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Free Download Sustainable Construction Resources in Geotechnical Engineering: Select Proceedings of CREST 2023
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819992265 | 530 Pages | PDF (True) | 29 MB
This book presents select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST 2023), and focuses on sustainability, promotion of new ideas and innovations in design, construction and maintenance of geotechnical structures with the aim of contributing towards climate change adaptation and disaster resiliency to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It presents latest research, information, technological advancement, practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the field of geotechnical engineering for sustainable infrastructure towards climate change adaptation. This volume will be of interest to those in academia and industry alike.

Free Download Michael Giudice, "Social Construction of Law: Potential and Limits "
English | ISBN: 1839103213 | 2020 | 160 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This illuminating book explores the theme of social constructionism in legal theory. It questions just how much freedom and power social groups really have to construct and reconstruct law. Michael Giudice takes a nuanced approach to analyse what is true and what is false in the view that law is socially constructed. He draws on accounts of European Union law as well as Indigenous legal orders in North America to demonstrate the contingency of particular concepts of law. Utilising evidence from a range of social and natural sciences, he also considers how law may have a naturally necessary core. The book concludes that while law would not exist without beliefs, intentions, and practices, it must always exist as a social rule, declaration, or directive; much, but not all, of law is socially constructed. This book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of law and philosophy as well as researchers interested in the intersections between analytical legal theory, socio-legal studies, and empirical legal studies.

Free Download Shivangi Narayan, "Predictive Policing and The Construction of The ‘Criminal’: An Ethnographic Study of Delhi Police "
English | ISBN: 3031401018 | 2023 | 147 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides a cultural investigation of the police in India and how it uses data and algorithmic tools for crime mapping.The book draws on an ethnographic study of Delhi Police’s hotspot mapping endeavour. It provides a sociological investigation of the police in India and how they use data and algorithmic tools for crime mapping. It discusses how ‘criminals’ are constructed in these systems, typically, the marginalised residents of slums and immigrant colonies. It explores how the algorithm reifies existing assumptions and prejudices about ‘criminals’ as artificial intelligence systems are deeply intertwined with the culture and beliefs of those who make and use them. It pays special attention to the discriminatory practices of relevant police officers and how this ‘predictive’ policing perpetuates harm to the most marginalised. This book contributes to discussions around big data and surveillance studies broadly.

Free Download Ponds: A Practical Guide to Design, Construction and Planting by David Kerr
English | January 2, 2024 | ISBN: 0719842530 | 208 pages | MOBI | 72 Mb
It’s almost impossible to overstate the benefits of creating a well-planned pond in your garden or field. This detailed and practical guide will give the novice and experienced gardener alike a straightforward explanation of how to plan, construct and plant a thriving pond, avoiding common problems and establishing a haven for wildlife.

Free Download Nanotechnology in Construction for Circular Economy: Proceedings of NICOM7, 31 October-02 November, 2022, Melbourne, Australia by Wenhui Duan, Lihai Zhang, Surendra P. Shah
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 525 Pages | ISBN : 9819933293 | 120.9 MB
This book covers emerging opportunities and future use of nanotechnology in construction, including deep advances in cement chemistry, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, concrete technology, and extreme engineering (blast, impact and fire). The proceedings also presents sectorial interactions within the traditional construction industry supply chain, enabled by the dynamic partnership between international industry, government agencies, and universities. Nanotechnology has transformed the construction materials industry into an advanced manufacturing sector to address climate change and carbon neutrality challenges by delivering sustainable and resilient infrastructure assets. Hence, this book reports specific advances in nanoscience and nano-engineering, and their impacts on numerous novel construction materials including binders, additives, high-performance concrete materials, concrete structural systems, polymer composites, and pavement materials.

Free Download Materials science in construction : an introduction By Ahmed, Arshad, Sturges, John
2015 | 387 Pages | ISBN: 1856176886 | EPUB | 14 MB
Materials Science in Construction explains the science behind the properties and behaviour of construction’s most fundamental materials (metals, cement and concrete, polymers, timber, bricks and blocks, glass and plaster). In particular, the critical factors affecting in situ materials are examined, such as deterioration and the behaviour and durability of materials under performance. An accessible, easy-to-follow approach makes this book ideal for all diploma and undergraduate students on construction-related courses taking a module in construction materials.

Free Download Anne Wagner, Wouter Werner, "Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning: Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice"
English | 2006 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 1402053193, 9048173388 | PDF | 3,1 mb
Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. In response to new problems, changing power structures, changing societal norms and new faces of injustice established doctrines are reconsidered, reformulated and partly replaced by competing doctrines and hypotheses. Given the relative indeterminacy of law, it is no surprise that the problem of interpretation has always been one of the focal points of attention for legal semiotics. Who has the power to define words and concepts? Who can successfully assume the power to speak on behalf of the legal community? Which methods are used to justify the power to define?

Free Download Clara Neary, "Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood: The Story of His Experiments with Truth"
English | ISBN: 3031227859 | 2023 | 121 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiographical work The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927, 1929). Gandhi remains an elusive figure, despite the volumes of literature written on him in the seven decades since his assassination. Scholars and biographers alike agree that "no work on his life has portrayed him in totality" (Desai, 2009), and, although "arguably the most popular figure of the first half of the twentieth century" and "one of the most eminent luminaries of our time," Gandhi the individual remains "as much an enigma as a person of endless fascination" (Murrell, 2008). Yet there has been relatively little scholarly engagement with Gandhi’s autobiography, and published output has largely been concerned with mining the text for its biographical details, with little concern for how Gandhi represents himself. The author addresses this gap in the literature, while also considering Gandhi as a writer. This book provides a close reading of the linguistic structure of the text with particular focus upon Gandhi’s self-representation, drawing on a cognitive stylistic framework for analysing linguistic representations of selfhood (Emmott 2002). It will be of interest to stylisticians, cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and scholars in related fields such as Indian literature and postcolonial studies.

Free Download Environmental Sustainability in Building Design and Construction
by Xiaoming Wang and Sayanthan Ramakrishnan
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030762300 | 182 Pages | True PDF | 7.91 MB

Free Download Analysis, Design and Construction of Foundations
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032650567 | 713 Pages | PDF (True) | 213 MB
The book examines in depth the methods used for the analysis, design and construction of shallow foundations, deep foundations, excavation and lateral support systems, slope stability and stabilization and ground monitoring for proper site management. Some new and innovative foundation construction methods are also introduced. It is illustrated with case studies of failures and defects from actual construction projects.