Reader`s Digest Mind Stretchers Vol. 9, Bragdon Allen D.
Автор: Bragdon Claude Fayette Название: Episodes from an Unwritten History (Classic Reprint) ISBN: 133047564X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781330475645 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8800.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Bragdon Clifford R. Название: Noise Pollution ISBN: 0812276388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812276381 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 93060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In this handbook on a growing public menace, Clifford R. Bragdon applies acoustical engineering and social science to the least understood--yet one of the most serious--environmental hazards of modern society. This book is a precision tool; it gives facts and figures, precise scientific measurements, and accurate data on what noise is, what it does, and how to combat it. The author pinpoints the noise levels--many of them illegal--of automobiles, buses, subways, airplanes, household appliances, and children's toys in numerous charts and tables and relates these data to the measurable social, physical, and psychological damage they do to human beings. He catalogues the noise-free claims of manufacturers of these products in an Appendix that speaks for itself.
A thorough case study of an area near Philadelphia International Airport and other townships, including five hundred households, the author evaluates existing noise abatement programs on local, state, and federal levels, and finds most of them seriously inadequate. As steps toward the solution to the noise crisis, he proposes a system for rating environmental health, new approaches to community noise management, and a variety of architectural suggestions.
The bibliography--probably the most complete and up-to-date source collection on the subject ever assembled--is an invaluable reference work in itself. It lists over five hundred sources, arranged in six major categories: Noise, General; Physical Effects; Psycho-Social Effects; Law; Noise Abatement; and Noise Sources.
Noise Pollution is indispensable not only for the concerned citizen but for all those who can, and must, take immediate and effective action in our unquiet crisis: urban planners, architects, hospital administrators, public health officials, transportation executives, lawyers, realtors, sound engineers, manufacturers of transportation equipment and household appliances, and community leaders. It is a vital resource in dealing with the noise crisis that is destroying pleasure, lowering work performance, eroding health, causing physical injury, and even challenging basic human survival.
Автор: Bragdon Allen D. Название: Reader`s Digest Mind Stretchers Vol. 10 ISBN: 1621454711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621454717 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games--these teasers are all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind ACTIVATE your thinking muscles. It's too easy just to turn on the TV and let the images of the day wash over us, leaving brain cells unchallenged and a bit sad. Keep your brain happy with this mind stretching collection of puzzles. Crosswords, word searches, trivia, logic and numerical games--these teasers are all designed to inspire and stimulate the mind. So turn off the dreaded box and turn to Mind Stretchers--you'll be entertained, learn new things, wake up your brain and it's definitely more fun than watching the news.
Автор: Bragdon Claude Fayette Название: The Beautiful Necessity ISBN: 1707579245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781707579242 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A noted American architect of the early twentieth century discusses universal principles behind the harmonious forms and proportions of ancient and modern buildings. Seven essays by Claude Bragdon offer a master class in the architectural union of art, beauty, and science. His observations and analyses encompass a tremendous variety of buildings, from Gothic cathedrals to Giotto's Campanile to the Taj Mahal, and his examples extend far beyond architecture to the natural symmetry found in the feathers of a peacock's tail, snowflakes, plants, and the human face."Art in all its manifestations is an expression of the cosmic life," notes the author, "and its symbols constitute a language by means of which this life is published and represented. Art is at all times subject to the 'Beautiful Necessity' of proclaiming the 'world order'." Bragdon's theories are illuminated by his graceful black-and-white line drawings, which portray the essentials of line and proportion as expressed in many well-known buildings and paintings.Claude Fayette Bragdon was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City.
Автор: Bragdon Claude Fayette Название: Architecture and Democracy ISBN: 1706724209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706724209 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Claude Fayette Bragdon architectural designer is a mere milliner in stone, informed in those prevailing architectural fashions of which he himself knows little and cares less. Preoccupied as he is with the building's strength, safety, economy; solving new and staggeringly difficult problems with address and daring, he has scant sympathy with such inconsequent matters as the stylistic purity of a fa ade, or the profile of a moulding. To the designer, on the other hand, the engineer appears in the light of a subordinate to be used for the promotion of his own ends, or an evil to be endured as an interference with those ends. As a result of this lack of sympathy and co-ordination, success crowns only those efforts in which, on the one hand, the stylist has been completely subordinated to engineering necessity, as in the case of the East River bridges, where the architect was called upon only to add a final grace to the strictly structural towers.Claude Fayette Bragdon was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City.
Автор: Bragdon Claude Fayette Название: Architecture and Democracy ISBN: 1701551217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781701551213 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Claude Fayette Bragdon architectural designer is a mere milliner in stone, informed in those prevailing architectural fashions of which he himself knows little and cares less. Preoccupied as he is with the building's strength, safety, economy; solving new and staggeringly difficult problems with address and daring, he has scant sympathy with such inconsequent matters as the stylistic purity of a fa ade, or the profile of a moulding. To the designer, on the other hand, the engineer appears in the light of a subordinate to be used for the promotion of his own ends, or an evil to be endured as an interference with those ends.Claude Fayette Bragdon was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City.
Автор: Bragdon Claude Fayette Название: Architecture and Democracy: Large Print ISBN: 108738267X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781087382678 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Claude Fayette Bragdon was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City.
Автор: Bragdon Claude Fayette Название: The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (Classic Reprint) ISBN: 1330202694 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781330202692 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8800.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Excerpt from The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture Music being purely in time and architecture being purely in space, each is, in a manner, and to a degree not possible with any of the other arts, con vertible into the other, by reason of the correspondence subsisting between intervals of time and intervals of space. A perception of this may have inspired the famous saying that architecture is frozen music, a poetical state ment of a philosophical truth, since that which in music is expressed by means of harmonious intervals of time and pitch, successively, after the manner of time, may be translated into corresponding intervals of architectural void and solid, height and width. In another sense music and architecture are allied. They alone of all the arts are purely creative, since in them is presented, not a likeness of some known idea, but a thing-in-itself brought to a distinct and complete expres sion of its nature. Neither a musical composition nor a work of architecture depends for its effectiveness upon resemblances to natural sounds in the one case, or to natural forms in the other. Of none of the other arts is this to such a degree true: they are not so much creative as re - creative, for in them all the artist takes his subject ready made from nature and presents it anew according to the dictates of his genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Автор: Bragdon Joyce Название: Machine Knitting Resource Book ISBN: 1312459360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781312459366 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Denslow W. W. 1856-1915, Bragdon Dudley A. Название: Billy Bounce ISBN: 1340223007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781340223007 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 42850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Bragdon Benjamin L. Название: Message of the Medallion ISBN: 1432793632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432793630 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
