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  • Death in the Age of Climate Change: The Dome, The Stone, The Battery

    by Miles Orvell ...
    Professor Trevelyan, a distinguished academic approaching a mid-life crisis, is pulled out of his comfortable academic life and into a vortex of mysteries involving climate change. He teams up with the brilliant Philadelphia Detective Naomi Tanaka, whose Asian-American background and family history inspire her to work for justice. Together, they encounter a world of kidnapping, murder, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire of Ruins

    American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction

    by Miles Orvell ...
    Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles Orvell offers a new understanding of the spectacle of ruins in US culture, exploring how photographers, writers, painters, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Real Thing

    Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940

    by Miles Orvell ...
    In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation. Reacting against this genteel culture of imitation, a number of artists and intellectuals at the turn of the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Rethinking the American City

    An International Dialogue

    by Dolores Hayden ...
    Series series Architecture | Technology | Culture
    Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities.Rethinking the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Death and Life of Main Street

    Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community

    by Miles Orvell ...
    For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rethinking the American City

    An International Dialogue

    by Dolores Hayden ...
    Series series Architecture | Technology | Culture
    Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities.Rethinking the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    by David Joselit ...
    Series series POINT: Essays on Architecture
    Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Technology Matters

    Questions to Live With

    by David E. Nye ...
    Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Future City

    Edited by Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job van Eldijk ...
    This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles with over twenty million inhabitants. This book tackles the causes of these changes, and looks at ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

    by Ben Davis ...
    9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of "outsider" and street art to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself.Ben Davis currently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • András Szántó. The Future of the Museum

    28 Dialogues

    by Neil Holt ...
    Series Book 6 - Hatje Cantz Text
    As museums worldwide shuttered in 2020 because of the coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders. In a moment when economic, political, and cultural shifts are signaling the start of a new era, the directors speak candidly about the historical limitations and untapped potential of art museums. Each of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Architecture, Ethics and Globalization

    Edited by Graham Owen ...
    Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural academy in providing an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD