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Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems: From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop provides a comprehensive technical guide on up-to-date new secure defending theories and technologies novel design and systematic understanding of secure architecture with practical applications. The book consists of 10 chapters which are divided into three parts. The first three chapters extensively introduce secure state estimation technologies providing a systematic presentation on the latest progress in security issues regarding state estimation. The next five chapters focus on the design of secure feedback control technologies in industrial control systems displaying an extraordinary difference from that of traditional secure defending approaches from the viewpoint of network and communication. The last two chapters elaborate on the systematic secure control architecture and algorithms for various concrete application scenarios. The authors provide detailed descriptions on attack model and strategy analysis intrusion detection secure state estimation and control game theory in closed-loop systems and various cyber security applications. The book is useful to anyone interested in secure theories and technologies for industrial control systems. | Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

GBP 42.99
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Human-in-the-Loop Probabilistic Modeling of an Aerospace Mission Outcome

Human-in-the-Loop Probabilistic Modeling of an Aerospace Mission Outcome

Improvements in safety in the air and in space can be achieved through better ergonomics better work environments and other efforts of traditional avionic psychology that directly affect human behaviors and performance. Not limited to just the aerospace field this book discusses adaptive probabilistic predictive modeling in human-in-the-loop situations and gets you familiar with a new powerful flexible and effective approach to making outcomes from missions successful and safe. Covers the concepts which are adaptable across other disciplines and methodology for evaluating the likelihood of a successful outcome of an extraordinary situation Considers human performance and equipment/instrumentation reliability as well as other possible sources of uncertainty Presents probabilistic assessment of an aerospace mission outcome Provides the most effective physically meaningful and cost-effective planning of an aerospace mission Offers how to organize and provide the most effective training of personnel | Human-in-the-Loop Probabilistic Modeling of an Aerospace Mission Outcome

GBP 44.99
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Spark Ignition Engine Modeling and Control System Design A Guide to Model-in-the-Loop Hierarchical Control Methodology

Spark Ignition Engine Modeling and Control System Design A Guide to Model-in-the-Loop Hierarchical Control Methodology

This book presents a step-by-step guide to the engine control system design providing case studies and a thorough analysis of the modeling process using machine learning and model predictive control (MPC). Covering advanced processes alongside the theoretical foundation MPC enables engineers to improve performance in both hybrid and non-hybrid vehicles. Control system improvement is one of the major priorities for engineers seeking to enhance an engine. Often possible on a low budget substantial improvements can be made by applying cutting-edge methods such as artificial intelligence when modeling engine control system designs and using MPC. This book presents approaches to control system improvement at mid low and high levels of control. Beginning with the model-in-the-loop hierarchical control design of ported fuel injection SI engines this book focuses on optimal control of both transient and steady state and also discusses hardware-in-the-loop. The chapter on low-level control discusses adaptive MPC and adaptive variable functioning as well as designing a fuel injection feed-forward controller. At mid-level control engine calibration maps are discussed with consideration of constraints such as limits on pollutant emissions. Finally the high-level control methodology is discussed in detail in relation to transient torque control of SI engines. This comprehensive yet clear guide to control system improvement is an essential read for any engineer working in automotive engineering and engine control system design. | Spark Ignition Engine Modeling and Control System Design A Guide to Model-in-the-Loop Hierarchical Control Methodology

GBP 68.99
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All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

Classroom role-playing simulations bring the drama of politics to life and enrich traditional learning by plunging students into the midst of historical or current events. Ben-Yehuda gives students and instructors the resources and confidence to embark on a careful enactment of scenarios that will inspire enthusiasm in participants and stick in the memory long after the curtain falls. The book includes in-depth discussions of three possible theatrical simulations: appeasement in 1938 Munich the regional turmoil following the 1947 UN Palestine Partition decision and the Syrian civil war and ongoing global confrontation with ISIS. It is appropriate for students in global studies courses at all levels. | All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

GBP 36.99
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Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists Lage Lund Jack Wilkins Ben Monder Rez Abbasi and Adam Rogers; a modal matrix for analyzing structure time and form in jazz guitar improvisation and musical analysis based on cognitive theories. By explaining the cognitive and musical foundations for expertise in jazz guitar improvisation this book illuminates how jazz guitarists' strategies are crucially dependent on context style and type of interplay. With accompanying video provided as an e-resource this material will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Jazz and Psychology of Music. | Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

GBP 38.99
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Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research Methodological Perspectives On Agricultural Development

Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research Methodological Perspectives On Agricultural Development

The publication of this book has required the cooperation of many people along the way. From its very conception the project of bringing together experiences from ongoing Farming Systems Research projects has faced a problem of communication due to the dispersal of the participants. Dr. William Partridge and Lynne Goldstein were instrumental in the initial presentation of the symposium on Social Science participation in Farming Systems Research at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Ben Wallace has done an admirable job not only as editor but 8s a ilpoint m-an- throughout the process or organizirig the conference and preparing the manuscript. He deserves credit tor expediting countless actMties that could never have otherwise been accomplished because of the vagaries or international mails and telecommunications. | Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research Methodological Perspectives On Agricultural Development

GBP 39.99
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The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

First Published in 1951 The Monarch of Wit presents John Donne’s poetry in its proper context. The chief purpose of the book is to enable the reader to approach Donne’s poetry without preconceptions of what ‘metaphysical’ poetry is or ought to be. Some of the questions which the author constantly has in mind are these: What are the main resemblances and differences on the one hand between Donne’s poetry and Ben Jonson’s and on the other hand between Donne’s poetry and that of poets who are commonly regarded as his disciples? How much of Donne’s poetry may be appropriately described as metaphysical as personal or autobiographical or as the expression of what has been called a unified sensibility? This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of English poetry English literature and European literature. | The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

GBP 27.99
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength might and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless since September 11 a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts giving the once easy and unforced union a stilted feel. That the War on Terror became a fixture of modern- day Super Bowls was easy to portend; what was more difficult to predict was the imprint it would leave on U. S. citizens and American politics. Ben Fountain’s award-winning novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk reveals what passes for patriotism in a country that has reduced the sober and stark reality of combat to pageantry and production for the crowd back home leaving our troops to unwittingly play the part of entertainers destined to be sexualized just like the cheerleaders and dancers so frequently performing alongside them. | Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

GBP 48.99
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The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

This title was first published in 2003. Peter Lanyon stood at the forefront of landscape painting in Europe during the late 1950s and early 60s. A prominent St Ives artist he was associated with Barbara Hepworth Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo; his work also has affinities with abstract expressionism. Lanyon's career started just as the study of drawing was being liberated from 19th-century academic constrictions. His many drawings range from records of trips to the Netherlands and Italy to portrait sketches and abstract studies. Lanyon also used drawings extensively in the development of some of his most important paintings. In this study Margaret Garlake explores Lanyon's theory and practice of drawing; the contribution of drawings to the evocation of place in paintings; his use of models and the metamorphosis of the human body into landscape images as well as his use of three-dimensional constructions as equivalents to drawing. | The Drawings of Peter Lanyon

GBP 99.99
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The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

Louis R. Pondy was a leading management and organizational studies scholar whose work on open systems helped launch and define the future of the field. This book offers an assessment of Pondy’s contribution through critical reflection on what happened to the relationship between conflict theory and “beyond open systems. ” Exploring the ways in which Louis R. Pondy theorizes conflict and systems and how he challenged the status quo paradigms this book offers a historical analysis on Pondy’s work and the relation to contemporary management theory. The author develops a Triple Loop framework building on Pondy’s theories as well as the work of Gregory Batesom to demonstrate a beyond-open-systems approach and existing single- or double-loop systems. Demonstrating the value and legacy of Louis R. Pondy this book will have international appeal to researchers academics and students across management disciplines and organizational studies including systems thinking and conflict resolution. | The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

GBP 130.00
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Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

In 1944 C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as the most tremendous things I have ever experienced. Central to these visions was the mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition and Jung’s experience of himself as Rabbi Simon ben Jochai the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi the Maggid of Mezhirech anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism. | Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

GBP 29.99
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Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence from delight surprise and love to anger distress and fear. Taking a chronological approach each chapter focuses on a specific emotion and covers the theories and research relating to its development from infants’ emotional capabilities to the changes in self-understanding and self-conscious emotions of adolescence. Hay integrates the approaches of classic developmental differentiation and differential emotions theory to create a comprehensive textbook with a unique approach to the subject matter showcasing a range of research linking emotions to biological underpinnings and early experiences. This wide-ranging book also includes coverage of differences in temperament developmental psychopathology emotion regulation and development of emotional understanding and attachment. It is core reading for students of developmental psychology health psychology child welfare and social work as well as anyone taking a course on social and emotional development courses. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in educational and clinical psychology and child psychiatry. | Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

GBP 39.99
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Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

Writing well is an essential skill for sociologists but few books help students learn to write well. Designed to help students produce a manuscript that is clear concise and compelling Effective Writing for Sociology demonstrates and deconstructs what makes effective writing and how best to communicate scholarly ideas. The first half of the book addresses the fundamentals of good writing: writing clearly conveying emphasis writing concisely and crafting effective paragraphs. The second half then looks to the three most important sections of a research report: framing an introduction reporting results and discussing findings. Each chapter of the book describes strategies for effective writing illustrated with multiple examples and providing exercises where students can try their hand at implementing these strategies. The Epilogue provides tips on choosing a title as well as writing an abstract and method section; it also includes suggestions on how to master the tips described in the lessons. Ben Lennox Kail and Robert V. Kail’s book is essential reading in courses on research methods qualitative methods quantitative methods sociological writing and social science writing in allied disciplines such as education criminology health and all research fields. | Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

GBP 18.99
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A Guide to School Attendance

A Guide to School Attendance

Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every day; a waste of money resources and most of all of opportunity. A school’s practice is now subject to scrutiny as never before with targets and standard procedures required. A Guide to School Attendance provides a detailed practical guide for school leaders and managers teachers Education Welfare Officers and other attendance workers in schools and local authorities. New Registration Regulations have been force since September 2006. All state-maintained schools have a legal duty to combat unauthorised absence to maintain a twice-daily attendance record for every pupil and have attendance policies and procedures ready for OFSTED inspections. These should define everyday practice in all schools but are not always widely known about by those on the front-line. Ben Whitney draws together twenty years of education welfare experience to provide a wealth of ideas to benefit any school. The book provides: summaries of the legal requirements extended case studies Question and Answer sections group work activities model policies and procedures

GBP 130.00
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Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

Speech Bubbles 1 is the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists parents/caregivers and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development children receiving speech therapy or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children. The set includes eleven picture books that each target a different speech sound within the story. The set is also accompanied by a user guide with notes for professionals and caregivers alike. Eleven different speech sounds have been chosen that are early developing sounds or sounds commonly targeted in speech language therapy. With titles such as Who Bit My Tail? Crocodiles Can’t Climb Trees and Ben the Bubble Bear the stories are light and engaging with colourful and fun pictures on every page to keep the child interested. Perfect not just for therapy but also for encouraging early sound awareness and development Speech Bubbles 1 will create the perfect relaxed learning and practice environment for children beginning their journey into phonological awareness speech sounds and their positions in words. | Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

GBP 11.99
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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Approaching from bibliographical literary cultural and intercultural perspectives this book establishes the importance of Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors including Shakespeare Bacon Ben Jonson and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism composition reading practice and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing early modern English reading practice and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu exploring Matteo Ricci’s cross-cultural commonplace writing and re-reading Shakespeare’s sonnets in light of Ricci’s On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature manuscript study commonplace books history of the book and intercultural study. | Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

GBP 130.00
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Power Electronic Converters Interactive Modelling Using Simulink

Power Electronic Converters Interactive Modelling Using Simulink

Provides a step-by-step method for the development of a virtual interactive power electronics laboratory. The book is suitable for undergraduates and graduates for their laboratory course and projects in power electronics. It is equally suitable for professional engineers in the power electronics industry. The reader will learn to develop interactive virtual power electronics laboratory and perform simulations of their own as well as any given power electronic converter design using SIMULINK with advanced system model and circuit component level model. Features Examples and Case Studies included throughout. Introductory simulation of power electronic converters is performed using either PSIM or MICROCAP Software. Covers interactive system model developed for three phase Diode Clamped Three Level Inverter Flying Capacitor Three Level Inverter Five Level Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter Multicarrier Sine Phase Shift PWM and Multicarrier Sine Level Shift PWM. System models of power electronic converters are verified for performance using interactive circuit component level models developed using Simscape-Electrical Power Systems and Specialized Technology block set. Presents software in the loop or Processor in the loop simulation with a power electronic converter examples. | Power Electronic Converters Interactive Modelling Using Simulink

GBP 130.00
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Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

If event is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes crises transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature. As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer subdisciplines of literary and critical theory including close reading bio- politics world literature and eco- criticism this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike. Along with a specialist focus on thinkers such as Derrida Badiou Deleuze and Malabou the essays in this volume read a wide corpus of literature ranging from Han Kang Homer Renee Gladman Proust and Flaubert to Yoruba ideophones Browning Anne Carson Jenichiro Oyabe and Ben Lerner. | Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

GBP 38.99
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Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory Vice Virtue and Spoilt Children

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory Vice Virtue and Spoilt Children

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory posits three startling points: that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about the Renaissance; that this character used to distil classical wisdom regarding how to raise children to become moral adults consistently appeared in plays performed between 1350 and 1650; and that the character was often utilised by the likes of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and therefore adds a long-forgotten allegorical narrative to their works. This evidence-based reappraisal of some of the most iconic works in Western literature suggests that a core element of their content has been ‘lost’ for centuries. This text will appeal to anyone with an interest in late medieval and early modern drama especially the works of Shakespeare; to those interested in the history of teaching and child-rearing; to anyone curious about the practical application of philosophy in society; to anyone that would like to know more about the crucial and defining period today known as the Renaissance and how and why society was redesigned by those with influence; and to all those who would like to know more about how history which though sometimes misplaced continues to influenced our modern world. | Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory Vice Virtue and Spoilt Children

GBP 130.00
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Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

Since the ages of the Old Testament the Homeric myths the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium the theme of loneliness has dominated and haunted the Western world. In this wide-ranging book philosopher Ben Lazare Mijuskovic returns us to our rich philosophical past on the nature of consciousness lived experience and the pining for a meaningful existence that contemporary social science has displaced in its tendency toward material reduction. Engaging key metaphysical discussions on causality space time subjectivity the mind body problem personal identity freedom religion and transcendence in ancient scholastic modern and contemporary philosophy he highlights the phenomenology of loneliness that lies at the very core of being human. In challenging psychoanalytic and neuroscientific paradigms Mijuskovic argues that isolative existence and self-consciousness is not so much of a problem of unconscious conflict or the need for psychopharmacology as it is the loss of a sense of personal intimacy. The issue of the criteria of personal identity in relation to loneliness has long engaged and consumed the interest of theologians ethicists philosophers novelists and psychologists. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of the humanities and all those with an interest in the philosophy of loneliness. | Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

GBP 31.99
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A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture this book provides an index of ideas theories projects and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as “contemporism” through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements). The contemporary project has been trying to answer the postmodern question of how to move beyond modernism through a thread of architectural styles that tried to respond to deficiencies from the modern promise and contextual changes. Yet the question remains should this ongoing struggle to move beyond modernism be a stylistic battle? Has the present architectural practice ever left the modernist tendencies and is there a structure for a contemporary language in architecture? This book presents a collection of highly illustrated projects that have worked under these parameters to break away from modernism in order to present a holistic integration of topology and typology as a language for “contemporism. ” The index is illustrated with individual spreads which can be read sequentially or independently and encourages the reader to make their own connections. It also includes interviews and contributions from Toyo Ito Anthony Vidler Ben van Berkel Christian Kerez and Greg Lynn. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in architecture. | A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

GBP 32.99
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Tensegrity Structures Design Methods

Tensegrity Structures Design Methods

Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton. This general introduction presents an original general method for the design of tensegrity structures the first configurations of which were found by trial and error. The book begins with two-dimensional tensegrity structures particularly tensegrity nets tensegrity chains tensegrity rings and tensegrity arches. These are then developed to original configurations of spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity slabs primitive spatial tensegrity arches and primitive tensegrity domes as well as more elaborate spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity cylindrical shells slim tensegrity domes tensegrity vaults and tensegrity caps. Presents a robust new approach to the design of tensegrity structures Extends tensegrity structures to new three-dimensional configurations Tensegrity Structures Design Methods suits structural civil and mechanical engineers and architects as well as graduate students. Oren Vilnay is Professor Emeritus and was founder and head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Ben Gurion University Israel. He is also former head of the Structural Engineering Section at Technion—IsraelInstitute of Technology. Leon Chernin is Lecturer at the University of Dundee. He was granted a PhD in Structural Engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. His research activities encompass both physical testing and numerical modelling.

GBP 82.99
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Continuous Delivery 2.0 Business-leading DevOps Essentials

Continuous Delivery 2.0 Business-leading DevOps Essentials

The agile transformation is an act of transforming an organization’s form or nature gradually to one that can embrace and thrive in a flexible collaborative self-organizing and fast-changing environment. It seems like most of the companies starting an agile transformation never reach the goal of agility but there are those few that truly become agile and reap incredible benefits by utilizing DevOps as well. This book introduces the theory and practice of the double-flywheels model of Continuous Delivery 2. 0: Discovery Loop which allows information technology (IT) organizations to help businesses figure out the most efficacious ways to develop. Additionally it explores applications of the Verification Loop that allows IT organizations to deliver value quickly and safely with high quality. Along the way the book provides an array of insights and case studies that dive into all the aspects of software delivery and how to implement Continuous Delivery in the most economical way for long-run business development. Features Organization culture and software architecture Business requirement management Pipeline and tooling Branching and releasing strategy Automation strategy Configuration and artefacts management Deployment and production healthy The case studies at the end of the book—scenarios in which the author was personally involved—are explored in depth and meticulously detailed in order to represent typical agile transition scenarios that will benefit all readers. | Continuous Delivery 2. 0 Business-leading DevOps Essentials

GBP 84.99
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Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades

Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades

Visually enriched with over 250 photographs and drawings Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades is an essential reference guide for understanding the types and functions of double-skin façades. Author Mary Ben Bonham examines the history and continuing potential of double-skin architecture informing on the variety of approaches possible and advising a rigorous integrated design process leading to application. Featuring a wide selection of architectural examples the book will be of interest to professionals and students within the fields of architecture engineering and construction. Characterized by a buffer-like air space between two glazed building skins double-skin windows and façades aim to improve building comfort and energy performance. Double skins introduce complexity and initial costs yet significant buildings in locations around the globe continue to select this approach. In addition to exploring motivations benefits and cautions for designing with double skins the book provides a primer on fundamental façade design concepts and strategies for control of thermal luminous and acoustic environments. Chapters also address alternative types of high-performance façades and implications for each phase of façade design and construction. Bioclimatic Double-Skin Façades promotes bioclimatic design that is inspired by nature measured in performance and uniquely adapted to climate and place. In-depth case studies illustrate how double-skin façades have been adapted to a range of climates and cultural settings: Marseille Library and Grenoble Courthouse in France Cambridge Public Library in Massachusetts Manitoba Hydro Place in Canada and the Pearl River Tower in China.

GBP 46.99
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