Other Non Fiction

Profoundly attracted to animals from childhood, Temple Grandin began early on to make links between the autistic and the animal views of the world. Farmers and breeders were baffled that she could come in and invariably pinpoint the cause of any aberrant or troublesome behaviour in their animals. Grandin, in turn, was baffled that they couldn’t spot the problems themselves — until she realized that they just weren’t visually oriented the way she and the animals were: and that meant really taking in ALL of the details of the scene. ‘Normal people’, as she consistently calls them, might use their more prominent frontal lobes to tidy experience into language and concepts, but miss a whole ‘register’ of visual data that didn’t fit their expectations.

In the summer of 2007 the British Army's 662 Squadron deployed its most potent weapons system in combat for the very first time - the iconic Apache attack helicopter. This is the definitive story of the aircraft and of the crew who fly her, and of their baptism of fire in the battle for Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

This pocket book contains everyday information which the architect or designer would normally have to find from a wide variety of sources. It features data about planning, structure, services, building elements, materials and addresses, and can be used both at the drawing board and on site.

Showcasing new projects of all types worldwide by both established and emerging practices, Architecture 11 is essential reading for anyone interested in recent developments in contemporary architecture. This authoritative book is the official guide to the work of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and all the RIBA's awards presented in 2011.

Stocked 1/12/11