The Shape of Space

DescriptionThe look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French literary and visual culture since the 1980s. Numerou...

'Imagined Sound' is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation o...

Contributor(s): Author: Helene K. LeeBetween Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the ...

Reducere. Settler societies habitually frame Indigenous people as 'a people of the past'--their culture somehow 'frozen' in time, their identities tied to st...

DescriptionDeindustrialising communities have called upon street theatre companies to re-animate public space and commemorate industrial heritage. ...

The first comprehensive advanced textbook on the processes that shape planetary surfaces. It employs a quantitative approach, placing terrestrial g...

Reducere. With Shape It!, teens develop the confidence and competencies they need to pave their own path in an ever-evolving global landscape. We live in a r...

Reducere. Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation explores the reinterpretation and resituating of archives and special collections held by...

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco d...

DescriptionThis is the first introductory textbook intended for transgender/trans studies at the undergraduate level. The book can also be used for...

Reducere. In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with...

Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacul...

In today's world of rapid advancements in science and technology, we need to scrutinize more than ever the historical forces that shape our percept...

Reducere. Brings political geography to life--explores key concepts, critical debates, and contemporary research in the field. Political geography is the stu...

14 papers reflect on how the wielders of power, be they religious, social or political, shape the discourses that justify their power within the fr...

This book is an exploration of how time, space and social atmospheres contribute to the experience of taste. It demonstrates complex combinations o...

This volume integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistanc...

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies provides a detailed analysis of the shape and effects of class systems across a wide range of capitalis...

A broadly accessible introduction to robotics that spans the most basic concepts and the most novel applications; for students, teachers, and hobby...

Reducere. Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. ...

Reducere. This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers str...

What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, a...

A History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces wher...

The Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer universe is given a closer look, with two complete series drawn by Tyler Crook and Gabriel Hernández Walta! I...

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defini...

In an age over-saturated with photographic imagery, Design Principles for Photography demonstrates how design awareness can add a new level of dept...

Reducere. DescriptionWith over 200 spectacular images, including astonishing satellite photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's footage, Li...

Reducere. How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers the...

Ideal for whole-class teaching, Abacus gives you all the support you need for motivating maths lessons, and at the same time, offers the flexibilit...

Reducere. Anyone who has taught writing knows that sometimes the hardest part about teaching writing is getting students to write at all. What we sometimes f...

Contributor(s): Author: Didier GhezForeword by: Eric GoldbergForeword by: Susan GoldbergThe 1950s and 1960s at The Walt Disney Studios marked unpre...

Reducere. In this first new Eucharistic customary in nearly 20 years, Patrick Malloy, an Episcopal priest and liturgical scholar, presents a clear, illustrat...

Reducere. Celebrating the Eucharist, now available in Spanish with a new preface from the custodian of the Book of Common Prayer. A clear, illustrated guide ...

Reducere. In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots...

Young children need to develop and understand the core basic concepts in mathematics before they can move forward in their mathematical learning. W...

DescriptionA fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancer--and an engaging introduction to both disciplines ...

Reducere. Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in whic...

For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed th...

Reducere. The Moon held little interest for most scientists after its basic astronomic properties had been determined and before direct exploration appeared ...

Reducere. String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the mis...

DescriptionAs much as skills and styles matter when it comes to design, every visual begins with a fundamental element that can be enhanced or expa...

DescriptionSeeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing scienc...

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

DescriptionArchitecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as...

Reducere. Demons Don't Dream begins a Xanth sequence as young adventures play for the highest stakes of all: the future of Xanth--and of Earth as well Dug th...

Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza en...

Reducere. This is a book about a button. It is also a book about noticing, wondering, and imagining. Mostly it's a book about YOU... the button you will find...

Reducere. In 1513, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon first set foot on Florida's east coast. The land he discovered was a geographic anomaly so distinctive that...

Reducere. This guide is written specifically to help teenagers navigate the complex issues of sexuality, pornography, gender, and relationshipsThe goal is fo...

Reducere. They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow. What does it take to ...

Reducere. The Adapters is a multi-book and audiograph series written around podcast-style interviews with an impressive collection of GGTs - Gutsy Genius Thi...

Reducere. BANNED IN 22 COUNTRIES . . . THE AUTHOR CLAIMS TO BE A POLITICAL PRISONER FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS PARTLY DUE TO THE PUBLICATION OF HIS CENSORED BOOK....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard SennettFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spa...

Contributor(s): Author: Sara AhmedIn this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. F...

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This a...

Reducere. Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man's right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance...

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal wo...

Reducere. Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth century was a pivo...

Reducere. Did you know that black entrepreneurs in Belgium face challenges that exclude them from the venture capital space?The Black Opportunity: Conversati...

Reducere. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both ...

A treasure trove of Bunny Mellon's garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive.Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who h...

Reducere. A page-turning thriller of life and death in the moral maze of the post-9/11 world from the international bestselling author and "best spy novelist...

Straw bale building is a radically different approach to construction, and this book explains, in straightforward and commonsense terms, the princi...

Reducere. On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pound...

Reducere. Someday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, o...

Reducere. The environmental crisis is advancing at an unprecedented pace and scale. It will outpace us if we don't turn our attention to an even deeper conce...

Reducere. Oliver Tarsul is a mostly average 14-year-old kid; aside from being the unwilling roommate to an interdimensional space clown his step-father solic...

Reducere. The Long-Awaited Sequel to The Long Run and The Last Dancer. In 2072, the United Nations Space Force began building the Unity . . . at Halfway. The...

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. Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intui...