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Urban Life Building City Art Deco Fashion Book Sheet Protectors Portfolio Binder Folder

Size: Include 1 pack bound presentation book with 40 plastic binder sleeves that can view 80 pages. The portfolio folder measures 9.41×11.38 inches each display pocket is 8.5 X 11.5 inches (standard A4 letter size). Classification: Sheet Protectors... more

Critical American Studies: Catching Hell In The City Of Angels : Life And Meanings Of Blackness In South Central Los Angeles (Paperback)

Since the 1980s Los Angeles has become the most racially and economically divided city in the United States. In the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles buildings in disrepair--the legacy of racial unrest. Moving beyond stereotypes of South... more

Tenement Life 1871. Neviction Of Tenants From A Tenement House In New York City 1871. Contemporary American Wood

Tenement Life 1871. Neviction Of Tenants From A Tenement House In New York City 1871. Contemporary American Wood would make the perfect addition to your home or office or gift recipient. This licensed Fine Art Print was reproduced on Premium Heavy... more

Art of Faith (DVD) Alive Mind Documentary

Art of Faith is a visually sumptuous series revealing outstanding examples of the art and architecture of Judaism Christianity and Islam. The films bring to life many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings through stunning... more

Valery Ponomarev - Our Father Who Art Blakey: The Centennial - Jazz - CD

Recorded LIVE! In celebration of the great Art Blakey s 100th birthday Valery Ponomarev has assembled some of New York City s finest musicians staying true to his passion to never let the music and spirit of Art Blakey s Jazz Messengers die. The... more

Sly & the Family Stone - Life - Music & Performance - Vinyl

By late 1968 the third album by Sly & the Family Stone absolutely blew the roof off the building. Life sounded so tangibly real it almost seemed like it was cut live. The title track along with Love City Plastic Jim Into My Own Thing and especially... more

The story of Athens : a record of the life and art of the city of the violet crown read in its ruins and in the lives of great Athenians. (1902) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1902 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

News of the Air (Paperback)

Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort where they live in relative peace for nearly... more

Pre-Owned Building Art : The Life and Work of Frank Gehry 9780307701534

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Walter Pach (1883-1958): The Armory Show and the Untold Story of Modern Art in America (Paperback)

With the centennial of the famed 1913 Armory Show in New York City approaching now is the ideal time to examine fully and for the first time the life and work of Walter Pach one of the prime movers behind this seminal event in the American art... more

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text Reader (Paperback)

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader examines the city from a street level perspective and provides readers with tools to conduct research on urbanism--the everyday experiences of people in cities. Contending that culture is... more

Building American Public Health: Urban Planning Architecture and the Quest for Better Health in the United States (Hardcover)

This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States. It begins in the nineteenth century when problems in rapidly urbanizing cities threatened to... more

Pre-Owned How Architecture Works: A Humanist s Toolkit (Hardcover) 0374211744 9780374211745

An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty.... more

Views of the most remarkable public buildings monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin 1780 [Hardcover]

{Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 210 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1780]. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

World Christianity and Public Religion: World Christianity Urbanization and Identity (Paperback)

World Christianity Urbanization and Identity argues that urban centers particularly the largest cities do not only offer places for people to live shop and seek entertainment but deeply shape people s ethics behavior sense of justice and how they... more

Golgonooza City of Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake (Paperback)

Considered one of the seminal poets and artists of the Romantic Age William Blake and his idiosyncratic mix of philosophy and art have long baffled and delighted readers from all walks of life. When encountering such a unique body of work for the... more

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches: Properties of Rent: Community Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi (Hardcover)

We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi s urban fray in the... more

Urban Ecosystem Services (Hardcover)

The school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world s population lives in cities urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing.... more

Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan (Hardcover)

Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union s invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a... more

Building a Traditional Kurdish City: The Urban Morphology of Sanandaj (Hardcover)

This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj s formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran. It discusses the nature of Kurdish settlements... more

Materializing Culture: Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Paperback)

On buses trains and streets over the past decade and more youths in particular but increasingly older people as well tune into their personal stereos and tune out city sounds. Why? What does the personal stereo mean to these people and to urban... more

Pre-Owned The Human Zoo: A Zoologist s Study of the Urban Animal (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller THE HUMAN ZOO renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues... more

Portraits of the City : Dublin and the Wider World (Hardcover)

Portraits of the City places Dublin at the center of a discussion about the significance of the historic urban landscape. Bringing together experts in art history architectural history urban studies literature and geography this multidisciplinary... more

Woodrow Wilson Center Press Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (Hardcover)

The post-Mao urban reforms of the past decade have physically and psychologically transformed China s cities. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China explores how the character of city life changed after political-economic restructuring intensified in... more

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology: A Companion to Urban Anthropology (Hardcover)

A Companion to Urban Anthropology BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Urban Anthropology The city is becoming the basic currency of human - and non-human - life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes.... more

Pre-Owned Vanished Gardens : Finding Nature in Philadelphia 9780820331560

Gives a portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. This book explores the city as a part of its ecosystem and animates the lives of individual... more

Pre-Owned Cities Change and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life (Hardcover) 0495812226 9780495812227

CITIES CHANGE AND CONFLICT - A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF URBAN LIFE discusses the importance of cities for the economic cultural and political life of modern societies. The authors consistently use the political economy perspective to introduce students... more

The Art of Stair Building: With Original Improvements Designed to Enable Every Carpenter ... to ... 1855 [Hardcover]

{Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 141 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back [1855]. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

Pre-Owned X and the City : Modeling Aspects of Urban Life 9780691154640

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Sacramento Renaissance:: Art Music and Activism in California s Capital City (Paperback)

Touted as progress postwar redevelopment spawned a new age in Sacramento California. As city planners designated areas of urban blight and directed bulldozers to make way for commercial districts and pedestrian malls the churches jazz clubs and... more

Pre-Owned Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback) 0812220374 9780812220377

Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project the design of New York s Central Park as a democratic development of highest significance. Over the years the significance of green in civic life has... more

Pre-Owned Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s & the 80s (Hardcover) 0062354957 9780062354952

The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City--a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians glamorous celebrity and complicated passions--with cameo appearances by Madonna Robert Mapplethorpe... more

Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins (Hardcover)

This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world dismantling the privileging of urban youth urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond. Expert authors... more

Routledge Urban Reader The Cybercities Reader (Hardcover)

Providing the most comprehensive international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities urban life and new technologies this informative book incorporates detailed discussions of cybercity history theory economic... more

Dyeing Elegance: Asian Modernism and the Art of Kuboku and Hisako Takaku (Hardcover)

Textile artist Takaku Kuboku (1908-1993) is a paragon among modern artists of Japan fusing rural and urban traditional and innovative and Asian and European influences in his life and work. This volume introduces his aesthetic ideas and artistic... more

Sustainable Cities: Local Solutions in the Global South (Paperback)

As urbanization environmental degradation and poverty become increasingly urgent problems understanding the links between sustainability and poverty reduction is imperative. A sustainable urban future for all requires raising the quality of life of... more

Urban Development (Hardcover)

Cities are growing as never before and nowadays it is estimated that at least 50% of the world s population lives in urban areas. This trend is expected to continue and simultaneously the problems in urban areas are anticipated to have an increase.... more

History of Urban Society in Europe The Later Medieval City (Paperback)

The Later Medieval City 1300-1500 the second part of David Nicholas s ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages fully lives up to its splendid precursor The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully... more