A History Of Seating 3000 Bc To 2000 Ad

Author : Jenny Pynt,Joy Higgs
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781604977189

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A History of Seating, 3000 BC to 2000 AD by Jenny Pynt,Joy Higgs Pdf

The focus of this book is on functional seating, and the key argument presented is that functional seating needs to assist the person using it for the performance of seated tasks, enhance rather than detract from the person's posture and health, and it needs to provide aesthetic features that do not limit task or health. The book spans the period 3000BC to 2000AD and presents largely Western seating. This book is unique in its approach to seating because it draws together evidence that relates to seating that facilitates health and task while also addressing aesthetic factors. This evidence creates an understanding of how seats may be designed to not only promote bodily health but also allow functional optimisation of sitting and seating. This book is important to furniture and industrial designers, interior decorators, architects, those teaching seat design, health professionals attending and educating those who relax or work in the seated position, furniture historians, and members of the general public interested in the history of seating.

Author : Marin Blaževi?,Lada ?ale Feldman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789616572361

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MISPERFORMANCE : essays in shifting perspectives by Marin Blaževi?,Lada ?ale Feldman Pdf

MISperformance: essays in shifting perspectives is a collection of essays that address a spectrum of cultural, organizational, technological, ecological, political and daily performances by focusing on the causes and consequences of a misfire, misconception, misrecognition, misnaming, misfitting etc. Aspects and impacts of MISperformance that are susceptible to provoking disturbances, distortions, alternations, abortions, if not disasters within diverse spheres of private and social life, including aesthetic and political practices, are investigated in the light of their potentially both regressive, even tragic outcome, and resistant, even transgressive efficacy, as also the absence or abandonment of any reason in or for performance.

Author : Daniel Lieberman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781524746995

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Exercised by Daniel Lieberman Pdf

If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising—not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing. “Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit, and enthusiasm.” —Bill Bryson, New York Times best-selling author of The Body • If we are born to walk and run, why do most of us take it easy whenever possible? • Does running ruin your knees? • Should we do weights, cardio, or high-intensity training? • Is sitting really the new smoking? • Can you lose weight by walking? • And how do we make sense of the conflicting, anxiety-inducing information about rest, physical activity, and exercise with which we are bombarded? In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise—to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. Exercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us.

Author : Lucas Introna,Donncha Kavanagh,Séamas Kelly,Wanda Orlikowski,Susan Scott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319497334

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Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organization by Lucas Introna,Donncha Kavanagh,Séamas Kelly,Wanda Orlikowski,Susan Scott Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2016. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: doing process research; exploring affect and affordance; considering communication and performance; and examining knowledge and practice.

Author : Don Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030225070

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Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics by Don Harris Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference, HCI International 2019, which took place in Orlando, FL, USA, in July 2019. The total of 1274 papers and 209 posters included in the 35 HCII 2019 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5029 submissions. EPCE 2019 includes a total of 34 regular papers; they were organized in topical sections named: mental workload and performance; visual cognition; cognitive psychology in aviation and space; and group collaboration and decision making.

Author : Georg Gerster
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0892368756

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The Past from Above by Georg Gerster Pdf

Catalog for an exhibition at the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen, honoring Georg Gerster for over 40 years of aerial photography of archaeological sites around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006937366

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New Mexico Geology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065383634

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The Catholic School Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : PSU:000030171749

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Chamber's Encyclopaedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015078178491

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Chambers's Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008353257

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Chambers's Encyclopaedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PRNC:32101079221295

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The Builder by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rolf Fehlbaum,Mateo Kries,Heinz Bütler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3945852285

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Chair Times by Rolf Fehlbaum,Mateo Kries,Heinz Bütler Pdf

CHAIR TIMES takes viewers on a journey through a »sea of chairs:« 124 objects dating from 1807 to the latest 3D printed designs are arranged in the order of their production year to create a timeline of modern furniture design. Which objects would professionals in the design field want to talk about, bringing their expert knowledge to the respective topic? Serving as guide on this excursion into the history of seating design: Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus of Vitra. Film by Heinz Bütler. With contributions by Rolf Fehlbaum, Mateo Kries, Franco Audrito, Ronan Bouroullec, Christian Brändle, David Chipperfield, Antonio Citterio, Pierre de Meuron, Jochen Eisenbrand, Ulrich Fiedler, Susanne Graner, Jacques Herzog, Hella Jongerius, Maira Kalman, Amelie Klein, Serge Mauduit, Peter Noever, Arthur Rüegg, Leonie Samland and Ruggero Tropeano.

Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226452326

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The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer Pdf

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal

Author : Sean M. Ulmer,Janice Blackburn,Terry Martin,David Revere McFadden
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 1930561083

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Nature Transformed by Sean M. Ulmer,Janice Blackburn,Terry Martin,David Revere McFadden Pdf

This publication presents a selection of wood-based works from the collection of Robert Bohlen, one of the finest and most thorough collectors of wood art. The artistic progress of the medium is analyzed by a wide array of essays.