This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Bristol's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The

This illustrated history portrays one of England's great cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Newcastle's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. T

This illustrated history of the City of London provides a nostalgic look at the Square Mile's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs ar

Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." -- The New York Times Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint,where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry.This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" w...(展开全部)

From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement." Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or l...(展开全部)

As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous,...(展开全部)

联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）是联合国的一个专门机构，致力于通过教育、科学和文化促进国际合作的工作。《世界遗产公约》是1972年由联合国教科文组织成员国制订的国际公约，其宗旨是为后代确认、保护并保存世界优秀的文化和自然遗产。 理查德·卡文迪什（RICHARD CAVENDISH）是一位历史学家，英国历史遗址研究权威。著有《史前英格兰指南》和一部有关英国国王和王后的作品，他还每月为《今日历史》杂志撰写专栏。他策划编纂了关于20世纪重大事件和世界奇观的书、为汽车协会编撰了英国指南和英国地名索引等。他在英国、美国、丹麦、加拿大和澳大利亚举办过讲座或录制广播节目。

This book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters. Its focus is on quarters or areas where there is a significant number of historic buildings concentrated in a small area; with places and area-based approaches. Many cities have such quarters that confer on them a sense of place and identity through ...(展开全部)

'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people' Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change. There a...(展开全部)