Abstracts from the Compendex database, which includes the electronic version of Engineering Index, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines. Comprising journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and recently preprints, Compendex content is sourced from thousands of publishers from around the world, including major engineering societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE and ACM.
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Below is a small sample of the books available to you from the Gordon Library for this course. Books on cultural awareness, disaster/emergency housing, and sustainable architecture. You can search for more books using the WPI Library Search box to the left, or the one on our home page. Enter the name of your country, or keywords/phrases, such as disaster housing, emergency housing, sustainable architecture, humanitarian architecture, culture awareness, or multiculturalism.
Building for a Changing Culture and Climate by 
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Design Like You Give a Damn by 
Sustainability Transitions in South Africa by 
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