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Wizerunki książąt i królów polskich

de Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ...

Zobrazowanie królów i książąt polskich przez wybitnego pisarza, Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego. Praca oparta na źródłach pisanych, ikonografii i sfragistyce, stąd utrzymywano, że przedstawione w niej wizerunki władców należą do prawdziwych i autentycznych. ... Leer más

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Zobrazowanie królów i książąt polskich przez wybitnego pisarza, Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego. Praca oparta na źródłach pisanych, ikonografii i sfragistyce, stąd utrzymywano, że przedstawione w niej wizerunki władców należą do prawdziwych i autentycznych.
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British Royal Residences

Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace And Holyrood Palace

de A.J. Kingston ...

Introducing "British Royal Residences" - A Majestic Journey Through Time and TraditionStep into the enchanting world of British royalty with our exclusive book bundle, "British Royal Residences." Immerse yourself in the rich history, captivating tales, and architectural wonders of four iconic royal abodes that have shaped the United Kingdom's cultural heritage. Book 1: "Buckingham Palace: A Regal ... Leer más

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Introducing "British Royal Residences" - A Majestic Journey Through Time and TraditionStep into the enchanting world of British royalty with our exclusive book bundle, "British Royal Residences." Immerse yourself in the rich history, captivating tales, and architectural wonders of four iconic royal abodes that have shaped the United Kingdom's cultural heritage. Book 1: "Buckingham Palace: A Regal
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Stach z Konar

de Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ...

Stach z Konar: Powieść historyczna z czasów Kazimierza Sprawiedliwego – powieść historyczna Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego wydana po raz pierwszy w 1878 roku, należąca do cyklu Dzieje Polski.Akcja toczy się w okresie rozbicia dzielnicowego Polski, a dokładnie w latach 1177-1194. Trwa rywalizacja pomiędzy dwoma synami Krzywoustego - starszym księciem Mieszkiem oraz Kazimierzem. Mieszko rządzi ... Leer más

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Stach z Konar: Powieść historyczna z czasów Kazimierza Sprawiedliwego – powieść historyczna Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego wydana po raz pierwszy w 1878 roku, należąca do cyklu Dzieje Polski.Akcja toczy się w okresie rozbicia dzielnicowego Polski, a dokładnie w latach 1177-1194. Trwa rywalizacja pomiędzy dwoma synami Krzywoustego - starszym księciem Mieszkiem oraz Kazimierzem. Mieszko rządzi
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Ungrounding

The Architecture of Genocide

de Eyal Weizman ...

**“This impressive exposé from Weizman, founder of human rights investigative group Forensic Architecture, outlines how Israel uses environmental destruction as a tool of 'ethnic cleansing' against Palestinians.” —Publisher's Weekly (starred review)“Ungrounding is a work of profound moral clarity and scientific precision, based on years of tireless collaboration and advocacy. Urgent and essential ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

**“This impressive exposé from Weizman, founder of human rights investigative group Forensic Architecture, outlines how Israel uses environmental destruction as a tool of 'ethnic cleansing' against Palestinians.” —Publisher's Weekly (starred review)“Ungrounding is a work of profound moral clarity and scientific precision, based on years of tireless collaboration and advocacy. Urgent and essential
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A City for Children

Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

de Marta Gutman ...

Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly ... Leer más

$34.99 USD

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly
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The Great Miscalculation

The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower

de Michael M. Greenburg ...

Distinguished Favorite, 2025 NYC Big Book Award: NonfictionHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New YorkersThe Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the ... Leer más

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Distinguished Favorite, 2025 NYC Big Book Award: NonfictionHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New YorkersThe Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the
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Bricks & Mortals

Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

de Tom Wilkinson ...

We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much ... Leer más

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We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much
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The Real Life of the Parthenon

de Patricia Vigderman ...

Series series 21st Century Essays
Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories around antiquities become distorted by the pull of ownership, and it is these stories that urge ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories around antiquities become distorted by the pull of ownership, and it is these stories that urge
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Inventor of the Future

The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

de Alec Nevala-Lee ...

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and
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Plagued by Fire

The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

de Paul Hendrickson ...

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made.This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made.This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life.
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The Lofts of SoHo

Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980

de Aaron Shkuda ...

Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo.American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was born. From 1960 to 1980, residents transformed the industrial neighborhood into an artist ... Leer más

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A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo.American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was born. From 1960 to 1980, residents transformed the industrial neighborhood into an artist
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How to Make a Home

An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort

de Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols, Vitruvius ...

Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life. Roman authors saw infinite practical and ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life. Roman authors saw infinite practical and
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Soho

A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

de Dan Cruickshank ...

SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING.One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied London history as he guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became the city's bohemian quarter and why it was once ... Leer más

$2.99 USD

SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING.One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied London history as he guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became the city's bohemian quarter and why it was once
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Boży gniew

de Józef Ignacy Kraszewski ...

Boży gniew. Czasy Jana Kazimierza – powieść historyczna Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego z 1886 roku, należąca do cyklu Dzieje Polski.W dużym trzytomowym utworze autor przedstawił fatalną sytuację Rzeczypospolitej po nagłej śmierci Władysława IV: burzliwą elekcję Jana Kazimierza oraz wstępny okres jego panowania na tle dramatycznych wydarzeń powstania Chmielnickiego. W istocie jednak oś powieściowej ... Leer más

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Boży gniew. Czasy Jana Kazimierza – powieść historyczna Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego z 1886 roku, należąca do cyklu Dzieje Polski.W dużym trzytomowym utworze autor przedstawił fatalną sytuację Rzeczypospolitej po nagłej śmierci Władysława IV: burzliwą elekcję Jana Kazimierza oraz wstępny okres jego panowania na tle dramatycznych wydarzeń powstania Chmielnickiego. W istocie jednak oś powieściowej
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Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople

Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries

de Vasileios Marinis ...

This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries). It employs archaeological and archival data, hagiographic and historical sources, liturgical texts and commentaries, and monastic typika and testaments to integrate the architecture of the medieval churches of Constantinople with liturgical and ... Leer más

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This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries). It employs archaeological and archival data, hagiographic and historical sources, liturgical texts and commentaries, and monastic typika and testaments to integrate the architecture of the medieval churches of Constantinople with liturgical and
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A History of Housing in New York City

de Richard Plunz ...

Series series Columbia History of Urban Life
Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, ... Leer más

$43.99 USD

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York,
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Candice Olson Bedrooms

de Candice Olson ...

Series Libro 5 - Candice Olson
Popular TV star and designer Candice Olson shows you how to create your dream bedroomWritten in her approachable and authoritative voice, Candice Olson Bedrooms features 25 stunning room makeovers, with gorgeous room sketches and design boards that show you how each design took shape. More than 200 full-color before-and-after photos provide a wealth of visual inspiration, while Candice's tips and ... Leer más

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Popular TV star and designer Candice Olson shows you how to create your dream bedroomWritten in her approachable and authoritative voice, Candice Olson Bedrooms features 25 stunning room makeovers, with gorgeous room sketches and design boards that show you how each design took shape. More than 200 full-color before-and-after photos provide a wealth of visual inspiration, while Candice's tips and
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What Goes Up

The Right and Wrongs to the City

de Michael Sorkin ...

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of Sorkin’s beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks ... Leer más

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A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of Sorkin’s beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks
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See Hear Yoko

de Bob Gruen, Jody Denberg ...

Conceived expressly for Yoko Ono as a gift between friends on the occasion of her eightieth birthday, See Hear Yoko is a visual portrait of an icon of contemporary American cultural history, from her days with John Lennon through to the present. Legendary rock and roll photographer Bob Gruen was welcomed into the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their years in New York City, when Gruen ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Conceived expressly for Yoko Ono as a gift between friends on the occasion of her eightieth birthday, See Hear Yoko is a visual portrait of an icon of contemporary American cultural history, from her days with John Lennon through to the present. Legendary rock and roll photographer Bob Gruen was welcomed into the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their years in New York City, when Gruen
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The Black Family Who Built America

The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers

de Cheryl McKissack Daniel ...

A Scientific American Favorite Book of 2025The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today—in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.Captured in his native West Africa and enslaved on American shores by a North Carolina plantation owner, Moses ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

A Scientific American Favorite Book of 2025The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today—in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.Captured in his native West Africa and enslaved on American shores by a North Carolina plantation owner, Moses
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Architects of an American Landscape

Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces

de Hugh Howard ...

A dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted—and their immense impact on AmericaAs the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape ... Leer más

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A dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted—and their immense impact on AmericaAs the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape
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L'enseignement de Las Vegas

ou Le symbolisme oublié de la forme architecturale

de Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour ...

Un ouvrage de référence dans le monde de l'architecture.Publié par un couple de jeunes architectes et enseignants qui y sonnent la révolte, Learning from Las Vegas cristallise les débats dans le milieu architectural américain du début des années soixante-dix. Aux constructions imaginaires d'un monde meilleur, l'ouvrage oppose l'observation de la réalité, faisant de la ville existante - ici Las ... Leer más

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Un ouvrage de référence dans le monde de l'architecture.Publié par un couple de jeunes architectes et enseignants qui y sonnent la révolte, Learning from Las Vegas cristallise les débats dans le milieu architectural américain du début des années soixante-dix. Aux constructions imaginaires d'un monde meilleur, l'ouvrage oppose l'observation de la réalité, faisant de la ville existante - ici Las
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Golden Gate

The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

de Kevin Starr ...

The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wildheadlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of Californiaand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spotcommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completedin 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess andfull assumption of its destined continental dominance. ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wildheadlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of Californiaand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spotcommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completedin 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess andfull assumption of its destined continental dominance.
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Frank Lloyd Wright

The Architecture of Defiance

de Jonathan Adams ...

Series Libro 1 - Architecture of Wales
The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he ... Leer más

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The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he
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