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  • Building The Dream

    by Gwendolyn Wright ...
    For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves? Why were all the walls in nineteenth-century tenements painted white? Why did the parlor suddenly ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • USA

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Gwendolyn Wright ...
    Series series RB-Modern Architectures in History
    From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account of this evolution from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Upending ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • At Home

    A Short History of Private Life

    by Bill Bryson ...
    In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually ends up in our home, in the paint, ... Read more

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  • The Stories Behind London's Streets

    by Peter Thurgood ...
    The streets of London flourish like possibly no other city on earth, with stories from its rich history, stories of death - fire - disease, of riots, and grisly murders, but also of tales of happiness, determination and success. Behind every story and every street however, are the people who lived, worked, played, and even murdered there.Everyone thinks they know of the legend of Dick Turpin, the ... Read more

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  • Fallen Glory

    The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

    by James Crawford ...
    "A narrative that spans seven millennia, five continents and even reaches into cyberspace. . . . I savored each page." —Henry Petroski, Wall Street JournalIn Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world's most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Masters of the Word

    How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet

    by William J. Bernstein ...
    A "riveting and thoroughly researched" history of language technology's effect on society across millennia—from Sumerian syntax to social media hashtags (Phil Lapsley).Writing was born thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. Spreading to Sumer, and then Egypt, this revolutionary tool allowed rulers to extend their control far and wide, giving rise to the world's first empires. When Phoenician ... Read more

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  • The Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberty

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Explains the history behind the creation and establishment of the Magna Carta.*Explains the influence the Magna Carta has had on Western democracy and which rights in the U.S. Constitution are derived from the Magna Carta.*Includes pictures of different copies of the Magna Carta*Includes footnotes that explain and provide some of the Magna Carta's text.*Includes a Table of Contents. To no man ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest

    Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330

    by Patricia Blessing ...
    Series series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
    This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, and cultural transformations took place that affected architecture on multiple levels. Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia, and ending with the demise of the Ilkhanid Empire, centered in Iran, in the 1330s, this book considers how the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean

    Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

    Edited by Jean-Francois Lejeune, Michelangelo Sabatino ...
    Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an ... Read more

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  • The Scientific Basis of Imperialism

    by John A. Hobson ...
    John Atkinson Hobson (6 July 1858 1 April 1940), commonly known as John A. Hobson or J. A. Hobson, was an English economist and critic of imperialism, widely popular as a lecturer and writer. During his coverage of the Second Boer War, Hobson began to form the idea that imperialism was the direct result of the expanding forces of modern capitalism. His publications in the next few years ... Read more

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  • Irigaray for Architects

    by Peg Rawes ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Specifically for architects, the third title in the Thinkers for Architects series examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray’s work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for making, discussing and experiencing architecture. In particular, each chapter makes accessible Irigaray’s ideas about feminine and masculine ... Read more

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  • Freedom and the Cage

    Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914

    by Leslie Topp ...
    Series series Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies
    Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the “caged freedom” that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven ... Read more

    $89.99 USD