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Expanding the Center:...
Dostępność: na zamówienie Opening to critical acclaim in April 2005, the Walker Art Center expansion was the culmination of an extraordinary partnership between the institution and Pritzker Prize–winning architects Herzog & de Meuron. Expanding the Center chronicles the five-year effort to create a truly 21st-century arts center, a place where contemporary artists, art forms, and audiences meet.
RESEARCH FOR THE GLOBAL...
This timely book reveals, in layman's terms, the critical role that research has in the future of our planet. Author Daniel D. Watch is passionate about generating widespread support and understanding of the vast research opportunities at hand, whether through financing, political decision-making, education, laboratory construction, or through conducting the actual research. Watch sets the scene with an overview of the impact of research on the global economy; then explores specifics such as research into sustainability; the often controversial areas of biological and biomedical research, including proteomics, bioinformatics, stem cell and biocontainment research; and nanotechnology and neuroscience.