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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...

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...

With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.

Brought to you by Penguin. Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as...

In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the painkilling power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. 

Because of the way technology has impacted real estate sales, buyers and sellers have greater access to information and even the ability to direct the sales process. While knowing market information is helpful in real estate sales, most people still lack a key aspect: expertise. By presenting an inside view on sales, McLaughlin provides a guide for maximizing the value of the sale and purchase of homes.

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...