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UNINA9910463696103321 |
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Welland Michael |
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The desert : lands of lost borders / / Michael Welland |
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London, England : , : Reaktion Books, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Arid regions |
Desert ecology |
Deserts |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders; Imprint Page; Contents; Preface; One: Wet and Dry, Hot and Cold; Two: Big and Small, Fast and Slow; Three: Insiders and Outsiders, Civilization and Savagery; Four: Outsiders and Insiders, New World and Old; Five: Mind and Matter, Body and Soul; Six: Ancient and Modern, Boom and Bust; Seven: Barriers and Corridors, Imports and Exports; Eight: Feast or Famine, Knowns and Unknowns; A Personal Epilogue; Sources and Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements and Text Permissions; Index |
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From endless sand dunes and prickly cacti to shimmering mirages and green oases, deserts evoke contradictory images in us. They are lands of desolation, but also of romance, of blistering Mojave heat and biting Gobi cold. Covering a quarter of the earth's land mass and providing a home to half a billion people, they are both a physical reality and landscapes of the mind. The idea of the desert has long captured Western imagination, put on display in films and literature, but these portrayals often fail to capture the true scope and diversity of the people living there. Bridging the scientific |
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UNINA9910139389603321 |
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Autore |
Taylor Thomas A. <1964-> |
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Guide to LEED 2009 [[electronic resource] ] : estimating and preconstruction strategies / / Thomas A. Taylor |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2011 |
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0-470-90254-X |
1-282-90479-5 |
9786612904790 |
0-470-90252-3 |
1-118-03844-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Sustainable buildings - Design and construction - Estimates |
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System |
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pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. LEED 2009 and the contractor -- pt. 3. Case studies. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This guide walks the reader step by step through the LEED 2009 for New Construction process, offering advanced techniques for estimating the actual costs, in time and money, for building green. It serves as an essential primer to price-assessment strategies for high-performance commercial and institutional projects, which include office buildings, high-rise residential buildings, government buildings, recreational facilities, manufacturing plants, and laboratories. Written by an author with more than twenty years of green construction experience on more than 80LEED registered or certified proj |
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