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  • Jens Jensen
    Robert E. Grese
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    51,51 €

  • Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray
    Cherry Hankin / Katherine Mansfield
    The New Zealand-born writer Mansfield (1888-1923) and her husband, Murry, the English editor and literary critic, exchanged hundreds of passionate, probing letters during their tempestuous 11-year relationship. Their correspondence reveals Mansfield’s fiercely independent spirit, as well as her intense need for undertanding from Murry from the time she met him at the home of a ...
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    19,40 €

  • A Hut of One’s Own
    Ann Cline
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    27,50 €

  • Roman Mornings
    James Lees-Milne
    In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne’s inspired description and criticism of them as architectural masterpieces. ...
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    13,11 €

  • Georgia’s Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites
    Kevin M McCarthy / Kevin M. McCarthy
    Though the Georgia coast is a mere 110 miles long, a wealth of historic beauty—natural and manmade—lies between the Savannah and St. Mary’s Rivers. The last-settled and poorest of the original thirteen colonies of the United States, Georgia is a unique combination of war-torn history and genteel character. Here you’ll find stories of Civil War soldiers, pioneers and settlers, N...
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    13,73 €

  • Stonehenge
    Barbara Bender
    This book is an imaginative exploration of a place that has fascinated, intrigued and perplexed visitors for centuries. Instead of seeing Stonehenge as an isolated site, the author sets the stones within a wider landscape and explores how use and meaning have changed from prehistoric times right through to the present. Throughout the millennia, the Stonehenge landscape has been...
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    193,39 €

  • Constructions
    John Rajchman
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    32,35 €

  • The Scramble for Art in Central Africa
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    68,16 €

  • The Scramble for Art in Central Africa
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    159,41 €

  • Partnerships and Sustainability
    Appalachian Consortium Press
    The Sixth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 9-11, 1995. Contributors to the proceedings are Steven Elkinton; Christopher D. Jones and William E. Hammitt; Philip A. Grant Jr.; Michael Mastrota; M. Rupert Cutler; Thomas G. Yahner, Timothy P. Johnson, Neil P. Korostoff, and A. Mark Battaglia; Terry L. Clements; Kenneth R. Tamminga; and...
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    17,34 €

  • Design and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain
    Jonathan Woodham / Patrick Joseph Maguire
    Marking the 50th anniversary of the Britain Can Make It (BCMI) exhibition, this collection of essays, documents and commentaries is a re-examination of a major design initiative in the immediate post-war period. BCMI encapsulated many of the problems which the newly-founded Council of Industrial Design was to face over the following decades: the tensions between a state-funded ...
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    175,13 €

  • Shakespeare’s Globe Rebuilt
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    61,73 €

  • Construction 1
    A.V. Hore / J. Kehoe / R. McMullan
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    106,72 €

  • Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico
    Robert J. Mullen / Robert JMullen
    From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles that created an architecture of enduring vitality.In this profusely illustra...
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    37,58 €

  • Confessions of an Art Addict
    Peggy Guggenheim
    A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider’s view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves. Here is a book that captures a valuable chapter in the history of modern art, as ...
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    15,86 €

  • Visual culture
    John A Walker / John Walker / Sarah Chaplin
    It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates.. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field.. The coverage is systematic, and the writing accessible. ...
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    29,60 €

  • Der Ansatz der nachhaltigen Regionalentwicklung in der Raumplanung
    Juliane Ohde
    Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Der vieldiskutierte Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit muß kein leeres Schlagwort bleiben, sondern kann in der Raumplanung im Hinblick auf Praktikabilität durchaus mit Inhalt erfüllt werden. Der Begriff der nachhaltigen Regionalentwicklung muß gegen einen treffenderen, breiter angelegten Begriff ausgetauscht werden. Der Begriff der nachhaltigen Regionalentw...
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    45,06 €

  • Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism
    Kathleen James
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    236,32 €

  • Fassadenentwicklungen im städtischen niederdeutschen Fachwerk
    Katrin Schneider
    Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Die Arbeit gliedert sich neben diesem einleitenden, allgemeinen Teil A - der grundsätzliche Fragen vorab zu klären versucht - in drei weitere große Abschnitte: Teil B und C beschreiben die Funktion und Entwicklung der Fassade bis zum dreißigjährigen Krieg getrennt nach Konstruktion und Ornament. Diese Trennung erscheint aufgrund der einerse...
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    45,56 €

  • Planung als Grundlage einer bedarfsgerechten Steuerung des Pflegeangebotes auf kommunaler Ebene
    Alexander von Quast
    Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Diese Arbeit soll den Handlungsrahmen einer Gemeinde im Bereich der Altenpolitik darstellen und aufzeigen, in welchem Umfang die Kommunalverwaltung Einfluss nehmen kann auf die bedarfsgerechte Ausgestaltung des Pflegeangebotes. Zuvor muss jedoch geklärt werden, was im einzelnen unter „Bedarfsgerechtigkeit' zu verstehen ist. Hierbei sind folgende Aspek...
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    45,41 €

  • Design-bezogene Untersuchung der psychischen Wirkung von Dingen auf ihre Nutzer/innen am Beispiel des Mountainbikes
    Fiona McKenzie
    Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Arbeit 'Das Mountainbike oder 21 Gänge im Flachland' untersucht das Designobjekt Mountainbike weniger im Hinblick auf seine spezifische Gestaltung oder technische Funktionalität an sich, sondern vielmehr hinsichtlich der hieraus resultierenden psychischen Wirkung auf seine Fahrer/innen. Jedem Gegenstand wohnen vielfältige Qualitäten inne, di...
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    45,77 €

  • Ontology of Construction
    Gevork Hartoonian / Kenneth Frampton
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    32,56 €

  • Flower Drawings
    David Scrase
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    36,09 €

  • Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico
    Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects w...
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    33,52 €

  • False Impressions
    Thomas Hoving
    Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture--fine art collecting--Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams. From the shroud of Turin to pre-Colombian pottery, Hoving reveals the biggest, the best, the most embarrassing, and the most costly forgeries in history--many of them unknown until now. photos. ...
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    21,50 €

  • The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture
    Phoebe B. Stanton
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    50,36 €

  • Makers of 20th Century Modern Architecture
    Donald Langmead / Donald Leslie Johnson
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    104,74 €

  • The Stone Skeleton
    Jacques Heyman
    What is the time scale for the settlement and cracking of an old stone building? How do the elegant flying buttresses of a Gothic cathedral safely transfer thrust to the foundations? And what is the effect of wind on a stone spire, or bell-ringing on a church tower? These and many other questions pertinent to the upkeep of old stone structures are answered in this clear and aut...
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    64,65 €

  • The Power of Place
    Dolores Hayden
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    35,51 €

  • Catfish Ponds and Lily Pads
    Louise Riotte
    From siting a pond to stocking it with fish and planting in and around the water, Riotte’s anecdotal information will lead to years of pond pleasure. ...
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    14,76 €