Bukhara - the eastern Dome of Islam: urban development, urban space, architecture and population

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Planetary Science. Please check back later for the full article.Space debris has grown to be a sig...

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments. T...

Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, ...

An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a l...

Buku ini merupakan koleksi kertas kerja yang dibentangkan dalam Konvensyen Pengurusan Islam 2000, diadakan pada 18-19 November 2000, anjuran Sekolah Pembangunan Sosial, Universiti ...

Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites ...

Covering all regions of Italy—from Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicily—and all periods of Italian architecture—from the first...

Here is a ready-reference guide for the nonspecialist with current information about developments in space technology as well as the present and future social, political, and techn...