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Examines the architectural styles and designs of a variety of private homes built during the 1970s

Product Description: This is a book about identity and modernity. The first concerns the understanding of place and memory, the second the understanding of now - the now of the present and recent times. The circumstances of its recent political and cultural history, and its relative smallness, make Barcelona an excellent laboratory for examination, and its architecture the ideal medium...read more

Product Description: In recent years, historians have argued that commercial or strategic reasons lay behind the European settlement of New South Wales. This revisionist work reexamines the founding of Botany Bay and reaches quite a different conclusion: that severe penal pressures in Britain were the real impetus for the decision...read more

Poems from many different ages and places with related themes and styles