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This classic introduction to the rich culture and history of the Phillipines Islands is a must have for any traveler or cultural scholar.Few countries are as rich in cultural heritage as the Republic of the Philippines. The original inhabitants came from various parts of Southeast Asia, and outlying areas preserve many of their unique and interesting customs. In the age of exploration the Europeans came. The hopes of the Filipino people were finally realized when, on July 4 1946, the flag of the...
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Classic reprints from: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, Horace Gregory, Geoffrey Bartholomew, Cornell Woolrich, Barry N. Malzberg, Clark Howard, Jerome Charyn, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Susan Isaacs, and others.Lawrence Block has won most of the major mystery awards and has been called the quintessential New York writer. His series characters—Matthew Scudder,...
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On the heels of the stunning success of the Summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, this second volume digs deeper into the criminal history of New York's punchiest and most alluring borough. Brooklyn Noir 2 offers short stories by the classic authors who blazed the path for the success of the first volume, which award-winning mystery author Laura Lippman called, «a stunningly perfect combination . . . the writing is flat-out superb, filled with lines that will sing in your...
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The Osaka Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers. Created using durable coated paper, this map is made to open and fold multiple times, whether it's the entire map that you want to view or one panel at a time.Following highways and byways, this map will show you how to maneuver your way to banks, gardens, hotels, golf courses, museums, monuments, restaurants, churches and temples, movie theaters, shopping centers and more!This 4th edition...
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This is a pocket sized Indonesian DictionaryIntended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Indonesia Pocket Indonesian Dictionary is an essential tool for communicating in Indonesian. It features all the essential Indonesian vocabulary appropriate for beginning to intermediate students. It's handy pocket format and easy-to read type will make any future trip to Indonesia much easier. In addition to being an excellent English to Indonesian dictionary and Indonesian...
| Автор | Junaeni Goebel |
This handy Thai Dictionary allows you to look up words quickly and easily—and be understood while speaking. The Periplus Pocket Thai Dictionary is a handy pocket-sized dictionary designed for travelers, business people and beginning Thai language students. It contains all the most common Thai vocabulary you will need. This new edition has been extensively revised and expanded to include over 12,000 entries. Features of this Thai dictionary include: Complete English-Thai and...
| Автор | Jintana Rattanakhemakorn |
Lorca's Sketches of Spain: Impressions and Landscapes is a unique book, now available in an unillustrated e-book edition as well as an illustrated print edition. Federico García Lorca’s first book, published when he was just nineteen, is a series of meditations on Spanish art, landscapes and history. Brimming with passion and excitement, the young writer travels in search of Spain's essential spirit: sunsets in Granada, the Gothic magnificence of Burgos Cathedral, ‘the savage...
| Автор | Федерико Лорка |
Throughout southern Africa, shebeens are where jokes are born, news is embellished and exchanged. They are unique vantage points where men go after a day's work, both to escape from the troubled world around them and to observe and comment on it. In Shebeen Tales, Zimbabwe's leading author offers a view of his country not from the privileged and insulated perspective of a well-heeled visitor, but that of the ordinary person who, with the help of dry wit and illegal beer, pokes fun at...
| Автор | Chenjerai Hove |
In 114 pages 'Dealing with Dengue' covers every aspect of Dengue Fever. Here are the chapter titles:<br>1. What not to Do…<br>2. What is Dengue?<br>3. Diagnosing Dengue<br>5.Folk Remedies<br>6. Children & Dengue<br>7. Pregnancy & Dengue<br>8. Severe Dengue<br>9. Painkillers & Your Liver<br>10. Recovery & TCM<br>11. Doctors & Drugs<br>12. Immunity<br>13. Lab Tests<br>14. Somebody Stop...
| Автор | Godfree Roberts Ed.D. |
Using over two hundred color pictures, this guidebook illustrates the charm and adventure of traveling to Cambodia and Myanmar. The guide is aimed at the cost conscious, but not the cost adverse. <br><br>"A Traveler on a Rope" is neither traveling on a shoestring, nor toting, or having another tote, Hermes luggage. Cost is an object but so is comfort. She recognizes the danger of a luxury cocoon as well as the tedium of a shared bathroom. <br><br>The...
| Автор | Larry Stein |
FOR EXPATRIATES LIVING IN THAILAND<br><br>ILLUSTRATED GUIDE to medical insurance in Thailand. <br><br>EXPLAINS seven insurance strategies: from no insurance to full coverage by an international carrier, with sample rates and exclusions.<br><br>VIDEO of expats discussing their insurance in Thailand<br><br>ILLUSTRATED with charts, comparative prices, and live links to insurers.<br><br>FULL DESCRIPTION OF THAI HOSPITALS, their hierarchy,...
| Автор | Godfree Roberts |
This is more than just a handy Indonesian phrasebook, with additional information on the culture and also tips to be easily accepted by local Indonesians. Includes video links in the book for enhanced learning. <br><br>Any seasonal traveler to Indonesia will tell you that having the ability to speak the Indonesian language and knowing its culture will make a huge difference in a person's travel experience in Indonesia, be it on a business trip or a leisure holiday visit....
| Автор | Haneef Khee Abdullah |
Save money, time, and headaches with over 500 vacationer-tested tips for Walt Disney World! Are you looking for tips to save money and time while still having a MAGICAL vacation at Walt Disney World? Wouldn't it be nice to get these tips without having to wade through lots of web sites, message boards, and guidebooks? You're in luck! This low-cost book is packed with more than 500 REAL tips from fellow vacationers — each tip has been hand-picked, sorted, categorized, and...
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First published in 1900, “Sailing Alone Around the World” is the detailed account of how Joshua Slocum would become the first person to circumnavigate the globe by himself. Aboard a sloop named the ‘Spray’, which Slocum himself rebuilt and refitted, he would depart from Boston on April, 24th, 1895 on this remarkable journey. Over the course of the next three years the boat would take him to Gloucester, Nova Scotia, Azores, Gibraltar, Morocco, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands,...
| Автор | Joshua Slocum |
In 1821 William Becknell and five comrades traveled from Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, then the northern provincial capital of New Spain, the first Americans to do so legally. And thus was born the Santa Fe Trail, a nine hundred mile long road of commerce to a foreign land. During New Spain’s reign, foreign trade had been forbidden, but that changed when Mexico wrested control from the European empire in 1821. Never an active immigrant highway, selling merchandise to goods-starved...
| Автор | Margaret Scholz Sears |
W tym samym czasie do Hawany przylatują Basia i Piotr. Dawno temu, gdy byli studentami, łączyła ich niezwykła więź. Upłynęło wiele lat, teraz oboje zbliżają się do pięćdziesiątki. Po rozstaniu nigdy więcej się nie spotkali. Są dziś samotnymi, poszukującymi miłości ludźmi. W czasie swoich podróży po Kubie odnajdują zapomniane piękno wyspy i dają się ponownie uwieść muzyce, obyczajom i niezapomnianemu klimatowi tego miejsca. Czy odnajdą również siebie? To nie tylko historia przygód Piotra i Basi...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A Girl's Tuscan Dream tells the story of my forty-year dream and a seven-year search that landed me in one of the most unspoilt and beautiful areas of Tuscany. Not only will you learn all the details of the Italian purchase process but you will be given tips on what to see and do in this beautiful part of Italy. This Girl had a fabulous time along the way; eating, drinking and exploring. How did I get here? Are you ready to find bliss? Let me take you there! You too can find your dream!
| Автор | The Girl |
With 101 fabulous ideas for romantic and relaxing weekend breaks, this book provides all the inspiration you need for some truly special weekends away. Featuring a host of romantic activities in European destinations chosen for their charm and interest, you'll never be stuck for ideas again. Each weekend includes the low-down on romantic and relaxing activities in the area and how to contact the companies that provide them, plus fascinating historical background and useful information....
| Автор | Sarah Woods |
Мира, русская эмигрантка в Финляндии, возвращается из круиза в Стокгольм со своей подругой и опаздывает на паром из Таллина в Хельсинки. В финской столице её ждёт молодой человек, с которым у них произошла размолвка перед её отъездом. Он уговаривает девушку вернуться, она соглашается, но позже получает открытку со странным посланием с неизвестного адреса. Кроме того, незнакомец крадёт её сумку. Эти события коренным образом меняют планы, и Мира остаётся в Эстонии до утра. В Таллине Мира...
| Автор | Евгения Дмитриевна Ерёменко |
«Любая намеченная цель – лишь светлый ориентир во тьме, помогающий выполнять наше главное предназначение – неустанно следовать вперёд», – говорит герой повести «Қазтабан». Читатель, перемещаясь вслед за повествованием по степи, раскинувшейся под Вечным Синим Небом, приближается к пониманию необходимости постоянного внутреннего движения. В книгу также вошли натуралистические рассказы и размышления автора о тенгризме как естественной взаимосвязи природы и человека. Автор – лауреат литературной...
| Автор | Тинкай Тынық-ай |
Новая книга Марии Гусевой, практикующего психолога, автора книг о материнстве, статей по женской психологии и женским практикам, матери троих детей – не только увлекательное и приятное чтение, но и возможность лучше понять себя, получить совет в сложной ситуации. За два года героиня посетила более 12 стран. По дороге её ждет масса приключений – простых, казалось бы, не особо заметных и таких, которые способны сделать ее духовное путешествие захватывающим и событийным. Любой момент – как...
| Автор | Мария Гусева |
Когда мне исполнилось сорок, я круто изменила свою жизнь. Вышла замуж за турка и уехала из Беларуси навсегда. Многие предрекали крах нашему браку. Для меня все было непросто. И вот живу в Турции уже семь лет. И откровенно рассказываю о нашей жизни в своих книгах. Сначала я влюбилась в турка. Потом – в Турцию. В турецкую природу, достопримечательности, кухню и людей. Это абсолютно другая, не похожая на привычный мне мир, планета. И она прекрасна! Это третья книга серии "Семь моих турецких лет"....
| Автор | Елена Атай |
Две войны прошли между планетами Земля и Прирона, и в обоих победили земляне. Приронцы мечтают о реванше, но обстоятельства вдруг складываются так, что над ними самими нависла смертельная опасность. В этой ситуации ничего не остаётся, как попросить помощь у своего врага.
| Автор | Игорь Ковриков |
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDONIn Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.‘Sublimely funny’ Jason Hazeley, author of the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups‘My favourite Twitter account is now my favourite book. Irresistible!’ Jill Mansell‘This book is an absolute treat’ Holly Walsh‘Transfixing, beguiling, warmly haunting. These are the ghosts of a childhood’ Robin Ince‘A hilarious and...
| Автор | Tom Jackson |