Whitechapel in 50 Buildings
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Why Whitechapel? Outside of the Square Mile (the City of London) it is probably the best known area...
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
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'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a...
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Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980
Glenn D. Lowry, Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Eduardo Comas and Jorge Francisco Liernur
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In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey...
Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position
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While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by...
1941: A Global Conflict
John Christopher and Campbell McCutcheon
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1941 At the beginning of the year, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The war in Africa...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to...
Photographing the Fallen: A War Graves Photographer on the Western Front 1915 1919
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Ivan Bawtree has left behind a vast array of archives that tell the story of his work as a...
You are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes
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In You Are Here, celebrated astronaut Chris Hadfield gives us the really big picture: this is our...
A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey
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Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an...
Andrei Sakharov: The Conscience of Humanity
Sidney D. Drell and George P. Shultz
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Andrei Sakharov holds an honored place in the pantheon of the world's greatest scientists,...