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Transportable Environments 3

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Transportable Environments 3

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The latest volume in this popular series of books examining the international range of research and practical activity in the field of portable architecture and its context, in particular, the character and manifestation of the transportable environment whether a building, a landscape, or an interior space, brought into existence in a specific location for a limited or specified period of time. It consists of a series of original, illustrated, essays that explore contemporary research, design projects, buildings and cultural contexts that respond to evolving technological, social, economic and cultural conditions. Because of the way in which the world is changing flexible, transformable and transportable design is as important now as it was when, in past millennia, nomadic ways of life were dominant across the planet.

House Prices and the Macroeconomy: Implications for Banking and Price Stability

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House Prices and the Macroeconomy: Implications for Banking and Price Stability

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The macroeconomic implications of asset price flucuations have received increasing attention in academic and policy circles recently, in large part due to the recent boom-bust bubbles in the equity and now housing markets. This book aims to investigate the role of asset prices for various aspects of the macroeconomy.

Construction Technology: An Illustrated Introduction

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Construction Technology: An Illustrated Introduction

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Peter Bamfield acts an independent consultant on both colour chemistry and the management of R&D. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 1966, he spent the rest of his career with ICI and Zeneca (now AstraZeneca), before retiring as R&D Manager for the Colours Business in 1993. He was the editor of “Fine Chemicals for the Electronics Industry” (RSC-1986) and the sole author of “Chromic Phenomena; technological applications of colour chemistry” (RSC-2001) and “Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry” (Wiley-VCH 1996 and 2003). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Member of the Society of Dyers and Colourists.

Home Staging For Dummies

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Home Staging For Dummies

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Want to have homebuyers knocking down your door? Home Staging For Dummies delivers all the secrets to making your home stand out, sell faster, and bring in more money! It shows you how to make improvements room by room and generate a higher profit in the most cost- and time-effective way.

The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

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The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

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The architects of today’s large and complex systems all too often struggle with the lack of a consistent set of principles and practices that adequately address the entire breadth of systems architecture. The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA) enables system architects and process engineers to create methods for effectively and efficiently engineering high-quality architecture for systems, subsystems, and software components.

The Hoover Dam

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The Hoover Dam

The Hoover Dam is recognized as one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world. The construction of this behemoth dam – the inspiration of one Arthur Powell Davis – was an incredible feat on many levels. Years-long political disputes had to be settled. Individuals and companies in the engineering and construction realms had to bond together to form a single company capable of taking on such a groundbreaking project.