The contemporary Arabic novel as social history: urban ...
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Metaculture
 It is one thing to comprehend how culture makes its way through the world in those cases where something old is reproduced in the same physical shape where, for example, a song is sung or a story retold. It is another thing altogether, as Greg Urban [... more]
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Text, Theory, Space
Text, Theory, Space is an unprecedented, landmark text in post colonial criticism and theory. This outstanding and timely collection focuses on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia and explores the meaning of 'the South' as an [... more]
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Planning Twentieth-Century Capital Cities
The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide - in 1900 there were only about forty, but by 2000 there were more than two hundred. And this, surely, is reason enough for a book devoted to the planning [... more]
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Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and ...
DIVWhen Austria annexed Galicia during the first partition of Poland in 1772, the province's capital, Lemberg, was a decaying Baroque town. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Lemberg had become a booming city with a modern urban and, at the [... more]
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Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation
Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as the most infamous [... more]
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Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture is a comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach. The book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to its history, and in relation to the wider context of [... more]
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Johnny and the Dead (The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy)
for alleged grown-ups as well as young adults: For the Terry Pratchett fans out there, nothing more need be said. It's Pratchett, you want to read it, the only reason you've been hesitating is because it's marked as a kids book (juvenile, young adult...) [... more]
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Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
Amazon.com Review: When science writer Hannah Holmes decided to spend a year studying the inhabitants of her 0.2-acre patch of ground in suburban Portland, Maine, she went about the task with an ecologist's enthusiasm and a scientist's compulsive eye for [... more]
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The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish And Muslim Space in ...
The uses and meaning of the Mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakech: In "The Mellah of Marrakesh," Emily Gottreich explains the origins of Marrakech's mellah (Jewish quarter), who lived there and why, what life was like there, what business [... more]
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The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility ...
A good immigration study: I recently finished reading this book for an Urban History course in grad school, and Kessner does an adequate job of presenting and analyzing statistics regarding the mobility index of Italian and Jewish immigrants in NYC. He [... more]
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The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish And Muslim Space in ...
The uses and meaning of the Mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakech: In "The Mellah of Marrakesh," Emily Gottreich explains the origins of Marrakech's mellah (Jewish quarter), who lived there and why, what life was like there, what business [... more]
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