Guide To Natural Ventilation in High Rise Office Buildings

Guide To Natural Ventilation in High Rise Office Buildings (Ctbuh Technical Guide) by Antony Wood and Ruba Salib
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415509580 | 184 pages | PDF | 17 MB

Tall buildings are not the only solution for achieving sustainability through increased density in cities but, given the scale of current population shifts, the vertical city is increasingly being seen as the most viable solution for many urban centers. However, the full implications of concentrating more people on smaller plots of land by building vertically – whether for work, residential or leisure functions – needs to be better researched and understood.

It is generally accepted that we need to reduce the energy equation – in both operating and embodied terms – of every component and system in the building as an essential element in making it more sustainable. Mechanical HVAC systems (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning) in tall office buildings typically account for 30-40 percent of overall building energy consumption. The increased efficiency (or possibly even elimination) of these mechanical systems – through the provision of natural ventilation – could thus be argued to be the most important single step we could make in making tall buildings more sustainable.

This guide sets out recommendations for every phase of the planning, construction and operation of natural ventilation systems in these buildings, including local climatic factors that need to be taken into account, how to plan for seasonal variations in weather, and the risks in adopting different implementation strategies. All of the recommendations are based on analysis of the research findings from richly-illustrated international case studies.

Tried and tested solutions to real-life problems make this an essential guide for anyone working on the design and operation of tall buildings anywhere in the world. This is the first technical guide from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s Tall Buildings & Sustainability Working Group looking in depth at a key element in the creation of tall buildings with a much-reduced environmental impact, while taking the industry closer to an appreciation of what constitutes a sustainable tall building, and what factors affect the sustainability threshold for tall.

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business [Audiobook]

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business [Audiobook] by Rana Foroohar
English | May 17, 2016 | ASIN: B01CUKFLII | M4B@64 kbps | 13 hrs 25 mins | 366 MB
Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti | Genre: Nonfiction/Economics

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned – and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis. But what few of us realize is how the misguided financial practices and philosophies that nearly toppled the global financial system have come to infiltrate all American businesses, putting us on a collision course with another cataclysmic meltdown.

Drawing on in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews at the highest rungs of Wall Street and Washington, Time assistant managing editor and economic columnist Rana Foroohar shows how the “financialization of America” – the trend by which finance and its way of thinking have come to reign supreme – is perpetuating Wall Street’s reign over Main Street, widening the gap between rich and poor, and threatening the future of the American dream.

Policy makers get caught up in the details of regulating “too big to fail” banks, but the problems in our market system go much broader and deeper than that. Consider that:

Thanks to 40 years of policy changes and bad decisions, only about 15 percent of all the money in our market system actually ends up in the real economy – the rest stays within the closed loop of finance itself.

The financial sector takes a quarter of all corporate profits in this country while creating only 4 percent of American jobs.

The tax code continues to favor debt over equity, making it easier for companies to hoard cash overseas rather than reinvest it on our shores.

Our biggest and most profitable corporations are investing more money in stock buybacks than in research and innovation.

And still the majority of the financial regulations promised after the 2008 meltdown have yet come to pass thanks to cozy relationships between our lawmakers and the country’s wealthiest financiers.

Exploring these forces that have led American businesses to favor balancing-sheet engineering over the actual kind and the pursuit of short-term corporate profits over job creation, Foroohar shows how financialization has so gravely harmed our society and why reversing this trend is of grave importance to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers” and “Makers”, she’ll reveal how we change the system for a better and more sustainable shared economic future.

Ted Fishman - China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World [Repost]

Ted Fishman – China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
2006 | ISBN: 0743257359 | English | 368 pages | EPUB | 0.4 MB

The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman’s bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.

China today is visible everywhere – in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential – and updated with new statistics and information – this dramatic account of China’s growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic order has occurred – and why it already affects us all.

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? Why do nearly all of the world’s biggest companies have large operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?

Meanwhile, what makes China’s emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China manufactures nearly everything – computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals – that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all of our lives?

Germany Ascendant (The Rise of Germany), 1939-1941: The War in The West, Volume 1 [Audiobook]

Germany Ascendant (The Rise of Germany), 1939-1941: The War in The West, Volume 1 [Audiobook] by James Holland
English | September 10, 2015 | ASIN: B01561F1GK | M4B@64 kbps | 26 hrs 42 mins | 730 MB
Narrator: Leighton Pugh | Genre: Nonfiction/History

Are you ready for the truth about World War Two?

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war on land, in the air and at sea, James Holland not only reveals the truth behind the familiar legends of the Second World War but he also unveils those lesser known events which were to have the greatest significance.

The first book to consider the economic, political and social as well as the military aspects of World War Two, this is a unique retelling of a monumental event in all its terrible and majestic glory.

Holland has spent over 12 years unearthing new research, visiting archives, battlefields and the very people who fought and lived through the conflict. He has, in his own accessible and inimitable style, written an account to redefine our understanding of the war. It is unlike anything else on the subject.

The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government

The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Audio CDs in M4B / English: AAC, 62 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 10:18:54 | 2016 | ISBN-10: N/A | 281 MB
Genre: Politics

The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred exposé of who really wields power in Washington.

Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing and money grubbing of the campaign season, the politicians we elect have as little ability to shift policy as Communist party apparatchiks.

Welcome to Mike Lofgren’s Washington, D.C.—a This Town, where the political theater that is endlessly tweeted and blogged about has nothing to do with actual decision making. The real work gets done behind the scenes by invisible bureaucrats working for the vast web of agencies that actually dictate our foreign policy, defense posture, and security decisions. Have you ever wondered why Obama’s policies look so much like Bush’s? Seek no further: Hillary v. Jeb is just window dressing. Actual power lies in the Deep State, Washington’s shadowy power elite, in the pockets of corporate interests and dependent on the moguls of Silicon Valley, whose data-collecting systems enable the U.S. government to spy on our every move, swipe, and click.

Drawing on insider knowledge gleaned in his three decades on the Hill, Lofgren offers a provocative wake-up call to Americans and urges them to fight to reinstate the basic premise of the Constitution.

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Inside Linda Lovelace"s Deep Throat: Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism

Inside Linda Lovelace’s Deep Throat: Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism By Darwin Porter
2013 | 673 Pages | ISBN: 1936003333 | PDF | 284 MB

Linda Lovelace, the star of 1972’s XXX-rated film Deep Throat, is the most notorious actress of the 20th century. She married Chuck Traynor, who forced her at gunpoint into performing hardcore “”””loops””””, confiscated her earnings from Deep Throat and pimped her out to celebrities. After a decade of assault and humiliation, Linda launched an anti-pornography movement, attracting many who renounced the porn industry. Critics claim that Lovelace’s Deep Throat changed America’s sexual attitudes more than anything since the 1940s; now Darwin Porter tells the story of this iconic woman