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Dive into the sweeping urban history of a muddy colonial outpost that fought to become a dazzling cultural epicenter. Perfect for your daily commute, this immersive journey transports you straight to the bustling shores of the Rio de la Plata. Let the evocative clash of empires and the birth of...

Unearth the secrets of the Seven Wonders with this immersive ancient history of a monument built for eternity. Transform your daily commute or deep-focus learning sessions into an engaging archaeological expedition to fourth-century Caria. Experience the ambitious reign of King Mausolus and the...

Trace the turbulent rise of a walled settlement into one of the Middle East's most complex and dynamic megacities. Perfect for an educational daily commute, this immersive urban history plunges you directly into the bustling bazaars, sweeping highways, and politically charged squares of the...

Uncover the immersive history of the Mughal Empire and the turbulent urban epic behind an architectural marvel. Perfect for your daily commute or armchair travel, this transportive journey explores five centuries of explosive growth, political intrigue, and imperial ambition along the Yamuna...

Uncover the gripping ancient history of a dazzling architectural wonder, burned to the ground by a madman. Perfect for your morning commute, this immersive narrative transports you to the bustling ancient port of Ephesus. Watch a humble marsh sanctuary transform into a pan-Mediterranean marvel...

Как в идеале должна выглядеть квартира боксера? Квартира йога, преподавателя, программиста или массажиста? Городские квартиры перестают быть только местом для сна и хранения вещей. Они уже давно превратились в площадки для развития, обучения и работы, но при строительстве это по-прежнему не учитывается.

The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds...

While Galileo was suffering under house arrest at the hands of Pope Urban VIII, the Thirty Years War was ruining Europe, and the Pilgrims were struggling to survive in the New World, work began on what would become one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal. Built by the Moghul emperor...

In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement. This is his sequel to The Painted Word, the book that caused such a furor in the art world five years before. Once again Wolfe shows how social and intellectual fashions have determined aesthetic form in our time and how willingly the creators have abandoned personal vision and originality in order to work a la mode.

Is noise impacting your quality of life at home? Neighbour and traffic noise adversely affects many homeowners. "The Noise Free Home" introduces a proven four-step soundproofing method that will protect your home from unwanted noise. Used by soundproofing installers and backed up by acoustic testing, this method will help you restore the peace and quiet you have been longing for.

In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did, and how to modernize transportation to better serve local communities.

Brought to you by Penguin. Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear...

This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from authenticity to zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture. It's an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect.

The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually" - with its impact on our lives. "Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads."

You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a...

Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was left abandoned and unfinished. Yet in the early 20th century it attracted three fascinating women: Luisa Casati...

The Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization that has played an integral part in rebuilding the Pittsburgh region’s economy over the course of eight decades. This book showcases the efforts of RIDC to renew and improve the Pittsburgh...

As cidades são, notadamente, reduto dos homens, em que às mulheres é imposto o status de segunda classe. Por meio de uma geografia de exclusão real e material, as mulheres encontram no ambiente urbano entraves e afirmações que reforçam papé...

Discover the key architectural concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings and structures. The Architecture Book goes beyond other architecture books to analyze not just buildings themselves, but the ideas and principles that make each of the featured structures key to the history and...

The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, came at the cost of everyday Angelenos Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills...