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  • The Nature of Gothic: A Chapter From The Stones of Venice by Ruskin, John
    John Ruskin

    The Nature of Gothic: A Chapter From The Stones of Venice

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Planet B: Ideas for a New World by Bieber, Alain
    Alain Bieber

    Planet B: Ideas for a New World

    What will the world of tomorrow be like? What will we wear? What will we eat? What will we be fighting for? This publication offers an eclectic mix of ideas for a new world--a Planet B--from artists, designers, architects, writers and scientists.Author: Alain BieberISBN-10:...
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  • Building Urban Nature by de Zwarte, Niels
    Niels de Zwarte

    Building Urban Nature

    Extant architectural projects offer the key to living in harmony with urban flora and faunaThe follow-up to Making Urban Nature, Building Urban Nature is a plea for nature-inclusive, bioreceptive architecture that inspires designers to give nature a place in their work. Linking ecological theory...
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  • Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community by Sykes, A. Krista
    A. Krista Sykes

    Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community

    The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920-2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his...
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  • Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana by Hanusik, Virginia
    Virginia Hanusik

    Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana

    In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water--and the history of controlling it--is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during...
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  • An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict by Monk, Daniel Bertrand
    Daniel Bertrand Monk

    An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict

    In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "sacred" architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era-the period in the first...
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  • Images of the Body in Architecture: Anthropology and Built Space by Wagner, Kirsten
    Kirsten Wagner

    Images of the Body in Architecture: Anthropology and Built Space

    The human body has a fundamental impact on the organization and interpretation of the world, and the built environment has accordingly been conceptualized in terms of the human body since ancient times, in theory and in practice. From Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man to...
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  • Regency House Styles by Yorke, Trevor
    Trevor Yorke

    Regency House Styles

    The word 'Regency' has long been associated with elegance conjuring up visions of fashionably dressed ladies and gentlemen promenading along streets lined with refined terrace houses and villas. Although strictly covering the decade from 1811 when King George III fell ill until his death...
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  • Stained Glass GrayScale Coloring Book for Adults Relaxation: New Way to Color with Grayscale Coloring Book by Stained Glass Coloring Book
    Stained Glass Coloring Book

    Stained Glass GrayScale Coloring Book for Adults Relaxation: New Way to Color with Grayscale Coloring Book

    2017 AMAZON BEST SELLER Christian Stained Glass, Coloring Book for Adults Relaxation New way to color with Grayscale Coloring book One Image Per Page Each image is printed on black-backed pages to prevent bleed-through. Display Your Artwork You can display your artwork with a...
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  • Houses of the National Trust by Greeves, Lydia
    Lydia Greeves

    Houses of the National Trust

    The houses covered here include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House and Waddesdon Manor, and more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs and estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. The book also covers buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes,...
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  • Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice by Cesal, Eric J.
    Eric J. Cesal

    Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice

    A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy...
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  • Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario: Symbols of Aspiration by Tausky, Nancy Z.
    Nancy Z. Tausky

    Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario: Symbols of Aspiration

    In an era of steel and glass towers, the graceful and distinctive structures of Victorian Ontario which survive are a pleasing and a valuable link with the past. Some of the finest examples of these buildings can still be found in London, Ontario, and...
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  • She City: Designing Out Women's Inequity in Cities by Kalms, Nicole
    Nicole Kalms

    She City: Designing Out Women's Inequity in Cities

    Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to women's public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies...
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  • Future Home: Trends, Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design by Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro
    Alejandro Moreno-Rangel

    Future Home: Trends, Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design

    Global pandemics, smart technologies, demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home's evolution over the next ten years. Future Home provides a comprehensive 'horizon scan' of what our homes may be like approximately ten years from...
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  • The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful--and Their Architects--Shape the World by Sudjic, Deyan
    Deyan Sudjic

    The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful--And Their Architects--Shape the World

    Author: Deyan SudjicISBN-10: 014303801XISBN-13: 9780143038016Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2006Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.56w x 0.95dReview Citation(s): New York Times 01/07/2007 pg. 28
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  • AA Files 79 by Shéhérazade Giudici, Maria
    Maria Sh馼駻azade Giudici

    AA Files 79

    AA Files is the Architectural Association's (AA) journal of record. Launched in 1981 by the AA's then chairman Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out to members of the Architectural Association and individual subscribers, and is distributed to a...
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  • Verb Conditioning by Ferré, Albert
    Albert Ferré

    Verb Conditioning

    The fourth issue of Verb looks at two related processes: the conditioning of architectural environments and the conditioning of behaviors. On the one hand, studies of luminosity, sound, atmosphere and temperature expand the range of techniques available to the discipline, allowing the production of...
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  • The Intellectual Versus The City: From Thomas Jefferson To Frank Lloyd Wright by White, Morton Gabriel
    Morton Gabriel White

    The Intellectual Versus The City: From Thomas Jefferson To Frank Lloyd Wright

    The Intellectual Versus The City: From Thomas Jefferson To Frank Lloyd Wright is a book written by Morton Gabriel White. The book explores the tension between the intellectual and the city, tracing the history of this conflict from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright....
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  • Architecture Against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International by Martin, Reinhold
    Reinhold Martin

    Architecture Against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International

    Examining architecture's foundational role in the repression of democracy Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman bring together essays from an array of scholars exploring the troubled relationship between architecture and antidemocratic politics. Comprising detailed case studies throughout the world spanning from the early nineteenth century...
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  • London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946-1981 by Murray, Damon
    Fuel

    London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946-1981

    The most comprehensive photographic document of the once-utopian London council estate buildingsThe UK's landmark Housing Act of 1919 catalyzed the rapid development of state-owned public housing in planned council estates. Construction of these estates has largely ceased since the Thatcherist austerity policies of the...
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  • Eccentric Spaces by Harbison, Robert
    Robert Harbison

    Eccentric Spaces

    The subject is the human imagination--and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in: gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the...
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  • Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture by Brittain-Catlin, Timothy J.
    Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin

    Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

    Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists.The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the...
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  • Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture by Goldberger, Paul
    Paul Goldberger

    Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture

    PAUL GOLDBERGERON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTUREThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger's tenure at The New Yorker has documented a captivating...
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  • For the love of? by Sofia, Mistress
    Mistress Sofia

    For the love of?

    Author biography: Sherry would be the first to admit she had a wonderfully happy childhood. However, her adult life was not particularly happy. She would say she made bad choices in life. Until the age of sixty. She was left by her husband, penniless...
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  • Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings by Bugatti, Emiliano
    Emiliano Bugatti

    Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings

    Featuring exquisite photographs of every structure the architect designed from scratch or incorporated into a historical building, this elegant volume is as sumptuous and inviting as a Scarpa interior. Although he was not widely known during his lifetime, Carlo Scarpa has in the past-half...
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  • Precision in Architecture: Certainty, Ambiguity and Deviation by McVicar, Mhairi
    Mhairi McVicar

    Precision in Architecture: Certainty, Ambiguity and Deviation

    This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA. In...
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  • Architectural Drawing by Edminster, Clothier Franklin
    Clothier Franklin Edminster

    Architectural Drawing

    Learn the art of architectural drawing from one of the most respected educators in the field. Clothier Franklin Edminster provides detailed step-by-step instructions on a variety of drawing techniques, from perspective and shading to rendering and presentation. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced...
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  • La+ Botanics by M'Closkey, Karen
    Karen M'Closkey

    LA+ Botanics

    LA+ BOTANIC explores our evolving relationship with plants with contributions that reflect on the many natures and relations that are being materialized in plant conservation, botanic gardens, and botanic art today. A wide range of topics is covered, including plant conservation efforts and the...
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  • Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
    Le Corbusier

    Toward an Architecture

    Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to...
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  • The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe by Bergevoet, Tom
    Tom Bergevoet

    The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe

    How to turn cities into climate-adaptive environments and create circular production processesAll over Europe, cities struggle with an accumulation of environmental crises, including global warming, the depletion of natural resources and pollution. This book presents a toolbox by which circularity and climate adaptation can...
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  • Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of Transparent Microcosms by Ayers, Natalya
    Natalya Ayers

    Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of Transparent Microcosms

    Reconsidering the harmful consequences of the omnipresent greenhouseShifting away from the celebration of greenhouses, Greenhouse Stories is an invitation to critically look at the buildings as controversial production tools. Reexamining them from a social, historical and environmental perspective, the essays and interviews featured in...
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  • Adolf Loos: Meaning, Context, Reception: Essays by Long, Christopher
    Christopher Long

    Adolf Loos: Meaning, Context, Reception: Essays

    Christopher Long's latest volume of essays on the prestigious 19th-century architect, essayist and progenitor of modernismArchitectural historian and leading voice on Adolf Loos, Christopher Long returns with another commentary on the Austrian pioneer of modern architecture. Adolf Loos (1870-1933), an opponent of ornamentation on...
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  • Stones in Water: Essays on Inheritance in the Built Environment by Kealy, Loughlin
    Loughlin Kealy

    Stones in Water: Essays on Inheritance in the Built Environment

    An exploration of how we value--or undervalue--our inherited built environment as it faces new and old challenges. Stones in Water explores how we understand and value our inherited built environment That inheritance, created over centuries by our forebears, is central to cultural identity. Because...
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  • British Architecture 1760-1914: Volume II: 1830-1914 by Tyack, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Tyack

    British Architecture 1760-1914: Volume II: 1830-1914

    This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1830-1914. The collection contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings. This title will be of great interest to students...
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  • Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present by Deamer, Peggy
    Peggy Deamer

    Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present

    Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will...
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  • Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side by Bey, Lee
    Lee Bey

    Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side

    Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and gallery-quality color photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, Southern Exposure documents the remarkable...
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  • Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture by Ballantyne, Andrew
    Andrew Ballantyne

    Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture

    Architecture Theory is a comprehensive and groundbreaking one volume overview of, and introduction to, contemporary critical discourse in architecture. In bringing critical theory and Continental philosophy to bear upon architecture, it provides a solid framework for a fully up-to-date theory of architecture, one that...
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  • Adaptive Reuse in Latin America: Cultural Identity, Values and Memory by Bernardi, José
    José Bernardi

    Adaptive Reuse in Latin America: Cultural Identity, Values and Memory

    This book explores the theoretical & architectural connections.Author: José BernardiISBN-10: 1032344512ISBN-13: 9781032344515Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2023Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
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  • Buildings of Pittsburgh by Toker, Franklin
    Franklin Toker

    Buildings of Pittsburgh

    At the forefront of national and international change, Pittsburgh has long been portrayed as a place for innovative architecture. From its origins as a fort built in 1753 at the urging of a twenty-one-year-old George Washington, through its industrial boom, and into contemporary times,...
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  • Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories by Demissie, Fassil
    Fassil Demissie

    Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories

    Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts...
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  • Where Must Design Go Next? by Fuller, Jarrett
    Jarrett Fuller

    Where Must Design Go Next?

    Over the last 85 years, the Institute of Design's pioneering approach has brought about three distinct design eras--experimentation, systems design, and human-centered design--and each of these eras build on the strengths of previous ones. The history of ID, then, is synonymous with the history...
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  • The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages by Brandon, Raphael
    Raphael Brandon

    The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages

    Originally published in 1849, this is a detailed study of roof structures, including aesthetic details of churches of the Middle Ages in England. The illustrations are highly detailed drawings of open timber roofs, with measurements, enlarged decorative details, etc. of tie-beam, trussed rafter, hammer...
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  • Oscar Peterson - Jazz Piano Solos by Peterson, Oscar
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Peterson - Jazz Piano Solos

    (Artist Transcriptions). Includes 8 Peterson classics for jazz piano: The Continental * Gravy Waltz * Hallelujah Time * Hymn to Freedom * Roundalay * Blues for Smedley * The Smudge * The Strut.Author: Oscar PetersonISBN-10: 0634099841ISBN-13: 9780634099847Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2005Pages: 56Format:...
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  • 100 Buildings, 100 Years: Celebrating British Architecture by Dyckhoff, Tom
    Tom Dyckhoff

    100 Buildings, 100 Years: Celebrating British Architecture

    The Twentieth Century Society protects outstanding architecture and design dating from 1914 onwards, so in 2014 it is marking 100 years of buildings under its protection. Originally founded as the Thirties Society in 1979, its first major case was the fabulous Art Deco Firestone...
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  • Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage by Carughi, Ugo
    Ugo Carughi

    Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage

    Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with a brief history of national...
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  • Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World by Hopkins, Owen
    Owen Hopkins

    Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World

    Architects are facing a crisis of agency. For decades, they have seen their traditional role diminish in scope as more and more of their responsibilities have been taken over by other disciplines within the building construction industry. Once upon a time, we might have...
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  • City Science: Performance Follows Form by Burke, Jeremy
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    City Science: Performance Follows Form

    This book showcases cutting-edge research on city form revealing that urban design features--such as topology, morphology, entropy and scale--have massive implications to the quality of life for a city's residents. The Aretian team, a spin off company from the Harvard Innovation Lab, has developed...
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  • Atrium by Rice, Charles
    Charles Rice

    Atrium

    Author: Charles RiceISBN-10: 0262048337ISBN-13: 9780262048330Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2023Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.10h x 7.20w x 0.90d
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  • Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture by Søberg, Martin
    Martin Serg

    Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture

    Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which...
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  • Dialectic VIII: Subverting - Unmaking Architecture by Abrahamson, Michael
    Michael Abrahamson

    Dialectic VIII: Subverting - Unmaking Architecture

    The VIII issue of Dialectic asks the reader to imagine possible ways to subvert architecture. Or to employ architecture as means of subversion. In this issue 7 articles from international authors and 2 guiding editorials invite the reader to reflect upon the various ways,...
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