Category Archives: Travel Guides
The New York Coffee Guide 2018: 2018
The Guide is the only annotated listing of Coffee venues in New York City. It contains a list, organized by location, of the top 195 artisanal coffee venues in New York City. Each venue is rated for coffee taste and presentation and overall quality, including ambiance and food. There is a picture of each venue,
The Interactive Art Book
Learn about fundamental concepts such as light and color, pattern and composition, narrative, style, and movement, and much more. Inventive paper engineering brings the subjects to life with pop-ups and lift-the-flaps. From the Dutch masters to the impressionists up through Picasso, this fun and informative activity book will inspire all ages. This book presents art
The Dal Cookbook
Dal is to India what pasta is to Italy. Cheap to produce, highly nutritional, suitable for long storage and capable of being cooked in a basic pot on an open fire, dal has been providing nourishment to millions of Indians for millennia. It truly is a pan-Indian dish consumed by rich and poor alike. It
The Fish Store: Recipes and Recollections
When her sons inherited their father`s childhood home in a Cornish fishing village, once a commercial building for storing and packing pilchards, Lindsey Bareham thought it would be a nice idea to record some of the recipes and memories of this extraordinary place. It started as a notebook for her sons` eyes only, with lists
Bread and Oil
Coarse bread rubbed with tomato or garlic and then bathed in olive oil, is common to all the Mediterranean cultures. On the island of Majorca, it is known as pa amb oli, bread and oil. Tomas Graves takes this healthy peasant staple as a starting point to explore not only Mediterranean cooking, agriculture, and traditions
Beware of Pity
An almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance – his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer
Welcome to London
Young visitors to London will discover the excitement this vibrant capital city has to offer through these beautiful, intricate illustrations. Playfully combining information about what to look for during your visit with magical unexpected twists, the images in this book bring the city to life in the most unexpected ways.
Oliver VII
A comic fable from one of the masters of twentieth-century prose “Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century” Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph The bored young ruler of an idyllic Central European country plots a coup against himself and escapes to Venice in search of `real` experience. There he falls in with a
Magna Carta: The Foundation of Freedom 1215-2015
Eight hundred years ago King John of England was forced to seal a document of historic importance. As the first charter to grant individual liberties under the rule of law, protecting the people against tyranny, Magna Carta is the most influential and far-reaching legal text the world has ever known. For this book, published with
Popular Hits Of The Showa Era
It`s a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism and karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown.
A Lord Mayor`s Show: 800 Years 1215-2015
For eight centuries the City of London has hosted one of the world`s greatest public parades, as the newly elected Lord Mayor embarks on a procession through the heart of the City to the edge of Westminster, culminating in an oath of allegiance to the representatives of the Crown. This ancient tradition has become one
From The Fatherland, With Love
From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan`s economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of `rebels` in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can`t cope with the surprise onslaught
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In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at high speed and with irresistible humour by Kensuke himself, this is the story of their 1969, as they engage in heated conversations about Marxism, Rimbaud,
Coin Locker Babies
Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes. One becomes a bisexual rock star and looks for his mother, while the
Binocular Vision
Edith Pearlman`s Binocular Vision are the collected stories of an award-winning author who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike and even Chekhov Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection. `This book is
Casanova`s Return to Venice
“His yearning for Venice, the city of his birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its death flight, he began to move in ever-narrowing circles.” One of Schnitzler`s most poignant evocations of the passing of time and the ironies of sentiment and love, Casanova`s Return to Venice tells the
