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Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field. A Richer Heritage will be an essential, thought-provoking guide for professionals as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876295731Author Swanke Hayden Connell ArchitectsFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint R.S. Means Company LtdPublisher R.S. Means Company LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578441634Author Berna HeymanFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Covered Bridge BooksPublisher Covered Bridge BooksWeight(grams) 916g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071589871Author J Kirk IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint McGraw-Hill Professional PublishingPublisher McGraw-Hill Professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980230055Author Rebecca KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Bridge Art, NfpPublisher Bridge Art, NfpWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980230062Author Therese QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Stepsister Press, LLCPublisher Stepsister Press, LLCWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615988597Author Lydia K AtubehFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Ke'n L'Chaim LLCPublisher Ke'n L'Chaim LLCWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982532997Author William FairhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Toolemera PressPublisher Toolemera PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814998741Author Sayed HemedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088005866Author Megan R McLaughlinFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Plusurbia LLCPublisher Plusurbia LLCWeight(grams) 1152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788479481681Author Santiago Sunol I MolinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ediciones La TempestadPublisher Ediciones La TempestadWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218184926Author Marc LeepsonFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Huntland PressPublisher Huntland Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737973317Author Barry J Schweiger AiaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Barry SchweigerPublisher Barry SchweigerWeight(grams) 1084g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648431180Author Kenneth HafertepeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899694075Author Monica RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower PressWeight(grams) 413g

In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876297421Author RSMeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint R.S. Means Company LtdPublisher R.S. Means Company LtdWeight(grams) 934gDimensions(mm) 277mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781471714900Author Marghanita Da CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 122g

This book discusses heritage stones which were used in the making of the architectonic heritage of Delhi and Agra, encompassing UNESCO world heritage sites and heritage sites designated as prominent by the Indian government. The most famous monument of...

"The absence heretofore of a comparably thoroughgoing but accessible resource on a topic of such urgent public concern was a glaring lapse that makes this deeply researched, lucidly written, and helpfully annotated book an invaluable addition to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692867402Author David L FinniganFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint G. S. BrenacPublisher G. S. BrenacWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

The United States' East Coast is rich in maritime history, including a wide array of beautiful lighthouses that mark areas laden with dangerous shoals, shallow points, and rocky bluffs. They mark points of particular concern for mariners traveling the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993996375Author Barbara a FansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Sterling Education Centre Inc.Publisher Sterling Education Centre Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515573Author Roger G. KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

This book helps to recover a usable past. In ""Creating Colonial Williamsburg"", Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997164626Author Mary L KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Girandole BooksPublisher Girandole BooksWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615532752Author Caroline CheongFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Heritage Strategies InternationalPublisher Heritage Strategies...

Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. Most municipalities in the United States, and nearly all countries around the world, have laws and policies to preserve heritage in situ, seeking to protect places from physical loss...

The preservation enterprise helps fashion the physical contours of memory in public space, and thus has the power to curate a multidimensional and inclusive representation of societal values and narratives. Increasingly, the field of preservation is...

This substantially enlarged and expanded second edition of New Solutions for House Museums: Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of America’s Historic Houses provides advice for historic site stewards that have concerns about the financial sustainability...

Created in 1933, the Historic American Buildings Society (HABS) federal programme established the first systematic identification and documentation of historic buildings throughout the US. This is a complete history of HABS in New Mexico, an on-going...

Created in 1933, the Historic American Buildings Society (HABS) federal programme established the first systematic identification and documentation of historic buildings throughout the US. This is a complete history of HABS in New Mexico, an on-going...

The mystery that attracts Howard Mansfield's attention is that some houses have life-are home, are dwellings, and others aren't. Dwelling, he says, is an old-fashioned word that we've misplaced. When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong to...

Lighthouses are increasingly endangered by modernization and abandonment. Simple steel skeletons are replacing the picturesque, conical towers, squat screwpiles and Cape Cod styles so much a part of America's maritime history. This traveler's guide to...

The Baltic-Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of Tallinn in 1944,...

The Baltic-Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of...

This is a companion volume to "Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adode Project", and it offers guidance for planners, architects and engineers in the retrofitting of historic and culturally...

A description of the design, experimental procedures and results of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project, which set out to identify and evaluate methods for the seismic protection of historical and culturally significant Adobe structures. The book identifies...

Tour historic homes and other buildings that have been altered to accommodate 21st century lifestyles. Through 338 color images, learn how renovating or refashioning an older building increases the financial return on the initial investment, preserves...

In recent years, over one thousand tobacco sheds have disappeared from the "Tobacco Valley." This important book systematically catalogues tobacco sheds from Putney, Vermont, to Portland, Connecticut, a span of just over one hundred miles. The...