Dimensions

Author : Julius Panero
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
ISBN 13 : 0770434606
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Dimension and Interior Space written by Julius Panero and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space. Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the physical planning and detailing of interiors, including interior designers, architects, furniture designers, builders, industrial designers, and students of design. The use of anthropometric data, although no substitute for good design or sound professional judgment should be viewed as one of the many tools required in the design process. This comprehensive overview of anthropometrics consists of three parts. The first part deals with the theory and application of anthropometrics and includes a special section dealing with physically disabled and elderly people. It provides the designer with the fundamentals of anthropometrics and a basic understanding of how interior design standards are established. The second part contains easy-to-read, illustrated anthropometric tables, which provide the most current data available on human body size, organized by age and percentile groupings. Also included is data relative to the range of joint motion and body sizes of children. The third part contains hundreds of dimensioned drawings, illustrating in plan and section the proper anthropometrically based relationship between user and space. The types of spaces range from residential and commercial to recreational and institutional, and all dimensions include metric conversions. In the Epilogue, the authors challenge the interior design profession, the building industry, and the furniture manufacturer to seriously explore the problem of adjustability in design. They expose the fallacy of designing to accommodate the so-called average man, who, in fact, does not exist. Using government data, including studies prepared by Dr. Howard Stoudt, Dr. Albert Damon, and Dr. Ross McFarland, formerly of the Harvard School of Public Health, and Jean Roberts of the U.S. Public Health Service, Panero and Zelnik have devised a system of interior design reference standards, easily understood through a series of charts and situation drawings. With Human Dimension and Interior Space, these standards are now accessible to all designers of interior environments.

Author : Jacques Vallee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938398131
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dimensions written by Jacques Vallee and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In DIMENSIONS, the first volume of a trilogy, Dr. Jacques Vallee reexamines the historical record that led to the modern UFO phenomenon and to the belief in alien contact. He then tackles the enigma of abduction reports, which come from various times and various countries, as well as the psychic and spiritual components of the contact experience. In the last portion of the book, he notes the factors that inhibit research into the phenomenon--the triple coverup and political motivations--and concludes that the extraterrestrial theory is simply not strange enough to explain the facts.

Author : Lisa Trancendence Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615921051
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navigating Dimensions written by Lisa Trancendence Brown and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Dimensions is a must-have, simplified, yet expansively comprehensive guide book filled full of navigational tools for understanding Consciousness, Awakening, Ascension, the Lightbody/Merkaba, Light/DNA Activations and how to shift out of your head (human aspect) and to live fully from your higher self heart (5th Dimensional Aspect). Come to embody Christ/Unity Consciousness, activate your Chrystalline LightBody, and expand to BE your multi-dimensional self again. REMINDERS FOR REMEMBERING are just that. They remind you to remember, that which you have forgotten inside, your true you, your Divine Essence, your higher realm version of you that existed BEFORE you incarnated here for your physical human experience. Lisa has separated the 3rd, 4th, 5th Dimensional Realms, simplified that which makes no logical sense, provided expansive observations which allow for you to take expand BEyond your old programmed human existence here. Come to understand more and learn tools of shifting to higher frequencies, how to "tune," how to BE and EMBODY your Higher Self, your future you, NOW. We REMEMBER our way BACK to the 5th Dimension, which is just the portal (gateway) to all other realms. All is within you. Come to understand how to unlock these portals on your own and become a MASTER, CREATOR and an ALCHEMIST, again. WE are already here. So are you. This will assist you in REMEMBERING and actually existing AS ALL embodied here in the physical reality. Written FROM the higher realms, it is no longer a place we used to seek. NEW EARTH, WE are ALL already here, unified, in love, magic, peace, bliss and yes, paradise again. Join us if you will. So very much love! Aloha Nui Loa!

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823430790
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perimeter, Area, and Volume written by David A. Adler and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab your jumbo popcorn—you're invited to the premiere of a 3-D movie, all about those three dimensions! Trusted math picture book duo David A. Adler and Ed Miller tackle the differences between two- and three-dimensional objects in their signature bright and kid-friendly way. Explaining length, width, and height-- and all the different ways we represent those figures-- Adler shows how changing the dimensions of an object affects its size. . . . with some help from a cast of funny, friendly movie monsters. Explaining key vocabulary in simple text and offering numerous concrete examples and sample math problems with included solutions, Perimeter, Area, and Volume is a perfect introduction to two- and three-dimensional geometry. The star-studded cast of monsters will help you calculate the perimeter of the set, the area of the movie screen, and the volume of your box of popcorn. Learning about dimensions has never been so entertaining!

Author : Eva Jablonka
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262525844
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition written by Eva Jablonka and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, and a substantial new chapter. Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb's pioneering argument proposes that there is more to heredity than genes. They describe four “dimensions” in heredity—four inheritance systems that play a role in evolution: genetic, epigenetic (or non-DNA cellular transmission of traits), behavioral, and symbolic (transmission through language and other forms of symbolic communication). These systems, they argue, can all provide variations on which natural selection can act. Jablonka and Lamb present a richer, more complex view of evolution than that offered by the gene-based Modern Synthesis, arguing that induced and acquired changes also play a role. Their lucid and accessible text is accompanied by artist-physician Anna Zeligowski's lively drawings, which humorously and effectively illustrate the authors' points. Each chapter ends with a dialogue in which the authors refine their arguments against the vigorous skepticism of the fictional “I.M.” (for Ipcha Mistabra—Aramaic for “the opposite conjecture”). The extensive new chapter, presented engagingly as a dialogue with I.M., updates the information on each of the four dimensions—with special attention to the epigenetic, where there has been an explosion of new research. Praise for the first edition “With courage and verve, and in a style accessible to general readers, Jablonka and Lamb lay out some of the exciting new pathways of Darwinian evolution that have been uncovered by contemporary research.” —Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT, author of Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines “In their beautifully written and impressively argued new book, Jablonka and Lamb show that the evidence from more than fifty years of molecular, behavioral and linguistic studies forces us to reevaluate our inherited understanding of evolution.” —Oren Harman, The New Republic “It is not only an enjoyable read, replete with ideas and facts of interest but it does the most valuable thing a book can do—it makes you think and reexamine your premises and long-held conclusions.” —Adam Wilkins, BioEssays

Author : Brian Greene
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039333810X
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory written by Brian Greene and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the superstring theory that attempts to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Author : T. M. Scanlon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674267044
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Dimensions written by T. M. Scanlon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agent’s reasons for performing an action. For example, there seems to be an important moral difference between tactical bombing and a campaign by terrorists—even if the same number of non-combatants are killed—and this difference may seem to lie in the agents’ respective aims. However, Scanlon argues that the apparent dependence of permissibility on the agent’s reasons in such cases is merely a failure to distinguish between two kinds of moral assessment: assessment of the permissibility of an action and assessment of the way an agent decided what to do. Distinguishing between these two forms of assessment leads Scanlon to an important distinction between the permissibility of an action and its meaning: the significance for others of the agent’s willingness to act in this way. An action’s meaning depends on the agent’s reasons for performing it in a way that its permissibility does not. Blame, he argues, is a response to the meaning of an action rather than its permissibility. This analysis leads to a novel account of the conditions of moral responsibility and to important conclusions about the ethics of blame.

Author : Steven Ang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782546685
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights written by Steven Ang and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a globalized world with globalizing IPRs where culturally assumed norms must be re-examined, this work has an urgent and important contribution to make. Taking the main features of internationally mandated IPRs as a starting point it explores the mo

Author : Kevin Siembieda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916211783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skraypers written by Kevin Siembieda and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerrold S. Greenberg
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284114740
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality written by Jerrold S. Greenberg and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated with the latest data in the field, the Sixth Edition of Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality represents all aspects of human sexuality and explores how it affects personality, development, and decision making. Using a student-friendly interpersonal approach, the text discusses contemporary concepts as well as controversial topics in a sensitive manner, and covers the physiological, biological, psychological, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of human sexuality. Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality is an essential text for teaching sexuality and presents an integrated view of human sexuality that encourages students to pursue positive decisions, sexual health, and a lifetime of wellness.