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Let's Visit Delhi & Taj Mahal! (Maya & Neel's India Adventure Series, Book 10)**FREE** Monthly Stories & Dances Workshop. Details: CultureGroove.com/FreeOur 10+ titles on Amazon worldwide (4 Best Sellers!): Diwali (ranked #387 of 8 million Amazon books), Navratri, Holi, Delhi & Taj Mahal, Indian Wedding, Mumbai, Ramadan & Eid, Vaisakhi, Gift Set 1, Gift Set 2------------In this...
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An Extraordinary Survivor: The Story of Sytin House, Moscow- A new English-language contribution to Moscow's architectural history, newly researched and detailing the history of one house from its construction to its recent restoration - New discoveries about the house and its owner, and in particular the Moscow phenomenon of wooden buildings made...
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Vanished Denver LandmarksFrom its 1858 birth, the Mile High City has undergone continuous change, with each successive generation putting its stamp on Denver's architectural character. Along the way, landmarks initially considered first class were later deemed disposable by those who had different visions of what Denver...
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Sudden Frenzy: Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance ItalyIn Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational performance of poetry which constituted one of the most...
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Agadir: Building the Modern AfropolisThe fascinating first-ever full account of the remarkable reconstruction of the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir following the 1960 earthquake. On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its...
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States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World WarMore than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural...
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Pretty Girls Make GravesDon't go outside on Devil's Night.I'm always the good girl. I never stand out. I follow the rules.At Blackfriars University, there's one whispered rule: Stay inside the night before Halloween. Hide under your blankets and hope the Orpheus Society isn't the monster outside your...
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Mohammed and CharlemagneMohammed and Charlemagne, the last book penned by Belgian historian Henri Pirenne before his death in 1935, is in many ways the culmination of his lifelong study of medieval history. As Professor of History at the University of Ghent from 1886 until 1930 (with...
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The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg EuropeThe Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century's momentous political, military, commercial, and scientific changes. In the era of the Thirty Years' War, these figures traveled rapidly and frequently across...
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Ethnic Identity, Memory, and Use of the Past in Italy's 'Dark Ages'This volume examines the Italian peninsula in the early Middle Ages by focusing on research fields such as ethnic identity, memory, and use of the past. Particular attention is devoted to the way some authors were influenced by their own 'present' in their reconstruction...
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Pier Luigi NerviThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Devil from Over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in IrelandIn Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes...
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Pressing Matters 10Already number TEN, Pressing Matters X is a special issue reflecting a year of reflection and change, after several waves of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and newly developed hybrid teaching methods. It follows last year's Pressing Matters 9 that was completely rethought...
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The Metropolis of Tomorrow.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Experiencing Architecture; 0This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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HomeHome articulates a 'critical geography of home' in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the...
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Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish MonarchyWith its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place from which momentous decisions were made whose implications were felt in all corners of a vast domain. By the seventeenth century, however,...
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Manual of Structural Design: Structural Principles - Suitable Spans - Inspiring WorksDecisions regarding the supporting structure have an influence on the design of a building as well as an economic and ecological impact. The creation of great and innovative buildings requires close collaboration of architects, clients and structural engineers. Modern structural systems can benefit from...
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Dining with the Durrells: Stories and Recipes from the Cookery Archive of Mrs Louisa Durrell'We lolled in the sea until it was time to return for tea, another of Mother's gastronomic triumphs. Tottering mounds of hot scones; crisp paper-thin biscuits; cakes like snowdrifts, oozing jam; cakes dark, rich and moist, crammed with fruit; brandy snaps brittle as coral...
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Quantity Surveying Practice: The Nuts and BoltsQuantity Surveying Practice: The Nuts and Bolts is a practical guide to quantity surveying in building construction. Due to the increasing expectations of quality and performance from project clients, quantity surveyors must improve their professional skills to solve a variety of intricate problems and...
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