Boswell's Edinburgh Journals
Boswell's Edinburgh Journals

Author: Hugh Milne

Publisher: Birlinn

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 0857905864

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James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists.This is a one-volume edition of the journals he kept while making his living as an advocate in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Hugh Milne's introduction and notes remove the barriers that time has placed between us and Boswell. The result is a book in which an extraordinary personality lives before us upon the page. Boswell embodied in himself all the extremes and contradictions of his time and place. This was the Edinburgh of the Enlightenment, and among his friends he counted thinkers like David Hume and Adam Smith, and entertained eminent visitors like Dr Johnson. Boswell was alive to every new social or political idea and was interested in all the drama of human life, whether high or low. All Boswell's public and private doings, and his inner debates about religion and the meaning of life, go unedited into his journal. His vivid description of a whole gallery of characters and situations makes its pages compulsively readable.

The Finishing School
The Finishing School

Author: Muriel Spark

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 178211758X

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'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions begin to run high. A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, The Finishing School is the perfect natural partner to Muriel Spark's most famous novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy
Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy

Author: Brian P. Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-10

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1317698010

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The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750–1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations, and, in turn, how political economists used travelers’ observations in their own analyses. Cooper examines journals, letters, books, art, and critical reviews to cast in sharp relief questions raised about political economy by contemporaries over the status of facts and evidence, whether its principles admitted of universal application, and the determination of wealth, value, and happiness in different societies. Travelers citing T.R. Malthus’s population principle blurred the gendered boundaries between domestic economy and British political economy, as embodied in the idealized subjects: domestic woman and economic man. The book opens new realms in the histories of science in its analyses of debates about gender in social scientific observation: Maria Edgeworth, Maria Graham, and Harriet Martineau observe a role associated with women and methodically interpret what they observe, an act reserved, in theory, by men.

Handbook of British Travel Writing
Handbook of British Travel Writing

Author: Barbara Schaff

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-09-07

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 3110497050

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This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

Betty's Travel Journals
Betty's Travel Journals

Author: Elisabeth Hewes

Publisher: Paragon Publishing

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1907611878

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The travels and observations of Elisabeth Hewes in her retirement years, during the last decade of the 20th century. With contributions by Stephen Butt and John Florance of BBC Radio Leicester During her retirement years, apart from her diaries, Elisabeth Hewes of Ravenstone in Leicestershire, wrote of her many travels, which were often accomplished in just one day. Betty's Travel Journals begin in April 1992 and finish at the end of 2000. They give a vivid insight into her love of life and people; we see familiar things through different eyes and visit unknown places which leave us with a feeling that we must go there ourselves. Travelling by road, rail, or merely on foot, Betty uses only the most salient points to describe her world in rich colours, but always with humour, intelligence and that steadfast sense of belonging and purpose found in her diaries. As Betty counts down to the New Millennium, she meticulously records her high days and holidays. We travel with her the length and breadth of Britain: from Bardon Hill Quarry to Buckingham Palace; from mighty Canterbury Cathedral to Snibston's little St. Mary's; from the most serene and tranquil Lakeland view to the busiest bustling day in the heart of our nation's great capital. Her journals feature hundreds of indexed and detailed entries in which she quotes from sources as diverse as the essays of Dr. Johnson and her local newspaper, each equally as relevant and informative as the next. Betty's Travel Journals are laced together with a strong historical and religious narrative but with an ever watchful eye on history in the making. Her travels were not confined to distance however; the 1990s saw incredible strides made by humankind and Betty documents our world's biggest events in the final years of the twentieth century as they play out alongside her journey through what turned out to be the last decade of her life.

Handbook of Traffic Psychology
Handbook of Traffic Psychology

Author: Bryan E. Porter

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2011-06-22

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0123819857

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The Handbook of Traffic Psychology covers all key areas of research in this field including theory, applications, methodology and analyses, variables that affect traffic, driver problem behaviors, and countermeasures to reduce risk on roadways. Comprehensive in scope, the methodology section includes case-control studies, self-report instruments and methods, field methods and naturalistic observational techniques, instrumented vehicles and in-car recording techniques, modeling and simulation methods, in vivo methods, clinical assessment, and crash datasets and analyses. Experienced researchers will better understand what methods are most useful for what kinds of studies and students can better understand the myriad of techniques used in this discipline. - Focuses specifically on traffic, as opposed to transport - Covers all key areas of research in traffic psychology including theory, applications, methodology and analyses, variables that affect traffic, driver problem behaviors, and countermeasures to reduce the risk of variables and behavior - Contents include how to conduct traffic research and how to analyze data - Contributors come from more than 10 countries, including US, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Turkey, France, Finland, Norway, Israel, and South Africa

British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review
British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review

Author: M. Demata

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-06-12

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0230554636

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The bicentenary of the foundation of the Edinburgh Review has provided the foremost scholars in the field with the opportunity to re-examine the pervasive significance of the most important literary review of the Romantic period. These essays assess the controversial role played by the Edinburgh Review in the development of Romantic literature and explore its sense of 'Scottishness' in the context of early nineteenth-century British culture.

Fallen
Fallen

Author: Brian Walters

Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781589396227

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In his first book, Searching for the Holy Grail, Brian Walters takes the reader on a compelling modern-day Grand Tour of Western Europe. In his exciting new book, Fallen, he embarks on an introspective five-week journey through Ireland and Eastern Europe during the tragic events surrounding September 11. Join the author and his ragtag group of young travelers as they kiss the famous Blarney Stone, walk the dramatic Cliffs of Moher, stroll beside the Berlin Wall, and experience the horrors of Auschwitz. future promising peace and prosperity. Experience firsthand the history of World War II, get a glimpse into life behind the Iron Curtain, and learn about the rise and fall of Hitler and the Nazis. Brian Walters uses a spellbinding blend of humor, history, and philosophy to create an ambitious work that transcends typical travel writing to provide a thought-provoking exploration of religion, the nature of faith, and man's place in the universe.

Strategic Management in Tourism, 3rd Edition. CABI Tourism Texts
Strategic Management in Tourism, 3rd Edition. CABI Tourism Texts

Author: Luiz Moutinho

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2018-02-26

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1786390248

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This comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. Now in its third edition, and reviewing the major factors affecting international tourism management, this well-established student resource provides an essential overview of strategic management for students and professionals in the tourism sector.

Diary of a Madman
Diary of a Madman

Author: Al Smith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1350019682

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I was born with a bomb in my head. You can't know what it's like to constantly fear your own mind. Pop Sheeran, proudly shouldering the family trade of restoring the Forth Bridge, is about to lose it all. A global corporation has bought this Scottish icon, bringing with them innovative new paint. How will Pop fight back when he realises he's painting himself out of a job? Diary of a Madman is a sharply political, witty new adaptation of Gogol's classic story, reimagined in a contemporary Scotland on the brink of voting for independence. The play received its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 5 August 2016 before opening at the Gate Theatre, London, in September 2016.