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UNINA9910458187103321 |
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Smith Ryan E |
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Prefab architecture [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for architects and construction professionals / / Ryan E. Smith ; foreword by James Timberlake |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 |
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1-283-02510-8 |
9786613025104 |
0-470-88043-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (402 p.) |
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Buildings, Prefabricated |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Context : History of industrialized building -- History of industrialized architecture -- Environment, organization, technology -- Application : principles -- Fundamentals -- Elements -- Assembly -- Sustainability -- Case studies. Housing -- Commercial -- Conclusion. |
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""Prefab Architecture . . . is beyond theory, and beyond most of what we think we know about pods, containers, mods, and joints. This book is more than 'Prefabrication 101.' It is the Joy of Cooking writ large for the architecture and construction industries.""-From the Foreword by James Timberlake, FAIA The definitive reference on prefab architecture for architects and construction professionals Written for architects and related design and construction professionals, Prefab Architecture is a guide to off-site construction, presenting the opportunities and challenge |
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UNINA9910459389103321 |
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Sundquist Eric J |
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Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865 [[electronic resource] /] / Eric J. Sundquist |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2006 |
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1-282-91733-1 |
9786612917332 |
1-60473-614-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Slavery in literature |
African Americans in literature |
Indians in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Originally published as: The Cambridge history of American literature, volume 2, 1820-1865. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994-<2004>. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The land of promise -- Exploration and empire -- To muse on nations passed away -- The frontier and American Indians -- No more auction block for me -- The literature of slavery and African American culture. |
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The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those more recently acclaimed, such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, emerged amidst literature devoted to questions of nationalism, exploration, empire, the frontier, and slavery. This outpouring included some of the most important early works in African American, American Indian, and Chicana/Chicano literature. Empire |
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