Bridging the Seas. The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800-2000, Paperback - Larrie D. Ferreiro

How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships.

An exploration of the hitherto neglected architectural legacy of the boom in manufacturing in the Veneto in the Renaissance, exploiting natural mat...

The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Thomas Le RouxIllustration(s): 27 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 480Collection: History for a Sus...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Patricia Cox CrewsEditor: Carolyn DuceyAuthor: Part of a comprehensive catalog of the International Quilt Study Center and ...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory ...

Reducere. Everyone shops online these days, but there are certain experiences and products that resist the move to e-commerce. When we can order almost anyth...

DescriptionAttitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression,...

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone shops online these days, but there are certain experiences and products that resist the move to e-commerce. When we can order a...

Reducere. In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the cour...

Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathoge...

Reducere. This study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management ...

First published in 1768, this remarkable collection of sophisticated line drawings offers a fascinating look at the maritime world of the eighteent...

This issue of AD posits that this re-examination and redeployment of postmodernist approaches is the architectural attempt to reflect, grapple with...

Reducere. DescriptionStarting from the Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi's work about the relationship city-design. Th...

Monumental cornerstone work on the Revolutionary/Napoleonic Army and its commanders. This is a thoroughly documented work of immense scholarship. I...

Reducere. In his excellent book explaining naval strategy, Julian S. Corbett examines sound maritime strategy. Crucially, he advances the view that navies co...

Reducere. Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Book Richard Holmes, prize-winning...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

Sovereign of the Seas was the most spectacular, extravagant and controversial warship of the early seventeenth century. The ultimate royal prestige...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rudolph WittkowerA brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the val...

Reducere. While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora act...

This ground-breaking book features architectural case studies of more than 50 industrial company towns - workers villages, mill towns, mining towns...

Examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight to the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War ...

Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the CityAuthor(s): James GrahamNumber of pages: 224Collection: GSAPP TranscriptsPublication date: 201...

Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history, each volume is intersperse...

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been dr...

By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government ...

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Reducere. An inspirational guide to constructing and navigating selfhood in the age of social mediaWe are constantly encouraged to lead the ideal life. Where...

Pattern cutting, or pattern making, is an essential yet complex skill for every fashion designer to master. Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fa...

Presents fresh analytical and empirical evidence on the future of industrialization in the context of a technological paradigm shift. According to ...

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DescriptionOn 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet--interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice--began to founder taking their Briti...

Reducere. Investigates the changing strategy and structure of the large industrial enterprise in the United States

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alexander TzonisIllustration(s): 79 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2011D...

DescriptionHard discounters are stores that sell a limited selection of consumer packaged goods and perishables - typically fewer than 2, 000 Stock...

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of re...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus David (Lewis and Clark College, USA) GalatyIllustration(s): 4 MapsNumber of pages...