Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs and carbon emissions. It provides architects, engineers and policy makers with a 'how-to' guide to the application of natural cooling in new and existing buildings. It demonstrates, through reference to numerous examples, that natural cooling is viable in most climates around the world. This completely revised and expanded second edition includes: An overview of natural cooling past and present. Guidance on the principles and strategies that can be adopted. A review of the applicability of different strategies. Explanation of simplified tools for performance assessment. A review of components and controls. A detailed evaluation of case studies from the USA, Europe, India and China. This book is not just for the technical specialist, as it also provides a general grounding in how to avoid or minimise air-conditioning. Importantly, it demonstrates that understanding our environment, rather than fighting it, will help us to live sustainably in our rapidly warming world.

The Architecture and Engineering of Natural Cooling

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Warehouse 200

What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own deep connections to the Dorset coast, unearths the stories behind little-known key figures Stephen Borough and John Davis, and their brilliant navigational teacher, John Dee, inventor of the 'paradoxall compass'.

The Paradoxal Compass

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A luminous memoir from the Holocaust writer, Alison Leslie Gold, told through a series of letters to the living and the dead. Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of courage and survival - most famously her Anne Frank Remembered , co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family). She has never chosen to write about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people's stories, until now, in Found and Lost . Starting with her childhood experience of running her primary school 'Lost and Found' depot, Gold charts the origin of her need to save objects, stories, people - including herself - whom she has sensed to be on a road to perdition. After a series of deaths of people close to her (mother, lover, mentor, friend), she develops, though a series of letters, a meditation on aging, friendship, loss and the forces that link us to the dead. The letters tell of her early activism; her descent into alcoholism and subsequent recovery; and they tell of her discovery of the power of writing to give shape and meaning to a life. Found and Lost is both a tender memorial to the extraordinary people in her life, and a compelling tale of redemption.

Found and Lost

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A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful anthology-described in Gyles Brandreth's introduction as "a plum pudding stuffed with good things"-offers an array of writers, both old and new, who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas with joy, nostalgia, grumpiness, and wit. Devour in one sitting, or savor at your leisure through the long winter nights. On Christmas includes selections from Charles Dickens, William Sandys, Deborah Bull, C.S. Lewis, Saint Bonaventure, Clement A. Miles, Robert Benchley, Quentin Crisp, the Koran, Queen Victoria, Anthony Trollope, Francis Kilvert, Samuel Pepys, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jerome K. Jerome, Edmond de Goncourt, Mrs Beeton, Kathy Lette, Paul Fournier, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dudley Warner, Sue Townsend, O. Henry, Suhel Seth, Saki, Ali Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Lawson, Guy de Maupassant, Will Self, and P.G. Wodehouse.

On Christmas

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This book contains 25 accessible walks throughout the beautiful county of Dorset. For each walk there is a brief description and then more detailed information about distance, gradient and terrain, allowing the reader to make an informed decision about the suitability of their equipment and their own particular needs.

Accessible Walks in Dorset

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This guide to the Lake District includes material based on original local and historical research not generally available. It includes easy-to-follow routes for walkers or drivers, around the National Park and the Cumbrian coast.

A Literary Guide To the Lake District

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China, a country of 1.4 billion people, has experienced annual economic growth of 10% or more, which has brought it to the forefront of the world. It now moves into an era of consolidation. This book describes how the Communist Party of China intends to guide the country on its continuing path to greater prosperity.

China's New Strategies For Governing the Country

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The fate of the Ming hangs on a knife edge. In the south, defence against relentless pirate raids is escalating into all-out war. The beleaguered Chinese forces must rally for a desperate last stand fought across salt and sand. Nearby, fearless magistrate Hai Rui is tasked with investigating a major corruption scandal. In Beijing, a chance to trump the embezzling viper Yan Song and his influential clan presents itself. There to snatch it is the Crown Prince, and his coalition of the righteous. At a time when the appearance of a mysterious 'blood scripture' could either turn the tide or unleash chaos untold, chief eunuch Lu Fang, a loyal and yet crafty kingmaker, is forced to choose sides. In war as in the Forbidden City, the game is sudden death. Now, China's heroes make their move: a perilous gambit to salvage centuries of progress. If they fail. everything burns.

The 1566 Series. Book Three

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1927. CHINA IS IN TURMOIL. The Communist Party and the Kuomintang government, long at each others' throats, are now locked into a conflict set to claim the lives of millions. History remembers the bodies and battlefields, but for some, fate was decided between the ciphers. Ji Zhenren's mind is the Red Army's prize asset. His task: to break the enemy's near-impenetrable codes. With Ji's genius at the helm the retreating Red Army might just be able to turn the tables, but only if forbidden romance and political controversy don't bring him crashing down first. From the dark alleys of Shanghai to hidden paths carved through snowclad mountains, an invisible war rages. In the silent world of the codebreaker, cracking the cipher means breaking the enemy. Anything less spells certain death.

The Ciphermaster

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Industry legends John Wagner and Alan Grant (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Judgement of Gotham, A History of Violence) team up once again to bring you Rok of the Reds alongside stunning art by Dan Cornwell. Dangerous intergalactic outlaws and an arrogant footballer collide, on the run after his home world is destroyed, Rok of Arkadi needs a hiding place. And that hiding place happens to be troubled football star Kyle Dixon. A black comedy about revenge, redemption and the 'beautiful game'.

Rok of the Reds

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With two decades of comic art behind Charlie Adlard, Drawings + Sketches selects work from the Walking Dead, Vampire State Building, Wendigo and much more offering insights into the stories and processes behind them. Adlard has also worked on comics including 2000AD, Mars Attacks, The X-Files, Judge Dredd and X-Men, while The Walking Dead comics, which have recently come to an end, spawned the global smash series on AMC. His tenure as UK Comics Laureate ended earlier in 2019, taken over by Hannah Berry.

Charlie Adlard Drawings + Sketches

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Killtopia brings neon-soaked future Japan, complete with sentient tech and a lawless state, to the present. Set in future Japan, and follows a salvage hunter called Shinji and his robot sidekick, Crash. Raise total hell! Shinji and Crash are reunited after an explosive siege at Stiletto Corp. Now, Crash must use his code to cure the lethal nano disease that has crippled the planet Meanwhile, Stiletto has an identity crisis after her near-death experience. Her celebrity status ruined, she begins a path of redemption to bring balance to the city's twisted society. Far away, a dire new threat is stirring deep within the ruins of Killtopia. Yurei, a malfunctioning line of companion dolls, has developed a god complex and seeks to rewrite the human species forever. War is only a few lines of code away...

Killtopia. Vol. 3

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The penultimate book in the series. Killtopia brings neon-soaked future Japan, complete with sentient tech and a lawless state, to the present. Set in future Japan, and follows a salvage hunter called Shinji and his robot sidekick, Crash. Raise total hell! As war rages on the streets of Neo Tokyo, a rag-tag band of hackers and bounty hunters must slay old rivalries and ghosts of the past to save humanity from a murderous AI run amok.

Killtopia. Vol. 4

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Sent away to boarding school on his eighth birthday, Mark Stibbe watched his adoptive parents drive down a gravel road, leaving him standing in front of a huge country house with his trunk and his teddy. That night he was given the first of four beatings in his first two weeks. Ten years later, towards the end of his time at Britains oldest public school, Mark was then subjected to further brutal abuse, along with twenty other boys, by a man who infiltrated the Christian forum.; Mark Stibbe wrote Home at Last to show how those wounded by their boarding school experiences can find lasting healing. Having been through the process of recovery himself, Mark now tells his story and shares a unique, faith-based perspective and how to start the journey towards freedom from the abandonment and abuse that so often marks the boarding experience.

Home At Last

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In Developing Prophetic Culture, Phil Wilthew articulates Gods heart for creating vibrant Churches and Christians who know how to hear Gods voice with great clarity. Using more than two decades of experience, Phil unlocks some of the keys to building environments that develop prophets and prophetic people in a healthy, Bible honouring and Jesus-centred way. If you have a desire to grow in the prophetic, train and release prophetic people or develop radical Kingdom culture in the Church, reading this book is an absolute must. God is raising up a prophetic people who will carry the Gospel of the Kingdom to the ends of the earth and in this book Phil inspires us to take our place in His purposes as we embrace the call to build healthy cultures that hear God's voice. Let the prophetic revolution begin!

Developing Prophetic Culture

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Jerusalem. A lone rider approaches. The cheering crowd swarm to greet him. The King has come, mounted upon his mighty steed Dave the Donkey! Join Dave, his Grandpa, and Jesus in this epic Easter tale of power, courage, death, and resurrection. If you like Black Beauty, you will love Dave the Donkey. Based on Mark 11:1-10. When Jesus wanted to change lives, He told stories. That's what the Lost Sheep series is all about. At the center of the stories is Jesus. Some stories are about Him, some are by Him, but all of them point to Him. The series takes the spirituality of children seriously but also believe the Gospel is fun.

Dave the Donkey

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The Ashmolean Museum and the Albertina are collaborating on a two-part exhibition project that will examine anew the role and the significance of drawing in Raphael's career.  The Ashmolean holds the greatest collection of Raphael drawings in the world, and the Albertina is the custodian of a major collection including some of the most beautiful and important of the artist's sketches. Taken together, the two collections provide extraordinary resources that, amplified by carefully-selected international loans, will allow us to transform our understanding of the art of Raphael.      The Oxford exhibition is based on new research by Dr Catherine Whistler of the Ashmolean Museum and Dr Ben Thomas from the University of Kent, in collaboration with Dr Achim Gnann of the Albertina.  It will take Raphael's art of drawing as its focus, with the concept of eloquence as its underlying structure. Oratory runs as a linking thread in Raphael's drawings, which stand out for the importance given to the study of gestures, facial expressions, and drapery.  Moreover, Raphael treated the expressive figure of the orator - poet, philosopher, muse, apostle, saint or sibyl - in fascinating and significant ways throughout his life.    This selection of drawings demonstrates how Raphael created a specific mode of visual invention and persuasive communication through drawing.  He used drawing both as conceptual art (including brainstorming sheets) and as a practice based on attentive observation (such as drawing from the posed model).  Yet Raphael's drawings also reveal how the process of drawing in itself, with its gestural rhythms and spontaneity, can be a form of thought, generating new ideas. The Oxford exhibition will present drawings that span Raphael's entire career, encompassing many of his major projects and exploring his visual language from inventive ideas to full compositions. The extraordinary range of drawings by Raphael in the Ashmolean and the Albertina, enhanced by appropriate loans, will enable this exhibition to cast new light on this familiar artist, transforming our understanding of Raphael's art.       This book preluded a major exhibition, which ran  from 1 June to 3 October 2017, with a range of events happening throughout this time.

Raphael

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History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as "a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecting". Indeed, the first publication of this book in 1985 undoubtedly marked a propitious moment in the development of interest, in what has since grown to be a dynamic subject-area in its own right.  That an appetite for such matters was already there is confirmed by the fact that the first impression sold out within a few months, a second impression a year or two later, and the third in 1989. There was to be no further printing by the original publishers, Oxford University Press. However in 2001 a new edition appeared with a new publisher. Demand again proved buoyant, but within a few months the company failed; having operated on a print-on-demand basis, it left behind it no unsold stock. The Origins of Museums reverted to a scarce (though much sought-after) volume. With original copies now selling for hundreds, if not thousands of pounds, the Ashmolean is proud to make this important volume readily available again.

The Origins of Museums

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Ella Mary Leather was a collector of the local folklore and songs of Herefordshire. Amongst her works is a collaboration with Ralph Vaughan Williams, 'Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire', and notes to the journal of The Folklore Society. Here, she provides a comprehensive history of the folklore of the county.

The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire

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Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins novels, about the diocesan exorcist from Hereford, have virtually established a new fictional genre. Revealing the sources of inspiration for the series, author Phil Rickman takes readers into an ancient land where history and folklore resonate to this very day.

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