges the technocratic, results-based management frameworks used by aid organizations and reports of official donors operating in the country context, and offers a qualitative and critical assessment of the role of aid in administrative reform and capacity building. Secondly, the book highlights the specificity of the national politico-administrative context and its ability to modify the process of policy transfer from aid organizations to the Albanian bureaucracy. In doing so, it illustrates the domestic challenges in the transfer process towards policy learning and makes a valuable contribution to the debate over the (voluntary vs. coercive) administrative reform in Southeast Europe in relation to the politics of EU accession.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 180 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book focuses on forward lease sukuk, which is one of the most viable and dynamic Shari'ah-compliant instruments in the Islamic capital market. The idea of forward lease sukuk is to raise funds from non-existent assets whose subject matter does not exist at the time of the sukuk issuance. This book discusses the significant features of forward lease sukuk and demonstrates its vital contribution to project construction and manufacturing within the expanding field of Islamic finance.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post¿Cold War era, beginning with George H. W. Bush and ending with the first 17 months of Donald Trump¿s presidency. During this period, the United States emerged from the Cold War as the world¿s most powerful nation. Nevertheless, the presidents of this era faced a host of problems that tested their ability to successfully blend realism and idealism. Some were more successful than others.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book showcases different processes of fabrication and processing applied to shape memory alloys. It provides details and collective information on working principles, process mechanisms, salient features, novel aspects, process capabilities, properties of material and unique applications of shape memory alloys. The recent progress on fabrication and processing are specially addressed in this book. It covers major topics of manufacturing such as machining, joining, welding and processing of shape memory alloys.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 92 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The student will find here a clear presentation with an applied flavor, of the core ideas in the algebra-geometric treatment of scalar linear system theory. The author introduces the four representations of a scalar linear system and establishes the major results of a similar theory for multivariable systems appearing in a succeeding volume (Part II: Multivariable Linear Systems and Projective Algebraic Geometry).Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 212 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Over the past several decades, we have witnessed a renaissance of theoretical work on the macroscopic behavior of microscopically heterogeneous materials. This activity brings together a number of related themes, including: (1) the use of weak convergence as a rigorous yet general language for the discussion of macroscopic behavior; (2) interest in new types of questions, particularly the 'G-closure problem,' motivated in large part by applications of optimal control theory to structural optimization; (3) the introduction of new methods for bounding effective moduli, including one based on 'compensated compactness'; and (4) the identification of deep links between the analysis of microstructures and the multidimensional calculus of variations. This work has implications for many physical problems involving optimal design, composite materials, and coherent phase transitions. As a result, it has received attention and support from numerous scientific communities, including engineering, materials science, and physics, as well as mathematics. There is by now an extensive literature in this area. But for various reasons certain fundamental papers were never properly published, circulating instead as mimeographed notes or preprints. Other work appeared in poorly distributed conference proceedings volumes. Still other work was published in standard books or journals, but written in Russian or French. The net effect is a sort of 'gap' in the literature, which has made the subject unnecessarily difficult for newcomers to penetrate. The present, softcover reprint is designed to make this classic text available to a wider audience.'Summarizes some of the fundamental results achieved and offers new perspectives in the mechanics of composite and micromechanics. Will become a classic in the two fields.'Applied Mechanics ReviewSpringer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 336 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Broadens readers' understanding of misperceptions that principally occur in schizophrenia or under the influence of three main classes of drugsPresents the latest evidence on the biological basis of hallucinations, drawing on genetic research and neuroimaging dataCovers Chronic Hallucinatory Disorder PsychopathologyIncludes the transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) technique, which has been shown to ameliorate auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophreniaSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 224 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Represents the first concerted effort in religiously diverse and inclusive philosophy of religionIs the only book that brings together scholars of diverse religious and artistic traditions in a cross-cultural inquiry of ineffabilityExamines religious ineffability without neglecting its important connections to artistic and literary expressions of inexpressibilitySpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 300 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In 1916, Lucy Thompson, an indigenous woman from Northwestern California, published To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. The first book to be published by a member of the California Yurok tribe, it offers an autobiographical view of the intricacies of life in the tribe at the dawn of the twentieth century, as well as a powerful critique of the colonial agenda. Elizabeth Schleber Lowry presents a rhetorical analysis of this iconic text, investigating how Thompson aimed to appeal to diverse audiences and constructed arguments that still resonate today. Placing Thompson¿s work in the context of nineteenth-century Native American rhetoric, Lowry argues that Thompson is a skillful rhetor who has much to teach us about our nation¿s violent past and how it continues to shape our culture and politics. In To the American Indian, Thompson challenges negative stereotypes about indigenous cultures and contrasts widespread Euroamerican abuse of natural resources with Yurok practices that once effectively maintained the region¿s ecological and social stability. As such, Thompson¿s text functions not only as a memoir, but also as a guide to sustainable living.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 96 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This new study provides a refreshing look at the issue of exceptions and shows that much of the problem stems from a failure to recognize at least two kinds of exception-ridden law: ceteris paribus laws and ideal laws. Billy Wheeler offers the first book-length discussion of ideal laws. The key difference between these two kinds of laws concerns the nature of the conditions that need to be satisfied and their epistemological role in the law¿s formulation and discovery. He presents a Humean-inspired approach that draws heavily on concepts from the information and computing sciences. Specifically, Wheeler argues that laws are best seen as algorithms for compressing empirical data and that ideal laws are needed as 'lossy compressors' for complex data.Major figures in the metaphysics of science receive special attention such as Ronald Giere, Bas van Fraassen, Nancy Cartwright, David Lewis and Marc Lange. This book is essential reading for philosophers of science and will interest metaphysicians, epistemologists and others interested in applying concepts from computing to traditional philosophical problems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 128 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book introduces the novel concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned, thus offering new avenues for researching regionalism beyond the conventional focus on formal intergovernmental organisations. Two in depth case studies, the Sahara and the Caucasus, provide the real-life application of the concept and the authors use the tensions between competing demarcations of the region, the regional nature of extra-legal economies and the narratives of cross-border identities to steer their empirical approach. Through thorough analysis, the volume applies the concept of fringe regionalism to regions previously neglected by conventional approaches.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 112 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book collects and contributes new results on the theory and practice of ill-posed inverse problems.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This professional guide and reference examines the challenges of assessing security vulnerabilities in computing infrastructure. Various aspects of vulnerability assessment are covered in detail, including recent advancements in reducing the requirement for expert knowledge through novel applications of artificial intelligence. The work also offers a series of case studies on how to develop and perform vulnerability assessment techniques using start-of-the-art intelligent mechanisms.Topics and features: provides tutorial activities and thought-provoking questions in each chapter, together with numerous case studies; introduces the fundamentals of vulnerability assessment, and reviews the state of the art of research in this area; discusses vulnerability assessment frameworks, including frameworks for industrial control and cloud systems; examines a range of applications that make use of artificial intelligence to enhance the vulnerability assessment processes; presents visualisation techniques that can be used to assist the vulnerability assessment process.In addition to serving the needs of security practitioners and researchers, this accessible volume is also ideal for students and instructors seeking a primer on artificial intelligence for vulnerability assessment, or a supplementary text for courses on computer security, networking, and artificial intelligence.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 396 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Offering a concise introduction not only to an important dimension of Hegel's thought - his orientation towards 'empire' - but also to the various issues raised by postcolonial theory and global studiesProvides a clear and nuanced appraisal of Hegel's treatment of non-European cultures and of the implications of this treatment for postcolonial and global studiesAnalyses in-depth readings of Hegel by postcolonial critics, exploring both the Eurocentric and potentially global nature of his dialecticSpringer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 176 pp. Englisch.…