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Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era

This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar ...

Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures : Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors / Mayine Yu

Illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors. Six chapters organized by wall types, from hand-set monolithic ...

Small, Medium, Large, Extra-large / Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture ...

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

This book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic ...

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class New Voting Patterns

This book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. ...

Social Exclusion in Later Life Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent ...

Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road

This book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient ...

Sociology in Germany A History

This book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise ...

Sonic Skills : Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

This book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what ...

Sophus Lie. Une pensée audacieuse

Sophus Lie (1842-1899) is one of the greatest Norwegian figures in science. The notoriety that his work has earned him has ...

Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses / Michael Anderson

Examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house ...

Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015

This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set ...

Storie di cose semplici = Stories of simple things

The nut, the thread, the key, the ring, the mirror, the button and the sphere are simple things that we encounter every day, ...

Studies in Global Animal Law

This book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. ...

Superconductivity : Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors

Conceived as the definitive reference in a classic and important field of modern physics, this extensive and comprehensive ...

Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists

This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth ...

Taste : a cultural history of the home interior 1800 to the present day / Drew Plunkett

Offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the ...

Taste: Media and Interior Design / Karin Tehve

Traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does. Examines ...

Technical Universities Past, present and future

This book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. ...

Ten Crises The Political Economy of China’s Development (1949-2020)

This book contextualizes China’s 70 years of contemporary history against one coherent backdrop: a late developing country ...

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