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Beijing by Linda Jaivin
Category: Travel | Series: CityScopes
Beijing is an intimate and informed portrait of a city at the centre of one of the world's oldest civilizations and the capital of one of its newest superpowers. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans and their ancestors - Peking Man among them - have lived here. Over three and a half millennia, cit ...Show more
Berlin by Joseph Pearson
Category: Culture | Series: CityScopes
Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site, built on the ruins of regimes. Today's diversity - refugees, immigrants, arty expats, East and West - emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge and conte ...Show more
London: City of Cities by Phil Baker
Category: Travel | Series: Cityscopes Ser.
City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a unique place in the world's memory, even as its role has changed from the capital of the planet to its playground, and as its lived history has mutated into heritage industry. ...Show more
Madrid - Midnight City by Jules Stewart; Helen Crisp
Category: Popular History | Series: Cityscopes Ser.
Spain's top city for tourism, Madrid attracts more than six million visitors a year. In this book, Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart not only place visitor attractions in their historical perspective, relating the story of a city and its people through the centuries, but they also offer carefully curated li ...Show more
New York by Elizabeth L. Bradley
Category: Culture | Series: CityScopes
According to reporter Meyer Berger, 'Each man reads his own meaning into New York.' This most kinetic of cities contains myriad meanings and shifting identities; but how can anyone begin to construct their own narrative in a place as loud, bright and busy as 'the city that never sleeps'? Elizabeth Bradl ...Show more
Paris by Adam Roberts
Category: Culture | Series: CityScopes
Explore behind the tourist facade of the world's most visited city. In this book, Paris-based writer and Invisible Paris blogger Adam Roberts provides a concise and informative portrait of the iconic metropolis. He uncovers the story of how a provincial backwater rose up to become the richest and most p ...Show more
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