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  • Kemp: An Arrow for the Crown

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 5 - Arrows of Albion
    There’s no way out this time… An unputdownable medieval adventure from a master of the genreHaunted by guilt and his sins, archer Martin Kemp is in Scotland to collect on a debt when war breaks out afresh. The border erupts in bloody violence.Stalked through heather and forest by French men-at-arms sent to stir up the Scots against the English, Kemp and his friend Ieuan find themselves roped into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John H. Kampmann, Master Builder

    San Antonio's German Influence in the 19th Century

    Travel back and take a close look at what it meant to be an architect in the 19th century.Although relatively unknown in modern day Texas, John H. Kampmann was the master craftsman of his time. Explore Kampmann's lasting legacy alongside Maggie Valentine as she reveals how one man changed the face of the city. From an adobe Spanish village to a city of stone and mortar, Kampmann used his skills as ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Vitruvius

    This atlas of architectural design advocates rational as well as humanistic principles in the development of the urban environment. Drawing upon the ideals that inspired the great Roman architect, it promotes the Vitruvian maxims of longevity, beauty, and commodity. It also defines the thinking behind modern American city planning.First published in 1922, The American Vitruvius arose from a ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair

    A Century of Progress

    by Bill Cotter ...
    Series series Images of America
    It took six years and cost $100 million, but on May 27, 1933, the gates swung open on the biggest birthday party the city of Chicago had ever seen. The Century of Progress Exposition, better known as the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, commemorated the amazing progress that had been made since the founding of the city just 100 years earlier. Many of America's largest companies joined with countries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golden Gate

    The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

    by Kevin Starr ...
    The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wildheadlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of Californiaand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spotcommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completedin 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess andfull assumption of its destined continental dominance. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • AIA Guide to New York City

    Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Built

    The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures

    by Roma Agrawal ...
    Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksThe wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is constructed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • St Pancras Station

    by Simon Bradley ...
    Simon Bradley traces the history of the station, introducing us to the men behind the architecture and looks at its new international status. This fine new edition includes a fascinating chapter on the new hotel and some timely revisions bringing it fully up to date.'A marvellous piece of social, aesthetic and technological history... it is impossible to praise Bradley's book too highly' A. N. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Dan Cruickshank’s Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World

    Dan Cruickshank’s personal, passionate and learned journey into the very awe-inspiring architectural icons which have transformed culture, society, industry and landscapes throughout the world – bridges.Bridges define places. Imagine San Francisco without the Golden Gate Bridge, Manhattan without the Brooklyn Bridge, or Sydney without Sydney Harbour Bridge.Not only this, but they are spectacles of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Real Estate Law

    Fundamentals for The Development Process

    Unlike existing textbooks written for law students on specific subjects impacting real estate transactions, Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process uses "The Development Process" as a framework for understanding how the U.S. legal system regulates, facilitates, and generally impacts real estate transactions and their outcomes.This book not only addresses the nature of specific ... Read more

    $240.99 USD

  • Laboratory Design Guide

    by Brian Griffin ...
    Laboratory Design Guide 3rd edition is a complete guide to the complex process of laboratory design and construction. With practical advice and detailedexamples, it is an indispensable reference for anyone involved in building or renovating laboratories.In this working manual Brian Griffin explains how to meet the unique combination of requirements that laboratory design entails. Considerations ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

    by John King ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building.**Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World’s Fair postcards, nothing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica

    A History of Old Main

    Known as "Old Main," the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica opened in 1843 as the first institution of its kind to treat madness as a medical illness, not a curse. A series of groundbreaking administrators sought to save mentally ill New Yorkers from lives of confinement in sordid conditions and create a safe haven. A sense of normalcy was established for patients through Old Main's Asylum ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hotel on Place Vendome

    Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris

    Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous Hôtel Ritz—a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance—from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. 5When France fell to the Germans ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Master Builders of the Middle Ages

    by David Jacobs ...
    Today, the great cathedrals of Europe stand as beautiful, imposing monuments - the pride of parishioners and the wonder of tourists. It is difficult for us now, even with all our engineering and architectural skills, to imagine the extraordinary ways these medieval houses of worship were constructed. Midway through the twelfth century, the building of cathedrals became a crusade to erect awe ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walk On The Planet Earth

    Walk. Travel Magazine, #1

    Series Book 1 - Walk. Travel Magazine
    From Space our planet looks like a small blue ball. But for us it is huge and incomprehensible. We live on a beautiful planet,the Universe rewarded it with towering mountains, vast plains and deserts, deep oceans and seas, thick forests and jungles. For many hundreds of thousands of years the human influenced nature creations and continued bringing something new to the image of our planet. Now ... Read more

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  • Notre-Dame

    A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

    by Ken Follett ...
    **“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth was shaking.” —Ken Follett“[A] treasure of a book.” —The New Yorker**In this short, spellbinding book, ... Read more

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  • Kemp: Warriors in the Snow

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 6 - Arrows of Albion
    Isolated, frozen to the bone and with no way out… Kemp is backBurnt Candlemas. King Edward III invades Scotland in the dead of winter to punish the Scots for their recent attack on Berwick.When the fleet bringing supplies for his army is scattered by a storm, it seems God himself is punishing the English for the arson of a Scottish church. Wrongly blamed for the fire, archer Martin Kemp finds ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Plaza

    The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel

    by Julie Satow ...
    Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row.From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Rift in the Earth

    Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

    A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam MemorialA Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious “art war” that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial should be built to honor the men and women who died in the Vietnam War. The story intertwines art, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Louvre

    The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum

    by James Gardner ...
    The centuries-long history of the Louvre, from humble fortress to Royal palace to the world’s greatest art museum—with photos and building maps.Some ten million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of the site and buildings themselves—a fascinating story that historian James ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kemp: The Flames of Heresy

    by Jonathan Lunn ...
    Series Book 7 - Arrows of Albion
    Hero of the 100 Years War, Martin Kemp, is back… and this time he’s playing with fireThe Count of Targères has seized control of Cazoulat. Determined to stamp his authority on the district, he is playing divide and rule, convincing the townsfolk that only he can crush the heretics in their midst.Medieval archer Martin Kemp arrives on the Gascon frontier, where bands of brigands are pillaging ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grant's Tomb

    The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon

    The moving story of Ulysses S. Grant's final battle, and the definitive account of the national memorial honoring him as one of America's most enduring heroesThe final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious general in the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States, is a colossal neoclassical tomb located in the most dynamic city in the country. It is larger than the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Bioarquitectura

    En busca de un espacio

    Incluye audio del autor.Bioarquitectura indaga desde diversos ángulos los principios naturales de las edificaciones animales y humanas compilando, por primera vez, gran parte de los conocimientos que dan origen y conforman la arquitectura orgánica. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD