Non-Fiction

Smart Energy Management for Households

by Sonja Van Dam, Tu Delft, Architecture and The Built Environment – Tu Delft (June 28, 2013)

Smart Energy Management for Households infers design-related insights and guidelines to improve the use and effectiveness of home energy management systems (HEMS) through an empirical evaluation of the longitudinal...

Spatial planning and urban resilience in the context of flood risk.

by Pei-Wen Lu, Tu Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment – Tu Delft (September 05, 2014)

Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive...

Negotiation and Design for the Self-Organizing City

by Ekim Tan, Tu Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment – Tu Delft (September 05, 2014)

This book is dedicated to building an open negotiation and design method for cities as self-organizing systems that bridges the gap between collaborative planning and collaborative design methods. Gaming as...

Think Fast Act Faster: How to Generate Innovative Ideas and Make Them Happen

by GREGG RAINER – eBookIt.com (December 08, 2014)

Do you constantly need to think about how to increase sales and profits for your business?

Do you need innovative solutions to improve your products, services, and business processes to transform your business?...

Everything Is Combustible

by Richard Lloyd – Beech Hill Publishing Company (January 09, 2018)

Legendary Rock and Roll guitarist. Founding member of Television. Masterful storyteller. Written in Lloyd's inimitable, frequently humorous style, Everything is Combustible chronicles, through vignettes, Lloyd's colorful...

Book Review: Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

by 50Minutes – 50Minutes.com (May 23, 2017)

It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is one of the bestselling...

The Acts of the Apostles: Conflict of the Ages

by Ellen G. White – Dancing Unicorn Books (August 08, 2016)

Volume 4 of the 'Conflict of the Ages' book series, 'The Acts of the Apostles,' covers from the Great Commission to John the Revelator on Patmos. This key Seventh Day Adventist text explains in detail the SDA...

Little Panda Amigurumi Crochet Pattern

by Sayjai Thawornsupacharoen – K and J Publishing (October 01, 2015)

Crochet pattern to create a little panda doll.

This panda is inspired by a cooking set to make little Sushi pandas from seaweed and rice. I turned it into a crocheted doll. The book shows you how to crochet a...

Cooper's Revenge

by Terrence L Williams & Emily Carmain – First Coast Publishers, LLC (October 21, 2014)

Navy SEAL, Logan Alexander, is trying to put his life back together following a career-ending injury in Afghanistan, when he learns that his younger brother, Cooper, has been killed in an ambush while on patrol...

Amigurumi Kokeshi Dolls

by Sayjai Thawornsupacharoen – K and J Publishing (October 11, 2014)

This little book explains how to crochet little Kokeshi Amigurumi dolls. A basic knowledge of crochet is required.

Amigurumi is a Japanese word, meaning a stuffed animal toy usually made from crocheted yarn...

Durable past - sustainable future

by Rob Van Hees, Tu Delft, Silvia Naldini, Tu Delft & Job Roos, Tu Delft – Tu Delft (September 21, 2014)

The section Heritage & Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology deals with the built environment in terms of conservation, refurbishment and re-use. Reflecting the department...

Facade Refurbishment Toolbox.

by Thaleia Konstantinou, Tu Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment – Tu Delft (September 05, 2014)

The starting point of the research is the need to refurbish existing residential building stock, in order to reduce its energy demand, which accounts for over one fourth of the energy consumption in the European...

Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

by St. Teresa of Avila – Dover Publications (February 07, 2012)

In this classic of Christian mysticism, a Carmelite nun describes her struggles and ultimate union with God. St. Teresa recounts her childhood, spiritual crises, and embrace of the contemplative life.

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine – Dover Publications (February 02, 2012)

Highly influential statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism helped pave the way for social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, abolition of laws limiting wages, other...

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill – Dover Publications (February 02, 2012)

Mill's eloquent 1859 treatise asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty in a democratic society. Enduringly influential study.

Woningcorporaties en Vastgoedontwikkeling: Fit for Use?

by Reinier Van Der Kuij, Tu Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment – Tu Delft (December 23, 2013)

Woningcorporaties en vastgoedontwikkeling, dat is een logische combinatie. Tenminste, het lijkt een logische combinatie. Woningcorporaties worden niet voor niets nog steeds vaak woningbouwverenigingen genoemd....

Song To Kill A Giant

by Sandra Kalniete – Publicetava (September 12, 2013)

Pirms 25 gadiem Latvijas, Igaunijas un Lietuvas cilv?ki Amerikas Savienotaj?s Valst?s apvienoja n?cijas Amerikas Savienotaj?s Valst?s. aicin?jums p?c taisn?guma, apstr?d?ja padomju milzu. Š? mier?g? dzied?šanas...

Knowledge Sharing Strategies for Large Complex Building Projects

by Esra Bektas, Tu Delft, Architecture and The Built Environment – Tu Delft (June 25, 2013)

This volume of A+BE examines the current extent of knowledge sharing between actors who form design teams of Large Complex Building Projects (LCBPs), the problems that limited knowledge sharing causes in such...

Housing, Urban Renewal and Socio-Spatial Integration

by Xiaoxi Hui, Tu Delft, Architecture & Xiaoxi Hui – Tu Delft (February 07, 2013)

This issue of A+BE addresses two critical urban issues China faces today: housing and urban renewal. In the recent two decades, the Chinese urban housing stock underwent a significant, if not extreme, transformation....

Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior

by Christian Dior & Antonia Fraser – V&A Publishing (September 01, 2007)

Christian Dior's autobiography

Management Mess to Leadership Success

by Scott Jeffrey Miller – Mango (June 15, 2019)

Take The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to an Entirely New Level

Your Leadership Skills Are About to Change. Millions have read the all-time global best seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People...

Land Use and Food Security in 2050: a Narrow Road

by Olivier Mora, Marie De Lattre-Gasquet, Chantal Le Mouël & Olivier Mora – Quae (September 14, 2018)

After a first foresight study on ‘World food security in 2050’ (Agrimonde), CIRAD and INRA have turned their attention to a new foresight exercise on ‘Land use and food security in 2050’ (Agrimonde-Terra)....

Emergence of infectious diseases

by Serge Morand & Muriel Figuié – Quae (April 03, 2018)

From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains...

Rumi

by Jalaluddin Rumi & Rasoul Shams – Rumi Publications / Rumi Poetry Club (March 15, 2012)

Cambridge University professor Reynold Nicholson once remarked that the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi is the "greatest mystical poet of any age." In Rumi's vision, love is the very matrix of existence; love...

My Experiments with Truth

by Mahatma Gandhi – Samaira Book Publishers (October 13, 2017)

The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, is a very popular and influential book. It covers the period from his birth (1869) to the year 1921, describing his childhood, his...

The French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle – Digireads.com Publishing (January 01, 2010)

First written and published in 1837, Carlyle initially was asked to write this account by his overworked friend John Stuart Mill. Taking the commission to heart, Carlyle proceeded to write a historical masterpiece,...

De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries (The War Commentaries of Julius Caesar: The War in Gaul and The Civil War)

by Caius Julius Caesar – Digireads.com Publishing (January 01, 2010)

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries (The War Commentaries of Julius Caesar: The War in Gaul and The Civil War)' is a collection of war writings by Julius Caesar. Included in this volume are the first hand...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs – Digireads.com Publishing (January 01, 2010)

Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was one of the first of the personal slave narratives. At the time this book was first published Harriet Jacobs was living as an escaped...

Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson – Digireads.com Publishing (January 01, 2013)

During the 1800s in America, the rise of technology allowed people to have more possessions than ever before, and at a cheaper cost. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions...

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey – Digireads.com Publishing (February 01, 2012)

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a founder of the famed Bloomsbury Group, an influential group of intellectuals and writers in wartime England. Considered a masterpiece of biographical writing, "Eminent Victorians"...

Queen of the Heavens

by Kingsley Guy – ttlharmony Publishing (April 24, 2017)

What is it like to awaken to the divine, and know that our lives are informed and shaped by spiritual guidance from other realms? Queen of the Heavens helps us open the gateway to those unseen worlds. 

Respected...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Franklin Benjamin – SC Active Business Development SRL (April 15, 2017)

Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. It is often considered the first American book to...

Hook 'em with Humor

by Ricky Olson, Laura L. Bush & Jerry Corley – Ricky Olson (March 15, 2017)

Ricky Olson is an award-winning humorous speaker. Although he was told all his life he was funny, no one was laughing when he gave stand-up comedy a shot. Being “naturally funny” failed him, so he was forced...

The Principia

by Isaac Newton – pmapublishing.com (March 14, 2017)

Newton's Principia by Sir Isaac Newton is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This publication was produced from a professional scan of an original edition of the book, which can include imperfections...

Scientific Advertising

by Claude C. Hopkins – pmapublishing.com (March 06, 2017)

Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins

Gain a lifetime of experience from the inventor of test marketing and coupon sampling -- Claude C. Hopkins. Discover his fixed principles and basic fundamentals that...

Robo sapiens japanicus

by Jennifer Robertson – University of California Press (November 10, 2017)

Japan is arguably the first post-industrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence.  Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for future use in homes, hospitals, offices,...

Fast Eddie

by Eddie Maher – Blink Publishing (May 04, 2017)

9.30am on 22 January 1993. The moment in crime history that one of Britain's most audacious thefts ever took place and the legend of 'Fast Eddie' was created. This is the story of how Securicor guard Eddie Maher...

Matchmakers

by David S. Evans & Richard Schmalensee – Harvard Business Review Press (May 03, 2016)

Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Facebook to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber, are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another group of...

Capitalism Hits the Fan

by Richard D. Wolff – Olive Branch Press (September 10, 2012)

A breathtakingly clear analysis that breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis

“With unerring coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolff offers a rich and much needed corrective...

Arlene Chan 4-Book Bundle: The Chinese Community in Toronto / The Chinese in Toronto from 1878 / Paddles Up! / Spirit of the Dragon

by Arlene Chan & Susan Humphries – Dundurn (March 18, 2016)

This special bundle collects four essential books on the rich history of Chinese-Canadians written by Arlene Chan. Includes: The Chinese Community in Toronto, The Chinese in Toronto from 1878, Paddles Up!, and...

Evolution Impossible: 12 Reasons Why Evolution Cannot Explain the Origin of Life on Earth

by John Ashton – Master Books (June 23, 2012)

There is scientific evidence proving evolution cannot be responsible for life on Earth. In Evolution Impossible, Dr. John Ashton uses discoveries in genetics, biochemistry, geology, radiometric dating, and other...

Aviation Maintenance Technician Oral & Practical Exam Guide

by Dale Crane & Raymond E. Thompson – Aviation Supplies and Academics, Inc. (May 02, 2016)

The oral and practical exams are the last steps for certification of an Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT). The AMT Oral & Practical Exam Guide by industry expert Dale Crane (edited by Raymond E. Thompson)...

Scientific Advertising

by De Clau C. Hopkins – Dancing Unicorn Books (December 21, 2016)

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science. It is based on fixed principles and is reasonably exact. The causes and effects have been analyzed until they are well understood....

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

by Jean Greaves, Travis Bradberry & Patrick M. Lencioni – TalentSmart (June 13, 2009)

FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose—increasing your EQ. Here’s what people are saying about it:

“...

Aquaponics Fish: Best Fish Species For Aquaponic Gardening

by Timothy Tripp – Speedy Publishing Books (June 28, 2014)

To talk about what are the best fish for aquaponics first we need to know what is aquaponics. Have you ever heard about Hydroponics? Do you know what Aquaculture is? I'm sure you did. Hydroponics and aquaculture...

Fourteen: A Daughter's Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival

by Leslie Johansen Nack – She Writes Press (October 20, 2015)

Leslie is fourteen in 1975 when she and her two teenage sisters batten down the hatches on their forty-five-foot sailboat to navigate from San Diego to French Polynesia-a difficult journey that also puts them...

Qualité du matériel forestier de reproduction et application des directives communautaires

by Daniel Terrasson – Quae (January 01, 1995)

What is the situation concerning the application of Community directives related to the genetic quality of forest trees? Researchers and administrators take a look at the impact of the evolution of knowledge...

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

by Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras – Harper Business (August 30, 2011)

"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is...

Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters

by Oscar Wilde & Merlin Holland – Fourth Estate (October 07, 2010)

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his...

Storming the Old Boys' Citadel

by Carla Blank & Tania Martin – Baraka Books (December 15, 2014)

"Women" and "architecture" were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, "it is hardly safe to assert" that a connection even exists between the two words. Some women...