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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American ...
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Early Art and Architecture of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that h...
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The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Architecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as Craig L....
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Hip-Hop Architecture
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellect...
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Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The acclaimed overview of Black abstract art, now in an expanded edition with nearly 100 additional color platesThe Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of ...
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The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Rising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio's ...
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Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two...
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Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /A unique, richly illustrated study of Ottoman religious buildings standing today in Cairo With the conquest in 1517 CE of Egypt by the Ottomans, Ca...
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Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish repu...
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Islamic Art and Architecture: Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A bold, readable, and beautifully illustrated introduction to Islamic art and architecture, this renowned book is now available in an updated and...
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Mosques: Splendors of Islam
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00Original price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00Current price $64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /FOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards -- 2017 GOLD Winner for Architecture One of the most important and authoritative books to celebrate mosque ...
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Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple indigenous perspectives on architect...
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Indian Art
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5,000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explo...
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The Last of the Californios: The Pico Family, 1775-1894
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The name "Pico" is known to many Californians, especially in Southern California.There are streets, canyons, buildings and sites with that name; bu...
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Governing the Nuer: Documents by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography 1922-1931
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /PrefaceI first came across Percy Coriat's neglected writings on the Nuer in 1972 when beginning research on the history of the Nuer prophets. They ...
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Unmasking of Our Interiors: A Queer Incubator of Courage, Resilience and Interior Design Leadership
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A memoir of survival, rebellion, and tenacity, this narrative follows the author's incredible life journey, from survivor and outcast to mentor, gr...
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Tillman's Handbook of Great Black American Patriots: and Guide to the National Parks and Landmarks, Statues, Museums, and Historic Places dedicated to
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What does it mean to be a Black Patriot? How has America acknowledged and celebrated the contributions of Black Americans who help shape America's ...
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Stones Tell Stories at Osu: Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Transatlantic Slave Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Is a creative biographical account of the Slave Trade at Osu, one of the leading slave trading centres off the West African Coast.Wellington employ...
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Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this uniqu...
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Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this uniqu...
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Black Landscapes Matter
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated ...
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Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout historyArchitectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the cen...
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from t...
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Westminster
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Westminster Colony was founded in 1870 by Presbyterian minister Rev. Lemuel P. Webber. The colony, based on Protestant Christian tenets and tempera...
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