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Author: Vincent Callebaut Architectures Publisher: ISBN: 9789881296740 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book, via introductions to the 17 projects of Vincent Callebaut Architectures and its research theories, conveys the exploring ideas of Vincent Callebaut, a practitioner of sustainable architecture, who militates continuously for the ecosystemic development of new fertile cities of tomorrow by means of an investigation process mixing the biomorphism, the bionic and the biomimicry to information andc ommunication technologies in order to create new-ecoresponsible lifestyles.
Author: Vincent Callebaut Architectures Publisher: ISBN: 9789881296740 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book, via introductions to the 17 projects of Vincent Callebaut Architectures and its research theories, conveys the exploring ideas of Vincent Callebaut, a practitioner of sustainable architecture, who militates continuously for the ecosystemic development of new fertile cities of tomorrow by means of an investigation process mixing the biomorphism, the bionic and the biomimicry to information andc ommunication technologies in order to create new-ecoresponsible lifestyles.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9789463951234 Category : Languages : en Pages : 315
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Het doel van dit onderzoek is bij te dragen aan het begrijpen van het potentieel om de recirculatie van nutriënten tussen nieuwe sanitatie en stadslandbouw tot stand te brengen. Specifieke doelstellingen zijn (i) een analyse van de vraag naar en het aanbod van nutriënten, (ii) een evaluatie van ruimtelijke en temporele aspecten van de koppeling tussen vraag en aanbod, en (iii) een reflectie op de mogelijke afwegingen van het hergebruik van nutriënten in de stedelijke omgeving. Dit proefschrift richt zich voornamelijk op de drie macronutriënten stikstof (N), fosfor (P) en kalium (K), evenals organische stof (OM); andere macro- en micronutriënten worden in beperkte mate besproken. De centrale vraag van dit proefschrift is: ‘wat is het potentieel om nutriënten die aanwezig zijn in menselijke ontlasting als meststof her te gebruiken in de stadslandbouw’.
Author: Peter Thorpe ELLISON Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674036441 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 370
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Reproduction is among the most basic of human biological functions, both for our distant ancestors and for ourselves, whether we live on the plains of Africa or in North American suburbs. Our reproductive biology unites us as a species, but it has also been an important engine of our evolution. In the way our bodies function today we can see both the imprint of our formative past and implications for our future. It is the infinitely subtle and endlessly dramatic story of human reproduction and its evolutionary context that Peter T. Ellison tells in On Fertile Ground. Ranging from the latest achievements of modern fertility clinics to the lives of subsistence farmers in the rain forests of Africa, this book offers both a remarkably broad and a minutely detailed exploration of human reproduction. Ellison, a leading pioneer in the field, combines the perspectives of anthropology, stressing the range and variation of human experience; ecology, sensitive to the two-way interactions between humans and their environments; and evolutionary biology, emphasizing a functional understanding of human reproductive biology and its role in our evolutionary history. Whether contrasting female athletes missing their periods and male athletes using anabolic steroids with Polish farm women and hunter-gatherers in Paraguay, or exploring the intricate choreography of an implanting embryo or of a nursing mother and her child, On Fertile Ground advances a rich and deeply satisfying explanation of the mechanisms by which we reproduce and the evolutionary forces behind their design.
Author: Bruce Kraig Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780238827 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 374
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The small ears of corn once grown by Native Americans have now become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and herds of animals that supported indigenous people have turned into industrial agricultural operations with regular rows of soybeans, corn, and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and why? In A Rich and Fertile Land, Bruce Kraig investigates the history of food in America, uncovering where it comes from and how it has changed over time. From the first Native Americans to modern industrial farmers, Kraig takes us on a journey to reveal how people have shaped the North American continent and its climate based on the foods they craved and the crops and animals that they raised. He analyzes the ideas that Americans have about themselves and the world around them, and how these ideas have been shaped by interactions with their environments. He details the impact of technical innovation and industrialization, which have in turn created modern American food systems. Drawing upon recent evidence from the fields of science, archaeology, and technology, A Rich and Fertile Land is a unique and valuable history of the geography, climate, and food of the United States.
Author: Truman Asa Hartshorn Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471887501 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 517
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The Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.
Author: Mary Kittel Publisher: Rodale ISBN: 9781594860539 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 356
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A practical handbook on women's fertility shares secrets of how to extend fertility into a woman's thirties and forties, teaching women simple lifestyle changes that make fertility possible into middle age. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Author: Elena R. Gutiérrez Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292716826 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 223
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While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her reproduction has been targeted as a major social problem for the United States. Due to fear-fueled news reports and public perceptions about the changing composition of the nation's racial and ethnic makeup—the so-called Latinization of America—the reproduction of Mexican immigrant women has become a central theme in contemporary U. S. politics since the early 1990s. In this exploration, Elena R. Gutiérrez considers these public stereotypes of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women as "hyper-fertile baby machines" who "breed like rabbits." She draws on social constructionist perspectives to examine the historical and sociopolitical evolution of these racial ideologies, and the related beliefs that Mexican-origin families are unduly large and that Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women do not use birth control. Using the coercive sterilization of Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles as a case study, Gutiérrez opens a dialogue on the racial politics of reproduction, and how they have developed for women of Mexican origin in the United States. She illustrates how the ways we talk and think about reproduction are part of a system of racial domination that shapes social policy and affects individual women's lives.