A History of Spaces

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...

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

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. What became our nation's first capital, Philadelphia is a city full of history that is vital to the development of the United States of America. It...

Reducere. Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter seg...

Reducere. Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers ...

Reducere. In a country where violence and the threat of violence is a constant weather for queer black people, where can the spirit rest? With lush language,...

Neighborhood Watch weaves history, law, neuroscience, and personal narrative to examine the ways private citizens police Black people in America to...

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

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

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...

Reducere. Kashmir remains one of the world's most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late ...

Reducere. Since the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn...

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...

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

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

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...

Reducere. Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desi...

Reducere. In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form...

Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

Reducere. "Mike Thorn brings his masterful skill with immersive language and style to this beautiful and disturbing collection." - Laurel Hightower, author o...

Reducere. Reimagining the elusive American dream In The Kitchen of Small Hours, Derek N. Otsuji embraces the fragility and endurance of a family of immigrant...

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

Reducere. China, 1760. The Emperor conquers Altishahr, a Muslim country to the west of his empire and summons a local woman from his new dominion to come to ...

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 ...

COVID-19 pandemic has created the most significant disruption of education systems that history has ever recorded in all continents. Closures of sc...

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

International Communism and the Spanish Civil War provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Exploring the transnat...

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

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

States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Const...

The ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked b...

Reducere. Haussner's artwork. Coffey salad at the Pimlico Hotel. Finger bowls at Hutzler's Colonial Tea Room. The bell outside the door at Martick's Restaura...

Reducere. The Joseph Horne Company, popularly known as Horne's, was a beloved and integral part of Pittsburghers' lives for generations. It was the first dep...

In April 2019, Lord Ashcroft published the results of his year-long investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry. Over eleven pages...

Reducere. The best walking and hiking trails in the beloved Massachusetts region Pine forests, windswept dunes, freshwater ponds, salt marshes, and wave-wash...

Reducere. Tiny Burlington, tucked away on the slopes of Nova Scotia's North Mountain. In 1904 it was home to hardworking farmers, complicated family dynamics...

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

DescriptionIn Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but al...

Educated in England, David Adjaye's lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent's built environment. Over a de...

Reducere. New York City is defined by a certain kind of grit and perseverance, its history sprinkled with stories of unlikely successes found where most woul...

A History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces wher...

March through history and discover twenty-five groundbreaking protest movements that have shaped the way we fight for equality and justice today in...

Reducere. Beautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's A Body of Water is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a co...

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

Reducere. The Case for Mars makes living in space seem more possible than ever in this updated 25th anniversary edition, featuring the latest information on ...

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...

As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public...

2021 Outcomes Conference - Book of the Year Richard Stearns is a leader who has been tested as a CEO in both secular companies and also as the head...

Reducere. Motion pictures came to Austin on October 10, 1896, debuting at the Hancock Opera House. Since then, movies have continued to enchant, entertain, a...

Reducere. Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used...

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its cre...

In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in per...

Reducere. Michigan has two beautiful peninsulas that are connected by stories, legends, and mysteries. This book is the perfect glove compartment companion f...

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

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...

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...

In the Shadow of Freud's Couch: Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices uses text and images to form a complex portrait of psychoanalysis toda...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors ann...

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

Slaves in chains, toiling on master's plantation. Beatings, bloodied whips. This is what many of us envision when we think of 19th century African ...

Reducere. If you think Oregon is the land of eternal rain, think again. It's a place of wide-open spaces, with just 3.6 million inhabitants in nearly 100, 00...

Reducere. Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly gove...

Reducere. How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered--an icon and idol--alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question an...

Reducere. This is a teeth-chattering, eyes bulging, shuddering-and-shaking, chills-at-the-back-of-your-neck ghost story. I loved it!--R.L. Stine, author of t...

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

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...

Shinrin Yoku: "taking in the forest atmosphere, " the medicine of simply being in the forest, "forest bathing." From the healing properties of phyt...