The Countess von Rudolstadt - George Sand - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk The first translation in over one hundred years of The Countess von Rudolstadt brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. DKK 295.00 1
Heavenly Ambitions - Joan Johnson Freese - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate, and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate—just as no one nation's military dominates the world's oceans. DKK 240.00 1
Medici Gardens - Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation. DKK 573.00 1
Bibliography and the Book Trades - Hugh Amory - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk A collection of essays from one of the most renowned bibliographical scholars of our time. DKK 638.00 1
Miami - Jan Nijman - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Miami, so adept at stirring the imagination of strangers, has always lured visitors and migrants even if few ever ended up staying. Author Jan Nijman presents a careful and revealing dissection of one of the most intriguing cities of our age, one that offers a window into the global urban future. DKK 240.00 1
Unearthed - Karen M'closkey - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Unearthed examines how one of America's most significant landscape architecture firms approaches the redesign of public places to meet a range of ecological and social needs. With more than one hundred and fifty color and black-and-white images, this study uncovers the methods behind many canonical works of international landscape design. DKK 606.00 1
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd - D. H. Lawrence - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works, first published in 1914. DKK 177.00 1
Sonnets - George Henry Boker - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Three hundred and thirteen skillfully wrought and impassioned sonnets that place Boker as one of the foremost American poets DKK 760.00 1
Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art - - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk "The body of French garden literature ... is here carried to a new height and breadth in one seminal volume."-Choice DKK 640.00 1
Measuring Up - Vickie Rutledge Shields - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Explores the forms and channels of power used in one of the most insidious and overt means of mass influence in popular culture. DKK 240.00 1
Mall Maker - M. Jeffrey Hardwick - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk The enclosed shopping mall, now so ubiquitous, was invented by one man: Victor Gruen. Mall Maker is the first biography of this visionary spirit. DKK 240.00 1
Land and Lordship - Otto Brunner - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Originally published in 1939 and available here in English, Land and Lordship has been one of the most influential works of the twentieth-century medieval scholarship. DKK 732.00 1
Terminations - Henry James - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Long been considered one of the literary giants of his age, Henry James is an exquisite stylist who questioned the mores and stereotypes of the Gilded Age. DKK 209.00 1
La Foce - Morna Livingston - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany offers a rare look at the majestic, romantic, and personal aspects of one of the loveliest and most bewitching places on earth. DKK 555.00 1
Intimate Bicycle Tours of Philadelphia - Patricia Vance - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Ride through vibrant Philadelphia neighborhoods, past historic sites, public parks and squares, exceptional architecture, and one of the world's best collections of public art, all guided by Patricia Vance's engaging narrative. DKK 209.00 1
Convention Center Follies - Heywood T. Sanders - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Written by one of the nation's foremost urban development experts, Convention Center Follies exposes the inner workings of America's convention center boom through case studies of Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis. DKK 732.00 1
Trade, Land, Power - Daniel K. Richter - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. DKK 271.00 1
Trade, Land, Power - Daniel K. Richter - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. DKK 430.00 1
The Essential Durer - - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk The Essential Durer offers an accessible and up-to-date look at one of Germany's most famous artists. Essays explore his life as well as his art and its remarkable reception across Europe. DKK 271.00 1
German Students' War Letters - Philipp Witkop - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk "I can't describe my frame of mind that afternoon. Not for a moment did I feel any fear of death; one simply abandons oneself to fate."-Karl Aldag, killed at Fromelles, France, age 26 DKK 271.00 1
Gandhi's Body - Joseph S. Alter - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk "This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working... It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."-Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute DKK 574.00 1
Many Identities, One Nation - Liam Riordan - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Liam Riordan explores how the American Revolution politicized religious, racial, and ethnic identity among the diverse inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey from 1770 to 1830. DKK 278.00 1
A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry - Geoffroi De Charny - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry is an invaluable guide to fourteenth-century knighthood. DKK 230.00 1
Sensible Flesh - - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk "As histories of corporeal experience in the period become at one more specific and more focused, this signal collection will stand as a tribute to the general power of such a particular focus."-Studies in English Literature DKK 271.00 1
Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic - Peter Kafer - Bog - University of Pennsylvania Press - Plusbog.dk Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic illuminates the social and political influences on the nation's first professional novelist and reveals the surprising origins of one of American literature's most popular and enduring genres. DKK 506.00 1