Tag: visioning

Free Download Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women’s Scientific Achievements and Impacts by Jill S. Tietjen
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 97 Pages | ISBN : 3319407988 | 2.7 MB
Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered world’s recent past. In addition to a detailed description of the diverse arenas encompassed by the word ‘engineering’ and a nuanced overview of the development of the field, the book includes numerous statistics and thought provoking facts about women’s roles in the achievement of thrilling scientific innovations. This text is a unique resource for students launching research projects in engineering and related fields, professionals interested in gaining a broader understanding of how engineering as a discipline has been impacted by events of global significance, and scholars of women’s immense, often obscured, contributions to scientific progress.

Free Download Visioning Technologies: The Architectures of Sight By Graham Cairns (editor)
2017 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1472454960 | PDF | 5 MB
Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different ‘technologies of sight’ – understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others. Each chapter deals with its own area and historical period of expertise, organized sequentially to mark out and analyse the historical evolution of how architecture has been transformed by technologically induced shifts in human perception from the 15th century until today. This book underlines the way in which architectural forms and design processes have developed historically in conjunction with the systems of sight we manufacture technologically and suggests this continues today. Paradoxically, it is premised on the argument that these technological systems tend, in their initial formulations, to obtain ever greater realism in our visualizations of the physical world.

Free Download Karen Kunz, "When the Levees Break: Re-visioning Regulation of the Securities Markets"
English | ISBN: 0739196049 | 2016 | 222 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The stock markets. Whether you invest or not, the workings of the stock market almost certainly touch your life. Either through your retirement fund, your mutual fund or just because you work for a place that invests (or is invested in)-the reach of the securities markets is expanding, like an ever growing tidal wave.

Free Download Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako, N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, "Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319700421, 3319888811 | PDF | pages: 265 | 2.5 mb
This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges faced by governments from the local and national level and beyond. Along the way, the editors and their contributors examine important policy questions to encourage fresh thinking on ways to improve the educational system and, in turn, to buoy the development of the region as a whole.