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  • Invisible Monuments

    Tribute, Memory, and the Summoning of the Past

    “Howard Mansfield has never written an uninteresting or dull sentence. All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishing. He is something like a cultural psychologist along with being a first-class cultural historian. He is humane, witty, bright-minded, and rigorously intelligent. His deep subject is Time: how we deal with it and how it deals with us.” —Guy Davenport, poet, translator ... Leer más

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  • In the Memory House

    "Mr. Mansfield gets beneath the patina of the tangible and intangible relics of our history to locate the emotional core of our past. Through the intensity of his language, his pace, and wit, the predisposed reader can take the leap into collective memory and even catch that damp, sweet scent of the past. [A] wise and beautiful book." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn the Memory House recalls ... Leer más

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  • Dwelling in Possibility

    Searching for the Soul of Shelter

    The mystery that attracts Howard Mansfield's attention is that some houses have life--are home, are dwellings, and others aren't. Dwelling, he says, is an old-fashioned word that we've misplaced.When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong to a place, we dwell. Possession, they say, is nine-tenths of the law, but it is also what too many houses and towns lack. We are not possessed by our ... Leer más

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  • I Will Tell No War Stories

    What Our Fathers Left Unsaid About World War II

    When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d experienced in war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,” he’d say.Cleaning up the old family house the year before his father's death, Mansfield was surprised to find a short diary of the ... Leer más

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  • Turn and Jump

    How Time & Place Fell Apart

    Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads ... Leer más

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  • Cosmopolis

    Yesterday's Cities of the Future

    Edición de Howard Mansfield ...
    The twentieth century saw a grand procession of promises for the city. The great modern architect Le Corbusier dictated cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, Frank Lloyd proposed cities with no downtown, cities spread across the countryside with each family on its homestead, and skyscraper utopians of the 1920s promised paradise on the one-hundredth floor with our airplane ... Leer más

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  • Chronicles of Old Boston

    Exploring New England's Historic Capital

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    Discover one of America's most historic cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning Boston's 400-year history, and then visit the places where history happened on walking tours of the city's historic neighborhoods. Boston expert Charles Bahne reveals some of the city's most shocking moments, from a murder mystery on the Harvard campus to the mistake that sent two million gallons of molasses ... Leer más

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  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Leer más

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  • Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II

    As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians about her books on lost mansions and landmarks, enthusiasts brought her more stories of great architecture ravaged by time. The twenty-seven houses included in her new book are among the most memorable of Mississippi's vanished antebellum and Victorian mansions. The list ranges from the oldest house in the Natchez region, lost in a ... Leer más

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  • The Walkable City: From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial. The author looks to the future and suggests ways in which we can reorganize our lives and our cities. The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur ... Leer más

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