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At the dawn of the twentieth century, visitors in an urban high school would have noted
that large classrooms of around fifty students were typical. had they asked, they would
have learned the desks were bolted to the floor to promote a quieter and…

Building or architectural acoustics is taken in this book to cover all aspects of sound
and vibration in buildings. The book covers room acoustics but the main emphasis is
on sound insulation and sound absorption and the basic aspects of noise and…

The aim of this book is to provide an understanding of how to
analyse and assess the performance of a company from the information
provided about it.

If, one day, for some mysterious reason, all the buildings, settlements, suburbs and structures built after 1945 – especially those commonly called “modern” –
vanished from the face of the earth, would we mourn their loss? Would the…

It is estimated that between a third and a half of the world’s population—approximately three billion people on six continents— lives in buildings constructed of earth. The typologies of earthen architecture, however, extend beyond buildings…

Quotes are valuable. they are knowledge, and wisdom and insight. they offer us the opportunity to learn through others. and they are great tools to reinforce and
reaffirm what we already understand. sometimes hearing the words of a famous or…

For me, this book began more than 10 years ago as a post-J.D.
student in a semester-long capstone course at George Washington
University’s National Law Center. Professor James M. Brown,
who had mastered simulation teaching, taught this…

My heart tells me there is a god. Yours may tell you something different. I am okay with that.
Fundamentalists are not. This defines the greatest complaint I have with fundamentalism as a
whole. They are dissatisfied with and unable to accept the…

In the 1990s, project management moved from a little-used industrial engineering
discipline to the engine of managing America’s work. Prior to 1990, project
management techniques were unknown to most corporate managers who considered
projects to…

On March 31st, 2014, the United Nations report
entitled “Climate Change 2014, Impacts Adaptation
and Vulnerability” was published by the Working Group
II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC). The panel, meeting in Yokohama,…