<p>A gazetteer, guiding the reader to the notable developments and buildings of every kind throughout the city centre and all of Glasgow's suburbs. Introductory essays shed a broader light on the city's development and its architecture.</p>

Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland)

Higgs, Malcolm

Williamson, Elizabeth

Riches, Anne

Sports & Outdoors

Penguin Uk

<p>Glasgow has a wide array of architectural treasures: the greatest medieval cathedral in Scotland; fragments of a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century 'merchant city'; the well-preserved heart of a planned new town, Blythswood; a city centre dense with Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings; stately nineteenth-century terraces lining the Great Western Road and picturesquely crowning Woodlands Hill; opulent villas in suburbs like Pollokshields and Kelvinside; and streets of tenements from the workaday to the grand. The twentieth century has encircled the city with a broad belt of public housing, and this too has a fascinating history that encompasses garden suburbs, early experiments in high-rise, comprehensive redevelopments and new interpretations of the tenement tradition. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander 'Greek' Thomson are, of course, internationally known, but the exceptional talents of Glasgow's many other architects, such as Charles Wilson, James Salmon Jr. and Jack Coia, have helped to shape the city's distinctive character.</p>

Glasgow (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)

Arts & Photography

Higgs, Malcom

Architecture

Yale University Press

Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from sand dunes to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is similarly diverse, marrying natural beauty with industry and modernity. This survey, featuring specially commissioned photographs and maps, offers the kind of detailed and comprehensive analysis for which the Pevsner Architectural Guides are known. Highlights include the monument at the Skelmorlie Aisle and Robert Burns's birthplace in Alloway; the stones of Machrie Moor; medieval castles and planned towns; early churches and abbeys; and some of the best-known country houses, Culzean Castle and Dumfries House.

Ayrshire and Arran (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)

Travel

Close, Rob

Europe

Available again by public demand, Suffolk Churches has long been recognised as a classic; Pevsner described it as "outstanding" and calls its gazetteer an unfailing guide'. The first section deals with the various parts of the church and its fittings, and how they were affected by changing styles and religious reforms. The second part is the gazetteer to individual churches, followed by a supplement on Victorian Churches and Churchbuilding and a list of lost and ruined churches. This fifth edition includes a supplement, Victorian Church Building and Restoration by Anne Riches and a Survey of Lost and Ruined Churches by John Blatchly and Peter Northeast.

Suffolk Churches: Fifth Edition with a Supplement on Victorian Church Building and a Survey of Lost and Ruined Churches

History

Blatchly, John

Cautley, H. Munro

Boydell Press

A dictionary? No, this is really an astonishing ark filled with beasts from a fabulous zoo far more varied and entertaining than anything from ordinary natural history. From Abaia and Abath/ to Ziz and Zu, from the microscopic Gigelorum that nests in a mite's ear to the giant serpent Jormungandor who encircles the whole globe, there are beasts from every corner of man's imagination: the light-hearted Fearsome Critters of lumberjack tales find a place alongside the Sirrush of Babylon and the Winged Bulls of Assyria. Some of the fabulous beasts turn out to be real creatures in disguise - a Cameleopard is a kind of glamourised giraffe -while others are almost, but not quite, human. Among the six hundred entries are some which are full-scale essays in their own right, as on Phoenix or Giants; and just in case it seems as though the authors dreamt up the entire book, there is a detailed list of books for the would-be hunter in this mythical jungle.

A Dictionary of Fabulous Beasts

Literature & Fiction

BARBER, Richard

History & Criticism

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