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O-14 : projection and reception : Reiser + Umemoto
This volume provides an exhaustive technical and theoretical analysis of the O-14 tower, a landmark commercial skyscraper in Business Bay, Dubai, designed by the New York-based firm Reiser + Umemoto (RUR Architecture). Part of the \"Source Books in Architecture\" series, the book chronicles the project from its radical conceptualization to its realization as one of the most structurally innovative buildings in the Middle East. It focuses on the building's revolutionary exoskeleton—a concrete \"shell\" that functions as both the primary structure and a high-performance thermal screen.
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Assessing the Value of U.S. Army International Activities
This report presents a framework for assessing U.S. Army International Activities (AIA). It also provides a matrix of eight AIA \"ends,\" derived from top-level national and Army guidance, and eight AIA \"ways,\" which summarize the various capabilities inherent in AIA programs. In addition, the report describes the new online AIA Knowledge Sharing System (AIAKSS) that is being used to solicit programmatic and assessment data from AIA officials in the Army's Major Commands.
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Projects and their consequences
Projects and Their Consequences presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. Projects and Their Consequences traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan and the Alishan Railway in Taiwan, as well as schemes for cultural institutions including the New Museum, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Also included are thought-provoking \"textual projects\": narrative works that blur the boundaries of art and architecture. Projects and Their Consequences balances incisive interviews and essays with more than 400 strikingly original drawings, collages, and paintings. Large-format and beautifully designed, it is a necessary volume for architects and those interested in the intersection of architecture, art, and culture.
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The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq
Reviews UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners, and compares those missions with U.S. nation-building operations. The UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation-building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men-one with a comparatively low cost structure, a comparatively high success rate, and the greatest degree of international legitimacy.
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Romancing The Ring : Romance Tropes in the Lord of the Rings
This dissertation is an exploration of the Romance tropes that exist in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. It concentrates on the numerous Romance tropes and details evident in Tolkien’s characters and setting while focusing on how these tropes function within the greater Romance genre. Examples from various other Romances are used to augment the argument, but particular mention is made of the Romances or pieces of literature that Tolkien translated and worked on in his lifetime, including: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, The Pearl, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur, and Beowulf. The dissertation focuses on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, which has been responsible for the renaissance of modern fantasy in the twentieth-century. It begins by raising the contentious issue of whether Tolkien’s book may be regarded as a Romance. The work of Helen Cooper (2009), Gillian Beer (1970) and Northrop Frye (1973 and 1976) forms the basis of this theoretical discussion. The Romance tropes evident in the analysis of the characters and setting of The Lord of the Ringsprovide an interesting starting point for further discussion of the Romance tropes that exist elsewhere in Tolkien’s work, and one hopes that more research into this will follow.
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Muskets and Pendulums: Benjamin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the Ballistics Revolution
Between 1742 and 1753, Benjamin Robins and Leonhard Euler were influential in revolutionizing ballistics. The historical role of engineering research in the ballistics revolution is discussed.
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