Robot: Visual Atlas from Ancient Greece to Artificial Intelligence
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From Ancient Greece onwards, humans have been swept up in a race to replicate and rebuild...
Topiary, Knots and Parterres
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Topiary, knots and parterres come in many guises, from the grand and imposing to the humble and...
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...
Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance: From Trading Nation to Econation
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Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels...
The Future is Not What it Used to be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity
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The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that...
Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
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This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of...
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen comes a book that will make you see yourself and the...
Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
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At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book...
Fluent in 3 Months: Tips and Techniques to Help You Learn Any Language
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Meet the man who makes the mission of learning any language possible! The all-you-need guide to...
Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others
Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy
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Horror and Gothic in all of their various forms have penetrated the cultural mainstream in a manner...