The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf!
How Designers Think, Fourth Edition: The Design Process Demystified
In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues his discussion, trying to understand how designers think. He does this by mapping out the issues concerned with the design process, with design problems and solutions and design thinking. This edition adds to the previous debates by including a new chapter on 'Design as Conversation' reflecting on how designers, either consciously or unconsciously, monitor, reflect on, control and change their thinking.
A taxonomy and its relevance to foreign language curriculum development.The author’s ideas about syllabus design are seminal to the current debate on the need for a new, communication – oriented approach to language teaching. NOTIONAL SYLLABUSES will stimulate thought and experiments in the field of syllabus design, and will be of wide interest among educationalists as well as applied linguists.
Design for a Life: How Behavior and Personality Develop
How is it possible for each of 6 billion human beings to be unique? How does each of us grow up to be the person we are? How do behavior and personality develop? In this wonderfully readable book, two distinguished scientists explain how biology and psychology join to shape the behavior of individual human beings. They counter the mistaken notion that science has discovered individual genes that determine certain personality traits; instead, they explain what role genes actually play in the formation of personality.
How to Design a Boat is a very practical guide that will enable even first-time designers to produce a worthwhile boat design. John Teale, a naval architect whose designs range from fast powerboats & motor cruisers to passenger ferries, fishing boats & cruising yachts, takes you step-by-step through the stages of designing both power & sailing boats, while also explaining the reasoning behind the process. Line diagrams & working drawings are used throughout to explain lines plans from a wide range of vessels. The standard calculations employed in all boat design work are set out.
