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Architecture of Health is a story about the design and life of
hospitals-about how they are born and evolve, about the forces that
give them shape, and the shifts that conspire to render them
inadequate. Reading architecture through the history of hospitals
is a deciphering tool for unlocking the elemental principles of
architecture and the intractable laws of human and social
conditions that architecture serves in each of our lives. This book
encounters brilliant and visionary designers who were hospital
architects but also systems designers, driven by the aim of social
change. They faced the contradictions of health care in their time
and found innovative ways to solve for specific medical dilemmas.
Less-known designers like Filarete, Lluis Domenech i Montaner,
Albert Schweitzer, Max Fry and Jane Drew, John Dawe Tetlow, Gordon
Friesen, Thomas Wheeler, and Eberhard Zeidler are studied here,
while the medical spaces of more widely-known architects like
Isambard Brunel, Aalvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and Paul
Rudolph also help inform this history. All these characters were
polymaths and provocateurs, but none quite summarizes this history
more succinctly than Florence Nightingale, who in laying out her
guidelines for ward design in 1859, shows how the design of a
medical facility can influence an entire political and social
order. Architecture of Health, richly illustrated with images and
never before published renderings and drawings from the MASS Design
Group, charts historical epidemics alongside modern and
contemporary architectural transformations in service of medicine,
health, and habitation; it explores how infrastructure facilitates
healing and architecture's greater role in constructing our
societies.
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life?, which was originally delivered as a set of lectures at Trinity College, Dublin, is perhaps one of the most important scientific books of the twentieth century. It marked the beginning of molecular biology, and stimulated scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore and discover the structure of DNA. The novelty and appeal of What is Life? is that Schrödinger addressed the central problems of biology--heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order--from a physicist's perspective. Fifty years later, at Trinity College, a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the anniversary of Schrödinger's lectures. In this book, they present their views on the current main problems in biology. The contributors are eminent scientists (including two Nobel Laureates) and well-known writers of popular science, including Jared Diamond, Christien de Duve, Manfred Eigen, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Kauffman, John Maynard Smith, Roger Penrose, and Lewis Wolpert. They tackle questions on our current understanding of the origin of life, evolution, the origin of human inventiveness, developmental biology, and the basis for consciousness. The book ends with a touching biography by Schrödinger's daughter, Ruth Braunizer. This book will set the stage for biological research into the next century and is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future.
Popular young adult books such as The Hunger Games and Divergent,
as well as literary classics such as Walker Percy's Love in the
Ruins and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, have created a growing
interest in dystopian novels. In one of the first such novels of
the twentieth century, Benson imagines a world where belief in God
has been replaced by secular humanism. In this harrowing novel,
apocalyptic conflict looms as Julian Falsenburg arises as leader of
the world, promising peace in exchange for blind obedience. Those
who resist are subject to torture and execution. As the Catholic
Church in England rapidly disintegrates, Rev. Percy Franklin is
left to provide hope and stability.
A step by step guide to designing history timelines with VB
computer language. Numerous dinosaur and mammal images. Print
screens of computer programming processes.
Paul Murdock is back The Vietnam War took away Murdock's ability to
walk, but did nothing to diminish his intellect, street smarts, or
his win-at-all-costs attitude toward his work as a high-priced
private investigator. Bored and divorced (again), Murdock accepts a
job tracking down a runaway girl whose idealism has taken her to
the rugged plains of Afghanistan. Murdock knows the dangers of
operating in that war-torn country, but never expects the case to
take him even further from home: to the streets of Moscow. This is
not the grim, oppressive capitol of the former Soviet Union,
however, but a reborn metropolis awash in new money and old
vendettas. One of the forces behind the New Russia turns out to be
Ivan Dubrynin; once a major player in the Russian underworld, but
now a marked man for betraying his sacred oath to the "Thieves
World." Dubrynin offers to help Murdock with his case if, in turn,
Murdock agrees to escort Dubrynin and his two granddaughters safely
out of the country. No easy task, since Dubrynin is targeted by the
Russian Mob, embittered business rivals, and a corrupt police
force. The only thing working in Murdock's favor is the assistance
of Svetlana Iosha, a former Moscow cop-turned bodyguard, as deadly
as she is beautiful. Danger and death lurk around every corner and
down every alley, but Murdock prefers risk over boredom.
In 1971, Paul Murdock was a Special Ops soldier in Vietnam - until
a bullet severed his spine. Confined to a wheelchair ever since
that day, Murdock now works as a high-price private investigator,
taking on cases that no one else will touch. When convicted crime
boss Leo Grimaldi decides to turn informant, Murdock is hired to
retrieve documents that could not only set Grimaldi free, but put
many of his competitors away for life. Murdock figures that this
assignment will mean a lot of money for a little work, quick and
easy. All he has to do is ignore the fact that he's working for a
former Mob enforcer. Unfortunately, someone else has gotten to the
documents first. So begins a hunt that will lead Murdock all over
New York State, and put him into the crosshairs of everyone from
the Russian Mafia to his own, vengeful client. On top of all this,
Murdock is also asked by his brother, a priest, to investigate a
teenager who may have been wrongfully imprisoned. Suddenly,
Murdock's quick and easy assignment is no longer quite so simple,
but he knows that the bigger the risk, the greater the reward
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life?, which was originally delivered as a set of lectures at Trinity College, Dublin, is perhaps one of the most important scientific books of the twentieth century. It marked the beginning of molecular biology, and stimulated scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore and discover the structure of DNA. The novelty and appeal of What is Life? is that Schrödinger addressed the central problems of biology--heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order--from a physicist's perspective. Fifty years later, at Trinity College, a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the anniversary of Schrödinger's lectures. In this book, they present their views on the current main problems in biology. The contributors are eminent scientists (including two Nobel Laureates) and well-known writers of popular science, including Jared Diamond, Christien de Duve, Manfred Eigen, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Kauffman, John Maynard Smith, Roger Penrose, and Lewis Wolpert. They tackle questions on our current understanding of the origin of life, evolution, the origin of human inventiveness, developmental biology, and the basis for consciousness. The book ends with a touching biography by Schrödinger's daughter, Ruth Braunizer. This book will set the stage for biological research into the next century and is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future.
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