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Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards "A smart and accessible cultural history."-Los Angeles TimesA portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who "might be the most influential design critic writing now" (LARB).Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of comm...

A portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who "might be the most influential design critic writing now" (LARB).Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan ...

A reexamination of overlooked Midwestern architectural styles

This cultural history looks at how the design of toys, clothes, furnishings and the stuff of the material world at school and home shape a child's development in terms of behaviour, values and health. Casts attention to the optimum environmental set-up for future child development. *Also appeared in August Buyer's Notes*

Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, is a handbook on how to write effectively and critically about the contemporary city. The book offers works by some of the best architecture critics of the twentieth century, including Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs to expl...

In der pädagogischen Arbeit steht die professionelle Beziehung zwischen Klient und Pädagoge am Anfang. Die Zusammenarbeit mit Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung gestaltet sich oftmals nicht einfach. Verfügt einer der Partner nicht über die notwendigen zwischenmenschlichen Kompetenzen zur Konfliktverarbeitung, lassen sich Spannungen schwer regulieren. Probleme im sozialen Umgang und in der Kommunikation, fehlende Flexibilität im Handeln, stereo...