Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History, Hardcover - Barrie Scardino Bradley

Reducere. Just over 180 years ago, the city of Houston was nothing more than an alligator-infested swamp along the Buffalo Bayou that spread onto a flat, end...

Reducere. Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Ho...

This volume brings together architects, urban designers and planners and asks them to reflect and report on the (built) place and the city to come,...

DescriptionDreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depressi...

Reducere. In the early 1920s, when T.W. House Jr., A.C. Guthrie, and Thomas Ball came to the conclusion that Houston needed a new country club, complete with...

DescriptionDelicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, f...

'Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven't read a better book on Berlin.' Gordon A. Craig

This entry in R. P. Hunnicutt's unrivaled 10-volume history of American armored fighting vehicles focuses on the spectrum of armored personnel carr...

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This volume integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistanc...

Reducere. Wilkes-Barre, founded in 1769, is a city of changes: environmental changes brought on by the Susquehanna River and industrial changes that transfor...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Henrik ReehIllustration(s): 36 b 72 Illustrations, unspecifiedTranslator: John IronsNumber of pages: 264Collecti...

Reducere. From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' ...

Reducere. In the months leading up to the 1971 Kentucky Derby, Canonero II was an unknown horse with a Venezuelan trainer who spoke only Spanish. The Derby e...

DescriptionThis book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the rece...

Reducere. In How Jesus Became Christian, Barrie Wilson Ph.D. confronts one of the simplest--yet undiscovered--questions of religious history: How did a young...

Reducere. For ninety-five years, St. Louis residents counted on Famous-Barr to buy the things they used every day and to celebrate the moments that happened ...

Reducere. The classic New York Times bestselling story of heroism and sacrifice--by the author of Flags of Our Fathers, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mi...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom mountain streams in the west to rolling prairies in the east, Montana's habitats and natural resources offer an abundance of culina...

Reducere. A 90-minute train ride east of Manhattan, Smithtown is a world away from New York City with its long rural history and sprawling suburban present. ...

This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheav...

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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant period...

Reducere. Penelope Hobhouse, the legendary authority on garden history, composes a beautifully crafted, lavishly illustrated history of gardening over millen...

Reducere. In the early 1900s, Frank Lloyd Wright transformed a small midwestern prairie community into one of the world s most important architectural destin...

Reducere. In the 1870s, James A. Bradley and William Bradner came to today's Bradley Beach and began buying and developing the land, which consisted of miles...

DescriptionThis is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rive...

Reducere. While the battle of Gettysburg is certainly the most-studied battle in American history, a comprehensive treatment of the part played by each unit ...

Reducere. This entry in R. P. Hunnicutt's unrivaled 10-volume history of American armored fighting vehicles focuses on the spectrum of armored personnel carr...

Reducere. In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultu...

Reducere. In the nearly 500 years since the Florida Keys were discovered by Christopher Columbus in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Key West has been t...

Reducere. Zanes Trace was the first government-sanctioned road in the Northwest Territory of the United States. Lost to the ultimate transgressions of modern...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations fro...

Reducere. In the literature of Science Fiction, there is no more an underappreciated and ignored piece of writing than Thea Von Harbou's magnificent Metropol...

Reducere. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism...

In the spring of 1940, Stalin's NKVD executed 22, 000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other plac...

Reducere. The 75th Anniverary edition of Thea von Harbou's classic, the basis for van Harbou's screenplay for Fritz Lang's ground-breaking 1926 Science Ficti...

DescriptionHow photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image--and one another--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

Does a city sleep at night? Is the rainforest as lively as it is during the day after the sun goes down? Featuring two remarkable panoramic play sc...

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ec...

Interpreting American architecture, this text explores the subject in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In gi...

A memoir of emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by a childhood spent in Auschwitz. Translated from the Hebrew by Ralp...

Reducere. Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight.Houses dating to the first ...

The largest collection of the popular artist's drawings ever assembled. With over 200 sketches this comprehensive book invites you into the mind of...

Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...