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Analysis of Microdata

The availability of microdata has increased rapidly over the last decades, and standard statistical and econometric software ...

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities : A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece / Sofia Voutsaki, Paul Cartledge

Sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century ...

Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

Architect: The evolving story of a profession / Eleanor Jolliffe, Paul Crosby

From Ancient Egypt, where architects were members of the ruling class, tied into the running of the empire, to the 21st century ...

Architectonics and Parametric Thinking : Computational Modeling for Beginning Design / Frank Jacobus, Angie Carpenter, Rachel Smith Loerts

Architectonics and Parametric Thinking begins by clearly positioning the potentials of parametric design through a series ...

Architectural Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors / Charalampos Politakis

Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such ...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices : Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century / Marianna Charitonidou

Explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees ...

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide / Margaret Fletcher, Robbie Polley

It begins with the earliest styles of the ancient civilizations – Egypt, Greece and Rome – before travelling through ...

Architectural Terra Cotta : Design Concepts, Techniques and Applications / Donald Corner, John Rowell

Examines the evolution of terra cotta and prepares architects and builders to make new, creative uses of the timeless material. ...

Architecture : the whole story / Denna Jones

From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout ...

Architecture Beyond the Cupola: Inventions and Designs of Dante Bini / Alberto Pugnale, Alberto Bologna

This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction ...

Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline / Mark Jarzombek

In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature ...

Architecture and Collective Life / Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm, Sandra Costa Santos

Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis of changes in the architectural profession. Contains thought-provoking ...

Architecture and the Housing Question / Can Bilsel, Juliana Maxim

Examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects ...

Architecture and the Modern Hospital : Nosokomeion to Hygeia / Julie Willis, Philip Goad, Cameron Logan

Explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other ...

Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

The book is divided into seven chapters, which in turn analyze the interconnections between the novel and architecture in ...

Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe : Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space / J.R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge, Pieter Martens, R.L.M. Morris

Draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, ...

Architectures of Refusal / Jill Stoner, Ozayr Saloojee

Reveals how designers, practitioners, scholars and architects are participating in dismantling the major canons of Western ...

Art History / Marilyn Stokstad, Michael W. Cothren

Brings the history of art to life for a new generation of students. It is global in scope, inclusive in its coverage, and ...

Art Intervention in the City / Hadas Ophrat

This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...

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