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  • The Long Millennium

    Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy

    by Mark Jarzombek ...
    Series series Global Histories Before Globalisation
    This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items – such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport – played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "global trade" in the first millennium CE. The book coins the term "dark matter economy" to better describe ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • A House Deconstructed

    by Mark Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash ...
    This book ‘deconstructs’ a single recently constructed house located in Seattle, WA, in an attempt to recover its backstory. The information is presented along four vectors – atoms, labors, sources and ingredients.Though remarkably detailed, the A House Deconstructed contends that a huge proportion of what we ‘know’ about the house is unknowable, not because our epistemological instruments aren’t ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age

    by Mark Jarzombek ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Once, humans were what they believed. Now, the modern person is determined by *data exhaust—*an invisible anthropocentric ether of ones and zeros that is a product of our digitally monitored age. Author Mark Jarzombek argues that the world has become redesigned to fuse the algorithmic with the ontological, and the discussion of ontology must be updated to rethink the question of Being. In Digital ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Architecture of First Societies

    A Global Perspective

    by Mark M. Jarzombek ...
    ARCHITECTURE OF FIRST SOCIETIESTHIS LANDMARK STUDY TRACES THE BEGINNINGS OF ARCHITECTURE BY LOOKING AT THE LATEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCHFrom the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to pre-Columbian American societies, Architecture of First Societies traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built ... Read more

    $128.00 USD

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    Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age

    by Mark Jarzombek ...
    Narrated by Lousie Potter ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 1 min

    Once, humans were what they believed. Now, the modern person is determined by data exhaust—an invisible anthropocentric ether of ones and zeros that is a product of our digitally monitored age. Author Mark Jarzombek argues that the world has become redesigned to fuse the algorithmic with the ontological, and the discussion of ontology must be updated to rethink the question of Being. In Digital ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Global History of Architecture

    by Francis D. K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash ...
    A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURENOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.K. CHING!The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years of the built environment.Spanning from 3,500 BCE to the present, and organized along a global timeline, ... Read more

    $113.00 USD

  • Architecture Constructed

    Notes on a Discipline

    by Professor Mark Jarzombek ...
    Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persisting through Classical and Renaissance times to the present day, and yet it has rarely been addressed through a historical and theoretical lens ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

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  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

    by William Dalrymple ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2026 * A Kirkus Reviews Best History Book of 2025 * A Library Journal Best Book of the Year * An NPR Book We Loved This YearThe instant New York Times bestseller and international sensation-a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's underappreciated role in producing the world as we know ... Read more

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  • Who Owns the Future?

    by Jaron Lanier ...
    The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic ... Read more

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  • A History of the World in 100 Objects

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