A History of Spaces

Devised as an alternative to classical models, this book features the model of Controversy Spaces, a heuristic tool for the reconstruction of proce...

A remarkable overview of Russian history and culture, from the 18th century to the 20th.Illustrations: 107 illustrations, 45 in colour

Taking a continental approach, Freedom Seekers introduces a new conceptualization of 'spaces of freedom' in North America, revealing the diversity ...

The fashion show and its spaces are sites of otherness, representing everything from rebellion and excess through to political and social activism....

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

This book brings together a wealth of recent research into landscape and green spaces in the West Midlands. Insights from geology and archaeology, ...

Reducere. In Walkscapes Francesco Careri explores the act of walking, taking a deeper look at three important moments of passage in art history-all absolutel...

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of t...

Reducere. Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or...

A readable account of the book as an object: a history of the page as well as a history of the book. Drawing an arc from the medieval scriptorium t...

Since its early days as a boomtown on the Florida frontier, Tampa has had a lively history rich with commerce, cuisine, and working-class communiti...

Reducere. Cantry is a romantic 20-year-old horseman, enamored with Henry repeaters, muzzleloading rifles and a way of life that existed Two Hundred years ago...

Mark Gorman examines the key role played by popular protest in the mid-Victorian campaigns to preserve Epping Forest and other open spaces in and n...

DescriptionThe rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shap...

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. Video games also serve as archa...

How are forbidden histories told and transmitted among young people in Israel/Palestine? What can their stories teach us about their everyday exper...

Reducere. The built environment along the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a hotbed of political and creative action. In this volume, the historically tense ...

Prolific prize-winner Jeremy Black charts the development and historical and global variety of fortifications and the destructive siege implements ...

Fresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challe...

DescriptionEmpire of Lies is a sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle, Fatherland, and Underground Airlines from New York...

DescriptionOur urban spaces today struggle to thrive in the face corporate greed, increasing privatization, and rising inequality. Unlocking Sustai...

Reducere. From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Regist...

Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...

DescriptionSince 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-b...

Over the last twenty years spiritual director, teacher, and pilgrim Tracy Balzer has made more than a dozen transatlantic visits to Scotland's Isle...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

Reducere. Underground is all about the history and future of DIY punk touring in the USA. Daniel Makagon explores the culture of DIY spaces like house shows ...

DescriptionTracing the development of American cities and city life from early colonial settlements to the familiar downtowns of today, a sweeping ...

With the Internet, a new space, cyberspace, has formed, been rapidly integrated into daily life, and become the fourth living space for human being...

Reducere. Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy s stunning first novel, "Fighting with Shadows, " returns to print after almost thirty years. Largely set...

This is NOT a guide book.This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Manchester. Learn more about the movers and shakers ...

This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Kingston upon Thames. Learn about the movers and shakers who shaped this fant...

Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh reflects on the changes across life in Ramallah, elegiac in tone due to new development over green spaces ...

Focusing on British "Jacobin" politics in the 1790s and its return in later years, this book stresses performative aspects of radicalism, and space...

A genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. This expanded, revised and updated new e...

Reducere. To survey the work of Mexican architect Javier Senosiain (born 1948) requires a journey through a particular trajectory in the history of architect...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, t...

Reducere. PUBLIC HISTORY PROVIDES A BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES OF THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HISTORY Public History: An Introduction from ...

DescriptionThis interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of ...

Unearthing new discoveries for scholars, practitioners and undergraduates, this book charts the socio-political history of five 'lost' venues and t...

This book examines spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today; it presents a reflection on t...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, t...

Focussing on the Australian South Sea Islander minority community this volume employs a variety of theoretical arguments in order to contribute a n...

Reducere. Sylvia Hood Washington's Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chi...

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

Reducere. Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. A...

DescriptionThe close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's prolifer...

From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield f...

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. ...

Reducere. In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation--and the conflict behind the creation--of sacred space in America. The essays in...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Oceanfront's Cottage Line, the music halls of Seaside Park and dunes so large they dwarfed the old Cape Henry lighthouse are a memor...

DescriptionThe Touch is a new collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects that welcome readers int...

Reducere. DescriptionA wealthy and bitter exile, he most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is...

Brookland is a neighborhood with strong connections to Howard and Catholic Universities, the Catholic Church, and Washington's black intelligentsia...

Reducere. Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provok...

Reducere. The transformation of San Francisco's Sunset District from a seemingly uninhabitable, windswept realm of sand dunes and shrub to a comfortable resi...

Noel Kingsbury and Maayke de Ridder explores how landscape, history and culture in the Netherlands have given rise to distinctive gardens and publi...

Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian house...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

ArtScience Museum Singapore explores the architecture and history of a museum that has staged large-scale exhibitions by some of the world's most f...

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate, Film History as...

DescriptionMid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s t...

Reducere. Tucson's culinary journey began thousands of years ago, when Native American tribes developed an agricultural base along the Santa Cruz River. In m...

Description'Remembering Popular Music's Past' capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music's material past a...

Reducere. Dive into Hellenic Polytheism with this wonderful guide for practitioners of ancient Greek religion. Written by a living ancient Greek priest with ...

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

Reducere. Milwaukee loves the Oak Leaf Trail, a 125-mile escape to nature connecting the major Milwaukee County parks. But many have not heard the history be...

Nestled in the foothills of the San Francisco Peninsula, just north of Silicon Valley, is the small community of Woodside, which insists on being c...

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...