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Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements & Forms
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat—each element of traditional...
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Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $63.00 - Original price $63.00Original price $63.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /Tokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II. Does anything remain of the old city?The internationally...
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Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, th...
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Civic Buildings After the Spanish-American War
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto ...
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Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
HardcoverOriginal price $165.00 - Original price $165.00Original price $165.00$189.99$189.99 - $189.99Current price $189.99| /This volume offers an overview of the state of the field, and shows the importance of Islamic inscriptions for disciplines such as art history, his...
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Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The great Islamic Dynasties of the Mediterranean are the protagonists of this book, together with their fascinating artistic and cultural legacy. T...
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Petra: The History of Jordan's Rose City
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While Petra's fame might often come second to things like the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, ancient Greece, or the Great Wall of China, you can now se...
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For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group
HardcoverOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /"I am not afraid to look." - Tom Hurndall, 2003.On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003, Tom Hurndall, a photography student at Manches...
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For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /"I am not afraid to look." - Tom Hurndall, 2003.On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003, Tom Hurndall, a photography student at Manches...
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A Short History of the Byzantine Empire: Revised Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $61.00 - Original price $61.00Original price $61.00$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this revised edition sheds new...
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Egyptian Monuments: Sphinx Of Giza, Abu Simbel Temples, Temple Of Hatshepsut, Philae Temple
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Discover the Majestic Legacy of Egypt: Unearth the Secrets of the Sphinx, the Epic Story of Abu Simbel Temples, the Untold Legacy of the Temple of ...
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Bahrain History: The Politics, Governance, National Economy, Population, Tourism
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Bahrain History. The Politics, Governance, National Economy, Population, Tourism. The gulf has been an important waterway since ancient times, brin...
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Repose in the Metropolis: The Private Gardens of New York City
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The first ever book to showcase fourteen private gardens belonging to residents of New York City. These private worlds are the work of 10 major lan...
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Deluxe Decorative Book: Display on a Shelf or Coffee Table for Home Decor and Modern Interior Design
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Indulge in the luxury of a Deluxe Decorative book that is not just a pretty face but also serves as your ultimate daily planner. This hardcover gem...
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The Origin and Development of Dougong and Zaojing in Early China
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This book focuses on two significant architectural elements in traditional Chinese buildings, that is, Dougong and Zaojing. Dougong is a bracket se...
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Empire Building: The Construction of British India 1690-1860
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focusing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in t...
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Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$87.99$87.99 - $87.99Current price $87.99| /Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developme...
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The Great Wall Of China: 2,000-Years Of Construction
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Introducing "The Great Wall of China: 221 BCE - 1644 CE", a book bundle that delves into the 2,000 years of construction of the world-renowned Grea...
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Balinese Architecture: A Guide to Traditional and Modern Balinese Design
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Balinese-style villas and resorts are popping up everywhere, from Ibiza to St. Barts to Singapore. In this comprehensive guide, author Julian Davis...
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Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture Before and After 1991
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeco...
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Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /How China's borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China's land borders, shared w...
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Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York Times In Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and...
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Reinventing the Chinese City
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typically understood as a story...
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Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China The Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving beh...
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