Category Archives: Travel Guides
Who`s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else
Fleeing heartbreak, an unnamed author goes to an unnamed city to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university about forgotten books… only to find himself involved in a mystery when it turns out the professor who invited him is no where to be found, and no one seems quite sure why he`s there.
I am Milan
Milan is front and center in this guide to the thriving Italian metropolis that is historic, modern, playful, and distinguished all at once. New visitors and longtime inhabitants alike will revel in Carlo Stanga`s colorful, playful drawings. Passages told from the city`s perspective animate Milan`s extraordinary monuments and innovative buildings, as well as the delightful
The Talented Ribkins
A compulsively readable, big-hearted story about a family with special gifts who sometimes stumble in their efforts to succeed in life, The Talented Ribkins draws on such novels as Toni Morrison`s Sula and Colson Whitehead`s The Intuitionist to weave themes of race, class and politics into a wonderfully accomplished and engaging novel by a talented
Ghosts Of Berlin
In `Ghosts of Berlin`, Rudolph Herzog`s macabre and madcap vision of Berlin, bleeding walls are as terrifying as overpriced artisanal burgers. Set in hipster Kruezberg, chic airport lounges, and the former border between East and West Germany, the denizens of Herzog`s Berlin are demon-conjuring tech bros, acid-tripping artists, and forsaken migrants, each encountering the ghosts
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor Noah.Anthony Bourdain traveled an extraordinary road, evolving from celebrity chef to intrepid travel writer to journalist, and ultimately, a most unlikely social anthropologist. His storytelling
Parisienne French: Chic Phrases, Slang & Style
Every girl dreams of living in Paris. But learning to speak the language of the Parisians? That`s for the truly stylish dreamers. This book has everything from “I`ll have a cosmopolitan” to “I am loving those peeptoe booties.” This is the ultimate girl-friendly phrasebook to give les filles americaines in Paris that certain je ne
South Pole 1910-1913
Although it`s a piece of history learned by every British student, the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913 remains an epic story unknown to many. In this ultimate showing of life and boundless bravery, Robert F. Scott and his five-man team battled the elements–traveling through subzero temperatures with motor sledges and ponies–in the hope of being
The Insiders` Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess
Part how-to guide, part travelogue, The Insiders` Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess not only outlines the step-by-step process to getting hired aboard a luxury yacht, it also reveals what life is really like aboard these oceangoing toys of mankind`s most affluent. Packed with anecdotal stories from her time on the high seas, catering to
Bee
Bee is a book of photographs in magnifications ranging from 10x to 5000x. Presenting views of the bee s eyes, wings, antennae, hair, sting and more. Bee aims to inspire surprise, curiosity and awe through the unique perspective provided by scanning electron microscopy, melding art and science in these images. When our frame of reference
Who Built That? Skyscrapers: An Introduction to Skyscrapers and Their Architects
Who Built It? Skyscrapers presents illustrator Didier Cornille`scharming drawings of eight of the most important skyscrapersin the world, from the highest to the most symbolic.Introducing famous architects and their works to the reader,Cornille focuses not only on the final buildings but reflects theconstruction of each in his step-by-step illustrations.Accessible text accompanies the drawings and provides
Butterflies of the World: My Nature Sticker Activity Book
Butterflies, with their transformation from hungry caterpillar to beautiful flying flower, are among the most fascinating animals for children. Observing butterflies and moths introduces them to a wide range of colors and patterns, to the concept of camouflage, and to a colorful habitat of flowers and other plants.Butterflies of the World introduces different types of
In the Age of Dinosaurs: My Nature Sticker Activity Book
Did you know that the word dinosaur” means “great lizard”? Have you ever heard of an animal that had to swallow thousands of pounds of plants every day to feed itself? And do you know the name of the largest known flying animal of all time?In the Age of Dinosaurs will answer all of these
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family`s history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, Emile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be burned by the Nazis. In 1933,
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World`s Most Famous Museum
Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they chronicle the history of Paris itself-a fascinating story that historian James
The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day and the Bridgehead
With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitler s Atlantic Wall speak of the huge undertaking necessary for the Allies to gain a foothold in Normandy. In this beautiful new full-color book, the reader goes on-site to the sacred battleground
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of armored warfare,
Bretherton: Khaki or Field-Grey?
Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange and eerie scene in a ruined chateau, under fire. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and understandably perplexed as to who would be playing the piano in the midst
Pass Guard at Ypres
A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, in excited and nervous anticipation of what is to come; they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in, and slaughter surrounds them. With their young, upright officer Freddy Mann, they are soon in the thick of it, burying the dead, experiencing
