Books by Publisher: ISCO Publications
Europe: Co-Operative Housing
This publication provides insight into communal living in 11 European countries, focusing on social concepts, architectural details and funding schemes. Exemplary residential projects from Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany are included.
Landscapes of Disease
By Katerina Gardikas
Malaria has existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. The book focuses on the factors that contributed to the spreading of the disease in the years between independent statehood in 1830 and the elimination of malaria in the 1970s.
Quest for a Suitable Past
The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Contested Borderland
Bessarabia was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery....
American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital M
By Lyombe Eko
This volume explores sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet. Contributors present American exceptionalism and the French exception as functionally equivalent logics that lead to different freedom of expression outcomes.
Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe
Monumental carved wooden Torah arks were an outstanding feature of east European synagogues between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, yet virtually none survived the Second World War. Bracha Yaniv therefore breathes a new life into a lost genre with this extensively researched, meticulously documented, and richly illustrated book. She...
Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination
Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy
After reviewing the socio-economic changes in American Orthodox communities and examining the reasons for them, he goes on to consider the political patterns of contemporary American Orthodox Jews.
Muslim Land, Christian Labor
By Anna M. Mirkova
Focusing upon a region in Southern Bulgaria, a region that has been the crossroads between Europe and Asia for many centuries, this book describes how former Ottoman Empire Muslims were transformed into citizens of Balkan nation-states.
Eric Owen Moss: Leading Architects of the World
By The Images Publishing Group
Including projects from around the world, the forty-year career of Eric Owen Moss is given an in-depth analysis looking at the philosophical and engineered solutions he created, as well as his sketches, diagrams, plans and photographs.