Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities, Paperback - Witold Rybczynski

Reducere. In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing a...

DescriptionTracing the development of American cities and city life from early colonial settlements to the familiar downtowns of today, a sweeping ...

Reducere. An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe spend most of our days and nights in ...

Reducere. A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How ...

Reducere. The Best Tool of the Millennium The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked hi...

Reducere. Christopher AwardsIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illumina...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

Reducere. DescriptionEnvisioning Better Cities: A Global Tour of Good Ideas takes readers on a world tour of useful, feasible, and novel ideas for making cit...

From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation for...

Publisher: Text PublishingAuthor(s): Witold SzablowskiIllustration(s): 10 Illustrations, unspecifiedTranslator: Antonia Lloyd-JonesNumber of pages:...

Reducere. "Daca Jurnalul meu va reusi sa influenteze pe cineva, afirma Gombrowicz in 1969, nu o va face in maniera unui val care ineaca o stanca, ci asemeni ...

This step-by-step approach makes quantum theory of plasmons accessible to readers without specialized training in theory. Suitable for postgraduate...

Reducere. Considerat drept capodopera sa incontestabila, Jurnalul seduce printemele sale, toate apartinand celor mai disputate probleme. Jurnaluleste istoria...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

Contributor(s): Editor: Chiara CavalieriEditor: Paola ViganoWe usually think of cities as dense and vertical--but in reality most cities extend vas...

Reducere. In 2010, Lucy and her long-term boyfriend John broke up. Three long, lonely years later, John returned to New York, walked into Lucy's apartment, a...

"The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time."--Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many ...

Jurnal, volumul 2 - Witold Gombrowicz

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

Reducere. DescriptionJames Ballou tapped a nerve with his best-selling Makeshift Workshop Skills for Survival and Self-Reliance, and now he's back with even ...

The American battleship USS "California" has almost thirty years of extraordinary history. Commissioned in 1921, it was one of the most powerful ba...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Jurnal, volumul I - Witold Gombrowicz

Reducere. Metropolis este un demers admirabil și o lectură extrem de captivantă. — The New York Times Book ReviewÎn cei două sute de mii de ani ai existenței...

Reducere. Before the Twin Cities established themselves as a hotbed for stand-up comedy, producing some of the biggest names in comedy history, the local sce...

Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)Author(s): B. A. ShapiroIllustration(s): Text onlyNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

DescriptionA practical and irreverent guide to Burning Man, its philosophy, why people do this to themselves, and how it matters to the world Over ...

Confronting issues of class and gender, Makeshift and Hunger March are two novels which offer an insight into women's lives in Scotland in the firs...

Publisher: Kagero Oficyna WydawniczaAuthor(s): Witold KoszelaIllustration(s): drawing sheets, color profilesNumber of pages: 24Collection: TopDrawi...

A resource book of practical modelling projects for parents and teachers to use with children.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sharon Egretta SuttonForeword by: James Stewart PolshekWhen Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race...