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Actions of Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 75.00Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of the Author', in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware... more...
Occupying Architecture
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 75.00Occupying Architecture focuses on the importance of the user of architecture. It emphasises the cross-currents between design, theory and use, and the need for a wider cross-cultural approach to architecture. Beginning with the architect, the book proceeds to explore models for architectural practice that actively engage the issue of use, and concludes... more...
Immaterial Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 65.95This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture. Architecture is generally perceived as the solid, physical matter that it unarguably creates, but what of the spaces it creates? This issue drives Hill's explorative look at the immaterial aspects of architecture.... more...
Nigeria Since Independence
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 88.00This book analyses the political and ethnical tensions that characterize Nigeria, which derive both from colonial and contemporary conflicts. It points out three major factors why Nigeria has not yet collapsed like many other African states: ethnic power sharing amongst the political elite, the military with its national outlook, and oil wealth. more...
History, Power, and Identity
University of Iowa Press 1996; US$ 22.00For the past five centuries, indigenous and African American communities throughout the Americas have sought to maintain and recreate enduring identities under conditions of radical change and discontinuity. The essays in this groundbreaking volume document this cultural activity—this ethnogenesis—within and against the broader contexts... more...
Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 98.00This uniquely authoritative, comprehensive, multidisciplinary survey reviews all aspects of conduct disorder - highlighting the complexity and probable heterogeneity of the condition, preventive and treatment approaches and outcomes, and developmental and gender-based variations. It is essential reading for mental health practitioners and others with... more...
Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 60.00"A major contribution to Amazonian anthropology, and possibly a direction changer." -J. Scott Raymond,University of Calgary A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia. Hornborg and Hill... more...
International Commercial Disputes
Hart Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 93.60This fourth edition considers how commercial disputes which have connections with more than one country are dealt with by the English courts. more...
Critical Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 60.95Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture... more...
The Official Ubuntu Book, Adobe Reader
Pearson Education 2008; US$ 31.99Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes community, support, and ease of use without compromising speed, power, or flexibility. It?s Linux for human beings?designed for everyone from computer novices to experts. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long Term Support), a.k.a., ?Hardy Heron,? is the latest release?more powerful, more flexible, and friendlier... more...









