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He draws on the lessons to be learned from the buildings and cities of the past in restoring critical traditional values that have been lost to modernism which tends to see the built world almost exclusively through the abstractions of postenlightenment science

The book is at once a meditative work of anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780062309891

In this taut and fascinating novel

The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Shapes Our World FIC030000 discussingThe Fifty Year Wound is the first cohesively integrated history of the Cold War, one replete with important lessons for today. Drawing upon literature, strategy, biography, and economics plus an inside perspective from the intelligence community Derek Leebaert explores what Americans sacrificed at the same time that they achieved the longest great power peace since Rome fell. Why did they commit so much in wealth and opportunity with so little