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  • Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars

    The Battle over Imperial Invention in the Victorian Age

    by Fergus Nicoll ...
    General Gordons death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Gordon has routinely been depicted as the hero of the story, in contrast to Prime Minister Gladstone who is often portrayed as the villain of the piece, responsible for a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

    by Fergus Nicol ...
    The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable buildings today ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort

    At the Extremes

    by Susan Roaf, Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys ...
    To remain comfortable in a world of ever more extreme weather events and climate trends, we need a building revolution. Building designers, owners, managers, and occupants must prepare now for future climates with new ways to stay comfortable indoors. This book is a compendium of information on comfort that provides an overview of the complexity of the many ways that comfort is achieved in ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    Burning Country

    Syrians in Revolution and War

    by Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami ...
    Narrated by Fergus Nicoll ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    *Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017*In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land.Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change

    by David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Sue Roaf ...
    From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events.Three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of environmental change. ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

    by Michael Humphreys, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf ...
    There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people’s future behaviour based on very little information ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Cutting the Cost of Cold

    Affordable Warmth for Healthier Homes

    Edited by Fergus Nicol, Janet Rudge ...
    In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools available to the practitioner. The book goes on to provide clear guidance on putting theory into practice. This will be a powerful reference source and a compelling read for a wide range of built environment ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort

    Edited by Fergus Nicol, Hom Bahadur Rijal, Susan Roaf ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments, including temperature, light, air-quality, acoustics and so forth. It is of importance not only to the comfort people feel indoors, but also the success of any building as an environment for its stated purpose. The way in which ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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    by Mohammad Taleghani ...
    Courtyards have been used for thousands of years in different climates in the world. In hot climates they provide shading, in humid climates they cause a stack effect helping ventilation, in cold climates they break cold winds and protect their microclimate. In temperate climates (such as of the Netherlands), the thermal behaviour of courtyards has been studied less. In this dissertation, low-rise ... Read more

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  • Advances in Passive Cooling

    Edited by Mat Santamouris ...
    Series series BEST (Buildings Energy and Solar Technology)
    Following a rapid increase in the use of air conditioning in buildings of all types, the energy demand for powering such devices has become a significant cause for concern. Passive cooling is increasingly being thought of as the best alternative to air conditioning.This book offers the latest knowledge and techniques on passive cooling, enabling building professionals to understand the state of ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

    Edited by Francesco Ferrini, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Alessio Fini ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Sustainability, Energy and Architecture

    Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

    by Ali Sayigh ...
    This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD