Ruins

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

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

Publisher: Old Street PublishingAuthor(s): S.E. ListerPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera 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. Award NameCosta Book AwardsAward categoryNovelThe stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've...

Reducere. Nothing could hurt worse. But even in the darkness . . . there's hope.The pain of suicide loss is indescribable. It seems beyond survival. Yet with...

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

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Neil McLocklinNumber of pages: 366Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 40Cover ty...

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...

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

"Oaks and Ruins"? Smashed bricks and an acorn? What in the world is that is all about? The promises of God. Everyone experiences loss. It's not a m...

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. One of the Best Books of 2015--"TIME, " NPR, "Washington Post, " "The Chicago Tribune, " "The Christian Science Monitor, " "The Seattle Times, " "T...

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

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

Reducere. Canyon de Chelly; The Story of its Ruins and People, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never for...

Reducere. "Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice." -- Le FigaroIncluded in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translatio...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado a...

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

Reducere. The ancient site of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries in the world. Some experts date it to 17, 000 years ago, ...

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...

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

DescriptionKuvira's true nature is revealed, and the Earth Kingdom will feel the consequences Thanks to Commander Guan and Doctor Sheng's brainwash...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed around him and the Red Army swamped Berlin. This is the sto...

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Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each stage of the Floppy's Phonics teaching programme, allowing children to consolidate their pho...

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

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...

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

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

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

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Reducere. Information on 37 archaeological sites in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.About the Author: Dave Wilson is a longtime journalist and an avid hiker an...

Reducere. DescriptionAdult Coloring Books: 36 Waterfall Landscapes 2nd Edition Grayscale Coloring Book for Adults - Includes FREE PDF Version with Color Guid...

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

The most ambitious and rewarding novel to date by the acclaimed Colombian author

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

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. DescriptionAt over 2, 500 years old, Rome is more than the capital of Italy. It is the center of artistic creativity and a cultural complex that ar...

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 ...

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

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...

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

Reducere. Hiking New Mexico's Chaco Canyon is a guidebook for informed hikers who want a substantive yet accessible guide to hiking and camping at Chaco Cany...

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

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

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

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...

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

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. What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that g...

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

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DescriptionWhat will it take to stop a war? King Wu's dreams of peacefully transitioning the Earth Kingdom into a democracy are in danger when Comm...

Travel writing at its best. - Greece.comUPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTER Intoxicated with dreams of a Greek paradise, John Mole inflicts upon his...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Emperor Diocletian's palace is a historic marvel - this book and its sketches, published by architect Robert Adam in the 1760s, aided the rediscove...

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