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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Utopia -- Internationalism -- Technocracy -- Conservation -- Inscription -- Conflict -- Danger -- Dystopia

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
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• Release Date : 02 February 2021

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 25 March 2019

The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
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• Release Date : 08 April 2015

Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cultural and natural resources around the globe. Focuses on ethnographic and

• Publisher : Duke University Press
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• Release Date : 10 May 2013

Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a

• Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
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• Release Date : 17 January 2017

Evelyn Waugh dips his toes into the world of science fiction. In a future, dystopian Britain, Miles Plastic is in prison for arson. Which isn’t so bad, really – the

• Publisher : Bond Street Books
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• Release Date : 05 May 2015

The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 21,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 December 1996

A dozen essays from a July 1994 conference at the University of San Marino argue that a total shift to electronic information media would trigger wrenching social and cultural dislocations. Among

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 06 January 2021

Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic

• Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
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• Release Date : 12 January 2021

Named a Best New Book of 2021 (so far) by Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub and Bustle A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of