Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Regional Studies

The National Trust, which protects--and makes accessible--over 350 historic houses, gardens, and monuments for the benefit of the public, is a charity, totally independent of Government. The Trust relies for its income on membership fees and donations. It is now one of the most successful organizations dedicated to the protection of the environment and national heritage, with over 3.6 million members and 55,000 volunteers.

The Trust was founded in 1895 by three philanthropists, Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter, and Hardwicke Rawnsley. Concerned about the impact of uncontrolled...

The books in this set, originally published between 1968 and 1992 introduce the reader to the many lines of thought in the literature on economic geography and tie these various aspects together within the concept of the economy. As well as providing a comprehensive overview of the Western European economy since the Second World War, and including specific studies and assessments of the Dutch and Italian economies, these volumes examine the economic factors that have shaped cities and patterns of urbanization.

The Lake District famous for its association with the Romantic poets became a very popular destination for travellers towards the end of the eighteenth century, part of a growing trend of making picturesque tours during which nature was viewed with an emphasis on its spiritual qualities. During this period a variety of tourist guides, including Wordsworth s successful Guide to the Lakes, were published.

This is the very first collection of such travel guides to the Lake District and eight important titles are reprinted here in a facsimile edition. Together with many pictures and...

This 12-volume set of previously out-of-print tiles examines many aspects of conflict and security in the Middle East. Works on the first Gulf War (including one on its environmental impact) sit alongside books about the superpowers, nuclear rivalry and attempts at peacemaking.

• This is a collection of primary-source materials on the International Exhibition in London or Great London Exposition, held from 1 May to 1 November 1862, beside the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington on a site that now houses museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.






• Featuring over 28,000 exhibitors from 36 countries, it represented a wide range of industry, technology, and the arts and attracted about 6.1 million visitors.








• The collection includes facsimile reprints of official catalogues in four...

 A facsimile collection of five volumes with more than 3,100 pages, the set includes three major reference works of Sports and Leisure first published in England during the nineteenth century. (This was an age of modernization in sports, while the idea of sports as leisure and as a method of physical education developed through the growing middle-class society. And new games or sports such as golf, tennis, football, rugby, and cricket emerged.)

 Those books published in a large folio format contained the most detailed information about the history of sports in...

This bundle of 12 titles covers a wide spectrum of sub-disciplines from across the field of Asian Studies and with reference to a number of Asian countries. A comprehensive set, titles consider the diplomacy, foreign policy, history, geography and culture of South-Eastern and Central Asia, India and Japan. The collection incorporates seminal political works from the 1970s to 1990s, which explore the international and diplomatic relations of South-East Asian countries, along with more choice titles by Byron, Katsumata and Dale, selected for the fascinating social and cultural insight they...

Routledge Library Editions: Israel and Palestine collects in a 15-volume set a range of out-of-print titles from a variety of imprints. Examining the thorny issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict from all angles, the books in the set cover a range of time periods and viewpoints with an aim to provide an essential reference resource.