Title : Wood Interiors: Innovation and Design
Author : Carles Broto
ISBN/ISSN : 978-8415492405
Description :
The architects and interior designers featured in this book share a fascination for the sensorial richness of wood. Innovative applications of timber materials together with meticulous detailing and execution have been central criteria in the selection of projects for this volume. Each of the projects is explained in the designers' own words and illustrated with a comprehensive set of design drawings and photographs. A superb compilation that will be of great inspiration to all who read it.

Title : How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Author : John C. Maxwell
Description :
Gather successful people from all walks of life-what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life! A Wall Street Journal bestseller, HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more

Title : New Architecture in Wood
Author : Marc Wilhelm Lennartz, Susanne Jacob-Freitag
ISBN/ISSN : 978-3-0356-0454-2
Description :
Timber: the old raw material and building material returns.There are many reasons today for building with wood and there are great advantages over conventional designs. Wood is not only a renewable building material that helps reduce the levels of CO2 and is hence good for climate change, but, due to modern computing and manufacturing processes, it can also be used for a variety of construction tasks. Wood possesses excellent qualities for both construction and indoor climate control, and can easily be combined with other common building materials. Based on 24 international projects, the book provides an overview of the range of possibilities in wood construction today. Texts, images, and plans document the architectural and constructive qualities of contemporary timber structures from the conceptual design to the structure in detail.

Title : The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Author : Prof Klaus Schwab
Description :
Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Artificially-intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it's happening at exponential speed. Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, has been at the centre of global affairs for over four decades. He is convinced that the period of change we are living through is more significant, and the ramifications of the latest

Title : Wood Art: Innovative Wood Design
Author : Dalian University Press
Description :
Warm and organic, yet imbued with strength, wood can perform in unusual ways depending on its use and setting. Working with new or reclaimed wood, bent plywood, or solid wood construction, the designers featured in this book all bring something new, creating forms from the whimsical to the elegant, the delicate to the robust. From animal shaped bookcases to the textile rugs and wooden bicycles to bark shade lamps, this is the ultimate guide to this beloved resource. Products include furniture, lighting, textiles, housewares, personal accessories and toys. Interviews follow with an international cast of industrial, interior, product and furniture designers