This title describes the desk and its use: surprising insights into cultural and gender-specific differences. The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material …
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"The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences.Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but also must always be studied and under…
"The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but also must always be studied and unde…
The desk is a place of work and of action, but it also serves as a place to exhibit personal things and preferences. Thus it always characterizes in two ways a material and symbolic unity. The desk is not only very informative in itself, but also must always be studied and under…
"Human space is an English translation of one of the most comprehensive studies of space as we experience it. Since it was published in Germany in 1963, Bollnow's text has become a key reading in architecture, anthropology, and philosophy, and has been kept continuously in print…
"When one thinks of inscriptions produced under the Roman Empire, public inscribed monuments are likely to come to mind. Hundreds of thousands of such inscriptions are known from across the breadth of the Roman Empire, preserved because they were created of durable material or w…
First Published in 1998.
Introduces culture from a geographical perspective; tracks the ideas, practices and objects that together form cultures, and how these cultures form identities for individuals and populations.
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from th…
"This book examines privacy in public space from both legal and regulatory perspectives. With on-going technological innovations such as mobile cameras, WiFi tracking, drones and augmented reality, aspects of citizens' lives are increasingly vulnerable to intrusion. The contribu…