Against Urbanism (La Cecla Franco)(Paperback)

Against Urbanism (La Cecla Franco)(Paperback)

After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book Against Architecture, Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily

Le crepuscule de la France d'en haut (Guilluy Christophe)(Paperback / softback)

Against Heresies (Books I-III) (Lyons Irenaeus Of)(Paperback)

St. Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyon, France wrote Against Heresies in 180 AD. It is a collected work made up of 5 books, in which Irenaeus examines the many schools of Gnostic thought of his day, in addition to various heretical Christian sects. He contrasts these with the orthodoxy of Christianity

La mission divine de la France (De La Franquerie Marquis)(Paperback)

« Chaque Nation, comme chaque individu, a re u une mission qu'elle doit accomplir a dit Joseph de Maistre. Celle de la France est d'ex cuter les gestes de Dieu, « Gesta Dei per Francos .Et le grand Philosophe d'ajouter: « Le ch timent des Fran ais sort de toutes les r gles ordinaires et la

Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology (Falk Brian)(Paperback)

'Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology' is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important images, diagrams, and essays on the subject. It provides historical, practical, and theoretical insights into one of the most effective urban planning

La France et l'Europe centrale - Antoine Marés, Jiří Hnilica

Ce volume sur La France et l'Europe centrale. La construction des savoirs réciproques a travers l'enseignement envisage de reorienter un regard pour la plupart du temps centré sur l'Europe occidentale et les institutions européennes d'apres la Seconde Guerre mondiale en prenant en compte

Joan of Arc (Stanley Diane)(Paperback)

Against the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a

REVENGE (PLANTE LYNDA LA)(Paperback)

Dolly, Linda, Shirley and Bella are back, and this time it's a fight to the finish. Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands failed to pull off - at the cost of their lives. But through they may be in the money, they're far from

Cry, Mother Spain (Salvayre Lydie)(Paperback)

Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with a real spit). Montse lives in a small village,

A Short Introduction to Bicycle Urbanism - for people who don't give a fuck (Colville-Andersen Mikael)(Paperback)

People who do care about bicycle urbanism and city life will have read 'Copenhagenize - the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism' but let's face it: there are many people out there who haven't and never will. This book is for them. The sceptics, the nimbys, the whiners, the uninformed

Spanish Civil War (Thomas Hugh)(Paperback / softback)

What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? This title presents the objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake - and which was as much an

Strait Is the Gate (La Porte Etroite) (Gide Andre)(Paperback)

'Strait is the Gate', first published in 1909 in France as 'La Porte etroite', is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- Andr Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's

The Past Can't Heal Us (David Lea)(Pevná vazba)

Lea David goes against the well-embedded belief that 'proper' remembrance leads to a better appreciation of human rights values, helping us to understand how the human rights memorialization agenda developed globally and why it often ends up strengthening nationalist sentiment and shaping social

Under the Tuscan Sun: 20th-Anniversary Edition (Mayes Frances)(Paperback)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The iconic memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane--now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword 'This beautifully written memoir about taking chances,

Landscape Theory in Design (Herrington Susan)(Paperback)

Phenomenology, Materiality, Cybernetics, Palimpsest, Cyborgs, Landscape Urbanism, Typology, Semiotics, Deconstruction - the minefield of theoretical ideas that students must navigate today can be utterly confusing, and how do these theories translate to the design studio? Landscape Theory in

The Forgotten War Against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean (Glover Gareth)(Pevná vazba)

The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theater of the

Je t'aime a la Folie (Wright Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house, several manly power tools, a cat, a grand piano and a vintage aircraft. Yet the lovelier his life becomes, the lonelier he feels. Three unfulfilled wishes return to haunt

Seeking Savannah (Smith Peter Cookson)(Paperback)

An original means of examining American urbanism through a narrative of discussion and exploration between various fictional participants, that relate in the first instance to the visionary plan for Savannah, acclaimed for its interwoven urban values, and the wider debate on the urban challenges

Drawing for Architecture (Krier Leon)(Paperback)

Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.Architect L on Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or

Frances Mayes Always Italy (Mayes Frances)(Pevná vazba)

The world's favorite expert on la dolce vita (Under the Tuscan Sun author) guides readers through Italy's iconic regions, replete with lavish National Geographic images. This lush guide, featuring more than 350 glorious photographs from National Geographic, showcases the best Italy has to offer

La La La: A Story of Hope (DiCamillo Kate)(Paperback / softback)

Against the Odds (Baleanu Diana)(Paperback)

Revolt (Dupont-Monod Clara)(Pevná vazba)

The Kingdom of France, 1173. A remarkable queen rallies her sons against a tyrannical king - their

El Principito/ The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery Antoine De)(Paperback)

El Principito (en frances Le Petit Prince), publicado en 1943, es la novela mas famosa del aviador frances Antoine de Saint-Exupery, la cual escribio mientras se hospedaba en un hotel en Nueva York. En apariencia es un libro infantil; en el se tratan temas tan profundos como el sentido de la vida,