Mass Housing. Modern Architecture and State Power - a Global History, Hardback - Miles Glendinning

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The dramatic history of the world's most expensive spice.Illustrations: 58 illustrations, with 54 in colour

The rich history of the intoxicating and evocative spice, vanilla.Illustrations: 53 illustrations, 44 in colour

Rice: A Global History presents in detail the historical journey that rice has taken, from its early origin as a staple food in Asian and West Afri...

From cookbooks and family recipes to novels, poems, songs and cartoons, this book tells the story of puddings and how they developed from early sav...

Pomegranate explores how people throughout history interacted with pomegranates, featuring a cast of historical heads from the Ashurnasirpal to Ann...

The first culinary history of a truly remarkable fish, cod.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Elisabeth TownsendNumber of pages: 180Collection: Ed...

The global history of coconut from its origin to its recent elevation to 'super-food' status.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Mary NewmanIllustr...

An engaging account of foie gras, a luxurious yet controversial ingredient.Illustrations: 66 illustrations, 50 in colour

Lorna Piatti-Farnell describes the story of how this fruit (which is technically a berry) has become one of the most popular foods on the planet.

Martha Jay traces the history of allium family - onions, shallots, garlic, chives, and leeks - back to the earliest civilizations of the Fertile Cr...

A broad introduction to the role of insects as human food.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Gina Louise HunterIllustration(s): 60 illustrations, ...

An innovative volume tracing the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. A group of leadin...

An important new survey on abstract art that takes content as a guide to form, and breaks open the canon to make room for artists from across the g...

DescriptionIn Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces ...

A global account of military strategy throughout history, from imperial strategies to those of anti-imperial insurgents

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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolution...

First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations. It's prop...

Reducere. DescriptionIn his new book, G ran Therborn - author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Florian UrbanIllustration(s): 61 Halftones, black and white; 61 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages...

Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Isa...

The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide.Illustrations: 70 illustrations

This atlas of more than one thousand Modernist architectural masterpieces uncovers hidden gems while offering new perspectives on old favourites.

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DescriptionSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes...

DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 96 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 21Cover type: Pap...