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Architectural Terra Cotta Design Concepts Techniques and Applications

***Winner of the 2023 BTES Book Award*** Architectural Terra Cotta examines the evolution of terra cotta and prepares architects and builders to make new creative uses of the timeless material. Terra cotta is among the oldest of manufactured building products yet it has once again become a material of choice in contemporary façade design. From the walls of Babylon to high performance rainscreens terra cotta claddings have repeatedly proven to be technically superior and aesthetically triumphant. Understanding the evolution of terra cotta prepares architects to add new creative chapters to a rich history. This book describes the key attributes that recommend the use of terra cotta and explain its continuing success. The core of the book traces the many ways that terra cotta can be formed finished and applied to buildings. These techniques demonstrate the full potential of the material showing how its unique capabilities have been developed over time. A comprehensive inventory of recent examples project case studies and architectural details this book provide a basis for understanding the nature of the material and the opportunities it offers in new work. With over 150 color images this volume provides a concise resource for all those considering terra cotta as a façade system: architects façade engineers cladding subcontractors materials suppliers developers and prospective clients. With inspiring examples of expressive possibility this invaluable book will find a home with students and professionals alike interested in making rich colorful and durable buildings. | Architectural Terra Cotta Design Concepts Techniques and Applications

GBP 31.99

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Rocking The State Rock Music And Politics In Eastern Europe And Russia

Most readers of this book will have had at most a fleeting acquaintancewith the music of some of the groups described in this book. Groupssuch as Laibach (from Slovenia) Borghesia (Slovenia) Pankow (theGDR) and Gorky Park (USSR) have concentrated on the Western marketand have acquired followings in the United States and Western Europe. Other artists and groups such as Boris Grebenshikov and Aquarium(USSR) Sergei Kuryokhin (USSR) Goran Bregovic and White Button(Yugoslavia) and Plastic People of the Universe (Czechoslovakia) havealso seen some Western exposure. But for the most part the rock musicof that part of the world is terra incognita to Westerners. So too is thestory of their uneasy coexistence with communist authorities from thetime that rock first ~ppeared until the collapse of communism in 1989. This book aims to fill that vacuum. | Rocking The State Rock Music And Politics In Eastern Europe And Russia

GBP 130.00

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Secure and Resilient Software Requirements Test Cases and Testing Methods

Secure and Resilient Software: Requirements Test Cases and Testing Methods provides a comprehensive set of requirements for secure and resilient software development and operation. It supplies documented test cases for those requirements as well as best practices for testing nonfunctional requirements for improved information assurance. This resource-rich book includes:Pre-developed nonfunctional requirements that can be reused for any software development project Documented test cases that go along with the requirements and can be used to develop a Test Plan for the softwareTesting methods that can be applied to the test cases provided Downloadable resources with all security requirements and test cases as well as MS Word versions of the checklists requirements and test cases covered in the bookOffering ground-level already-developed software nonfunctional requirements and corresponding test cases and methods this book will help to ensure that your software meets its nonfunctional requirements for security and resilience. The accompanying downloadable resources filled with helpful checklists and reusable documentation provides you with the tools needed to integrate security into the requirements analysis design and testing phases of your software development lifecycle. Some Praise for the Book:This book pulls together the state of the art in thinking about this important issue in a holistic way with several examples. It takes you through the entire lifecycle from conception to implementation . . —Doug Cavit Chief Security Strategist Microsoft Corporation. provides the reader with the tools necessary to jump-start and mature security within the software development lifecycle (SDLC). —Jeff Weekes Sr. Security Architect at Terra Verde Services. full of useful insights and practical advice from two au | Secure and Resilient Software Requirements Test Cases and Testing Methods

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Hot Art Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

Hot Art Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources. With the exception of those originally published in English the majority of these texts are translated into English for the first time from eight languages and are introduced by scholarly essays. They offer a representative selection of the diverse responses to American art in Great Britain Ireland France Belgium the Netherlands West Germany (FRG) Austria Switzerland Denmark Norway Sweden and Finland. There was no single European discourse as attitudes to American art were determined by a wide range of ideological political social cultural and artistic positions that varied considerably across the European nations. This volume and its companion Hot Art Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 offer the reader a unique opportunity to compare how European art writers introduced and explained contemporary American art to their many and varied audiences. Whilst many are fluent in one or two foreign languages few are able to read all twenty-five languages represented in the two volumes. These ground-breaking publications significantly enrich the fields of American art studies and European art criticism. This book together with its companion volume Hot Art Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is a joint initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art and the editors of the journal Art in Translation at the University of Edinburgh. The journal launched in 2009 publishes English-language translations of the most significant texts on art and visual cultures presently only available only in their source language. It is committed to widening the perspectives of art history making it more pluralist in terms of its authors viewpoints and subject matter. | Hot Art Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

GBP 42.99

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Geographic Data Science with R Visualizing and Analyzing Environmental Change

The burgeoning field of data science has provided a wealth of techniques for analysing large and complex geospatial datasets including descriptive explanatory and predictive analytics. However applying these methods is just one part of the overall process of geographic data science. Other critical steps include screening for suspect data values handling missing data harmonizing data from multiple sources summarizing the data and visualizing data and analysis results. Although there are many books available on statistical and machine learning methods few encompass the broader topic of scientific workflows for geospatial data processing and analysis. The purpose of Geographic Data Science with R is to fill this gap by providing a series of tutorials aimed at teaching good practices for using geospatial data to address problems in environmental geography. It is based on the R language and environment which currently provides the best option for working with diverse spatial and non-spatial data in a single platform. Fundamental techniques for processing and visualizing tabular vector and raster data are introduced through a series of practical examples followed by case studies that combine multiple types of data to address more complex problems. The book will have a broad audience. Both students and professionals can use it as a workbook to learn high-level techniques for geospatial data processing and analysis with R. It is also suitable as a textbook. Although not intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to R it is designed to be accessible to readers who have at least some knowledge of coding but little to no experience with R. Key Features: Focus on developing practical workflows for processing and integrating multiple sources of geospatial data in R Example-based approach that teaches R programming and data science concepts through real-world applications related to climate land cover and land use and natural hazards. Consistent use of tidyverse packages for tabular data manipulation and visualization. Strong focus on analysing continuous and categorical raster datasets using the new terra package Organized so that each chapter builds on the topics and techniques covered in the preceding chapters Can be used for self-study or as the textbook for a geospatial science course. | Geographic Data Science with R Visualizing and Analyzing Environmental Change

GBP 74.99

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Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

For over a decade the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words such as enlightenment reason rationality modernization and the most recent by-word globalization. However it is a language that has been accompanied by colonialism imperialism racism the exploitation of people and nature an unequal distribution of the world’s resources pogroms genocides and world wars. There has been a gap between assumptions underlying a visionary ambition and the often-brutal practices that have accompanied it. Moreover it is a language that expresses European values with the implicit or explicit suggestion that they pertain to the whole world a civilizing mission from a European centre. Although the established narrative argued that there was continuous progress it was a conclusion reached through hindsight. The idea of progress had to be repeatedly recreated through new visionary projects that attempted to live up to the high ideals their predecessors failed to achieve. Against the backdrop of this meta-normative point of departure the book argues that a convincing grand narrative has failed to materialize since the discrediting of globalization. In the search for a new narrative it argues at a meta-normative level for a reformulation of the term ‘global’ away from its close connection to the globe as an unbounded self-propelling market that exists beyond human influence. ‘Global’ should no longer be reduced to auto-playing market fiction but instead be connected to the planet Terra the Earth. With reference to Latour and Chakrabarty ‘global’ and ‘planetary’ mean cohabitation; life on earth is seen as an infinite symbiotic system nurtured and protected but also destroyed by human action. The book argues that a new conceptualization of ‘the global’ and ‘the planet’ requires input from African and Asian language cultures. The book explores in depth the history of the two political African key concepts of ujamaa and ubuntu and argues that they are cases showing how work on a new global/planetary narrative might look. The investigation of the two concepts demonstrate that translations are juxtapositions that point up what is shared and what isn’t between concepts in two or more languages. The point of comparison is not to develop a uniform global perspective even if that were possible but to develop a global understanding of difference and through that to begin to look for a common ground. Translations of political key concepts are the source of a growing understanding of difference. | Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

GBP 48.99

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