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  • Digital Archetypes

    Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia

    by Sambit Datta, David Beynon ...
    Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
    This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and adaptation eastwards into ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Modern Greece

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Stathis Kalyvas ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center of the European economic maelstrom, however, observers and critics cited a century of economic ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Early Samurai AD 200–1500

    by Anthony J Bryant ...
    Series Book 35 - Elite
    War played a central part in the history of Japan.Warring clans controlled much of the country. The wars were usually about land, the struggle for control of which eventually gave rise to perhaps the most formidable warriors of all time: the Samurai. Ancient Yayoi warriors developed weapons, armour and a code during the ensuing centuries that became the centrepiece for the Japanese Samurai.Anthony ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Decisive Battles of India from 1746 to 1849

    by Colonel G.B. Malleson, Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes Table of ContentsColonel G.B. Mallesons The Decisive Battles of India from 1746 to 1849 discusses eleven of the most famous battles between the English and India, including Plassey and Biderra . A table of contents is included. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

    Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast. His armies conquered the Asian kingdom of Dali and brought down the last defenders of imperial China ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Toronto, No Mean City

    Third Edition, Revised

    by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto ...
    Series series Heritage
    Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Autobiography of an Archive

    A Scholar's Passage to India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia

    by Alfred J. Rieber ...
    This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying the great power rivalry between the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for control over ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

    Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

    by Samuel Y. Liang ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process, Chinese sojourners actively appropriated ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

    by Christopher Hight ...
    A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies.The book examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in recent decades, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Pity of Partition

    Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

    by Ayesha Jalal ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writersSaadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Flowers of a Moment

    by Ko Un ...
    Translated by Brother Anthony, Young-moo Kim, Gary Gach ...
    “Bodhisattva of Korean poetry, exuberant, demotic, abundant, obsessed with poetic creation . . . Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.”—Allen Ginsberg"Korea's greatest living Zen poet."—Lawrence FerlinghettiFlowers of a Moment is a treasure trove of more than 180 brief poems by a major world poet at the apex of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD