The book Housing People: Proceedings of the Housing 75 Conference Held in Johannesburg in October 1975 is a collection of insights from a conference organized by the Institute of South African Arch…
This important book provides a comprehensive account of the advances that have occurred in fire science in relation to a broad range of materials. The manufacture of fire retardant materials is an …
The contribution of ecology for human well-being remains blurred in decision-making trathecodes, although its impact on societal well-being is profound. This volume presents some of the latest deve…
Extensively revised and updated, Handbook of Water Analysis, Second Edition provides current analytical techniques for detecting compounds in water samples. Maintaining the detailed and accessible …
This book unifies housing policy by integrating industrialized and developing-country interventions in the housing sector into a comprehensive global framework. One hundred indicators are used to c…
Partridge and Rickman explore the wide geographic disparities in poverty across the United States. Their focus on the spatial dimensions of U.S. poverty reveals distinct differences across states, …
By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience o…
Plumbing, Electricity, Acoustics: Sustainable Design Methods for Architecture is a companion book to Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects, because the two books tog…
As a prospective graduate student concerned with professional advancement, you know the importance of using good tools and drawing on solid research. In this Eighteenth Edition of Barron's GRE, we …
The great majority of persons in rural areas of the developing world do not have access to a safe and convenient source of water, and where this is available, acceptable sewage disposal facilities …