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Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015: from Colonial to Global
This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global – the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture. The book reveals hardships the city encountered in the 1950s and the glamour enjoyed in the 1980s. It depicts the public and private developments, and especially the public housing which has sheltered millions of residents. The author identifies t…
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- 978-981-10-1003-3
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- XXIX, 337
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- 700
Biogeographic Atlas Of the Southern Ocean
Famous lines from the diary of explorer Robert F. Scott, 17 January, 1912: “Great God! This is an awful place, and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority. Now for the run home, and a desperate struggle.” Scott and his companions would starve, freeze, and die ten weeks later in an Antarctic blizzard, disheartened by the knowledge that Roald Amundsen had …
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- 978-0-948277-28-3.
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- 910 BRO b
A History of Agriculture and Prices in England
Since early times, agriculture has been pivotal to England's economy. This is the sixth in a magisterial seven-volume, eight-piece compilation by the economist James E. Thorold Rogers (1823–90), which represents the most complete record of produce costs in England between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on a variety of sources including college archives and the Public Record …
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- 9781139094825
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- Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General
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What the Hands Reveal about the Brain
What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281720
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- 1 online resource.
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A History of Aerodynamics and its Impact on Flying Machines
From the Foreword:'John Anderson's book represents a milestone in aviation literature. For the first time aviation enthusiasts - both specialists and popular readers alike - possess an authoritative history of aerodynamic theory. Not only is this study authoritative, it is also highly readable and linked to the actual (and more familiar) story of how the airplane evolved. The book touches on al…
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- 9780511607158
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- Cambridge Aerospace Series
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A Theory of Regret
In A THEORY OF REGRET Brian Price takes up regret as a useful political emotion and, surprisingly, as a way to understand bureaucracy. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, and Heidegger, as well as examples from film, Price presents a philosophical reflection on the transformative qualities of regret insofar as it provides opportunities to re-evaluate our commitments and to recogniz…
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- 9780822369363
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- 176 halaman
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- 100 PRI t
What Is Cognitive Science?
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285629
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- 1 online resource (x, 466 pages) :illustrations
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Ostrannenie. on "Strangeness" and the Moving Image. the History, Reception, a…
Ostrannenie (‘making it strange’) has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. Coined by the ‘Russian Formalist’ Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, ostrannenie has come to resonate deeply in Film Studies, where it entered into dialogue with the Brechtia…
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- 9789089640796
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- 791.43 OEV o
Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spe…
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved--hundreds, and probably t…
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- 9780262313094
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy
Montaigne's Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle's Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable—brought down from the heavens to …
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- 9780810129658
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- 240 halaman
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- 100 HAR m
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