Category Archives: Non-Fiction & Reference
Colloquial Arabic
Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) offers you a step-by-step approach to the Arabic spoken in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Levantine Arabic is widely recognized as one of the major languages of Arabic radio and television. Specially written by an international authority on teaching Arabic as a foreign language, Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) is the ideal course for
Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day
Hot on the heels of the authors previous book “Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day”, here is another informative and entertaining guide, this time to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Athens in 432 bc. You need only pack your imagination and a toothbrush this guide provides
Brunetti`s Venice
Visitors to Venice might hope to find a Venetian friend who will guide them through the narrow streets, explaining a bit of history here, a story from his youth there, perhaps grumbling about the tourists, occasionally stopping for a glass of prosecco or to gossip with friends…”Brunetti`s Venice” does all these things as it moves
Reading Maya Art
Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. Organized thematically, the symbols touch on many facets of the Maya world, from the natural environment animals, plants, the heavens to the metaphysical landscape of gods, myths and rituals. Using over
London Caffs
Where would we be without the traditional London caff? Milk bars, ice–cream parlours and espresso bars are all a feature of the London landscape that were borne out of the 1940s to 1960s. It is a time when floods of immigrants set up their businesses providing frothy coffee to the city`s workers. Today, many of
Southern Ireland Cruising Companion
With its wide open seas, plentiful, secluded anchorages, beautiful scenery, and interesting navigational challenges, the southern coast of Ireland is nothing short of a yachtsman`s paradise. The ideal onboard guide to traveling these waters, Southern Ireland Cruising Companion includes detailed descriptions of every entrance, harbor, anchorage and service in the area, advice on the weather,
Power, Faith and Fantasy
This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive account of America`s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, “If you think America`s entanglement in the Middle East began with Roosevelt and Truman, Michael Oren`s deeply researched and brilliantly written history will be a revelation to you,
No Vulgar Hotel -the desire and pursuit of Venice
This is the definitive manual for the hopeless Venetophile.Love of Venice can strike anyone. Among the heavyweights with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms today include: wishing that the stars of films set in Venice would move aside so that you can get a better view of the
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favourite Parisian street. “I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs”, Sciolino explains as she celebrates the area`s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the levelling effects of globalisation, the
The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East
Armed only with textbook Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set out to “learn about the world 9/11 made us fear”. From a base in Abu Dhabi, he sets out to lunch in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, travels under the watchful eye of Aleppo`s secret police, risks shipwreck en route to Somalia, investigates Yazidi
The Seine: The River that Made Paris
In the spring of 1978, as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she builds the story of the river through memoir, travelogue and history, writing a love letter to the city she has called home since 2002. Sciolino begins in Paris, then moves east to discover
Boundary Layer Climates
This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.
Every Man for Himself
For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl
Atlas of African Affairs
The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective on African affairs. Most of the chapters deal with continent-wide themes and are illustrated by maps of Africa as a whole drawn to a standardised
Persian Fire
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory – rapid, spectacular victory – had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms,
Rome in Africa
Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside. Carthaginians, Romans, vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, TUrks, French and Italians have all occupied the region in their time. The Romans governed this part of
Botswana Time
Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on a play to help save their school. In Botswana he was taken up by a headmaster to teach a class of six year
Atlas of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
An invaluable guide to a complex subject, this atlas: * gives a general introduction to the physical, ethnic and religious composition of the region * includes summary maps of Eastern Europe in 1900, 1923, and 1945 * charts the ebb and flow of the first and second world wars in Eastern Europe * presents detailed
The Thames England`s River
The Thames is liquid history` John Burns MP (1858-1943) As the silver thread woven through Britain`s centuries, the Thames is the subject of this significant biography. Following its course, geologically and chronologically, THE THAMES will chart the growing importance of the river and some of the dramatic historic events it was central to. Since Tudor
