Beijing Walks in the Odyssey Guides series; aimed at travellers particularly interested in the culture & history of their destination; the guides focus on the atmosphere, customs, & distinctive character of a country, region or city. As the only English language publisher based in China, Odyssey Guides specialize in Asian destinations, relying on the expertise of local writers. This gives readers more of an insider’s perspective, in companion with the practicalities of navigating through remote Asian landscapes. Each title is heavily dedicated to the culture of the destination, all with accompanying colour photography. The guides also showcase a range of literary excerpts which are taken from travel writers together with translations from the work of indigenous writers & poets, creating a distinctive tone unique to the publisher. There are also basic overview location maps & concise practical advice for visitors, including information on getting there & around, itineraries, climate, health, clothing & equipment, money, photography, communications, security, shopping, media, food & drink, holidays & behavior, customs & etiquette. ...

Beijing in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Beilngries in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Berching, Dietfurt a.d. Altmühl, Breitenbrunn, Mühlhausen, Seubersdorf i.d.OPf. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. & through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down & grapple with the beast in us all. So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole & eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter & he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London & rooting in bins like an urban fox. A passionate naturalist, Foster realises that every creature creates a different world in its brain & lives in that world. As humans, we share sensory outputs, lights, smells & sound, but trying to explore what it is actually like to live in another of these worlds, belonging to another species, is a fascinating & unique neuro-scientific challenge. For Foster it is also a literary challenge. Looking at what science can tell us about what happens in a fox`s or badger`s brain when it picks up a scent, he then uses this to imagine their world for us, to write it through their eyes or rather through the eyes of Charles the beast. An intimate look at the life of animals, neuroscience, psychology, nature writing, memoir & more, it is a journey of extraordinary thrills & surprises, containing wonderful moments of humour & joy, but also providing important lessons for all of us who share life on this precious planet. ...

Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. & through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down & grapple with the beast in us all. So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole & eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter & he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London & rooting in bins like an urban fox. A passionate naturalist, Foster realises that every creature creates a different world in its brain & lives in that world. As humans, we share sensory outputs, lights, smells & sound, but trying to explore what it is actually like to live in another of these worlds, belonging to another species, is a fascinating & unique neuro-scientific challenge. For Foster it is also a literary challenge. Looking at what science can tell us about what happens in a fox`s or badger`s brain when it picks up a scent, he then uses this to imagine their world for us, to write it through their eyes or rather through the eyes of Charles the beast. An intimate look at the life of animals, neuroscience, psychology, nature writing, memoir & more, it is a journey of extraordinary thrills & surprises, containing wonderful moments of humour & joy, but also providing important lessons for all of us who share life on this precious planet. ...

Bindy, aged 15, has known her best friend Janie since they were babies & they`ve been inseparable ever since. But now the unthinkable has happened
- Janie`s attaching herself to a different crowd at school & she`s acting as if she doesn`t want to know Bindy any more. The new crowd is loud, bitchy, interested in boys & clothes, rebellious, daring. All the things Bindy isn`t. Added to which, things aren`t great at home. Bindy`s mother who left the family years ago is now trying to forge a closer relationship with her children. Bindy`s brother doesn`t want to know
- which leaves Bindy stuck in the middle. & Bindy`s dad has started dating Janie`s mum. This is a book about being yourself, even if other people think you should be someone different. It`s also about how to renegotiate the relationships around you when circumstances change.

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The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics & last year's Royal wedding are events that should have created a wave of patriotism across the l&. But Britannia no longer rules the waves & a land once typified by its self-assurance & enterprise is now weighed down by the history of its decline from greatness
- afraid even to celebrate its past glories, achievements seemingly tainted by jingoism & colonialism. Nor are its peers afraid to exploit such weaknesses. David Cameron's veto of a European treaty to save the Euro unleashed a torrent of anti-British invective that was more than simply cosmetic; President Obama has seemingly gone out of his way to demonstrate how little weight the so-called special relationship carries with him. Britain even faces challenges from within, with the Scottish Parliament pressing for an end to the Union. With Britain's values & status maligned & the subject of sneers, no wonder its people are in the midst of an identity crisis. Spurred on by the vexed question of what Britishness actually means, Whittle sets out to examine what, if anything, is actually wrong with being British? More than that, Being British is a humorous & anecdote-packed celebration at the Britain of today, covering some of our greatest national institutions, habits & characters. This is a landmark book as Britain struggles to cement its place in the twenty first century.
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A skinny Jewish kid from Philadelphia training to fight & likely die in the U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945, Stanley Weiss came home to the death of his loving but weak father, who left his mother penniless. Vowing on the spot not to let his insecurities limit him as they had his father, Weiss pledged that his mother would never have to worry. Later, a humiliation suffered at the hands of his wealthy girlfriend`s famous father ignited in him a determination to better himself in every way & live life to the fullest. Inspired by a Humphrey Bogart movie, Weiss moved to a foreign country to hunt for treasure
- where Rule Number One was ” Don`t Die.” Along the way, his zest for living has taken him from the company of legendary artists & poets in Mexico, to writers & beatniks in 1960s San Francisco & Hollywood; from drunken nights with a notorious spy to friendships with three of the men who played James Bond; from glamorous parties in Gstaad & Phuket to power politics in London & Washington, DC.A story of growth, tenacious focus, & good humor, it stretches from the days of ” Don`t Die” to Weiss` response when asked why business executives were interested in preventing nuclear war: ” Being dead is bad for business.” For those who believe the world is shaped by ordinary people who push themselves to do extraordinary things, Stanley Weiss` story will inspire & surprise while reminding us all that being dead is bad for business
- & being boring is bad for life.

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Don`t care about ecology? This book is for you. Morton sets out to show us that whether we know it or not, we already have the capacity & the will to change the way we understand the place of humans in the world, & our very understanding of the term `ecology`. A cross-disciplinarian who has collaborated with everyone from Björk to Hans Ulrich Obrist, Morton is also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, a group of forward-looking thinkers who are grappling with modern-day notions of subjectivity & objectivity, while also offering fascinating new understandings of Heidegger & Kant. Calling the volume a book containing `no ecological facts`, Morton confronts the `information dump` fatigue of the digital age, & offers an invigorated approach to creating a liveable future. ...

Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O` Sullivan`s poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility & arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature`s finest poets. Vincent O` Sullivan is one of New Zealand`s leading writers, author of the biography of John Mulgan, Long Journey to the Border, the novels Let the River Stand & Believers to the Bright Coast, & many plays & collections of short stories & poems. He is joint editor of the five-volume Letters of Katherine Mansfield & has edited a number of major anthologies. He lives in Dunedin. ...