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Free Download APA Publications Limited, "Berlitz Pocket Guide Edinburgh (Berlitz Pocket Guides)"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1780041241 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 28.9 mb
Berlitz Pocket Guide Edinburgh is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the very best that this historic city has to offer. The Where to Go chapter details all the key major art museums and galleries, Edinburgh Castle, the striking Scottish Parliament and Arthur’s Seat overlooking the city. There are also excursions to the Forth Bridge, Hopetown House, Linlithgow Palace and Rosslyn Chapel. Handy maps on the cover help you get around Edinburgh with ease. To inspire you, the book offers a rundown of the Top 10 Attractions in the city, followed by an itinerary for a Perfect Day in Edinburgh. The What to Do chapter is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from the annual Edinburgh Festival to enjoying a wee dram in one of the city’s many pubs and bars or exploring its delightful shops. You’ll also be armed with background information, including a brief history of the city and an Eating Out chapter covering traditional Scottish dishes and drinks. There are carefully chosen listings for Edinburgh’s best hotels and restaurants, and an A-Z to equip you with all the practical information you will need.

Free Download Edinburgh German Yearbook 15 : Tracing German Visions of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
by Jenny Watson, Michel Mallet
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1640141197 | 297 Pages | True PDF | 7.7 MB

Free Download A J Youngson, "The Making of Classical Edinburgh: With Photographs by Edwin Smith"
English | ISBN: 1474448011 | 2019 | 448 pages | PDF | 263 MB
This famous study of the planning, financing and building of the New Town in Edinburgh brings to life one of the most remarkable urban expansion programmes ever undertaken. A. J. Youngson brings to life the vigour of the planning debates, the fundraising schemes, the administrative and legislative infrastructure of planning, the construction of public buildings as poles of attraction for speculative building, and all the hopes, quarrels, victories and civic bankruptcy that went into this great experiment.

Free Download Stuart Sim, "The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory "
English | ISBN: 1399508849 | 2022 | 592 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Featuring an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century.

Free Download Frederik Van Dam, "The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope "
English | ISBN: 1474424406 | 2018 | 408 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first century

Free Download Aaron Allen, "Building Early Modern Edinburgh: A Social History of Craftwork and Incorporation"
English | ISBN: 1474442382 | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Much like in the present day, building a house in the sixteenth century involved masons, carpenters and glaziers, among others, and in many cities such trades had separate companies to govern their own affairs. In Edinburgh, however, they banded together in a single body – the Edinburgh Incorporation of Mary’s Chapel.

Free Download Jarlath Killeen, "Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion Ed 111"
English | ISBN: 1399500554 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a comprehensive account of the extent to which Gothic can be traced in Irish cultural life from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, across both elite and popular genres, and through a range of different media, including literature, cinema, and folklore. It responds, in particular, to the understanding that Gothic is ubiquitous in Irish literature. Rather than focus specifically or exclusively on the oft-studied Irish Gothic foursome – Charles Maturin, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker – this companion turns attention to overlooked ‘minor’ figures such as Regina Maria Roche, Stephen Cullen, and Anne Fuller. At the same time, it considers the multi-generic nature of Irish Gothic, thinking beyond fiction and, in particular, the novel, as the Gothic genre par excellence. The collection thus affords fresh perspectives on Irish Gothic and its pervasiveness in Irish culture from the eighteenth century to today.

Free Download Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750 By Murray Pittock
2018 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1474416594 | PDF | 62 MB
This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban innovation and Smart City theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible. In a journey packed with evidence and incident, Murray Pittock explores various civic networks – such as the newspaper and printing businesses, the political power of the gentry and patronage networks, as well as the pub and coffee-house life – as drivers of cultural change. His analysis reveals that the attributes of civic development, which lead to innovation and dynamism, were at the heart of what made Edinburgh a smart city of 1700.

Free Download Rebecca Duncan, "The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic Ed 259"
English | ISBN: 1399510584 | 2023 | 520 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is the most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context. Examining texts from across six continents, the volume considers how gothic imagines, colludes with or interrogates relationships and phenomena that are planetary in scale. Accordingly, chapters address gothic engagements with – among others – resource imperialism, (ongoing) colonial history, diasporic identity, buckling economic unions, the rise of the internet, enthnonationalism, and entangled systems of gendered, racialised and ecocidal power. In this way, the collection moves decisively beyond the framework of globalisation to identify a range of new globalgothic approaches and modes, overall demonstrating that gothic is a key – though sometimes complicit – register for negotiating the challenges and histories of our uneven global present.

Free Download The Royal Mile (of Edinburgh). A Comprehensive Guide By Jan-Andrew Henderson
2017 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 1445658453 | PDF | 38 MB
There are several books about the Royal Mile, so why buy this particular one? The reason is, it covers everything you need to know – all the little closes, wynds and courts running off the main street, that people often miss, with a handy rating guide to the most interesting ones. It contains the significant buildings and monuments, noted pubs, restaurants and modern visitor attractions. It recounts the Mile’s long and spectacular history, including all its incredible characters. It has evocative pictures, fun facts and even lists the Old Town’s notorious haunted sites. And it’s written by an award-winning novelist who spent more than twenty years working as a Royal Mile guide. The book is simple to use. You start at Edinburgh Castle on top of the Mile and work your way to Holyrood Palace at the bottom. By the time you get to the end, you’ll be an expert on one of the most fascinating streets in the world.