Story of Buildings, Paperback

Cross sections of famous buildings including the pyramids and the Sydney Opera House from }Incredible Explosions{ illustrator Stephen Biesty are co...

The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings. 'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way t...

Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behindPublisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Colin PhilpottIl...

This is the story of architecture as never seen before. A brilliantly original book that takes us from the colossal achievements of antiquity to th...

DescriptionThe Short Story of Architecture is a new and innovative guide to the subject of architecture that explores 50 key buildings, from the Gr...

The fascinating story of the buildings that have helped to defend Wales throughout its history from the Iron Age to the twentieth century.

Reducere. My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha's neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebratin...

Featuring various illustrations showing the buildings, furniture, metalwork, and the people who influenced it, this title tells the story of the bi...

The grand hotel is an icon of the British seaside. Occupying the most favoured spots on the prom, elaborate Victorian and later buildings maintain ...

Reducere. The united states government commissioned over 1, 100 murals for the embellishment of post offices nationwide. Tennessee received 30 of these mural...

Reducere. The united states government commissioned over 1, 100 murals for the embellishment of post offices nationwide. Wisconsin received 35 of these mural...

Giving voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies van der Rohe, this comprehensive biography tells the com...

Learn how to make an entire farm of needle-felted animals, people and buildings with this unique craft book. Contains step-by-step instructions and...

Reducere. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86'd, Dan Fante's Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer ...

Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to tell the story of the nati...

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotla...

How did Bear Grylls become one of the world's toughest adventurers?This is the thrilling story of everyone's favourite real-life action man - from ...

A thought-provoking story about the bond between children and nature, and the importance of wilderness, from the author of Sky Hawk and Gorilla Dow...

Reducere. Haunted Buildings, Creepy Forests, Spooky Tales And Eerie True Ghost Stories From The Scariest Places On Earth Are you a self-confessed horror frea...

Reducere. Few cities have seen the rise and fall that Detroit has. At its height, it was the fourth largest city in the U.S. with 1.85 million residents. Tod...

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the f...

Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and built. Initially contr...

Reducere. March 11, 2011. The T hoku earthquake struck just before three on a Friday afternoon. Massive earthquake damage was followed by tsunami rising to h...

Reducere. SummaryWe spend most of our lives in buildings and see new ones being created around us all the time. But the number of people and disciplines invo...

Reducere. Since she was a curious four-year-old child, Natasha Rawls has had an intense interest (and equally intense fear) of shut-down department stores an...

Reducere. The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which bui...

Reducere. It is May 1998, and riots have sprung up across Indonesia with attacks targeting the ethnic Chinese. Buildings are being set alight all around as h...

Reducere. Once the rival of Dodge City and Cheyenne, for years Tascosa, Texas, lay a ghost town of crumbling adobes. Today almost all traces of frontier Tasc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kay NiemannRocky Mountain Italians is an account of early Italian families coming to Colorado during the great Italian immi...

A touching exploration of grief and the difficult emotions surrounding death, The Window is a beautiful reminder that those we love will always be ...

Reducere. U.S. Highway 66 was always different from other roads. During the decades it served American travelers, Route 66 became the subject of a world-famo...

DescriptionThe extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country...

Reducere. Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard's architecture told by the distinguished architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting, a...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressiv...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson's pulp mill. Through extensive research, the author has gathered information from a wide variety...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip ReeveCalled "imaginative, inventive, and exciting" in a starred review from Kirkus, the second adventure in the Feve...

Reducere. This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more...

Reducere. In the big city, everyone has a story - even the lost souls.Life on the streets can be tough for a kitten. Between the neighborhood hooligans, trai...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan HolohanDan Holohan has been studying the steam-heating systems in older American buildings since 1970. In 1992, he wrot...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pedro MairalEditor: Susan HallsteadEditor: Juan Pablo DaboveEl aNo del desierto is the story of a year in the life of Maria...

Reducere. Now in paperback The Roman Colosseum was the work of a brilliant and energetic civilization. The Roman Colosseum was the work of a cruel and brutal...

Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping De...

Reducere. DescriptionGreat Camp Sagamore was built by William West Durant and bought by Alfred Vanderbilt in 1901 to be his family's Adirondack retreat. Vand...

DescriptionThe story of the Town Below the Ground is one of the most disturbing in the annals of Scottish history. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh ...

DescriptionWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Ta...

Reducere. Our histories focus almost entirely on a relatively small group of men making big decisions in big buildings in cities, but most folks living at an...

Reducere. "Jacqueline Keeler, a master storyteller and reporter, crafts a knotty skein, twining together family traditions, Native and colonial histories, pe...

DescriptionThe Molly Hootch Act, a little known (outside Alaska) law, had a profound effect on the education of native Alaskan children. Mandating ...

Reducere. DescriptionNew York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing...

Discover the most famous and popular sights in London with classic picture book character, Katie. When Katie and her brother, Jack, visit London wi...

Reducere. From the master of contemporary urban fantasy, a new collection of "Newford" storiesThe city of Newford could be any city in North America, burstin...

Reducere. During the night of April 10, 1734, Montr al burned. Marie-Joseph Ang lique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dutch SheetsAn Appeal To Heaven: What Would Happen If We Did It Again In recent days, you may have seen someone with a whit...

Reducere. Perhaps the most fascinating chapter in Southwest history is the tale of the mysterious, "vanished" Anasazi Indians. Their tremendous achievements ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2013 the author asked the citizens of Lubbock for their personal ghost stories. He expected a handful at best. Instead, he got dozens...

After an initial visit of three months to the Atlas Mountains in 1965, well-known travel writer, climber and photographer Hamish rown has been back...

Reducere. DescriptionNapa Valley is known for its wine and winemakers, but just beneath the fertile soil lies another, more complex version of its history. U...

Reducere. DescriptionBeautiful white sand? Check Refreshing ocean waves? Check Bloody body in the beach house? Check...? Hajime and his classmates strive to ...

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes an...

Reducere. Afterlife: Ghost Stories From Goa is a story that revolves around a family get-together in Goa. The Fonseca family gathers in the Carvalho mansion ...

DescriptionWho are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.The d...

The north Georgia city of Winder developed from the double log cabin that inspired its earlier name of Jug Tavern. Evolving from the vision and det...

Reducere. Description** This 20, 000-word story is told in drabbles: each chapter consisting of only 100 words.** Sebastian Gilman meets a guy on a dance flo...

Reducere. Explore the stories behind Columbus' most stunning landmarks, both those sadly lost and others miraculously saved. As the crossroads city of the Mi...

Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators,...

An investigation into the complex politics of data centers, through photographs and essaysOften hidden in plain sight, data centers are the backbon...

Reducere. Description"I could make up a story to cover the last eight years, but the scars on my arms told the truth. So did the ones on my ankles, the skin ...

Reducere. In an effort to get her security consulting business off the ground, Kelsey Allen has been spending a lot of time up in the air, rappelling down bu...

Reducere. Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world foreverOn a quiet Monday morning in A...

Reducere. DescriptionThis sci-fi classic depicts a London destroyed by a cataclysmic event, with the remnants of England's population beginning a primitive s...