Ruins

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following th...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Aleksandra PricaIllustration(s): 8 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

Reducere. Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. I...

Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and n...

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) describes his second expedition to the de...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Cammy BrothersIllustration(s): 211 color + 53 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022D...

Reducere. Ruins is the newest monograph by acclaimed Magnum photographer and bestselling author, Josef Koudelka. For more than twenty years, Koudelka has tra...

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates tha...

Photographs taken in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan explore war for civilians, fighters, and the women in their ranks.Publisher: HemeriaAuthor(s): Kamr...

Reducere. This stunning, substantial volume documents William Frej's forty-five year search for remote Maya sites primarily in Guatemala and Mexico, inspired...

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DescriptionThe Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture fro...

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

Reducere. How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-q...

Reducere. This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in wh...

Reducere. A secret buried in the Antarctic.A puzzle unsolved for thousands of years.And a Brooklyn-born Master Gunnery Sergeant who's royally pissed that he ...

DescriptionThe Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. ...

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Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdIllustration(s): 64 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 288Publication ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard OveryNumber of pages: 1040Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 49Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Aleksandra PricaIllustration(s): 8 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

A] stupendous achievement.. .Blood and Ruins dissects the sinews of war with the sharpest of scalpels...it is history at its best, down to the fine...

Reducere. In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual vi...

Reducere. DescriptionPuebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundre...

Reducere. Humans are herded like sheep for the slaughter.And their only hope for survival lies with a team who just left the planet.Following their successfu...

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the...

To secure lasting peace for the Earth Kingdom, Korra must trust an unlikely ally On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom's future is e...

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DescriptionDespite Damon Runyon's iconic status as a fiction writer and reporter, one particular chapter of his extraordinary career has been compl...

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates tha...

DescriptionIt is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and w...

It is the winter of 1945, seven months after the Nazi defeat, and Munich is in ruins. Mason Collins-former Chicago police detective, U.S. soldier, ...

Reducere. Award NameCosta Book AwardsAward categoryNovelThe stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've...

Reducere. Years after stumbling across her first Dignity Vessel, Boss now leads a team of people searching for "loose" stealth technology. She takes a team t...

Publisher: URTEXT LTDAuthor(s): Gabriele TintiIllustration(s): 33 black and white photographsTranslator: David GrahamNumber of pages: 136Publicatio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anand Vivek TanejaIn the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds ...

DescriptionAs the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World Wa...

Reducere. Miami architecture is world renowned, but many historic treasures have been forgotten. The Richmond Naval Air Station was a blimp base destroyed by...

Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occu...

Reducere. Essays examine the way we perceive landscape, the effect of gardens and cities of the past on the landscapes of the present, and the way American a...

Reducere. Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material...

Reducere. Aria's in the hands of her enemies, and things are going from bad to worse. Those who she thought were allies have become enemies, and enemies have...

Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have ...

Ruins and Fragments is a wide-ranging, elliptical, engaging view of the history of modernity through the lens of the ruined and fragmentary. It exp...

DescriptionAcross the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional famil...

The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek culture This book tell...

Stepping away from the lights and into the shadows, one adventurous photographer embarks on an underground voyeuristic journey, documenting a curio...

Reducere. This is your guide into the mysterious world of the Adena Hopewell mound builders, 1000 B.C.-500 A.D. 222 mound and earthworks sites have been phot...

Contemporary educational practices and policies across the world are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatization, an...

Julius Evola's masterful overview of the political and social manifestations of our time, the "age of decline" known to the Hindus as the Kali Yuga...

How to make a fairer, more just city From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner ...

Reducere. Australian researcher Karen Mutton has compiled the world's most extensive list of sunken cities and megalithic underwater sites currently known ar...

The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.

Her quest soon lands her at the center of an international plan targeting the leader of the terrorist organization-a scheme that puts Jameela and c...

Reducere. War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking thei...

DescriptionFrom the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, the city of Ani was the jewel of the Armenian kingdom, renowned far and wide for its magnifi...

Reducere. Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides o...

Reducere. Imagine Jeffery Dahmer or Ted Bundy set loose in a war-ravaged city with thousands of places to lurk and legions of easy prey.In the winter of 1945...

Reducere. An ancient tomb is discovered in the ruins of Babylon. The Pope sends Vatican archeologist Fr. Daniel Azar and his best friend, Swiss Guard Luca Ro...

Reducere. Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This n...

The wildest and most beautiful of Britain's remains from ancient structures are guided through in this book from the author of }Grow Your Food For ...

Fascinating ruins across Ireland are brought to life by the writer on architecture, fine art and design Robert O'Byrne, arranged by Ireland's four ...

What do you get when you mix a novice wizard, a reckless warrior, a sharp-tongued thief, & a saintly cleric? Swords, sorcery, & sarcasm. Glolindir ...

Reducere. A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTIN...

An illustrated examination of Beverly Buchanan's 1981 environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination. Beverly Buchanan's Ma...

An unsparing and revealing portrayal of Somalia, from the Siad Barre decades to Al-Shabaab, seen through the eyes of 'Tarzan', a formidable Mogadis...