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Migration and economic growth : a study of Great Britain and the Atlantic economy / by Thomas, Brinley, 1906-1994

Table of Contents: “…British settlement in the dominions -- 14. The atlantic economy: old and new.…”
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A Discourse concerning Trade, and that in particular of the East-Indies, wherein several weighty propositions are fully discussed, and the state of the East-India Company is faithf... by Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699

Table of Contents: “…To proceed, the Propositions intended to be handled, follow First, That the East-India Trade is the most Nati∣onal of all forreign Trades -- The Second Proposition, that the Clamours, Aspersions, and Objections made against the present East-India Company, are sinister, selfish, or groundless -- East-Indies, the Dominion of the Sea Depends much upon the wain or increase of that Trade, and consequently the Secu∣rity of the Liberty, Property and Protestant Religion of this Kingdom -- The Fourth Proposition, That the Trade of the East-Indies cannot be carried on to National Avantage, by a regulated Company, or in any other way then by a joynt Stock, which are proved by the following Arguments -- The Fifth Proposition, That the East-India Trade more profitable and necessary to the Kingdom of England than to any other Kingdom or Nation in Europe.…”
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Mies van der Rohe trabajando / by Carter, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Espacios urbanos: Introducción, Illinois Institute of Technology, un campus en plena ciudad, Lake Shore Drive Apartments 860/880, Lafayette Park, Seagram building, Home Federal Savings and Loan Association de Des Moines, Federal Center de Chicago, Toronto-Dominion Centre, Westmount Square, Nueva plaza y torre de oficinas para la City de Londres, Las plazas en detalle, Paisajismo, Espacios urbanos: resumen -- 5. …”

The future of architecture, since 1889 / by Cohen, Jean-Louis, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Architecture's expanded field -- Shed to rails: the dominion of steel -- The search for modern form -- Domestic innovation and tectonic expression -- American rediscovered, tall and wide -- The challenge of the metropolis -- New production, new aesthetic -- In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism -- The Great War and its side effects -- Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands -- Return to order in Paris -- Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism -- Architectural education in turmoil -- Architecture and revolution in Russia -- The architecture of social reform -- Internationalization, its networks and spectacles -- Futurism and rationalism in Fascist Italy -- The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms -- North American modernities -- Functionalism and machine aesthetics -- Modern languages conquer the world -- COlonial experiences and new nationalism -- Architecture of a total war -- Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance -- The fatal crisis of the modern movement and the alternatives -- Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted -- The shape of American hegemony -- Repression and diffusion of modernism -- Toward new utopias -- Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture -- After 1968: architecture for the city -- The postmodern season -- From regionalism to critical internationalism -- The neo-futurist optimism of high tech -- Architecture's outer boundaries -- Vanishing points.…”
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New directions in cognitive linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Berman and Bracha Nir ; Reference points and dominions in narratives : a discourse level exploration of the reference point model of anaphora / Sarah van Vliet ; The dream as blend in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive / Johanna Rubba ; "I was in that room!" …”