Wayne Craven. Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. New York: Norton, 2009. 352 pp.; 274 color and black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95.
Book ReviewsMarta Gutman and Ning de Coninck‐Smith, eds. Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi+346 pp.; 85 black‐and‐white illustrations, index. $24.95.
Anthropologies as Stories of Life Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology. Edited by Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Ryan K. Smith. Robert Morris's Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. 346 pp.; 56 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $40.00.