Rethinking the American City. An International Dialogue, Hardback - ***

Utilizing an innovative framework as an international, interdisciplinary dialogue, the volume provides an inventory of contemporary thought about t...

Between French Modernism and the New York School: The idiosyncratic art of the pioneer of American Pop Art. The American painter, musician, and fil...

Offers new perspectives on the ideals and aims articulated by ancient city founders and their successors, and explores notions of urban ideals in t...

Beautifully photographed, with insightful analysis in terms of both traditional and contemporary contexts, An American Renaissance is a significant...

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memor...

Reducere. This controversial text, that was meant for initiates at the threshold of the Ancient Egyptian Inner Temple, speaks to us with intriguing relevance...

At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve ...

This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists, campaigners, academics, and lawyers, wh...

A comprehensive rethinking about the nature of American grand strategy in the past, present, and future.Editor(s): Andrew (Professor of American Hi...

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 ...

A visual account of the birth of graffiti and street art, showcasing as-yet-unseen works collected by preeminent artist Martin Wong.

Bringing together leading scholars from Asia and the West, this book investigates how the dynamics of China's rise in world politics contributes to...

"Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who he...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working t...

DescriptionThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty y...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

Iconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sust...

Reducere. For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city. For natives, ...

Herrin, Illinois, has seen many dramatic events unfold in the nearly two hundred years since it was a bell-shaped prairie on the frontier. Now, Her...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jill JonnesIllustration(s): 48 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized...

Reducere. From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memor...

A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups' unspoken history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing American democracy fro...

Reducere. Dedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in TucsonTucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a cit...

Death at Dozier School is the history of the controversial and oft-sensationalized "Boot Hill" Cemetery at the former Dozier School for Boys in Mar...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in ...

Reducere. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

We all want cities, where more than half of the world's population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, h...

An accessible account of how American foreign policy ideologies structure competing meanings of the 'international rule of law'. International Crim...

Those who bought Bobby McAlpine's Poetry of Place and The Home Within Us or Gil Schafer's A Place to Call Home will respond to the warm and sophist...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen PuleoBetween 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one o...

Publisher: Other Press LLCAuthor(s): Jake RaynalNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 208 x 261 x 14Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

The author of Beautiful is back with a new book of his interiors, filled with blue-and-white vignettes, wicker, saturated color, and pretty patterns.

Rotary International spreads America's good news. The organization spent the interwar years convincing Main Street and the world at large that Amer...

Publisher: Purdue University PressAuthor(s): Walther Leisler KiepIllustration(s): 42 black & white figuresNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 201...

Christmas 1942 saw the SS City of Flint in New York with other freighters loading for North Africa. Allied codes had been cracked and the convoy wa...

Reducere. "Written in 1965 about a same-sex sexual scandal that occurred in 1955 in Boise, Idaho, John Gerassi's classic study depicts both middle America's ...

Home to over 730, 000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population ...

Reducere. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

Ernst Gamperl's most extensive work in wood to date was created from a 230-year-old oak tree uprooted by a hurricane - The Lebensbaum project. Text...

Reducere. Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in two "dialogues" he wrote in the fourth century B.C. His tale of a great empire that...

Reducere. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country...