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Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden

Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : architecture and Utopia in the era of the French Revolution / Anthony Vidler, Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his ...

Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities and Challenges

This book is the proceedings of an international conference entitled "Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities ...

Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides

offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming ...

Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness

This edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within ...

Critical practices in architecture : the unexamined / Jonathan Y Bean; Susannah Dickinson; Aletheia Ida; Jane Rendell

Embraces the idea that in today's complex world, multiple, emerging perspectives are critical to the design fields, the ...

David Chipperfield Architects = Architektur und Baudetails : Architecture and Construction Details / Sandra Hofmeister

Diagrid structures : systems, connections, details / Terri Meyer Boake

Diagrids are load-bearing structures made of steel diagonal grids. They were first used in the great buildings of the turn ...

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ...

Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

This Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, ...

Educating Students to Improve the World

This book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of ...

Education and Climate Change The Role of Universities

This book draws on a multidimensional model of educational change, the book reviews the field of climate change education ...

EigenArchitecture / Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann

A path out of the technological and economical excesses in contemporary architecture:A book on research and education in ...

Empire Under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935

This book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth ...

Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World How Six Nations Support Teachers for 21st Century Education

This book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and ...

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

The second edition of this landmark encyclopaedia will contain approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history ...

Familial Feeling Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel

This book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, ...

Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

This book It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, ...

Global History with Chinese Characteristics Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

This book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

All these perspectives (and more) are united in what this book identifies as his Art of Controversies, which might also be ...