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The Place Of The Mosque - Genealogies Of Space, Knowledge, And Power

by Akel Ismail Kahera

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 The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formationsâ€"spaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopoliticsâ€"while critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism to emphasize the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of place and space.
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On Dwelling - Poetry, Place, And Politics

by Dennis E. Skocz

95,40€ + 10% CARD

 On Dwelling explores the meaning of dwelling in places where we humans live and workâ€"from our homes to the very planet we co-inhabit. Crossing boundaries and disciplines, it lays the groundwork for addressing place-based issues like migration, ethnic division, resource use, and human-caused peril to the earth itself.
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American Camino - Walking As Spiritual Practice On The Appalachian Trail

by Kip Redick

113,29€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores the relationship between long-distance hikingâ€"in this case, hiking the Appalachian Trailâ€"and spiritual pilgrimage. Kip Redick interprets the Appalachian Trail as a site of spiritual journey and those who hike the wilderness trail as unique contemporary pilgrims.
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On Dwelling - Poetry, Place, And Politics

by Dennis E. Skocz

108,15€ + 10% CARD

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 On Dwelling explores the meaning of dwelling in places where we humans live and workâ€"from our homes to the very planet we co-inhabit. Crossing boundaries and disciplines, it lays the groundwork for addressing place-based issues like migration, ethnic division, resource use, and human-caused peril to the earth itself.
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American Camino - Walking As Spiritual Practice On The Appalachian Trail

by Kip Redick

128,43€ + 10% CARD

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 This book explores the relationship between long-distance hikingâ€"in this case, hiking the Appalachian Trailâ€"and spiritual pilgrimage. Kip Redick interprets the Appalachian Trail as a site of spiritual journey and those who hike the wilderness trail as unique contemporary pilgrims.
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Place Of The Mosque - Genealogies Of Space, Knowledge, And Power

by Akel Ismail Kahera

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formationsâ€"spaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopoliticsâ€"while critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism to emphasize the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of place and space.
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Toward A Directionalist Theory Of Space - On Going Nowhere

by H. Scott Hestevold

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 Arguing that the universe is absolutely directioned and that there exist spatial (directional) relations that Leibniz overlooked, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space, exploring its implications for the Special Composition Question, reductivism regarding boundaries and holes, and the nature of spacetime.
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Urbanizing Carescapes Of Hong Kong - Two Systems, One City

by Shu-Mei Huang

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 Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this book recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban governance.
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Toward A Directionalist Theory Of Space - On Going Nowhere

by H. Scott Hestevold

42,92€ + 10% CARD

 Arguing that the universe is absolutely directioned and that there exist spatial (directional) relations that Leibniz overlooked, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space, exploring its implications for the Special Composition Question, reductivism regarding boundaries and holes, and the nature of spacetime.
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Urbanizing Carescapes Of Hong Kong - Two Systems, One City

by Shu-Mei Huang

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this book recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban governance.
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Mapping And Charting In Early Modern England And France - Power, Patronage, And Production

by Christine Petto

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 This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London.
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Remembering Places - A Phenomenological Study Of The Relationship Between Memory And Place

by Janet Donohoe

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 This study provides insight into the human desire to return to important places of our past and to establish places of memory. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest as a jumping-off point to explore how we make and preserve memories.
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Remembering Places - A Phenomenological Study Of The Relationship Between Memory And Place

by Janet Donohoe

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 This study provides insight into the human desire to return to important places of our past and to establish places of memory. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest as a jumping-off point to explore how we make and preserve memories.
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Spoil Island - Reading The Makeshift Archipelago

by Charlie Hailey

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 Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention. Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valu...
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When France Was King Of Cartography - The Patronage And Production Of Maps In Early Modern France

by Christine Marie Petto

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 Geographical works, as socially constructed texts, provide a source for historians and historians of science investigating the social institution of patronage, and the governmental initiatives and support for the science. This work also shows how for two centuries (1594-1789), the Bourbon dynasty developed patron-client relations with mapmakers.
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Mysticism And Architecture - Wittgenstein And The Meanings Of The Palais Stonborough

by Roger Paden

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The Timespace Of Human Activity - On Performance, Society, And History As Indeterminate Teleological Events

by Theodore R. Schatzki

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 This book develops an original Heideggerian account of the timespace and indeterminacy of human activity while describing insights that this account provides into the nature of activity, society and history. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues that activity timespac...
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Spoil Island - Reading The Makeshift Archipelago

by Charlie Hailey

162,23€ + 10% CARD

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 Spoil islands are overlooked places combining dirt with paradise, waste-land with "brave new world," and wildness with human intervention. Mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates the potential value and contested re-valu...
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Reading The Islamic City - Discursive Practices And Legal Judgment

by Akel Ismail Kahera

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 While it seems clear that the shariâ€™ah had a formative influence on property rights, public space and land use, the primary aim of this book is to study what implications the practice of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city (madinah).
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Environmental Dilemmas - Ethical Decision Making

by Lynne Manzo e Robert Mugerauer

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 Environmental Dilemmas focuses on the ethical problems and dilemmas that emerge in place-based professional practices_architecture, landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and construction management. Mugerauer and Manzo connect decision-making to major ethical theories, principles, and rules, and professional codes of ethics.
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When France Was King Of Cartography - The Patronage And Production Of Maps In Early Modern France

by Christine Marie Petto

67,58€ + 10% CARD

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 Geographical works, as socially constructed texts, provide a source for historians and historians of science investigating the social institution of patronage. Over the course of nearly two centuries (1594-1789), in adopting and adapting maps as tools of statecraft, the Bourbon dynasty developed patron-client relations with mapmakers.
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Mysticism And Architecture - Wittgenstein And The Meanings Of The Palais Stonborough

by Roger Paden

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 A multi-disciplinary study of the house that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein built for his sister in Vienna between 1926-1928, this book weaves together ideas taken from a number of disciplines - sociology, political science, aesthetics, architecture, urban planning, and philosophy.
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Reading The Islamic City - Discursive Practices And Legal Judgment

by Akel Ismail Kahera

113,29€ + 10% CARD

 While it seems clear that the shariâ€™ah had a formative influence on property rights, public space and land use, the primary aim of this book is to study what implications the practice of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city (madinah).
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Timespace Of Human Activity - On Performance, Society, And History As Indeterminate Teleological Events

by Theodore R. Schatzki

53,65€ + 10% CARD

 This book develops an original Heideggerian account of the timespace and indeterminacy of human activity while describing insights that this account provides into the nature of activity, society and history. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues that activity timespac...
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