Urban Development in the Margins of a World Heritage Site. In the Shadows of Angkor, Hardback - Ad le Esposito

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

Reducere. Khaldoun Fansa is an Aleppo native who was displaced by the Syrian Civil War. For many years he worked as an architect who managed restoration of A...

Reducere. This book shows how Ford's first large automotive plant-the Crystal Palace-transformed the sleepy village of Highland Park, Michigan, into an indus...

This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development 'success' and 'failure'. ...

The rapid decline of the bastions of American power established over the twentieth century is the subject of this extensive historical analysis emp...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

Reducere. Amanda felt nothing."I can't return to who I was, " she said. "I don't know who I am."The United States is finally a meritocracy, where the best an...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 159 x 239 x 18Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Laura Turq...

The greatest undisclosed secret of the war haunts the lives of 4 people across three continents and 15 years.

Re-deployed from convoys in the Atlantic, the men of PC-450 - an advanced sub chaser - face Japanese submarines and air attacks as they support the...

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative set in the Late-Upper Palaeolithic. A kind of literary seance involving b...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

Excavations chart the transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage, with the development of a significant basilica that w...

DescriptionWHAT HAS MODERN SCIENCE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG? This pioneering work, which sparked intense controversy when it was first published two dec...

Reducere. Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the...

Reducere. The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Mohammed El SaidNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31Cover type: Har...

Guidebook to walking in the Aosta valley, a stunning, autonomous region in the Italian Alps. Describes 32 scenic routes (ranging from 4 to 20km) wi...

The incredible story of the primitive railways, known as tramroads, built in order to link the iconic ironworks around Blaenavon - now a UNESCO wor...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...

Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an ...

Reducere. The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing the worst of humanity on today's commercial internetPublisher: Yale Univers...

Reducere. Updated a decade after its original publication, this memoir by Jean Hay Bright chronicles the years in the 1970s when the author and her first hus...

Daniel Mains explores the intersection of infrastructural development and governance in contemporary Ethiopia by examining the conflicts surroundin...

This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to the final failure of their expansionist ambitions directed against...

This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the En...

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to allevia...

Reducere. This book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, t...

Reducere. "This story has haunted me since I was a child, " begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grand...

In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero's struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service sta...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Scotland - a land where hill and glen meet surging seas; where ancient and modern stand side-by-side; and the birth place and home of many beloved ...

A delightful collection of original essays by Elena Ferrante as she reflects on the "adventure of writing"-her own and others'.Publisher: Europa Ed...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book provides a new account of the urbanism of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. To do so, it draws on a combination of textual sourc...

Describes the armies of the Germanic foes that raided, invaded and resisted the Roman Empire for centuries and eventually brought it down.Publisher...

(Guitar Book). Bassist James Jamerson was the embodiment of the Motown spirit and groove the invisible entity whose playing inspired thousands. His...