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Dam

de Trevor Turpin

33,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 As well as much-needed electricity, dams generate extremes of emotion. This book traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution onwards. It offers an account of their design, construction and function, which may appeal to general readers and those interested in environmental policy, history and civil engineering.
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Car

de Gregory Votolato

26,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A design history of the car, this book shows how and why the automobile has evolved into both an object of unparalleled desire and the problem child of the modern world. It examines many iconic vehicles, including the 'peoples cars' of the twentieth century such as the Model T Ford and the Volkswagen Beetle.
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Chair

de Anne Massey

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 A history of the origin, design and manufacture of the chair, as well as an explication of its place in our culture. Chair discusses and provides images of many iconic chairs, including the Eames Lounge chair, Verner Panton's S Chair, the Aeron office chair and Van Gogh's chair and also draws on design and art.
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Bathroom

de Barbara Penner

29,15€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Abundantly illustrated, Bathroom charts the evolution of the bathroom through history and across the globe. The book considers how and why the bathroom emerged and how it became an international symbol of key modern values - of cleanliness, order and progress.
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Computer

de Paul Atkinson

29,81€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The computer has in many respects become so common that it largely disappears from view. This book shows how changes in attitudes have been reflected in the physical design of the computer, and the ways in which the computer has been represented and promoted by manufacturers in advertising media.
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Theme Park

de Scott A. Lukas

29,15€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Theme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology and culture in surprising ways for more than a century. Taking primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point, this book offers an investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century.
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Ship

de Gregory Votolato

26,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A design history of the ship, the largest and most expensive moving object on the planet, and perhaps the most important mode of transportation ever invented. Ship explores the fiction and the reality of modern ships, the technology that creates them, and the events that can lead to disasters such as the Amoco Cadiz or Exxon Valdez.
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Railway

de George Revill

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 Examines the technological systems and nation building in railway history, as well as themes such as mobility and identity, design and marketing, and ecology, heritage and sustainability. This title focuses on how the railway carries meaning for all of us. It sees railways as central to our understanding modern everyday life.
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Nononsense: Globalization - Buying & Selling The World (4th Edition)

de Wayne Ellwood

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 Globalization has shrunk the world in the name of free trade and broken down many of the boundaries between peoples. But it has also been a powerful driver of inequality, over-consumption and corporate control.
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Bathroom

de Barbara Penner

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 Abundantly illustrated, Bathroom charts the evolution of the bathroom through history and across the globe. The book considers how and why the bathroom emerged and how it became an international symbol of key modern values - of cleanliness, order and progress.
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Silicon Valley Architecture Amp Inte

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Missing Mila, Finding Family - An International Adoption In The Shadow Of The Salvadoran Civil War

de Margaret E. Ward

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 While adding an engrossing new chapter to the story of the Salvadoran civil war and its long aftermath, Missing Mila, Finding Family deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters.
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Anthropology, Economics, And Choice

de Michael Chibnik

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 This book presents the first extended critique of rational choice theory from an anthropological perspective.
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The Laws Of Slavery In Texas - Historical Documents And Essays

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 A remarkable collection of original decrees, court cases, and other documents charting the legal history of African Americans in Texas, from Mexican rule through Confederate law.
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Freedom Is Not Enough - The War On Poverty And The Civil Rights Movement In Texas

de William S. Clayson

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 The first in-depth examination of Lyndon Johnsonâ€™s Office of Economic Opportunity and its role in the rise and fall of postwar liberalism in the Lone Star State.
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The Chosen Folks - Jews On The Frontiers Of Texas

de Bryan Edward Stone

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 A colorful, groundbreaking study of Jewish populations in Texas from late-sixteenth-century Spanish colonialism through the achievements of twentieth-century innovators.
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The State Library And Archives Of Texas - A History, 1835-1962

de David B., Ii Gracy

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 This look back at how the Texas state library has fulfilled its mission encourages policymakers and the public to value the library and archival service of government and give it the support it needs to be even more effective in the digital future.
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Broadcasting The Civil War In El Salvador - A Memoir Of Guerrilla Radio

de Carlos Henriquez Consalvi

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 A riveting account of the 1980s civil war in El Salvador from the rebelsâ€™ point of view, written by the man who directed the main news outlet for the guerrilla organization that challenged the Salvadoran government.
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Love And Politics In The Contemporary Spanish American Novel

de Anibal Gonzalez

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 The first book-length study of Spanish American literatureâ€™s new sentimental novel, from Isabel Allende to Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez.
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The Literatures Of The U.S.-Mexican War - Narrative, Time, And Identity

de Jaime Javier Rodriguez

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 A comparative examination of the literature produced in the wake of the U.S.-Mexican Warâ€"in both countries and in the borderlandsâ€"and the subsequent impact on the formation of lasting, diverse identities.
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Mexican Women And The Other Side Of Immigration - Engendering Transnational Ties

de Luz María Gordillo

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 A fascinating study of the transnational experiences of Mexicans who immigrated from San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Jalisco, to Detroit, Michigan.
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Reading Chican@ Like A Queer - The De-Mastery Of Desire

de Sandra K. Soto

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 The first full-length study to treat racialized sexuality as a necessary category of analysis for understanding any aspect of Mexican American culture.
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Defying Displacement - Grassroots Resistance And The Critique Of Development

de Anthony Oliver-Smith

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 The first book to document the resistance movements of people and communities threatened with involuntary displacement and resettlement by development projects around the world.
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Reinventing Practice In A Disenchanted World - Bourdieu And Urban Poverty In Oaxaca, Mexico

de Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar

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 A unique intergenerational ethnography about Oaxaca that uses Pierre Bourdieuâ€™s practice-theoretical approach.
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