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Still None the Wiser: A Mid-Century Passage, 1952-1967
ISBN: 9781425971762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'Still None the Wiser' is the final instalment of a memoir sub-titled 'A Mid-Century Passage, 1932 - 1967.' Part travel, part biographical memoir, part history. It is as much a social and political record of the closing period of colonial West Africa as an account of the quirks and foibles of the British (and other) expatriates at the end of Empire. In 1954 the author aged 22, thwarted in love in London, joined an often eccentric group of expatriates who ran the oldest colonial Bank in West Africa. In Ghana and in Nigeria he experienced the passing of an era. Eric Robson the TV presenter...
'Still None the Wiser' is the final instalment of a memoir sub-titled 'A Mid-Century Passage, 1932 - 1967.' Part travel, part biographical memoir, par...
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102,91 zł |
Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream
ISBN: 9781586851842 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied conventional wisdom by hiring progressive architects to design Modernist homes for the growing middle class of the 1950s. He was known for his innovations, including "built-ins" for streamlined kitchen work, for introducing a multipurpose room adjacent to the kitchen, and for the classic atrium that melded the indoors with the outdoors. For nearly twenty years, Eichler Homes built thousands of dwellings in California, acquiring national and international acclaim. Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream examines Eichler's legacy as... Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied conventional wisdom by hiring progressive architects to design Modernist homes for the growing... |
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259,56 zł |