Extraordinary Buildings

A beautifully illustrated gift book to explore the most extraordinary buildings of London on foot or from the armchair

Many buildings are just four walls and a roof. But some buildings are engineering wonders and are extraordinary to behold. Extraordinary Buildings ...

Skyscrapers are more than just tall buildings. Put on your hard hat and go behind the scenes to investigate the world's most amazing skyscrapers. E...

A visual testimony to the extraordinary, creative capabilities of the world's greatest architects, engineers and builders.

So, you think you know the desert? This simple non-fiction report explores the exciting, extraordinary elements of the desert, from beautiful plant...

Reducere. DescriptionChicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacul...

Reducere. The American Southwest possesses an extraordinary depth of cultural heritage and much of its history is preserved in its architecture. Particularly...

Reducere. This is the extraordinary story of Queen Goharshad, a 15th century monarch, who many historians now believe was the most powerful woman in world hi...

Reducere. As I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called "Tollers" sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade. "How...

New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingha...

DescriptionThe extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol on III ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip ReeveCalled "imaginative, inventive, and exciting" in a starred review from Kirkus, the second adventure in the Feve...

Reducere. After the turn of the twentieth century, young Bill Strother left the tobacco farms of North Carolina to make a living climbing buildings. He becam...

Kind, gutsy, smart, uplifting, groundbreaking, creative, funny, indestructible - women in a nutshell The 50 stories told in this full-color illustr...

Reducere. Now in paperback The Roman Colosseum was the work of a brilliant and energetic civilization. The Roman Colosseum was the work of a cruel and brutal...

DescriptionWilliam II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps throug...

Reducere. Just Get Started! Be Unstoppable! Dream Big! How to Become an Accidental Activist profiles almost 100 activists from around the world, including ch...

A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.The past ...

A monograph on one of the most influential visionary architects of the twentieth century, Claude Parent, whose buildings and theoretical work direc...

"Twenty-five years on, Cheap Novelties'] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographic...

Lonely Planet Kids' How Animals Build is a beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap hardback that explores the incredible world of animal architects. ...

Reducere. The behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world, from the bestselling author of SkyscrapersIn this groundbreaking histo...

Reducere. DescriptionA farmhouse is being reproduced a dozen times, with slight variations, throughout a valley. Three small graves have been dug in the fron...

Reducere. Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome is a unique, unconventional guide and a deeply felt homage to Rome and its extraordinary 2, ...

Reducere. This guide to the famous rock churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia is the only book that explores the deeper mystical purpose implied in its artworks a...

Reducere. Botswana's rapid transition between 1965 and 2016 from one of the poorest countries in the world to one rated as middle income has been extraordina...

Reducere. ContentEarly Christian and Medieval Rome looks at the fascinating art and architecture in Rome dating from between about 300 and 1300. In the fourt...

Reducere. A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded ...

Reducere. Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for archit...

Reducere. Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contem...

Reducere. You've seen the building. Now meet the man whose life went into it.Philip Freelon's grandfather was an acclaimed painter of the Harlem Renaissance....

Swan & Maclaren were the most prominent and prestigious architectural practice working in Singapore during the latter part of the British era, that...

DescriptionWinston Churchill is one of the best-known and most revered figures of our time, the man who led Britain through its 'darkest hour'. The...

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes an...

Reducere. DescriptionThe remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity...

Reducere. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancesto...

Reducere. This extraordinary work on Roman history by J.B. Bury covers the period of more than 200 years from the time of Julius Caesar until the end of Marc...