The Engineering Collection
The Engineering Collection collection includes the following titles:
Profiles Lency, a man who lives in Cuba's central mountains who has a creative solution to all of life's daily problems there.
A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better.
An inspirational portrait of a young West African man who starts a business building solar panels from scratch and selling them to rural customers in Mali.
In spite of the economic crisis and US embargo, the Cuban health system is an outstanding success story around the world.
Explores the sea change in national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the call for dam removal as awareness grows that our own future is bound to the health of our rivers.
Reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and looks at promising developments in renewable energy technology.
The complex relationship of energy use to different value systems.
In a Stanford multidisciplinary, project-based course, student design teams are building a better world...one product at a time.
This is the story of Komusa Tenapo, master mason and heir to the secrets of Djenne architecture, the traditional use of mud in Malian buildings.
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