Category Archives: Caribbean
Las Vegas Red Maps
From The Strip to Fremont Street, for business or pleasure, the Red Map gives you the entire Vegas entertainment and dining scene. An insert area map highlights open-air attractions outside of the city including Red Rocks National Park, Mt. Charleston and the Hoover Dam. Concise lists of the best shopping, hotels and dining; helpful descriptions
Orchid House
Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family`s plight in different ways – seeking change through romance or politics or money. Intenselyautobiographical, The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the (usually) loyal eyes
In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island – Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica`s Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of resistance and ultimate defeat have been known – until now. Written by Dominica`s leading
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money During the Age of Sail
Eric Jay Dolin traces America`s fraught relationship with China back to the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that continues to shed light on America`s modern relationship with China. Indeed, the trade in furs, opium and beche-de-mer
Corinth: St. Paul and the Goddess of Love. All You Need to Know About the Site`s Myths, Legends and its Gods
Jill Dudley writes about the clash of St. Paul`s concept of love with the sexual pleasures which the pagans enjoyed at the great temple of Aphrodite on Acrocorinth. She describes how the Apostle spent his time at nearby Old Corinth observing, preaching and converting, and why he wrote his Letters to the Corinthians. It is
Myth of America`s Decline
Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2013, The Myth of America`s Decline is a highly provocative look at how the United States, for all its failings, continues to be the leading business, political, and intellectual model for all other nations. In a world where America bashers constantly chortle
Greater Than a Wall
Two worlds and families collide with the arrival of the wall across the West Bank. When an Israeli youth is killed by a Palestinian youth in suspicious circumstances, it falls on the reluctant Aron Lunzer from the right-wing Israeli media to question the inconsistencies in the official report. His investigation leads him to Jewish and
San Francisco CA Transit and Street Map Global Graphics
Tourist map of San Francisco with legend, street index and chart of directions to San Francisco from various locations. On reverse street and places of interest index continued. Insets of Downtown San Francisco, BART System, Owl Service and Bay Area transit system.
The Science Timeline Wallbook
WITNESS HOW people have changed the world with their hands and brains over more than 10,000 years from the Stone Ages to the present day. This unique history of science and engineering includes a 2 metre-long fold-out timeline containing more than 1,000 pictures and captions that tell the story of the world`s greatest scientists and
San Francisco Bay Area CA Global Graphics
Folded, overview map features relief, major streets, Bay Area cities & communities, index, places of interest, and downtown San Francisco map. Includes Bay Area transit information and places of interest.
San Diego County CA Freeway System and Major Streets Global Graphics
Road map of San Diego County with legend and index to cities and communities. On reverse insets of Downtown Dan Diego, Coronado, Balboa Park, Downtown Tijuana and San Diego International Airport Lindbergh Field. Description of San Diego and Tijuana. Index to places of interest, auditoriums, conventional centers, sports facilities, transportation, major public, military and educational
Los Angeles CA Freeway System & Major Streets Map Global Graphics
Map shows Los Angeles freeway system and major streets for four county area with places of interest list, city & town index, and inset of Downtown Los Angeles.
San Diego CA Street Map Global Graphics
Street map of San Diego with legend and street index. Inset of Downtown San Diego with legend and street index. On reverse street map of San Diego and street index continued.
San Francisco Guidebook – CA – Global Graphics
52-page guidebook of San Francisco. Features photographs, maps, useful travel info, and descriptions of places of interest. Also includes airport diagram on back cover.
Orange County Quick Access Map – CA – Global Graphics
Accordion-style folded, laminated map of Orange County. Main map shows freeway system and major streets from Santa Monica to Winchester in scale 1:250,000. Reverse shows map of Anaheim and Garden Grove with Disneyland and Angel Stadium. Also features indices of places of interest, cities and communities, museums, and sports facilities on reverse.
Rumble Strip
This is a powerful and darkly humorous graphic polemic by a leading British comics artist that investigates our increasingly dangerous relationship with cars. If you want to get away with murder, buy a car. Combining autobiography, statistics, case histories, advertising and reportage, Woodrow Phoenix draws a compelling picture of the warped psychology behind our need
The Great Book Of Anchorages The Bahamas
Anchorage details and chart-lets covering Bimini, Cat Cay, Berry Islands, New Providence, Exumas, Eleuthera, Abacos, and The Little Bahamas Bank. The only book dedicated exclusively to anchoring in the Bahamas. Designed and researched for boaters by long-time cruisers.
