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Almost three tons of concrete are produced each year for every person on the planet; only water is consumed more per head of population Now used almost universally in modern construction concrete polarizes opinion provoking intense loathing & fervent passion in others Concrete & Culture breaks new ground by charting concrete's effects on culture since its reinvention in the modern period examining the ways it has changed our understanding of nature of time & of materiality This book discusses architects' responses to & uses of concrete while also taking into account the role it has played in politics literature cinema & labour relations as well as in present day arguments about sustainability ...

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A personal heart-warming journey you take the role of ash an isolated & bullied teenager who has discovered he has the ability to cleanse his ever-polluted town with creations he paints & brings to life But that's just the start of it! Concrete genie is truly about ash's personal journey
- one that players will share but more MP relate to on a human & emotional level 2 separate game modes
- VR adventure & VR free paint mode Free paint players will take the magical painting mechanic from the main game & use this to paint in a first person perspective with move controllers Vr adventure an immersive experience unique to VR & Approx. 45 minutes
- unlocked after completing the main game's opening section A personal heart-warming journey you take the role of Ash an isolated & bullied teenager who has discovered he has the ability to cleanse his ever-polluted town with creations he paints & brings to life but that's just the start of it! Concrete genie is truly about ash's personal journey
- one that players will share but more importantly relate to on a human & emotional level 2 separate game modes
- VR adventure & VR free Paint mode free Paint players will take the magical painting mechanic from the main game & use this to Paint in a first person perspective with move controllers VR adventure an immersive experience unique to VR & Approx. 45 minutes
- unlocked after completing the main game's opening section Required for VR Features (not included) Play Station VR Headset Play Station 4 Camera





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A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe' Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman Robert Maitland a 35 year-old architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself dazed & disorientated on a traffic island below three converging motorways But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible
- & he finds himself imprisoned on the concrete island Maitland must survive using only what he can find in his crashed car As in all Ballard's best work Concrete Island' provides an unnerving study of our modern lives & world With his alienating Ballardian' view of normal events this is a unique novel from one of the twentieth century's finest writers This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith Adam Philips Adam Thirlwell & Robert Macfarlane) & br&-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood
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If you're one of the many developers uncertain about concurrent & multithreaded development this practical cookbook will change your mind With more than 75 code-rich recipes author Stephen Cleary demonstrates parallel processing & asynchronous programming techniques using libraries & language features in NET 45 & C 50 Concurrency is becoming more common in responsive & scalable application development but it's been extremely difficult to code The detailed solutions in this cookbook show you how modern tools raise the level of abstraction making concurrency much easier than before Complete with ready-to-use code & discussions about how & why the solution works you get recipes for using async & await for asynchronous operations Parallel programming with the Task Parallel Library The TPL Dataflow library for creating dataflow pipelines Capabilities that Reactive Extensions build on top of LINQ Unit testing with concurrent code Interop scenarios for combining concurrent approaches Immutable threadsafe & producerconsumer collections Cancellation support in your concurrent code Asynchronous-friendly Object-Oriented Programming Thread synchronization for accessing data ...

Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right but fortunately the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable & even easy If you're a developer familiar with Go this practical book demonstrates best practices & patterns to help you incorporate concurrency into your systems Author Katherine Cox-Buday takes you step-by-step through the process You'll understand how Go chooses to model concurrency what issues arise from this model & how you can compose primitives within this model to solve problems Learn the skills & tooling you need to confidently write & implement concurrent systems of any size Understand how Go addresses fundamental problems that make concurrency difficult to do correctly Learn the key differences between concurrency & parallelism Dig into the syntax of Go's memory synchronization primitives Form patterns with these primitives to write maintainable concurrent code Compose patterns into a series of practices that enable you to write large distributed systems that scale Learn the sophistication behind goroutines & how Go's runtime stitches everything together ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Will Smith stars in Concussion a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs Goliath story of American immigrant Dr Bennet Omalu the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE a football-related brain trauma in a pro player & fought for the truth to be known Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful – & beloved – institutions in the world With captivating performances by Alec Baldwin & Academy Award nominee Albert Brooks (1987 Best Supporting Actor Broadcast News) ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play b ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Will Smith stars in Concussion a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs Goliath story of American immigrant Dr Bennet Omalu the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE a football-related brain trauma in a pro player & fought for the truth to be known Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful – & beloved – institutions in the world With captivating performances by Alec Baldwin & Academy Award nominee Albert Brooks (1987 Best Supporting Actor Broadcast News) ...