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The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story by T. P. Wiseman 9780691180076
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.82A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the PalatineCaesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the... -
Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi by Chandra Mukerji
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically... -
Livy: The Composition of His History by Torrey James Luce 9780691610474
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Professor Luce considers to what extent Livy may be said to have been in control of his historical material. What is the significance, the author asks, of the units by which Livy structured his... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 10: June 1786 to December 1786 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045429
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £116.24The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 10: June 1786 to December 1786, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045429Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage... -
Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture by David Young Kim
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.54An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 12: August 1787 to March 1788 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045443
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £117.04Volumes 11 and 12 cover the period from January 1787 through March 1788 and deal with Jefferson's stay in France, as American Minister there. This is a rich period of personal correspondence and... -
Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire-and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman EmpireAccording to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his... -
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century by Kenneth S. Sacks 9780691600345
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.58Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus... -
Archimedes by Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis 9780691607771
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £74.35This classic study by the eminent Dutch historian of science E. J. Dijksterhuis (1892-1965) presents the work of the Greek mathematician and mechanical engineer to the modern reader. With meticulous... -
A Documentary History of Art, Volume 2: Michelangelo and the Mannerists, The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.30The theory and practice of art underwent a number of fascinating changes between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, changes which are clearly revealed in this unique collection of letters,... -
Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings by Alexander J. Hahn 9780691145204
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.05From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers on an eye-opening tour of the mathematics behind some of the world's most spectacular... -
Livy: The Composition of His History by Torrey James Luce 9780691656267
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £118.50Professor Luce considers to what extent Livy may be said to have been in control of his historical material. What is the significance, the author asks, of the units by which Livy structured his... -
Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett 9780691233949
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire-and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman EmpireAccording to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his... -
The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright 9780691146324
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.20He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of writings about architecture was as prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd Wright... -
Trade-Routes and Commerce of the Roman Empire by M.P. Charlesworth 9781316620052
Booksplease Price: £28.58First published in 1926, as the second edition of a 1924 original, this book provides an outline of Roman economic life during the first two centuries of the Empire. Each chapter focuses on a... -
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass 9780691169996
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.73This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the... -
How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort Marden Ftizpatrick Nichols 9780691249124
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.95An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as... -
The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger Scruton 9780691158334
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Architecture is distinguished from other art forms by its sense of function, its localized quality, its technique, its public and nonpersonal character, and its continuity with the decorative arts... -
Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire by H. P. L'Orange 9780691003054
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43In this study, originally published in Norway as Fra Principat Til Dominat, Professor L'Orange sets down the essence of his thought on the crucial period of transition from decentralization to... -
Fit: An Architect's Manifesto by Robert Geddes 9780691155753
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues... -
Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome by Cammy Brothers
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.80An illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient RomeGiuliano da Sangallo (1443-1516) was one of the first architects to draw the... -
Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire by Mary T. Boatwright
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £48.27Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138), a phenomenon that not only strengthened and legitimized Roman dominion over its possessions but also revealed... -
Rethinking Landscape: A Critical Reader by Ian H. Thompson 9780415424646
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Our landscapes have never failed to entice and capture the imagination of writers, painters and philosophers - and in turn their work has influenced our landscapes for centuries.This carefully... -
Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order by Alexander Tzonis 9780262700313
Booksplease Price: £36.87This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules,... -
Prometheus 2017 - Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco by Rebecca McGrew 9781606065440
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.14Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple... -
The Architectural Pattern Book: A Tool for Building Great Neighborhoods by Urban Design Associates 9780393731347
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £38.34From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing and using pattern books-a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius and Palladio, and the source of many... -
50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know Philip Wilkinson 9781529432206
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In a series of 50 accessible essays, Philip Wilkinson introduces architectural movements and styles throughout history, as well as describing some of the greatest architects' most important and... -
Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity by Rocco Sinisgalli 9781107025905
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Linear perspective is a science that represents objects in space upon a plane, projecting them from a point of view. This concept was known in classical antiquity. In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli... -
Architectural Theory: Volume II - An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 by Harry Francis Mallgrave 9781405102599
RRP: £115.95Booksplease Price: £108.59This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 until the end of the twentieth century. The... -
Architectural Theory, Volume 2: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 Harry Francis Mallgrave (Illinois Institute of Technology) 9781405102605
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.76This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 until the end of the twentieth century. The... -
Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western Design Theory by Mark Gelernter 9780719041297
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.23Sources of Architectural Form provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It focuses on design theory's central question: how does the... -
Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life by Kristina Milnor 9780199235728
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.03The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on `traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain... -
Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing by Marco Formisano
Booksplease Price: £32.12The relationship between theory and practice, in other words between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history and theory of... -
An Encyclopaedia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt 9781108070591
Booksplease Price: £70.71An architect like his father before him, Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863) is best remembered for his published work. His most celebrated achievement, reissued here in its first edition of 1842, was this... -
The Poetics of Performance Diagrams Andrej Mirčev 9781009446228
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.54This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural... -
Renewal Architects: The Transformation of Farsons Brewery Malta by Ian Ritchie 9781911397366
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.42The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugia’s visionary decision to conduct a European architectural competition has resulted in a stunningly beautiful... -
The Poetics of Performance Diagrams Andrej Mirčev 9781009517461
Booksplease Price: £56.13This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural... -
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome v. 50 by Vernon Hyde Minor 9781879549135
Booksplease Price: £48.08CONTENTSIntroductionArchitectural Theory and Practice: Vitruvian Principlesand "Full-scale Detail" Architectural DrawingsIngrid Edlund-Berry, University of Texas at Austin PapersFrom Vitruvian... -
Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity by Catherine Ingraham 9780300071191
Booksplease Price: £47.40In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture. She... -
Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design by Mark Foster Gage 9780393733495
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato * Aristotle * Vitruvius * Alberti * Kant * Burke * Fiedler *...