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Clare Lade is a Lecturer in Industry Placements in the Office of the Provost at Latrobe University, Australia. With over 20 years of experience in academic research and university teaching, her research interests include tourism futures and development, gastronomy and event management. She has presented her work at conferences within Australia and internationally, as well as having published work in textbooks, journal articles and book chapters.




28 Ebooks by Kim Williams

Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing: Gastronomy, Tourism and the Media
This book examines and analyses the connections between gastronomy, tourism and the media. It argues that in the modern world, gastronomy is increasingly a major component and driver of tourism and t …
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€26.99
Kim Williams: Daniele Barbaro’s Vitruvius of 1567
This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro’s 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technolo …
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€213.99
Kim Williams & Lionel March: The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts a …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art
A follow-up to the volume ‘Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800. Essays by David Speiser’ (Birkhäuser 2008), this volume contains the essays of David Speiser on relationships between …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 14, 1
The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal is dedicated to the theme “Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences”. This is an outgrowth of the session by the …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 14, 2
This volulme features eight original papers dedicated to the theme “Persian Architecture and Mathematics, ” guest edited by Reza Sarhangi. All papers were approved through a rigorous process of blind …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 14, 3
The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 3) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features seven original papers dedicated to the theme “Digital Fabrication”. Digital fabrication is changing architecture in …
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€53.49
Kim Williams & Michael J. Ostwald: Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the pro …
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€160.49
Kim Williams & Michael J. Ostwald: Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the pro …
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€160.49
Danila Aita & Orietta Pedemonte: Masonry Structures: Between Mechanics and Architecture
The book aims to provide an overview of the state of the art on the mechanics of arches and masonry structures. It is addressed to an international audience, arising from the international context in …
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€53.49
CLAUDIO BARTOCCI & Renato Betti: Mathematical Lives
Steps forward in mathematics often reverberate in other scientific disciplines, and give rise to innovative conceptual developments or find surprising technological applications. This volume brings …
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€53.49
Angelo Guerraggio & Giovanni Paoloni: Vito Volterra
​Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was one of the most famous representatives of Italian science in his day. Angelo Guerragio and Giovanni Paolini analyze Volterra’s most important contributions to …
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€32.09
Kim Williams: Two Cultures
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€53.49
Nexus Network Journal 9, 2
This volume is dedicated to ‘Mechanics in Architecture’, that is, the science of structural mechanics, including the behaviour of structures, internal forces, and deformation, as well as the developm …
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€50.28
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 10, 1
The quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. This issue of the Nexus Network Journal examines Leonardo’s knowled …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 10, 2
This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to ‘Canons of Form-Making’, in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practiti …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 11, 1
In celebration of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, this issue of the Nexus Network Journal is devoted to relationships between astronomy, mathematics and architecture. Ancient cultures looke …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 11, 2
The title of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal, ‘Architecture, Mathematics and Structure, ‘ is deliberately ambiguous. At first glance, it might seem to indicate the relationship between what b …
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€53.49
Kim Williams: Nexus Network Journal 11, 3
Baroque architect and mathematician Guarino Guarini is the subject of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal. A group of international scholars were invited to contribute papers that shed light on t …
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€53.49
Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing: Fashion, Design and Events
The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for …
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€50.64
Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing: Fashion, Design and Events
The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for …
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€50.29
Hannibal B. Johnson: Apartheid in Indian Country
The binding persons of African descent and Native Americans trace back centuries. In Oklahoma, both free and enslaved Africans lived among the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ – the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek) …
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€9.49
Kim Williams & Cosimo Monteleone: Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568
A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many years before. Barbaro …
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€139.09
Gary Best & Warwick Frost: Gastronomy, Tourism and the Media
This book examines and analyses the connections between gastronomy, tourism and the media. It argues that in the modern world, gastronomy is increasingly a major component and driver of tourism and …
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€25.07
Michelle Jacques with John Beljean: Delaware Valley Railway
From 1901 to 1937, the lone engine of the Delaware Valley Railway chugged up and down its solitary track, from the Stroudsburgs to Bushkill. It was a time of heady prospects as the resorts of the …
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€19.53
Cosimo Monteleone & Kim Williams: Daniele Barbaro and the University of Padova
This book, edited by Kim Williams and Cosimo Monteleone, follows the publication of two other books dedicated to Daniele Barbaro and published by Springer: Daniele Barbaro’s Vitruvius of 1567 (Kim Wi …
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€160.49
Kim Williams: Brown-Eyed Blue-Eyed Cat
The world can be a crazy place to live. The way people treat each other can be heartbreaking—the way we hurt each other’s feelings down to picking on each other for the way we look, talk, and dress a …
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€10.99