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Architourism: Authentic, Escapist, Exotic, Spectacular

Edited by Joan Ockman, Edited by Salomon Frausto

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This cutting-edge book looks at why the world's most interesting buildings are becoming the hottest destinations for today's travellers. In the last few decades architecture has become a major focus for tourists, rather than merely part of a larger travel itinerary. Illustrated with one hundred colour and mono photographs and with eye-catching, innovative, refreshing layout and graphics by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center design team, this series of provocative essays and contributions by leading scholars, critics, architects and artists explores the role of architecture in the contemporary tourist imagination. From Mont Saint Michel and the Taj Mahal to Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum and the Blur Building in Switzerland's Lake Neuchatel, the authors focus on how certain iconic buildings have found their way into the cultural consciousness. At the same time they offer insights as to why other buildings, such as Minnesota's Mall of America and the faux architecture of Las Vegas, have become integral to their regions' tourist economy-and postulate how this success will influence architecture of the future.

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The Memory Collectors: A Novel

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The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes

William Kelleher Storey
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528 pages
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This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodesâ€™s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal development, and examines how this fueled a lasting, white-dominated colonial society.

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Survive the AI Apocalypse: A guide for solutionists

Bronwyn Williams
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232 pages
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Look around you is anything real or normal any more? News, images and videos created by AI are everywhere.

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The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
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