Architectural Acoustics offers a comprehensive overview of acoustical science at a level suitable for either advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate courses in architectural design and architectural engineering. The text is organized according to how sound interacts with built structures, go[...]
We give our car or boiler regular services because these are things that we rely on and know it is better to fix minor glitches than wait until they become major problems. However when it comes to something as important as our relationship, we tend to close our eyes and hope for the best. In this pr[...]
Of the twelve books David Foster Wallace published both during his lifetime and posthumously, only three were novels. Nevertheless, Wallace always thought of himself primarily as a novelist. From his college years at Amherst, when he wrote his first novel as part of a creative honors thesis, to his [...]