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Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.

This study focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montreal's urban form: its fortifications, the ownership, distribution, and use of property within its walls, and the nature of its buildings.

An exploration of the role that special interest groups play in modern democratic politics.

In a clear and direct account, supplemented by photographs, Mostafavi and Leatherbarrow examine buildings and other projects to show that continual refinishing of a building by natural forces is a continuation of the building process rather than a force antagonistic to it. Original paperback.

On the Museum's Ruins" presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived, not only the practices of artists -- Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy ...

Although highly regarded during his short life--and honored by artists and architects today--the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, phot...

Drawing on both the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer, and more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production.

How the transformation of wireless technology and the creation of an interconnected world are changing both the environment and people's lives.

A new look at the man who gave us ideas "the medium is the message" and "global village".

Artist of the Century. These eleven illustrated essays explore the structure and meaning of Duchamp's work as part of an ongoing critical enterprise that has just begun.

This unusual map reading book brings the history of one of America's oldest cities alive through maps that have depicted its growth over the decades. 237 illustrations.

The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motors's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation.

Environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies.

Index Architecture" is a cross-referened "index" of writings, interivews, and images representative of current architectural discourse.

An introduction to the work and ideas of artists who use--and even influence--science and technology.

An engagingly readable introduction to the budding new field of Earth physiology, "Gaia's Body" blends real science with evocative imagery in describing the biosphere. The book explores how every important chemical in the atmosphere is regulated by living processes, and examines long-term trends in Earth's evolution and humanity's role in Gaia's past and present.

An examination of theoretical development economics that points the way to further empirical work.

Illustrated critical essays on the work of artist James Coleman.

An examination of the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan.

Understanding and overcoming the gender gap in computer science education.