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  • Same Player Shoots Again

    A Biography of the Pinball Machine

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub, and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. Andreas Bernard, looking back on his coming of age as an avid pinballer, reflects on what the disappearance of pinball machines tells us about the modern ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Lifted

    A Cultural History of the Elevator

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Triumph of Profiling

    The Self in Digital Culture

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    Until fairly recently, only serial killers and lunatics had profiles. Yet today, almost everyone is profiled through social media, mobile phones, and a multitude of other methods. But where does the idea of “profiling” come from, how has it changed over time, and what are its implications?In this book, Andreas Bernard examines contemporary profiling’s roots in late-nineteenth-century criminology, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Theory of the Hashtag

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis, Daniel Ross ...
    This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is organized and amplified around common buzzwords. This method enables us to navigate more easily the huge volume of online ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Traveller

    Far Trader - Volume 1

    by Chris Griffen, Xavier Bernard,Andrea Corsi ...
    Mayday! Mayday! We are under attack! Main drive is gone! Please help… this is Far Trader Slowhand… Mayday! The clarion call of a Starship in distress cannot be ignored, but sometimes there's no one there to help. The crew of far trader Slowhand travels the dangerous frontier worlds of Aramis Subsector. Just honest merchants trying to make a Credit — without being killed in the process! Traveller ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Kathy Borrus, Jorg Brockmann, James Driscoll ...
    Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved cities.This inspiring photographic journey through the City of Lights features the greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of Paris, organized by neighborhood. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. ... Read more

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  • The Routes Not Taken

    A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System

    by Joseph B. Raskin ...
    A fascinating journey into the past—and under the ground—that offers "an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit" ( The New York Times).From the day it broke ground by City Hall in 1900, it took about four and half years to build New York's first subway line to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again.The Routes Not Taken explores the often ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ireland in Brick and Stone

    The Island's History in Its Buildings

    by Richard Killeen ...
    Ireland in Brick and Stone takes 50 buildings and other man-made constructions from different parts of Ireland and uses them to illustrate the history of the island over 1,500 years. All but three of the buildings are still surviving and they offer us a very personal way into history by teasing out the context in which each building was constructed, the uses to which it was put and the people ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Architecture of Sunderland

    1700-1914

    by Graham Potts, Michael Johnson ...
    Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coalmining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion and development. Once known as the 'largest shipbuilding town in the world', Sunderland's proud and distinctive identity is embodied in its historic buildings and in its changing urban form. The Architecture of Sunderland, 1700-1914 examines the city's architectural ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Architects in India

    Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi

    by Mary N. Woods ...
    As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India. Educated in the 1930s and 1940s, the very first women architects designed everything from factories to museums in the post-independence period. The generations that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Architecture in Motion

    The history and development of portable building

    by Robert Kronenburg ...
    The idea that architecture can be portable is one that grabs the imagination of both designers and the people who use it, perhaps because it so often forecasts a dynamic and creative solution to the complex problems of our contemporary mobile society, while at the same time dealing with issues of practicality, economy and sustainability.Architecture in Motion examines the development of portable, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Stillness and Light

    The Silent Eloquence of Shaker Architecture

    by Henry Plummer ...
    Shaker buildings have long been admired for their simplicity of design and sturdy craftsmanship, with form always following function. Over the years, their distinctive physical characteristics have invited as much study as imitation. Their clean, unadorned lines have been said to reflect core Shaker beliefs such as honesty, integrity, purity, and perfection. In this book, Henry Plummer focuses on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD