This vibrant series of pocket guides covers over 170 destinations worldwide & are compact, practical guides for sun seekers & city breakers. The Thomas Cook pocket guides series is also home to the most comprehensive list of UK city guides currently available. ...

An epic Western that spans centuries, countries & lifetimes. When she is disturbed by a burglar & gets the better of him, an old woman tells him the story of her family's past. At the turn of the Twentieth century in the American West, two brothers fall in love with the same woman, Lilith (Anne Brochet), who chooses the younger brother, Elijah (Joseph Fiennes). The embittered Luke (David Wenham) travels alone to Europe & finds himself settling in Macedonia where he becomes a ruthless mercenary fighting with the local resistance against the Turks. However, the revolution takes on a personal face when he discovers that his brother Elijah has been hired as a gun by the enemy. ...

Examining a thousand years of Western civilization
- from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance,
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Between 1860 & 1940, Cairo & other large Egyptian cities witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces & lavish buildings. In 2006, Russian born photographer Xenia Nikolskaya began the process of documenting these extraordinary structures, many of which today lie empty & neglected. ...