The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil 081303289X, 9780813032894

Modern architecture in Brazil

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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture 9780691221533

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assem

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The Modernist Movement in Brazil: A Literary Study 9781477304518

“Ask an authority on Brazilian culture what he considers to be the most significant artistic event in Brazil during this

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Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil 9780822385639

A study of the foundation of Brazilian popular music and its effect on the formation of national identity and cultural e

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Popular cinema in Brazil, 1930–2001 9781526141729

This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into popular film in Brazil, situating major box-office succ

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The Rise of an American Architecture

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Sacred Modernity, The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture 3775756469, 9783775756464

Traditional Christian dogma meets 20th-century sensibilities in modernist church spaces across Europe Spurred on by the

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Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power 9780300165838

A knowledgeable appreciation of a complex, vital South American giant, destined to be one of the world’s premier economi

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The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction (Crime Files) 1403941084, 9781403941084, 9780230506282

Detective fiction's real origins lurk in the popular press of the early nineteenth century, where the detective and

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Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy 9781442698468

Pride in Modesty argues that ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and archite

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