History of architecture

Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy "e;A bold attempt to determine the conditions of-and the means for achieving-racial justice.

The question of what living is for—of what one should care about and why—is the most important question a person can ask.

A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today.

Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces).

During the New Kingdom (c.

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics.

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events.

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum.

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line.

A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States.

This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration.

This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing.

This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson.

In studies of psychology's role in modernism, Carl Jung is usually relegated to a cameo appearance, if he appears at all.

Davide Panagia's Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.

Architecture in Northern Ghana: A Study of Forms and Functions by Labelle Prussin offers a pioneering exploration into the relationship between architecture, culture, and the environment in Northern Ghana.

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments, written by by leading theorists and empirical researchers offers an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept.

Auténticas recetas italianas del famoso platillo de Gaeta, Italia.

Since 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet portaged through the territory that is now Chicago, water transportation has been vital to the city's growth.

In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku--elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.

This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area.

Why and how was the term 'built environment' first introduced?

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain.

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction.

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War.

This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm.

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades.

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War.

This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm.

It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines.

The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

Sure, a majority of Europe's most historic events centered on castles.

Unleash both the historian and architect in your kids with this Ancient Roman Roads and Architecture History Book.

Why is it important to go back to the past?

Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence.

The Great Wall of China is the world's largest military defense structure.

This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim's theory of media.

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.

This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology.

In this book, John C.

Die Pflanze ist anders als Mauerwerk oder Beton ein lebender Baustoff, der sich im Laufe der Jahreszeiten und Jahre verandert.

Im architektonischen Entwerfen werden gerne Entwurfsmethoden zur kreativen Formfindung eingesetzt, die eine Loslosung vom traditionellen Formenkanon und eingefahrenen Denkmustern ermoglichen.

This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and journeys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narratives of nationhood.

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A.

This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle.

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793.

This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology.