In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 0226036022, 9780226036021

In the Watches of the Night 9780226036038, 9780226036021, 0226036022, 2011027441

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of t

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In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 9780226036038

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of t

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Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life 9780822373643

In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical cent

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POLAR NIGHT Marine Ecology: Life and Light in the Dead of Night (Advances in Polar Ecology, 4) 3030332071, 9783030332075

Until recently, the prevailing view of marine life at high latitudes has been that organisms enter a general resting sta

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Art in the City, the City in Art 9819960428, 9789819960422

This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the need for rational-functional order and ar

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Art in the City, the City in Art 9819960428, 9789819960422

This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the need for rational-functional order and ar

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Rome Plague Diaries: Lockdown Life in the Eternal City 9781838953027

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The Legend of Safed : Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah 9780814341117, 9780814341100, 9780814346846

In 1908, Solomon Schechter-discoverer of the Cairo Geniza and one of the founders of the Jewish Theological Seminary of

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Secret Life of the City 3423409833, 1600324113

Come along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban species—from intelligent crows to backyard lichens—and discover th

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The Night of Knives

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