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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear

By John Darlington

Sites of Antiquity: From Ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome, 50 Sites that Explain the Classical World

By Charles Freeman

Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

By Ken Follett

Britain's Lost Railways: The Twentieth-Century Destruction of Our Finest Railway Architecture

By John Minnis

The Complete Greek Temples

By Tony Spawforth

Japanese Architecture: A Short History

By A. L. Sadler, Mira Locher

The Grammar of Architecture

By Cole, Emily

Living in Houses: A Personal History of English Domestic Architecture

By Ruth Dalton

Architecture: A Visual History

By Jonathan Glancey

Florence: A Traveller's Reader

By Edward Chaney, harold acton

Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

By Guy de la Bédoyère

On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues

By Roger Lytollis

The Real Crown Jewels of England: 100 Places That Make Us Great

By Clive Aslet

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

By Owen Hopkins

Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture (paperback)

By Virginia McLeod, Amy June Bates

Scrapers: A Visual Guide to Extraordinary Buildings

By Zack Scott

Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

By Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank’s Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World

By Cruickshank, Dan

Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology

By Pierre De La Ruffiniere Du Prey

Guiding Lights: The Design and Development of the British Lightship from 1732

By Anthony Lane

Contemporary British Architects

By Robert Maxwell, Peter Murray

Canterbury Cathedral

By Jonathan Keates

The Regency Country House: From the Archives of "Country Life"

By John Martin Robinson

Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England, 1690-1730

By Christopher Ridgway, Robert Williams, Kerry Downes (University of Reading)

Raum, Zeit, Architektur: Die Entstehung Einer Neuen Tradition

By Sigfried Giedion

Baustilkunde : das große Standardwerk zur europäischen Baukunst von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.

The Story of Western Architecture

By Bill Risebero

Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture

By Dan Cruickshank, Sir Banister Fletcher, Andrew Saint, Kenneth Frampton, Peter Blundell Jones

Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence

By Ross King

Islam: Art and Artchitecture

By Markus Hattstein, Peter Delius