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  • Moving Memory

    Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile

    by Siri Schwabe ...
    Moving Memory is an ethnography of remembrance in the field of tension between post-dictatorship Chile and occupied Palestine that offers new insights into memory politics as a globally resurgent and increasingly transnational phenomenon. It tells a largely untold story of a Palestinian diaspora: how a predominantly Christian, conservative, and wealthy elite has come to form the backbone of a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Atmospheric City

    by Mikkel Bille, Siri Schwabe ...
    Series series Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
    The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses on the atmospheric power of people, places, and phenomena.While the predominant focus of current urban planning tends to rest on economic growth, sustainability, or offering housing, transport, and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Can Non-Europeans Think?

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    'In Can Non-Europeans Think? Dabashi takes his subtle but vigorous polemic to another level.'Pankaj MishraWhat happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and misrepresented.Challenging, pugnacious and stylish, Can Non-Europeans Think? forges a new perspective ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Welcome to Your World

    How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

    by Sarah Williams Goldhagen ...
    One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experienceTaking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • A City is Not a Tree

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

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  • If God Were a Human Rights Activist

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Experiential Landscape

    An Approach to People, Place and Space

    by Kevin Thwaites, Ian Simkins ...
    Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives. The book takes a holistic view of the relationship between humans and their environment, integrating experiential and spatial dimensions of the outdoors, and exploring the theory and application of environmental design disciplines, most notably ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Keeping It Halal

    The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys

    by John O'Brien ...
    A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good MuslimsThis book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Drawing on three and a half years of intensive fieldwork in and around a large urban mosque, John O’Brien ... Read more

    Was $32.39 USD Now $19.49 USD

  • Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design

    Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces

    Edited by Kevin Thwaites, Sergio Porta, Ombretta Romice, Mark Greaves ...
    What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe?Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design answers this question by providing the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable solutions to the design and management of urban environments. The book calls into ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Mexican Mahjar

    Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate

    by Camila Pastor ...
    This prize-winning study of Levantine migration to Mexico brings "a new and revelatory light" to the subject (Christina Civantos, author of Between Argentines and Arabs).In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas. After a pause during World War I, this intense mobility resumed in the 1920s and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Design Reader

    by Steve Tiesdell, Matthew Carmona ...
    Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Islamic Liberation Theology

    Resisting the Empire

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. The West is no longer ... Read more

    Was $73.99 USD Now $65.99 USD