Making Ancient Cities. Space and Place in Early Urban Societies, Paperback - ***

This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in ...

An archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, often perceived as a bridge between Europe and Asia, fro...

Reducere. During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps ...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabil...

Reducere. Despite being in an era that's distant, ancient China set into motion several societal practices and values. Other than that, it also gave birth to...

An examination of the role of Winchester as the heart of royal power in early medieval England.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/wNumber of ...

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built envi...

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Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion ...

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The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

Reducere. A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about...

This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural...

How to Read Towns & Cities is a pocket-sized primer to understanding the forces that have shaped the world's cities. It takes a practical, highly v...

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From Australia to North America, we need to rethink how our cities resist environmental change in the age of climate catastropheIllustrations: 3 Ta...

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? W...

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across spr...

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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 ...

An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cristina MaximIllustration(s): 27 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Halftones, black and white; 16 Table...

Why did so many ancient communities have not one, but several, foundation myths? This book addresses the phenomenon of plural foundation myths, exp...

Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Setha (CUNY Graduate Center, USA) LowIllustration(s): 40 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 264Pu...

This popular introduction by a well-known Islamic scholar has been updated and expanded, offering a balanced portrayal of the Qur'an and its place ...

Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy ...

Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoreti...

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges of planning wild cities in a climate of change and will be of particular interest to ...

Reducere. Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, o...

Reducere. Award NameNew Mexico Book AwardsAward categoryAnthropology/ArcheologyThis book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and abou...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador during October 2016. The first was the Gospel and the F...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 6 illusNumber of pages: 320Collection: Cultural Memory and History in AntiquityPublication dat...

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Publisher: Lexington BooksNumber of pages: 370Collection: Comparative Urban StudiesPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 33Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built enviro...

Methodism has been highly influential in Wales and in the wider world. This volume helps explain its appeal and influence by exploring the backgrou...

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to us...

Reducere. This interdisciplinary introduction to urban theory explains how the concepts that help us understand the contemporary urban experience have develo...

Reducere. Robert Kennedy, director of the National Park Service, analyzes the discovery of North America and the loss of ancient civilization, from the citie...

Description"Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympath...

"The sense of being lost, displaced, and homeless is pervasive in contemporary culture. The yearning to belong somewhere, to be in a safe place, is...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Alison (Department of French, University of Virginia (United States)) J. Murray LevineIllustration(...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

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, ...