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Architecture is defined by its materials and surfaces. Not infrequently, it is their look and feel that determine whether a project succeeds or fails. For this reason, it is crucially important that planners choose the right materials and use them correctly, a task that is especially challenging today, when they are confronted with an almost dizzying variety of design possibilities and almost unlimited industrial production techniques. In Detail: Materials for Interiors provides detailed and specific information on the use of appropriate materials in interior design. The book leads off with an overview of the range of available products for interior design, including large-format photographs...
Sea cucumbers are harvested and traded in more than 90 countries worldwide. They are exploited in industrial and small-scale fisheries, nearly from pole to pole, especially in the tropics. In some fisheries, more than 20 species are exploited by fishers. Fishers in general know how to distinguish the species they harvest, often identifying them with local names. For fishery officers and even biologists, recognizing sea cucumber species remains daunting however as they are confronted only with the final product: bêche-de-mer (or trepang) which is the processed (cooked and dried) product. This field guide offers a tool for fishery managers, scientists, trade officers and industry workers to r...
La historia menos conocida del hombre más poderoso de la Justicia. Sus comienzos como abogado, la ambición por el poder y el dinero, sus enemigos en una investigación rigurosamente documentada. Este libro cuenta la historia de un hombre que empezó por el escalón más bajo de los tribunales y arribó a lo más alto del Poder Judicial de la Nación. En estas páginas se relata su infancia en Rafaela, provincia de Santa Fe, su militancia en la Juventud Peronista, el coqueteo con la Unión Cívica Radical y la fascinación por la política. Sus comienzos como abogado en Rafaela perfilan a un hombre que ha sabido desde temprano construir poder y hacer buenos negocios. El vínculo de Ricardo Lorenzetti con el kirchnerismo no ha tenido pocos vaivenes y también de ello da cuenta este libro, como de las tensiones internas en la Corte Suprema bajo su presidencia. Admirado, perseguido, sospechado. Hablan quienes lo conocen bien y, por supuesto, el mismo personaje en una entrevista final sin desperdicio.
The interaction between land and sea is controlled by a number of processes that are in general driven by the equilibrium between environmental forcing components (e.g. hydrodynamic - waves, currents, surges), atmospheric (e.g. winds) and terrestrial (e.g. catchment land cover) and sediment dynamics. In the context of the Anthropocene epoch, the equilibrium in many coastal regions is now often altered by the influence of human activities. Successive human activities globally influence (indirectly) these forcing components, helping magnify the negative impact of extreme meteorological events and sea level rise. Directly, human activity can also influence a number of processes at a local scale...
Indexes 9 architectural journals.
Architectural work on existing structures has become enormously important in recent years. For the majority of architects, this is where future market opportunities will lie. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field and is thus addressed to all practitioners, students, and building sponsors whose interest goes beyond an initial encounter with this wideranging field of activity. Contradicting the conventional view that creative design work is the exclusive province of new building design, the authors offer a nuanced account of active and creative strategies for planning, design, and execution. Subjects considered range from town planning issues through the overall project cycle and its individual phases all the way to building management. Special focuses are the "grammar of design" as well as the issues arising through collaboration of different experts. In order to illuminate this broad and complex spectrum of topics, the book incorporates thirty examples of projects from Europe and North America, in which buildings from a huge variety of periods – from the Middle Ages to the 1960s – are transferred into the present.
"Gaceta de jurisprudencia laboral latinoamericana" es un proyecto que reúne el esfuerzo de destacados especialistas en materia laboral y procesal de diversos países de la región, quienes, a través del examen crítico, analizan diversas sentencias de los altos tribunales de sus países e incluso del sistema interamericano. En la presente entrega, los temas se focalizan en: libertad sindical, prohibición de discriminación en el empleo, condiciones de trabajo justas y el reconocimiento de las relaciones laborales.
Diferentes objetos y problemas relacionados con las leyes laborales son retomados en este libro pero a través de una estrategia pedagógica sumamente efectiva. Se presenta un caso imaginario, que podría muy bien hallar un correlato en la realidad, y se plantean sus posibles formas de resolución en función de la legislación que ampare las diferentes acciones a cumplir. Además, se anticipan preguntas y objeciones para cada situación y se compila la jurisprudencia existente que puede funcionar como respaldo de las eventuales soluciones al problema.
Not all exploited species are included.