Author: William Henry Holmes
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Many of the Smithsonian Institution's early studies, published since 1881 in such official publications as the Bureau of American Ethnology's reports and bulletins, have remained major sources of information on North American Indians. The Classics of Smith-sonian Anthropology series makes available, for the first time in decades, some of the most important of these basic works. This book restores to print four of the most influential works of William Henry Holmes, who, at the turn of the nineteenth century, pioneered methods that formed the foundations of a new, more scientifically based archaeology.
Author: F. Halle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642811906
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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Author: American Institute of Architects
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Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Author: Donella Meadows
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603581480
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Industrial location
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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