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Book The Picture of Glasgow  Or  Stranger s Guide

Download or read book The Picture of Glasgow Or Stranger s Guide written by Robert Chapman (of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Picture of Glasgow  and Strangers  Guide

Download or read book The Picture of Glasgow and Strangers Guide written by Glasgow. [Appendix.] and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Picture of Glasgow  and Strangers  Guide

Download or read book The Picture of Glasgow and Strangers Guide written by [Anonymus AC10198184] and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heritage and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Heritage and Tourism in Britain and Ireland written by Glenn Hooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines the natural, but sometimes troubled, relationship that exists between heritage and tourism. Chapters included focus on a selection of topics, including literary tourism, industrial heritage, conservation and care. Employing a range of historical and cultural materials, as well as an extensive number of case studies, the chapters offer an engaging overview of heritage and tourism developments across the Isles, especially in terms of recent policy and strategy initiatives, new facilities and infrastructure, as well as the different and evolving management systems currently in place. Interdisciplinary in scope, and drawing on the expertise of researchers from within both academia and industry, this volume will be of particular importance to those with interests in management and the humanities.

Book Unlocking Environmental Narratives

Download or read book Unlocking Environmental Narratives written by Ross S. Purves and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the role of humans in environmental change is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and surroundings. We take advantage of two key opportunities for their computational analysis: massive growth in the availability of digitised contemporary and historical sources, and parallel advances in the computational analysis of natural language. We open by introducing interdisciplinary research questions related to the environment and amenable to analysis through written sources. The reader is then introduced to potential collections of narratives including newspapers, travel diaries, policy documents, scientific proposals and even fiction. We demonstrate the application of a range of approaches to analysing natural language computationally, introducing key ideas through worked examples, and providing access to the sources analysed and accompanying code. The second part of the book is centred around case studies, each applying computational analysis to some aspect of environmental narrative. Themes include the use of language to describe narratives about glaciers, urban gentrification, diversity and writing about nature and ways in which locations are conceptualised and described in nature writing. We close by reviewing the approaches taken, and presenting an interdisciplinary research agenda for future work. The book is designed to be of interest to newcomers to the field and experienced researchers, and set out in a way that it can be used as an accompanying text for graduate level courses in, for example, geography, environmental history or the digital humanities.

Book All That Glittered

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy Alborn
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-20
  • ISBN : 0190603534
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book All That Glittered written by Timothy Alborn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy. In this rich and broad-ranging work, Timothy Alborn argues for a close connection between gold and Britain's national identity. Beginning with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which validated Britain's position as an economic powerhouse, and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia, Alborn draws on contemporary descriptions of gold's value to highlight its role in financial, political, and cultural realms. He begins by narrating British interests in gold mining globally to enable the smooth operation of the gold standard. In addition to explaining the metal's function in finance, he explores its uses in war expenditure, foreign trade, religious observance, and ornamentation at home and abroad. Britons criticized foreign cultures for their wasteful and inappropriate uses of gold, even as it became a prominent symbol of status in more traditional features of British society, including its royal family, aristocracy, and military. Although Britain had been ambivalent in its embrace of gold, ultimately it enabled the nation to become the world's most modern economy and to extend its imperial reach around the globe. All That Glittered tells the story of gold as both a marker of value and a valuable commodity, while providing a new window onto Britain's ascendance after the 1750s.

Book  Greek  Thomson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gavin Stamp
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-07
  • ISBN : 1474472826
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Greek Thomson written by Gavin Stamp and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander 'Greek' Thomson is at last being recognised as an architect of genius, comparable in stature to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Now in paperback, this is the first book in which a team of distinguished architectural commentators and historians use the latest research in the area to illuminate the full range of Thomson's talents. Thomson emerges not just as a great architect, but as a towering intellect whose theory and practice synthesised the best thought of his time in architectural history, aesthetic philosophy and, not least, theology. His ventures into urban planning are explored, and his approaches to facade design and interiors are examined in detail, while rare colour plates complete a portrait which brings this outstanding architect to life. With an Introduction by the late Sir John Summerson this volume celebrates the work of arguably the greatest exponent of the Greek Revival.

Book Mental Health and Social Space

Download or read book Mental Health and Social Space written by Hester Parr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces. Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related research Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly responsible for their own recoveries and acceptance Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities and difficulties facing people with mental health problems Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest and technological communities, disrupting familiar and conventional accounts of social inclusion and 'the local' Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use and understanding of different social spaces

Book Publications of the Scottish History Society

Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography

Download or read book A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography written by Sir Arthur Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Auction Records

Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frank Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Book The River and Firth of Clyde  1549 1993

Download or read book The River and Firth of Clyde 1549 1993 written by Ben Cohen (F.R.C.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An annotated bibliography of materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth century concerning the river and Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Topics include bridges, charts, maps, harbours, biology and pollution, in thirteen sections, alphabetically arranged, and five appendices. Reprint of the 1995 edition, with index revised to include place names"--Provided by publisher.

Book A E

    A E

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Rylands Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 666 pages

Download or read book A E written by John Rylands Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: