…tage high on the Yorkshire moors (which didn’t even have electricity) to a threebedroom house in suburban Manchester. It had an inside toilet, a bathroom, hot running water, and many other mod-cons we of the developed world take for granted. It also had a telephone which lived in…

… transformable furniture. This way a user can have multiple functions such as a bedroom, a study, a living room, and a dining room available in a single footprint of space with intuitive control over the configurations through his/her own body gestures and movement. Briefly speak…

…timated 60-85% of a lifetime is spent in dwellings, with half of this period in bedrooms (Hasselaar, 2009). Quality in housing, however, presents different interpretations and challenges to different decision-makers. For human development and social policy, the challenge is the r…

… may be the case that an increasing share of parents does not paint the child’s bedroom in typical gendered colors (blue or pink) or that they are aware of possible gender biases in toys. But, looking at parenting prac- tices, gender differences are still present, and boys in par…

…nd social esteem. A female participant was in the process of completing a three bedroom house at her village. She explained: Page | 121 “It is good to own house. Each time I visited home, there was always a struggle relating to where I sleep[…] Some people might say the good thin…

…table premises to build a dedicated Peace Centre, continuing to work from Tim’s bedroom in the meantime. Their ideas soon attracted support from a number of rela- tively high-​profile dignitaries and politicians, including the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowl…

…in God’s eyes, but your God, your deep faith, sounds different. It is like your bedroom windows that you open wide open every morning so that you can breathe. Those windows are so important to you; they are a sign of and a metaphor for feeling your own way, knowing what is right …

…. She explains that she grew up in a home where there were bookshelves in every bedroom as well as in the living room and the hall. They were free to take any book, and read it on the soft carpet, as long as they were careful. This woman enjoys exploring bookshelves 244 at her fr…

…eans, everywhere we are, is an environment; our bedroom, our sitting room.” (Student, 6th grade) “One can consider environment as the biosphere interaction as a whole, but this in- teraction has been interrupted by man’s greed. To make the environment well it is needed a manageme…

…ed in Landshut and, when the SS came to fetch her, jumped to her death from her bedroom window. She too had been raised in Berlin, and in her death I add her name to the 7,000 Berliners estimated to have taken their own lives rather than be deported to the death camps. I had been…

… Ironically, this body is missing even in the pornography of every night, in my bedroom and on my screens, obstructed by the ocean of men trying to penetrate its every hole, bust the female target into pieces, or piece her into a target. In gangbang videos and photographs, all on…

…e, in contrast, could fill a profitable demand for housing. Lodgers occupying a bedroom might interact minimally with the household while boarders might be the functional equivalent of resident kin. Where a crowded village environment and the difficulty of enlarging old dwellings…

… the kitchen or the bedrooms (Figs 4–5). 1: Ancestral Hall 2: Room 3: Veranda A: Expanded Room B: Expanded Room Figure 4: The “Attap” house in Singapore. 1: Ancestral Hall 2: Dining 3: Room 4: Kitchen 5: Storage Area 6: Veranda Figure 5: The “Attap” house in Sarawak Cultural Vill…

… transformable furniture. This way a user can have multiple functions such as a bedroom, a study, a living room, and a dining room available in a single footprint of space with intuitive control over the conigurations through his/her own body gestures and movement. Briely speakin…

… traces the bride’s hair part with vermillion; and the entrance into the ritual bedroom. Known as byah ke git, these serious wedding songs recount some of the events from the most iconic and tragic of Indian love stories, the Ramayana. Byah ke git equate the new couple with Rama …