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This book is part of the series called Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics. Authors: Thomas Bock and Thomas Linner Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 316 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram In order to “arrest the declining productivity in the construction industry,” this book was developed. It “focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology” to renew this industry. This volume explores 30 different worldwide systems within a careful analytical framework in which the best conceptual features are extracted to help professionals and researchers develop new applications. The analytical approach splits the systems studies into a technical portion...

Editor: Paul G. Harris Publisher:  Cambridge University Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram – 450 pages Seven of these indicators would be expected to increase in a warming world and observations show that they are, in fact, increasing. Three would be expected to decrease and they are, in fact, decreasing. Image credit: Wikipedia An article in Wikipedia warns us: “The effects of global warming or climate damage include far-reaching and long-lasting changes to the natural environment, to ecosystems and human societies caused directly or indirectly by human emissions of greenhouse gases. It also includes the economic and social changes which stem from living in a warmer world....

Author: Vanesa Castan Broto Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 242 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram A radical re-examination, then a re-design of the way urban living spaces are organized around their energy sources, is required, if we are to deliver sustainable energy to all in the future, writes the author of this book, Vanesa Castan Broto. This book undertakes the re-examination in its 10 chapters that we list below: Introduction Part I – Understanding Urban Energy Landscapes Energy Transitions and Urban Infrastructure Urban Energy Landscapes as Connective Tissue Change and Agency in Landscapes of Dwelling Part II –...

General Editor: Thomas Worcester Associate Editors: Megan Armstrong, James Corkery SJ, Alison Fleming, Andres I. Prieto Assistant Editor: Henry Shea, SJ Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 875 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Today, there are 2.4 billion Christians worldwide, representing 30.75 percent of the world’s 7.8 billion people. By 2050, if current population trends continue, there will be 3.077 billion Christians around the globe, according to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey. Christianity will continue to be the largest religion, practiced by 31.4 percent of the world’s 9.8 billion people by 2050. Catholics, currently numbering about 1.2 billion...