Structural concrete, although durable, often needs repairing. Impact, abrasion, overloading, fire and aggressive environments all cause damage, and cracks appear, due to errors in design or specification and faulty construction. This text enables the engineer to diagnose the cause of a fault, choose the appropriate remedial technique and ensure that the repair work is completed satisfactorily. It will be of value to all those who need to commission, supervise or carry out repairs to concrete structures.
Structural concrete, although durable, often needs repairing. Impact, abrasion, overloading, fire and aggressive environments all cause damage, and cr...
In Beyond Nihilism, Michael Polanyi argued that a merely -negative- liberty of doing as one pleases so long as one does not impinge upon the equal liberty of others--must and has led to destructive nihilism and a fierce reaction to collectivism. R.T. Allen takes up this argument in Beyond Liberalism, and shows how Polanyi's political philosophy evolved into a more -positive- and distinctly conservative concept of liberty, converging upon the archetypal conservatism of Edmund Burke. Allen examines Polanyi's and F.A. Hayek's thinking with respect to the nature, value, and...
In Beyond Nihilism, Michael Polanyi argued that a merely -negative- liberty of doing as one pleases so long as one does not impinge upon th...
Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for granted as the background to, and support of, everything else. Their existence will rarely be questioned. The cosmos or universe, the gods, God, Brahman, Heaven, the Absolute--R. T. Allen claims that all these and other world- views have been held to be that which necessarily exists and upon which all other beings depend in one way or another.
European philosophers, since antiquity, have offered arguments to show that their chosen candidates for the...
Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for granted as the...
Michael Polanyi was a polymath who primarily studied medicine and chemistry. Precisely because of Polanyi's work in the physical sciences, his writings have a unique dimension not found in other advocates of the market and too infrequently found even in philosophers of science. Society, Economics, and Philosophy represents the full range of his interests outside of his scientific work: economics, politics, society, philosophy of science, religion and positivist obstacles to it, and art.
Polanyi was a powerful critic of totalitarianism and of the deficiencies of the usual defences of...
Michael Polanyi was a polymath who primarily studied medicine and chemistry. Precisely because of Polanyi's work in the physical sciences, his writ...
