Trevor S. Jennings
The age-old craft of bellfounding involves specialised techniques and equipment that have been passed down through generations and are still used today. For centuries, the large bells in churches, clocks and public buildings throughout Britain ... [... more]
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Mario Botta: Public Buildings 1990-1998
 Visually Stunning: While the Architect's process is touched upon, the real stars here are the photos of the models and buildings. This book offers the reader a fine sampling of the public buildings by an architect with a strong personal style. Interior [... more]
CDN$50.12
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Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial ...
The best book I've seen on this topic!: I picked up this book inexpensively, secondhand, to use as a reference because it has a lot of very good photos and floor plans. But I glanced at the first page and was hooked. It's an incredibly well-written, well- [... more]
CDN$21.95
Amazon CA |
Thomas Jefferson
Very readable: I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learned a significant amount about this most interesting character. It is interesting to compare with "An Imperfect God" by Wiencek, which seems to dislike Jefferson somewhat, perhaps [... more]
CDN$28.95
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One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American ...
Fascinating Analysis: One Nation Underground is a fascinating analysis of the Cold War fallout shelter, the global and political milieu in which it emerged, and the pervasiveness in which the concept of protection from nuclear destruction permeated the [... more]
CDN$65.22
Amazon CA |
The Museum Guard
From Amazon.com: On September 5, 1938, DeFoe Russet helps hang a new show at a tiny Nova Scotia museum. He doesn't even pay much attention to the eight new paintings from Holland; he'll have time enough to take them in later on. After all, the buttoned- [... more]
CDN$18.95
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The Ten Books on Architecture
describes the ancient roman traditions of design & building: When I first read this book back in 1991 when I was doing my thesis on courtyard housing I found the descriptions made by Vitruvius on the Roman Domus (courtyard house) invaluable to my [... more]
CDN$14.95
Amazon CA |
Superdutch: New Architecture in the Netherlands
From Amazon.com: Does the term Dutch architecture evoke for you almost sickeningly quaint images of windmills, stone dykes, and Golden Age townhouses? Then hang on to your wooden shoes (or silver skates) and brace yourself for SuperDutch, a superfunky [... more]
CDN$49.95
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Roman Public Buildings
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 722.709 EAN: 9780859894753 ISBN: 0859894754 Number Of Pages: 190 Publication Date: 1995-01-01 [... more]
CDN$30.16
Amazon CA |
David Adjaye Making Public Buildings
Author: Peter (ed) Allison Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780500286487 ISBN: 0500286485 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2006-09 [... more]
CDN$40.00
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The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist ...
Profound and highly enlightening: In this fascinating book, British Philosopher (and former university professor) Roger Scruton looks at the West and the Islamic world, and examines what has brought on the present crisis. It is his contention that the [... more]
CDN$20.79
Amazon CA |
The Nazi War on Cancer
From Amazon.com: Familiar as we are with the horrific history of Nazi medicine and science, it may come as a surprise to learn that the Nazi war against cancer was the most aggressive in the world. Robert N. Proctor's thought-provoking book, The Nazi War [... more]
CDN$30.16
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