Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture
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The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth...
Drive: Journeys Through Film, Cities, and Landscapes
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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities...
Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History
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'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do. Or three days, like last time.'...
Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam
Michael Frishkopf, Federico Spinetti and Ali Asani
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Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary...
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
David Hockney and Martin Gayford
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The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a...
The Art and Craft of Tea: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Brewing, and Serving Exquisite Tea
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Let Joseph Wesley Uhl be your guide to the entire world of tea; from peeks into tea production...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
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The gripping story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine...
Ostrich
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In many senses the ostrich looms large - the tallest and heaviest of any living bird, a fully grown...
The Art of Memoir
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Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements...
Literati Style Penjing: Chinese Bonsai Masterworks
Zhao Qingquan and Thomas S. Elias
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The art of bonsai is widely known in the West: from the Karate Kid to the American Bonsai...