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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $18.78
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Manufacturer: Taschen
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Philip Jodidio
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Publisher: Taschen
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2007-11-01
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Reading Level: 191
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Description: Construction fever in the Gulf The small emirates and states located on the Gulf, at the eastern edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, are building new cities in the desert at an astonishing rate, from Bahrain to Doha, and south to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Comprised of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, the UAE is an oil-and-gas-rich region that has experienced an unparalleled architectural boom in recent years. With a dizzying array of ultra-modern towers popping up throughout the area, it's no surprise that the Gulf region has attracted many of the world's most prominent architects, including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel, who are all designing groundbreaking projects for the ambitious Cultural District project on Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. With these and many more remarkable, large-scale projects recently built or in progress, the Gulf emirates are perhaps today's top architectural hotspot. Architects featured: AEDAS, Tadao Ando, Asymptote, Atkins, Behnisch Architects, Frank O. Gehry, Gensler, Zaha Hadid, HOK Sports, Kazuhiro Kojima, KPF, Greg Lynn, Jean Nouvel, OMA/Porsche Design, Oosterhuis NL, Carlos Ott, I.M. Pei, RNL, Hadi Simaan, SOM, Pei Zhu TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects--from the firmly established to the up-and-coming--with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation or region featured.
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $45.18
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Manufacturer: daab
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: daab
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Publisher: daab
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.95357
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Publication Date: 2006-08-30
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Reading Level: 236
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Description: Only a few decades ago, Dubai was merely a tranquil Bedouin city. Today, the skyline of a boomtown rises from the desert. Reports about it are distinguished by superlatives. In particular, reports regardign new buildings in this country of little shadow overshadow anything that has been constructed before. Burj Al Arab, currently the world's largest luxury hotel, with its also technically unique facade is just one example of these buildings. Palm Project or Hydropolis, both visionary, artificially created islands belong to the same category. As does the construction of the world's highest apartment tower. Dubai presents a kind of preview of the ultramodern - a trend that is also reflected in the design of various restaurants, hotels and label stores. Representing the most important gate to the Middle East, this city is primarily one thing: thoroghly international and with incredible power on its way to a new future. This is the theme of this book, with chosen objects and crucial information concerning them.
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Price: $69.95
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Sale: $53.96
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Andrea B. Rugh
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.2095357
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Publication Date: 2007-03-06
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: The book describes the impact of cultural perceptions on rulers’ behaviors in the United Arab Emirates, once the Trucial States. Despite differences in size, economic resources, and external political pressures, the seven emirates' rulers utilized very similar cultural expectations to gain the support of others. The author describes what has generally been only touched upon before--the significant but largely “invisible” roles women and marriage play in the political process of tribal societies. |
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $51.59
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Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Christopher M. Davidson
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Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 953.57
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Publication Date: 2005-01-31
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Reading Level: 333
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Description: The United Arab Emirates has remained a mainstay of stability in an increasingly volatile Middle East, managing to maintain a traditional polity despite the impact of rapid modernization and globalization. This in-depth study explores the many contradictions that characterize the UAE and its position within the international system. Davidson first provides a detailed historical background, tracing the recent history of the lower Gulf region, the British involvement in the area, and the establishment of the federation of emirates. He then turns his attention to the UAE's seemingly anachronistic political structure and its socioeconomic development. His astute analysis highlights the UAE's achievements, as well as the problems that have persistently undermined its development objectives.
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Manufacturer: Motivate Pub.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Gertrude Dyck
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Publisher: Motivate Pub.
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Publication Date: 1995-01
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Reading Level: 95
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.57
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Federal Research Division
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956
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Publication Date: 2004-06-17
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) in 1993 was a federation of seven separate amirates that had joined together in the winter of 1971-72 to form a single independent country. The new nation was created out of the British dependencies that had been known as the Trucial Coast states (also seen as Trucial Oman or Oman Coast) since 1853 when Britain and the local rulers signed the Treaty of Maritime Peace in Perpetuity, an agreement that ceded to London responsibility for foreign affairs. The individual amirates of the UAE include Abu Dhabi (also seen as Abu Zaby), Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Dubayy (also seen as Dubai), Ras al Khaymah, Sharjah (also seen as Ash Shariqah), and Umm al Qaywayn.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Interlink Publishing Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 915
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Publication Date: 2002-03
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Reading Level: 364
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Description: The UAE, composed of the seven states of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, have made the desert bloom-for the benefit of both citizen and tourist. Parks, golf courses, and racecourses stand in lush and verdant contrast to the desert sand, while gardens ablaze with tropical color enrich the wide, tree-lined roads and avenues of the Emirates' twenty-first century cities. Yet just outside civilization, the ancient sands of the Arabian Desert lure the visitor. With a detailed section on the economy, Spectrum Guide to the United Arab Emirates is the first comprehensive and visitor-friendly guide to this modern grouping of states. It is an essential companion for business travelers and tourists alike.
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $56.93
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Manufacturer: Explorer Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Julia Wheeler
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Publisher: Explorer Publishing
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Publication Date: 2005-12-01
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Reading Level: 156
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Description: BBC Gulf Correspondent Julia Wheeler was granted the unique privilege to talk to some of Dubai's founding citizens about how life once was in this mesmerising emirate. This collection of stories provides a rare insight into a city that has undergone one of the most dramatic metamorphoses in modern history. Paul Thuysbaert's intuitive and imaginative portraits transport these stories into the present and give Dubai a compelling face.
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Manufacturer: Motivate Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Noor Ali Rashid
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Publisher: Motivate Publishing
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Publication Date: 1997-07-15
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Reading Level: 144
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Sale: $100.00
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Manufacturer: Stacey International Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William Facey::Gillian Grant
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Publisher: Stacey International Publishers
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Publication Date: 1996-01
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Reading Level: 128
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