Broken Cities. A Historical Sociology of Ruins, Hardback - Martin Devecka

Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and n...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdIllustration(s): 64 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 288Publication ...

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, ...

An illuminating new biography of one of Britain's biggest and most influential bands, written with the full input and cooperation of Simple Minds, ...

Some secrets are better left buried. A dual-timeline novel spanning a Somerset village during WW2, to a body found under the flagstones in the chap...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Julie LoriaIllustration(s): Color photos throughoutNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 3...

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Reducere. Award NameCosta Book AwardsAward categoryNovelThe stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've...

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Neil McLocklinNumber of pages: 366Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 40Cover ty...

DescriptionCities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widesp...

Publisher: Old Street PublishingAuthor(s): S.E. ListerPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera f...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Jose PimientaNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 209 x 27Cover type: HardbackRede...

An engaging and visually stunning look at some of Asia's major citiesPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Liz GogerlyNumber of pages: 48C...

An engaging and visually exciting look at some of Australasia's major citiesPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Rob HuntNumber of pages:...

Publisher: Chiltern PublishingAuthor(s): Charles Dickens.Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 187 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul l...

Reducere. Years after stumbling across her first Dignity Vessel, Boss now leads a team of people searching for "loose" stealth technology. She takes a team t...

Reducere. Written by Bolshevik philosopher, economist, and statesman Nikolai Bukharin in 1921, Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology was the standard...

Reducere. 'One of the true geniuses of the Russian Revolution" - Kevin Murphy, JacobinFirst published in 1921, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influe...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Tomasz (Reader in Modern history, University of St Andrews) KamusellaIllustration(s): 42 Map...

An engaging and visually exciting look at some of South America's major citiesPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Rob HuntNumber of page...

An engaging and visually exciting look at some of North America's major citiesPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Rob HuntNumber of page...

Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anand Vivek TanejaIn the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds ...

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith -- the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand -- but ...

American author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City in 1934, where she bec...

As she was growing up, Anita Venes forgot many things about her origins - who she was, where everybody else was, why she had a strange name which p...

Reducere. Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides o...

'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' GuardianPublisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Cormac McCarthyNumber of pages: 304...

This beautifully illustrated atlas is the first book to map and explore the spectacular imaginary cities of video games

Reducere. In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Mercè Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, w...

In this gift book from renowned spiritual teacher Lars Muhl we learn that the vast majority of us will experience emotional pain in our lives but t...

A stunningly illustrated book of extraordinary city maps, telling the story of human civilisation throughout history. From the walled city of ancie...

Reducere. A woman with a pastWidowed mother, Brynne Richardson, gave up her bandit activities when she left California to make a fresh start with her young d...

Danny was literally in chains The chains were locked at the wrist, wrapped around his waist that led to his ankles, where it was locked again. Wher...