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The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic cybernetic and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism in Germany in 1922 and a celebrated peer of radical figures in De Stijl the Bauhaus and Russian constructivism when he emigrated to Detroit in 1923 he introduced the vanguard theory of productivism through his photography essays designs and pedagogy. By following Lönberg- Holm’s ongoing matrix of relations until the postwar era with the European vanguards in CIAM and former members of the Structural Study Associates (SSA) especially Fuller Frederick Kiesler and C. Theodore Larson this study shows how their definition of building as a form of environmental control anticipated the contemporary disciplines of industrial ecology industrial metabolism and energy accounting. | The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

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Contradictions of the Welfare State

Originally published in 1984 Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe’s essays to appear in a single volume in English. The political writings in this volume are primarily concerned with the origins of the present difficulties of welfare capitalist states and he indicates why in the present period these states are no longer capable of fully managing the socio-political problems and conflicts generated by late capitalist societies. Offe discusses the viability of New Right corporatist and democratic socialist proposals for restructuring the welfare state. He also offers fresh and penetrating insights into a range of other subjects including social movements political parties law social policy and labour markets.

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101 Case Studies in Construction Management

This book provides 101 real-life construction management case studies from an author with over 40 years’ experience in the construction industry and as a lecturer in construction management. Over 14 chapters Len Holm has included case studies from real jobsites that cover organization procurement estimating scheduling subcontractors communications quality and cost control change orders claims and disputes safety and close-outs. Other hot topics covered include BIM sustainability and lean. Each case is written in straightforward language and designed to test the reader’s independent and critical thinking skills to develop their real-world problem-solving ability. The cases are open to interpretation and students will need to develop their own opinions of what’s presented to them in order to reach a satisfactory solution. The cases are ideal for use in the classroom or flipped classroom for individual or group exercises and to encourage research writing and presenting skills in all manner of applied construction management situations. Such a broad and useful selection of cases studies cannot be found anywhere else. While there is often no right answer the author has provided model solutions to instructors through the online eResource. | 101 Case Studies in Construction Management

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Dance Modernism and Modernity

This collection of new essays explores connections between dance modernism and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa the Caribbean the Pacific Asian region and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists including Akarova Gertrude Colby Isadora Duncan Katherine Dunham Margaret H’Doubler Hanya Holm Michio Ito Kurt Jooss Wassily Kandinsky Margaret Morris Berto Pasuka Uday Shankar Antony Tudor and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers’ responses to modernity in various ways including within the contexts of natural dancing and transnationalism. This collection asks questions about how in these places and times dancing developed and responded to the experience of living in modern times or even came out of an ambivalence about or as a reaction against it. Ideal for students and practitioners of dance and those interested in new modernist studies Dance Modernism and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.

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History An Introduction to Theory Method and Practice

Demystifying the subject with clarity and verve History: An Introduction to Theory Method and Practice familiarizes the reader with the varied spectrum of historical approaches in a balanced comprehensive and engaging manner. Global in scope and covering a wide range of topics from the ancient and medieval worlds to the twenty-first century it explores historical perspectives not only from historiography itself but from related areas such as literature sociology geography and anthropology. Clearly written accessible and student-friendly this second edition is fully updated throughout to include: An increased spread of case studies from beyond Europe especially from American and imperial histories. New chapters on important and growing areas of historical inquiry such as environmental history and digital history Expanded sections on political cultural and social history More discussion of non-traditional forms of historical representation and knowledge like film fiction and video games. Accompanied by a new companion website (www. routledge. com/cw/claus) containing valuable supporting material for students and instructors such as discussion questions further reading and web links this book is an essential introduction for all students of historical theory and method. | History An Introduction to Theory Method and Practice

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Goethe’s Path to Creativity A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician Scientist and Poet

Goethe’s Path to Creativity provides a comprehensive psycho-biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe a giant of modern German and European literary political and scientific history. The book brings this influential work by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla to the English language for the first time in a newly elaborated edition. Goethe’s path to creativity was difficult and beset by a multitude of crises beginning with his birth which was so difficult that he was initially not thought to have survived it and ending with an infatuation that left him at the age of 74 toying with the same kind of suicidal thoughts he had entertained as a 20-year-old. Throughout his long life he suffered bitter disappointments and was subject to severe mood swings. Despite being a gifted child a widely recognized poet and an influential scientist and politician he spent his entire life loving and suffering; nonetheless he had the exceptional ability to endure emotional pain and to transform his sufferings creatively. The way in which he mined his passions for creative impulses continues to inspire modern readers. Readers can apply the lessons they have learned from his life and use Goethe’s strategies for their own creative art of living. Goethe’s Path to Creativity: A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician Scientist and Poet will be of great interest to all engaged in the fields of creativity literature psychoanalysis psychology psychotherapy and personal growth. | Goethe’s Path to Creativity A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician Scientist and Poet

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