Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage

A professional publication -- an university textbook is intended not only for university students of fields relevant to the protection and restoration of architectural heritage, bu...

The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on ‘cultural...

The end of the Civil War may have marked the end of the official fighting, but the Congressional strategy to remake the South during Reconstruction led to a new period of warfare–a...

Archives and the Cultural Heritage The edited volume Archives and the Cultural Heritage focuses on archives as institutions and to their tense relationship with archives as materi...

A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning. Much h...

In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption wo...

"Fundamentals of Image Processing" offers a comprehensive exploration of image processing's pivotal techniques, tools, and applications. Beginning with an overview, the book system...

This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, namely to analyze changes in Malian politics during the last two decades. It suggests that a detailed study of cultural...