Hassan Fathy

Hassan FathyThis fully illustrated volume represents the most comprehensive examination yet of the life and work of the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (190089), and the regional and international significance of his contribution to the lived environment. Eleven Egyptian and international scholars reveal the man, his milieu, his goals and his passions, his concept of social living and his fight for a humane model for affordable housing in tune with the

famine-reserve crop to a high-yielding cash crop for both rural and urban consumers in Africa

and by integrating little-known Communist Party documents with British diplomatic records

covering both public and private theatres

Conservation Agriculture is a real sustainable agricultural system

on so many topics

A delightfully illustrated selection of 100 commonly used Egyptian food expressions

A fresh contextual reading of the four Middle English "Gawain" poems that situates them within the rich tradition of fourteenth-century English anticlericalism

This volume explores how contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia addresses ecological crises

especially CO2 but also light and temperature

craft and activism in Britain

Al-Koni's masterly account of conquest and resistance is both timeless and timely

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