Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers explains methods in evidence-based design, also called practice-based research, to show you the value of research to your designs. Topics covered pertain to data collection and analysis techniques, including surveys, interviews, fieldwork, participatory design, occupancy evaluations, and memory sketching. Integrative data evaluation, theoretical sampling, triangulation, pattern matching logic, and analytical generalization are also discussed. Global research precedents, exercises, further reading, section summaries, sidebars, more than 30 black and white images and tables will help you conduct empirical inquiries in real-life contexts.
Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers explains methods in evidence-based design, also called practice-based research, to show you the value of research to your designs. Topics covered pertain to data collection and analysis techniques, including surveys, interviews, fieldwork, participatory design, occupancy evaluations, and memory sketching. Integrative data evaluation, theoretical sampling, triangulation, pattern matching logic, and analytical generalization are also discussed. Global research precedents, exercises, further reading, section summaries, sidebars, more than 30 black and white images and tables will help you conduct empirical inquiries in real-life contexts.
I'm trying to imagine how it would feel to watch snow falling in NYC. I have never visited New York City during winter, only when the weather is warm or extremely hot and when the air smells of dust and gasoline. It's hard to imagine myself walking on Broadway wearing winter coat and boots. Would I find it enchanting or would I hate it? Maybe I would be shivering and whimpering in the icy wind like an orphan dog just wanting to go home?
Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the connection between processes of neoliberalization and the advancement and transformation of technoscience. Drawing on a range of theoretical insights, it explores a variety of issues including the digital revolution and the rise of immaterial culture, the rationale of psychiatric reforms and biotechnology regulation, discourses of social threats and human enhancement, and carbon markets and green energy policies. A rich exploration of the overall logic of technoscientific innovation within late capitalism, and the emergence of a novel view of human agency with regard to the social and natural world, this volume reveals the interdependence of technoscience and the neoliberalization of society. Presenting the latest research from a leading team of scholars, Neoliberalism and Technoscience will be of interest to scholars of sociology, politics, geography and science and technology studies.
Christian Worldview vampire saga. GOODREADS: "Magnificently written. Totally romantic. The most beautiful vampire romance I'd ever read." GOODREADS: "Masterpiece of fine writing." Devastated after losing her mother, Rose Heart's life was pretty much over in the godforsaken tundra of West Lake, Minnesota. But when she's caught red-handed by her coach father with Chaz Calloway, a mysterious quarterback from the rival team, love's never been more dangerous. Their world falling apart, there's a murder at sudden death overtime. A vow of undying love on a rose. And a secret that will surely get them both killed. But can Rose really make the ultimate sacrifice and give a vampire her blood? With heart pounding passion, the Hypnotic series perfectly captures the deadly struggle between rebelling against the rules and fighting for forbidden love. For readers 12 and up, Hypnotic is a young adult paranormal romance with mild language and no sexual situations. Marja was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in long fiction.
Christian worldview vampire saga. GOODREADS: "Absolutely the best vamp romance I'd come across since You Know Who's. Trust me, you got to read this thing " "Even if you transformed me successfully, do you think I'd agree to live forever-without Chaz Calloway at my side?" "Yep. That's the deal. I'll let you live forever, but only if you give him up forever." Rose and Chaz, dangerously on the run from their fathers, are about to face the most sinister female tracker, the most diabolical of vampires and the evilest black covenant game ever devised. Twisted, passionate and electrifying, their fight for forbidden love has never been more terrifying. With heart pounding passion, the Hypnotic series perfectly captures the deadly struggle between rebelling against the rules and fighting for forbidden love. Magnetic is a young adult paranormal romance with mild language and no sexual situations. Recommended for readers Grade 9 and up. Marja was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in long fiction.
"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these, brother and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40 GOODREADS: A triumph An ultimately joyous book about a woman saving the life of an orphaned, baby wild bird when all the odds were against it. My heart sang. Tears were shed. And I flat out fell in love with little Kiki just like Marja did. And when she had to let Kiki go, I was equally as devastated. But, soaring with joy at the end, life doesn't get any better than this. GOODREADS: Being an animal lover, this was the most heartfelt book I'd ever read. Crying and laughing are one thing. Your life getting changed by the experience is quite another. I'll never look at a wild bird quite the same way ever again. I'll love them as much as Marja does now. Kiki, an abandoned baby blackbird, is sure he's a majestic eagle. Though his bond with Marja, a loving bird whisperer, is strong, he refuses to see the harsh realities of befriending eagle predators. The time coming all too soon to be released into their fierce wilderness, Kiki must say goodbye to everything he cherishes most. To his dream of becoming a patriotic eagle. To the only home he's ever known. And to the adoptive mother he can't quite leave behind. His parting gift to Marja-a miracle witnessed long after it's too late for her to believe. Written with a Christian worldview, KIKI AND THE BIRD WHISPERER is based on the true story of an impossible love between a wildlife rehabber harpist and an abandoned nestling grackle. The baby bird's secret words revealed only in the book, each chapter comes to life in a free companion video at marjahealy's Youtube channel. Uplifting and funny, KIKI, the humble baby blackbird with the big aspirations, is a touching experience not easily forgotten. But one with the happiest of endings.
Christian Worldview. Once upon a time, a lucky girl married a great guy. Then one day he accidentally cut her head off with a chainsaw. A true story, at first you cry. Then you try to save other women from suffering the same fate with the sidesplitting HONEY, IT WAS AN ACCIDENT: 10 TIPS ON HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR DUMB HUSBAND. Now, you too can learn the secret of how to keep your head during the worst marital mishaps with pages of jaw dropping Divine Interventions and ultimate forgiveness. Or if you're a guy, you can at least laugh out loud at the madcap misadventures of Marja Healy's real life with her husband, Jeff Turner. (Large print paperback, 100 pages.)
Christian worldview genie fantasy. Having lost the love of her life, nineteen year old Charlize Sweet gives up on guys forever. Then she stumbles into the dark, brooding arms of Xanzeer, a genie. Inexplicably drawn to this hotter than fire bad-boy, she's soon combating his evil Ex, inescapable dark forces and a fiery netherworld where wishes end and reality begins. A head reeling paranormal romance, the Xanzeer series perfectly captures the quandary of a normal girl trapped in an upended world of a genie who's not your mother's superhero.
