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        On Arrows

        On Arrows

        On Arrows

        Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments

        by Laurent Stalder

        ISBN: 9780262548991

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 21, 2025

        A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance—and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.
        Memo for Nemo

        Memo for Nemo

        Memo for Nemo

        by William Firebrace

        ISBN: 9780262544085

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 4, 2022

        A cultural history of living in the undersea, both fictional and real, from Jules Verne's Captain Nemo to NASA's ECC02 project.
        A Landscape History of New England

        A Landscape History of New England

        A Landscape History of New England

        Edited by Blake Harrison and Richard W. Judd

        Afterword by John Elder

        ISBN: 9780262525275

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 13, 2013

        An examination of New England's diverse landscapes, and our varying perceptions of them, across two centuries of settlement, work, and recreation.
        Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

        Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

        Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

        Edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith

        ISBN: 9780262515627

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 29, 2010

        Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.
        Technology and the Making of the Netherlands

        Technology and the Making of the Netherlands

        Technology and the Making of the Netherlands

        The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890-1970

        Edited by Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen and Arie Rip

        ISBN: 9780262013628

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 15, 2010

        An account of the trajectory of modernization through technology in the Netherlands.
        The German Issue

        The German Issue, New Edition

        The German Issue

        Edited by Sylvère Lotringer

        Introduction by Sylvère Lotringer

        ISBN: 9781584350798

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 2, 2009

        A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.
        Inventing American History

        Inventing American History

        Inventing American History

        by William Hogeland

        With Deborah Chasman

        ISBN: 9780262012881

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 13, 2009

        A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest.
        Guy Debord and the Situationist International

        Guy Debord and the Situationist International

        Guy Debord and the Situationist International

        Texts and Documents

        Edited by Tom McDonough

        With Adam Lehner

        ISBN: 9780262633000

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 27, 2004

        Critical texts, translations, documents, and photographs on the work of the Situationist International.
        Health and Disease in Human History

        Health and Disease in Human History

        Health and Disease in Human History

        A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader

        Edited by Robert I. Rotberg

        ISBN: 9780262681223

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 10, 2000

        For more than thirty years, interdisciplinary historians have studied how groups and individuals in the past progressed despite food scarcities, nutritional deficiencies, exposure to virulent disease...
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