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Il lavoro è un excursus storico del concetto di spazio e del suo utilizzo da parte dell’uomo, nelle varie epoche che vanno dall’ epoca primitiva ai giorni nostri.

With romance, elegant parties, and dashing, uniformed gentlemen, this charming castle story is almost what one might expect. But add in dramatic police raids and rumors of bodies buried in the garden, and it becomes the very unique tale of Sam�s Castle. Built in 1908 as a haven for the earthquake-rattled...

Construction Management: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive textbook for budding construction managers. The range of coverage makes the book essential reading for students studying management courses in all construction related disciplines and ideal reading for those with non-cognate degrees...

A textbook on design economics for students of architecture, building and quantity surveying, it examines the links between design and the costs of building as well as more general economic issues and their significance for designers and builders.

This book describes all the principal methods of arranging letting building contracts for conservation work. It also covers contractor selection, the use of directly employed labour, and contractual considerations.

Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography...

After establishing the settlement of San Francisco, visionary mission president Fr. Junipero Serra journeyed south to found Mission San Juan Capistrano, Alta California�s seventh, on November 1, 1776. By order of King Carlos III of Spain, El Pueblo de la Reina de los �ngeles (the Town of Our Lady...

It's a journey through historical and social events that have shaped a county and made a significant impact locally, nationally and, in some instances, internationally. From the end of the last Ice Age to today's Royal Family; from the birth of modern agriculture to the safety and protection of the...

Wars do not fully end when the shooting stops. As G. Kurt Piehler reveals in this book, after every conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, Americans have argued about how and for what deeds and heroes wars should be remembered. Drawing on sources ranging from government documents...

Die Vereinigten Staaten werden als eine der vordersten Flüchtlingsorte, und kein anderer Ort symbolisiert das mehr als Ellis Island. Mehr als zwölf millionen Einwanderer--von fast jeder Nationalität und Rasse--sind auf dem Weg zu neuen Erfahrungen durch Ellis Islands Hallen und Toren eingetreten....

Situated at the end of a reef six miles offshore of Crescent City, California, stands St. George Reef Lighthouse. Constructed after the wreck of the coastal steamer Brother Jonathan in 1865, the beacon warned mariners of the dreaded "Dragon Rocks" of St. George Reef for nearly a century. This book...

Alla Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti a Firenze, curiosamente esclusa dai maggiori itinerari turistici nonostante costituisca uno dei rarissimi casi di Barocco fiorentino, Marco Pomella dedica un saggio documentato e appassionato, ricostruendone la genesi storica e l’evoluzione architettonica,...

Dal Pons Aemilius al Ponte Rotto, la storia del piu' antico ponte in muratura di Roma. La storia del pons Aemilius (oggi ponte Rotto) ricostruita attraverso un attento studio delle fonti, con particolare attenzione a quelle contemporanee agli eventi trattati, chiarisce finalmente alcune controverse interpretazioni sulla sua tormentata esistenza.

Bruno Leoni completa il percorso sui ponti romani dell’isola Tiberina, iniziato con la pubblicazione de IL PONTE EMILIO, con un saggio sui ponti Fabricio e Cestio, ovvero i Duos Pontes che uniscono l’isola alle sponde del Tevere. La descrizione storiografica è integrata dall’analisi...