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  • Castles in Context

    Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500

    de Robert Liddiard ...
    Castle studies have been transformed in recent years with a movement away from the traditional interpretation of castles as static military structures towards a wider view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a more complicated relationship with the landscape. Supported by numerous colour photographs of the most `tangible' remains of the Middle Ages, this clearly written and very ... Leer más

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  • Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves

    de David Crane ...
    Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home for burial.The great cemeteries of WWI came about ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Bum Fodder

    An Absorbing History of Toilet Paper

    de Richard Smyth ...
    This is the hidden history of an invention that we use every day but seldom dare to speak of. In medieval China it was cutting-edge technology. For 19th-century Americans it was a newfangled alternative to dried corncobs and the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. Wits in Georgian London preferred pages of bad poetry. The sages of ancient Athens were content to wield the xylospongion instead. It's the tale ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The 1950s American Home

    de Diane Boucher ...
    Series Libro 740 - Shire Library USA
    Modern living began with the homes of the 1950s. Casting aside the privations of the Second World War, American architects embraced the must-have mod-cons: they wrapped fitted kitchens around fridges, washing machines, dishwashers and electric ovens, gave televisions pride of place in the living room, and built integrated garages for enormous space-age cars. So why was this change so radical? In ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • Impressions of a Decorator in Rome, Illustrated

    de Frederic Crowninshield ...
    Noted painter, writer and artist Frederic Crowninshield takes us on a decorator's tour of Rome in the 1890's. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza

    From Primordial Sea to Public Space

    de Logan Wagner, Hal Box, Susan Kline Morehead ...
    Series series Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
    The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place where friends meet, news is shared, and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Disclosing Horizons

    Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

    de Nicholas Temple ...
    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Leer más

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  • Delhi in Transition, 1821 and Beyond

    Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair-ul Manazil

    de Shama Mitra Chenoy ...
    Commissioned by the English East India Company to write about contemporary nineteenth-century Delhi, Mirza Sangin Beg walked around the city to capture its highly fascinating urban and suburban extravaganza. Laced with epigraphy and fascinating anecdotes, the city as ‘lived experience’ has an overwhelming presence in his work, Sair-ul Manazil. Interestingly, Beg made no attempt to ‘monumentalize’ ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Dusty and the Cowboy 3

    Coming Home

    de T.W. Lawrence ...
    Series Libro 3 - Dusty and the Cowboy
    Cowboy rides his big horse, Dusty, back to Atascosa after finding the answers he was seeking on that long journey. To reach the home place, he must first make amends to the one man he wronged years earlier. They meet by accident in an unexpected small town. What transpires there changes Cowboy's life for ever.In a poignant reunion, Cowboy keeps his promise to the young girl he met on the way up ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • On the Fascination of Objects

    Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection

    de Sally Waite ...
    The Shefton Collection in Newcastle upon Tyne contains a fine array of Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name from its founder Professor Brian Shefton (1919 – 2012). In spite of the importance of this collection it has not been widely published and remains something of a hidden gem. Brian Shefton was an insightful collector, as well as a distinguished scholar of Greek and Etruscan ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Utopia

    de Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin Marty ...
    Series series New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
    From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • The Saga of Sydney Opera House

    The Dramatic Story of the Design and Construction of the Icon of Modern Australia

    de Peter Murray ...
    Peter Murray's compelling and highly readable biography of the building presents both sides of the story. Using previously unpublished files and papers, Murray has managed to unravel one of the most intriguing architectural controversies of recent times - what really happened when they built Sydney Opera House... ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD