Автор: Agrawal, Roma, Название: Built : ISBN: 1635570239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781635570236 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщикаПоставка под заказ. Описание:
The structures around us are born from breathtaking human ingenuity. Once you discover their secret stories, you'll never see your world in the same way again.
"Agrawal is a rarity: a female structural engineer in an adamantly male profession. She will inspire." --New York Times Book Review Imagine you woke up one morning, and everything created by engineers had disappeared. What would you see? No cars, no houses; no phones, bridges, or roads. No tunnels under tidal rivers, no soaring skyscrapers. The impact that engineering has on the human experience is undeniable, but it is also often invisible.
In Built, star structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach into the sky. She unearths how humans have tunneled through solid mountain, bridged the widest and deepest of rivers, and tamed nature's precious and elusive water resources. She tells vivid tales of the pioneers behind landmark builds such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Burj Khalifa. Through the lens of an engineer, she examines tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, highlighting the precarious task of ensuring people's safety, which engineers hold at every step. With colorful stories of her life-long fascination with buildings--and her own hand-drawn illustrations--Agrawal reveals the extraordinary secret lives of structures.
Автор: Agrawal, Arun Название: Environmentality ISBN: 0822334925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822334927 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4803.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state’s regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his innovative historical and political study, Arun Agrawal analyzes this striking transformation. He describes and explains the emergence of environmental identities and changes in state-locality relations and shows how the two are related. In so doing, he demonstrates that scholarship on common property, political ecology, and feminist environmentalism can be combined—in an approach he calls environmentality—to better understand changes in conservation efforts. Such an understanding is relevant far beyond Kumaon: local populations in more than fifty countries are engaged in similar efforts to protect their environmental resources.
Agrawal brings environment and development studies, new institutional economics, and Foucauldian theories of power and subjectivity to bear on his ethnographical and historical research. He visited nearly forty villages in Kumaon, where he assessed the state of village forests, interviewed hundreds of Kumaonis, and examined local records. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and archival research, he shows how decentralization strategies change relations between states and localities, community decision makers and common residents, and individuals and the environment. In exploring these changes and their significance, Agrawal establishes that theories of environmental politics are enriched by attention to the interconnections between power, knowledge, institutions, and subjectivities.
Автор: Storer, Caroline Название: Roman: Harperimpulse Historical Romance ISBN: 0007591608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007591602 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: ROME AD 79 The one woman he ever loved was the one woman who betrayed him. And now, the Roman will have his revenge...
Автор: Wilde, James Название: Pendragon ISBN: 0857503219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857503213 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Only when the child of a friend is snatched will he venture alone into this treacherous world - a territory ruled over by a barbarian horde - in order to bring the boy back home.
Автор: Roma Tearne Название: Bone china ISBN: 0007257503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007257508 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London.
Автор: Tearne, Roma Название: Brixton beach ISBN: 0007301561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007301560 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child`s struggle to come to terms with loss.
Автор: Agrawal, Roma Название: Built ISBN: 1408870355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408870358 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
"Miki Agrawal is a real piece of work. It turns out that so are you. Once you read her high-energy book, you might be able to embrace the gifts you already have and go take advantage of them." --Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception
Is it possible to make a career out of something you love? How do you march through life with a purpose and get the most out of every second? Miki Agrawal, entrepreneur, angel investor, and cool-sh*t-doer, has figured it out and she will show you how.
In Do Cool Sh*t, she shares her adventures in entrepreneurship and life, from learning to step out of her comfort zone in a foreign country to achieving her dream of playing soccer for the New York Magic to partnering with Tony Hsieh of Zappos to launch her dream business. Now, Miki shows you how to start a business, fund it on a shoestring budget, gather the perfect group to brainstorm a business plan, test a product, get great (free) press coverage, and more--all while living a life to be proud of.
She reminds you that it's cool to care and to be proactive; it's cool to mess up; it's cool to work your butt off on something that is meaningful; and it's cool to keep trying when the odds are stacked against you.
--Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception
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