Contamination of the Earth. A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age, Hardback - Thomas Le Roux

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...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Thomas Le RouxIllustration(s): 25 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 161 ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter J. BowlerThis authoritative volume chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins. Peter J. Bowler br...

Reducere. In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and absta...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

The life - and life behind the scenes - of one of Britain's best-known chefs.

In this translation of the groundbreaking Le Chant Intime, internationally renowned baritone François Le Roux, in conversation with journalist Roma...

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

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

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

DescriptionParis in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from th...

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

Reducere. The visionary classic that traces out the twilight of the petroleum age In 2008, as the price of crude oil spiked to record levels, John Michael Gr...

A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare

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

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

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace...

This book reassesses the earliest evidence afresh from the perspective of a military historian.

Reducere. DescriptionFrom its beginning, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) was documented in photographs. The photographic record of the scho...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressIllustration(s): 3 illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Collection: Critical Green EngagementsPublication date: 2...

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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...

Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our ...

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Reducere. In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. En...

Examines the administrative system and function of stamp impressions on storage jars in ancient Israel, illustrating the history of Judah during si...

This book brings together a number of specialist scholarly articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, and presents them in revise...

Reducere. DescriptionAge of EnlightenmentFrom its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effe...