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Strolling through Istanbul
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 19.00This classic guide to Istanbul by Hilary Summer-Boyd and John Freely - the 'best travel guide to Istanbul' ("The Times"), 'a guide book that reads like a novel' ("New York Times") - is here, for the first time since its original publication thirty-seven years ago, published in a completely revised and updated new... more...
Tokyo from Edo to Showa 1867-1989
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 28.95Edward Seidensticker's Tokyo: From Edo to Showa , available here for the first time in a single volume, tells the story of Tokyo's transformation from the Shogun's capital in an isolated Japan to one of the most renowned modern cities in the world. With the same scholarship and style that won him admiration as one of the premier translators of Japanese... more...
Stockholm
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 99.00Situated on one of the world's most beautiful harbors, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized urban living since the time of the Vikings. Tony Griffiths reveals a city of power, intrigue, and murder; of scientists and investors; and a sensual city, home of Greta Garbo and the smorgasbord. Its medieval period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small... more...
In Search of Hobart
University of NSW Press 2009; US$ 15.39Peter Timms leads us on a journey through his adopted city of Hobart, Australias smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital. He reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the contemporary world: going boutique, nice and slow, as one... more...
Hong Kong
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel... more...
Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability
Left Coast Press 2012; US$ 32.95'For cultural and heritage institutions around the world, sustainability is the major challenge of the twenty-first century. In the first major work to analyze this critical issue, Barthel-Bouchier argues that programmatic commitments to sustainability arose both from direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, and from social... more...
Venice, the Tourist Maze
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed?a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady,... more...
Jerusalem
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 46.95Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of competing historical, religious, and political narratives from Biblical chronicles to today?s headlines. With an aura that transcends the boundaries of time and place, the city itself embodies different levels of reality ? indeed, different realities altogether ? for both observers and... more...
Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 115.00Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai?s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city?s urban development. With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores... more...
Byzantium and Venice
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 58.00This book traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice. more...









