Asmara. Africa's Secret Modernist City, Paperback - Naigzy Gebremedhin

Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, has one of the highest concentrations of Modernist architecture anywhere in the w...

By focusing on a number of key cities this study considers the influence of the distinctive urban landscaper on the various modernisms that appeare...

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Reducere. Description*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"From the far reaches ...

This innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.Illustrations: 21 B/W ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mounir El AsmarIllustration(s): 4 Line drawings, black and white; 54 Halftones, black and white; 3 Tables...

Secret City of Southend explores the lesser-known history of the town of Southend through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and att...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): SW AsmarNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x 264 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

This fantasy adventure set in modern day London is a particularly appropriate read for Key Stage 2 and 3 children learning their London history. Hy...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Before the era of superheroes began-before the Batman spread his wings to protect the innocent and punish the evil-Goth...

Reducere. The Church's Best-Kept Secret is a short primer which lays out the basics of Catholic social teaching in a way accessible to the ordinary Catholic ...

The follow-up to The Secret Fire, from the author of the Night School series and an acclaimed French YA author. Ages: 12+

Research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark must uncover the traitor within in this gripping World War II mystery. May 1945. Harry S. Truman has become pre...

Reducere. The world's great powers have waged discreet war in London's streets. This conflict has played out across the city, often in plain sight, in leafy ...

This text provides an introduction to partial differential equations and boundary value problems, including Fourier series. The treatment offers st...

Ruby Pickett didn’t have any say about the family move to Tennessee. Her daddy’s new job will help the war effort, though no one has told her exact...

The follow up to the mesmerizing The Secret Fire.

DescriptionDitch the tourist crowds and get to the real heart of a place with Secret City; an essential guide to getting to know the most interesti...

Reducere. The Last Camelot: US Navy's "Secret City"By: J.C. MartinIn the 1940's, the U.S. Military acquired over a million acres of California desert for the...

How does the body's sense of its own movement shift when confronted with modernist film? How might travel by motorcar disorientate one sufficiently...

Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) was one of the most famous leaders of the African Independence Movement. After his murder, he became an icon of anti-impe...

Reducere. The story of a Scottish minister and his wife in Africa - the precursors to David Livingstone. With a sword, a shovel, a Bible, and great courage, ...

From the author of the Lucinda Pierce series, comes a thrilling new mystery, set during the Second World War . . . Oak Ridge, Tennessee, otherwise ...

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Sara SkroboNumber of pages: 253Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 39Cover type:...

Secret London takes you off the beaten path to seek out the city's cornucopia of secret and more unusual places, and sidestep the chaos and queues ...

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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 ...

Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's lif...

Reducere. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and '60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, ...

Reducere. The author presents a behind the scenes look at the secretive international policies of the British government and how their successes allowed them...

Reducere. Dora, o tanara exploratoare, porneste, insotita de cativa prieteni, intr-o aventura In cautarea parintilor ei. Adolescenta nu doar ca vrea sa-si sa...

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Bringing together some of the world's leading thinkers and policy experts in the area of natural resource governance and management in Africa, this...

Bridging the infrastructure deficit. Enhancing food security. Human capital development.Publisher: Whitefox Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Chuks Ibechukw...

Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jason LogsdonAre you looking for an easy way to amaze your friends? Do you have a whipping siphon but are afraid you are no...

**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and...

Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding...

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How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in AfricaIllustrations: 1 Maps

Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the devastation wrought by l...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Nana ...

Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particula...

Modernist inquiries. A collection of thematic studies related to literary modernism - Petru Stefan Ionescu