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2050: Designing Our Tomorrow / Chris Luebkeman

Envisioning a positive future through design 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design ...

A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia

The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her ...

A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania

The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...

Across the Sahara Tracks, Trade and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Libya

This book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues ...

Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects

This book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies ...

Asian Century… on a Knife-edge

This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's ...

Audacious Education Purposes How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems

This book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students ...

Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced ...

Brain, Mind and Medicine

Ideas we associate with the 18th century are clearly seen in work published from the latter decades of the 17th century through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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