Skip to main content

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


« weston wright »

1-12 sur 12 résultats pour « weston wright »
Skip side bar filters
  • MORE WATER LESS LAND NEW ARCHITECTURE

    SEA LEVEL RISE AND THE FUTURE OF COASTAL URBANISM

    Climate change, and the inevitability of sea level rise, will require much more of us than simply pulling back from the coastline. The thesis of Weston Wright's More Water Less Land New Architecture is that we need to start thinking in an entirely different way about the relationship of cities to waterfront sites and of the relationship of buildings to water, which means rethinking many of ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Les lecteurs de ce roman ont aussi aimé

  • Ways of Being

    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    par James Bridle ...
    Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Speed

    How It Explains the World

    par Vaclav Smil ...
    A data-driven, scientific account of our need for speed—exploring a wide range of topics including evolution, transportation, and technologyIn a world obsessed with efficiency, perhaps nothing is valued as highly as being fast. Some of our greatest achievements include building planes that break the sound barrier and creating computers that process data at the touch of a button. With signature ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Civil Engineering

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David Muir Wood ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering not only in the history of civilization and urbanization ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Geography

    par Jason Shattuck ...
    Collections series The Study of Science III
    As the study of the diverse environments and places of Earth’s surface, geography seeks to answer the questions of why things are as they are, where they are. This insightful volume delves into physical geography, which is concerned with places, and human geography, which deals with the people in the placeshow and why they live where they do, and how their social, economic, and cultural ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Geography For Dummies

    The whole world in the palm of your handEver wonder how you can have a rainforest on one side of a mountain and a desert on the other? Or zoom around the globe with Google Maps and wonder how everything got to where it is now? The answer is…geography.In Geography For Dummies, you’ll discover that geography is more than just cool trivia—it explains tons about the world around us. From understanding ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Archaeology

    Excavating Our Past

    Collections series The Study of Science
    The science of archaeology--the study of the remains of the human past--pairs the thrill of the treasure hunt with the mystery of detective work. Readers will learn all about the different types of archaeology, as well as how archaeologists collect, analyze, and synthesize data. In this insightful volume, readers discover archaeologists' goals as they dig up discoveries and the training needed to ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Mountains

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Martin Price ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major rivers, affect regional weather patterns, provide centres of biological and cultural diversity, hold deposits of minerals, and provide both active and contemplative recreation. Yet mountains are also significantly affected by climate change; ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Against the Seas

    Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters

    par Mary Soderstrom ...
    An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. — MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism.What can we learn about coping with rising sea levels from ancient times?The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a ... En savoir plus

    $8.69 CAD

  • Planet Aqua

    Rethinking Our Home in the Universe

    par Jeremy Rifkin ...
    What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we’d been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Climate Migrants

    On the Move in a Warming World

    Around the world, from US coastal towns to island nations of the Pacific and the deserts of Africa, people are in danger of losing their homes. Some have already fled. Others know they are running out of time. By 2050, at least 25 million people will be driven from their homes due to the effects of climate change.Droughts, desertification, rising sea levels, melting permafrost, and severe storms ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Where Am I?

    Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall

    par Colin Ellard ...
    In Where Am I?, University of Waterloo professor Colin Ellard offers an engrossing account of our mental relationship with physical space. One of his key premises is that human beings differ in fundamental ways from all other animals in the way our minds engage with space. He looks at the conceptual tools we share with animals for exploring spatial dimension and pinpoints where our methods differ ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus