Includes such topics as computer-aided design, new methods of building, new ways to use glass, green buildings, building for leisure and pleasure, floating worlds, and cities for the next century.
In a celebration of libraries and the dedicated people who staff them, the author argues that librarians are more important than ever, and discusses a new breed of visionary professionals who use the Web to link people and information.
Explains, through photographs and text, how modern technology has affected almost every aspect of sports, especially athletic training, fitness, and treatment of injuries.
A blown-out oil well in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico is like Apollo 13, a crisis no one saw coming , and one of untold danger and challenge. The tragic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in April 2010 killed eleven men and triggered an environmental disaster.
