Earth from the Air, 365 Days
Yann-Arthus Bertrand's photographic daybook features over 200 completely new photographs. Each image is accompanied on its facing page by a thoughtful and thorough explanatory text. The images reach across the continents, from the icebergs of Antarct
| Russian Language and People Course Book
An ideal introduction to the language and culture of Russia, Russian Language and People is an integrated multi-media course for beginners. As well as teaching you to communicate in and understand Russian, this course provides an accessible introduct
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The World's Wild Places
This major collection of panoramic photographs by award-winning photographer Colin Prior records the breathtaking scenery of the world's last wilderness areas. It follows the longstanding success of his earlier book "Scotland - The Wild Places". This
| Istanbul
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of on
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family for several months. The Bookseller of Kabul is the fa
| Notes from a Small Island
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids exper
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Paris
Covers all the must see attractions plus insider tips on getting to know the real Paris. Includes mouth watering coverage of restaurants and food markets to thrill gourmands as well as itineraries and walking tours to help visitors make the most of t
| The Guest List
This is the definitive guide to the UK's best hotels and restaurants. Discover the stylish interiors, fabulous food and unparalleled service that set these hotels and restaurants apart from the crowd. A hotel that achieves the rare combination of ele
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"Time Out" Berlin
Fifteen years after the Wall came down, the last few pieces of Berlin's 21st-century puzzle are falling into place. The huge new central station at Lehrter Bahnhof will be open by publication time, Peter Eisenmann's city-block-sized Memorial to the M
| The Rough Guide to New Zealand
"The Rough Guide to New Zealand" is the essential guidebook to this spectacular adventure destination. A fully comprehensive account, the guide incorporates a country full of magnificent scenery, craggy coastlines, sweeping beaches, primeval forests,
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Good Beer Guide 2007
"The Good Beer Guide" is fully revised and updated each year. It also contains details of new breweries, closed breweries, mergers and takeovers, along with a listing of the UK's pub groups. "The Good Beer Guide" is more than just a pub guide for bee
| The City of Falling Angels
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful histori
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Francesco's Italy
This book presents a journey through Italian culture, past and present. Following his enormously successful TV series and book, "Venice", Francesco da Mosto extends his exploration, this time taking in the whole country. He celebrates the art and bea
| Copenhagen "Wallpaper*" City Guide
"Wallpaper City Guides" not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Arc
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India in Slow Motion
This text travels to 10 different sacred places in India: five are Hindu; the other five represent each of the world's other great religions. Covering subjects such as Hindu extremism, bonded child labour, Sufi mysticism, the crisis in agriculture, p
| The Angry Island
The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the
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England in Particular
Apples, bandstands, beach huts, black dogs, breweries, bricks, cakes, causeways, chalk horses, cheese rolling, cider, cooling towers, curbstones, dances, dialect, dry stone walls, fens, fire festivals, foxes, gargoyles, geology, ghosts, heaths, heron
| Watching the English
In "Watching The English" anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating cultur
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"Time Out" Shortlist Prague
"Time Out's" new "Shortlist" guides tell you everything that matters in 2007 in six of the world's greatest and most visited cities. They offer all the usual visitor information, presented in a way designed to take you straight to what you're looking
| Connemara
In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction write
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