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Hundreds of powerful photographs and hard-hitting facts reveal everything from explosive elements and dangerous predators to wild storms and brutal historical battles

Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

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Superlight: Lightness In Contemporary Houses F GEN and protect against diseaseOne of the most influential design philosophies of the past 25 years has been Glenn Murcutt's dictum that buildings should touch the earth lightly. While architects have always sought to liberate architecture from its solid foundations through the use of new materials and spatial reconfigurations, climate change, new materials and restricted land use have given new impetus to finding lightweight solutions for our homes. Superlight houses combine two