Soviet Cities: Labour, Life & Leisure (Kotov Arseniy)(Pevná vazba)

Soviet Cities: Labour, Life & Leisure (Kotov Arseniy)(Pevná vazba)

The Soviet dream of modernist architecture for all, portrayed on the brink of its erasureIn recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed

Soviet Seasons: Photographs by Arseniy Kotov (Murray Damon)(Pevná vazba)

The post-Soviet republics seen over four different seasons, by acclaimed Russian photographer, Instagram sensation and Soviet Cities author Arseniy KotovIn Soviet Seasons, Arseniy Kotov reveals unfamiliar aspects of the post-Soviet terrain in sublime photographs. From snow-blanketed Siberia in

Soviet Visuals (Bortsova Varia)(Pevná vazba)

A bizarrely funny, nostalgic collection of images of life under the Soviet Union - from the Instagram and Twitter accounts that have amassed a following of more than 1 million. Welcome to the USSR. Marvel at the wonders of the space race Delight in the many fine delicacies of food and drink Revel

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History (Woolf Greg)(Pevná vazba)

Soviet Metro Stations (Herwig Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro'For us,' said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, 'there was something supernatural about the Metro.' Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and

Mapping Towns & Cities (Duhig Holly)(Pevná vazba)

Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe (Blossfeld H.)(Pevná vazba)

Soviet Space Dogs (Murray Damon)(Pevná vazba)

This book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space program. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the program's criteria: weighing no more than 15 pounds, measuring no more than 14 inches in length,

A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Sports Charity and Gendered Labour (Palmer Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Sports Charity and Gendered Labour provides examples for teaching and knowledge sharing across analyses of gender, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing in ways that will have broad relevance to a range of

The Three Secret Cities, 5 (Reilly Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums (Omidi Maryam)(Pevná vazba)

Architecturally diverse and ideologically staunch, Soviet sanatoriums were intended to edify and invigorateVisiting a Soviet sanatorium is like stepping back in time. Originally built in the 1920s, they afforded workers a place to holiday, courtesy of a state-funded voucher system. At their peak

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India (Breman Jan)(Pevná vazba)

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the

Coolie's Great War - Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921 (Singha Radhika)(Pevná vazba)

Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (Praznik Katja)(Pevná vazba)

Baikonur: Vestiges of the Soviet Space Program (Jonk)(Pevná vazba)

'The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but who wants to spend his life in a cradle?' Konstantin Tsiolkovsky The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was created by the Soviets in the 1950s. It was from Baikonur in 1988 that the first Soviet spaceplane, Buran, was launched, in response to the United

Soviet Bus Stops (Murray Damon)(Pevná vazba)

Photographer Christopher Herwig first noticed the unusual architecture of Soviet-era bus stops during a 2002 long-distance bike ride from London to St. Petersburg. Challenging himself to take one good photograph every hour, Herwig began to notice surprisingly designed bus stops on otherwise

Soviet Asia: Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia (Murray Damon)(Pevná vazba)

Brutalism East: majestic concrete meets ornament and color in the revelatory world of Soviet Asian architecture Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan,

Future Cities: A Visual Guide (Dunn Nick)(Pevná vazba)

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (Chen Joseph S.)(Pevná vazba)

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review volume, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and merging trends essential to theory advancement as

Cooling Energy Solutions for Buildings and Cities (Santamouris Mat)(Pevná vazba)

Coral Reefs - Cities Under the Sea (Murphy Richard C)(Pevná vazba)

Leisure Lifestyles: Organizing Everyday Life for Fun and Fulfillment (Stebbins Robert A.)(Pevná vazba)

Acknowledging that the challenge facing social science is how to inject some order into the common-sense notion of leisure lifestyles, this book, written by a major player in the field of leisure, considers how to turn the study of both serious and casual leisure into a useful concept for guiding

Soviet Bus Stops: Volume II (Herwig Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

On the heels of his bestselling Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig locates fresh wonders of the Soviet vernacular in Georgia, Ukraine and Russia itselfAfter the popular and critical success of his first book, Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig has returned to the