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  • Why Preservation Matters

    by Max Page ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Building the Nation

    Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape

    Edited by Steven Conn, Max Page ...
    Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it.Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Building the Nation

    Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape

    Edited by Steven Conn, Max Page ...
    Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it.Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Stories About Time Travel

    Pioneering tales of time travel all written before the moon landing

    by H G Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Anderson, Washington Irving, Edward Page Mitchell, Max Beerbohm ...
    Narrated by Robert Maskell, Michael Lyons, Janet Fullerlove ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    We’ve all imagined not just being some place else but being at a different time too. Either fast forwarding to what might be or returning to a previous time to re-run our lives with a different and better outcome. When our authors amplify that amazing things happen as their narratives glide around the portals of time creating clever literature in their wake. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memories of Buenos Aires

    Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina

    Translated by Karen Robert ...
    by Memoria Memoria Abierta ...
    Series series Public History in Historical Perspective
    In the 1970s, Argentina was the leader in the “Dirty War,” a violent campaign by authoritarian South American regimes to repress left-wing groups and any others who were deemed subversive. Over the course of a decade, Argentina's military rulers tortured and murdered upwards of 30,000 citizens. Even today, after thirty years of democratic rule, the horror of that time continues to roil Argentine ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory ... Read more

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  • Wanderlust

    A History of Walking

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's RosesDrawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

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  • The Big Change

    America Transforms Itself, 1900–1950

    by Frederick Lewis Allen ...
    The New York Times–bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century—five decades that transformed America—from the author of Only Yesterday.During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and more social, political, and economic changes than in any other five-decade period before. Frederick Lewis Allen, ... Read more

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  • The Great Good Place (Berkshire Edition)

    by Ray Oldenburg, Karen Christensen ...
    Third places are all those spots where people gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (our first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. Third places are the heart of a community's social vitality, and have long been central to grassroots democracy.Third places are the heart of a community's social vitality, and have long been ... Read more

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  • The Language of Houses

    How Buildings Speak to Us

    by Alison Lurie ...
    In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and ... Read more

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  • The Glorious American Essay

    One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Phillip Lopate ...
    **"Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." --Rivka GalchenA monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.**The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American ... Read more

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