About this series: City guides for the more inquisitive visitor, this series of guide books gives you everything you need to know about your destination, be it the present, or the past. With guided walks, clear & usable maps, beautiful colour photos & in-depth sections on food, restaurants, history, art, architecture & music, “ Visible Cities” make for ideal companions on city breaks. ...

Budapest 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. ...

Singer Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discovered a striking sense of otherness in spite of Hungary s central geographical & cultural position within Europe. & with that, a deep passion for the city was born. Budapest offers an engaging & affectionate look at this beautiful capital from the perspective of a musician who lived & worked there for many years. With rich musical traditions, both classical & folk, & possessing a language like almost no other, Hungary is in the process of abandoning the trappings of its communist past while attempting to preserve its culture from creeping globalization. Clapton delights in the fact that certain old-fashioned attitudes of courtesy, at times stemming from the very structures of the Magyar tongue, are still deeply ingrained in Hungarian society. At the same time, despite its association with world-famous composers such as Bartok, Liszt, & Kodaly, music is far from an activity enjoyed only by the elite. Including plenty of tips on food, drink, & sites of interest, Budapest describes the capital in uniquely melodic terms & will delight lovers of travel & music alike.” ...

Thomas Mann`s first novel, Buddenbrooks, is drawn from his own life & experience. Subtitled The Decline of a Family, his story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family & their gradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modern uncertainty. ...

In her hugely acclaimed debut Anne Donovan tells an endearing, humorous yet unsentimental story of a working-class Glaswegian man who discovers Buddhism, rejects old habits & seeks a life more meaningful, only to alienate his immediate family in the process. Moving seamlessly between three family members, Donovan`s clear-eyed, richly expressive prose sings off the page. Each character`s voice has its own subtle rhythm & the conclusion is a poignant mixture of hope & lingering reservations. ” Buddha Da” is a delight from one of Britain`s best writers. ...

Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia & through Central Asia to China, Korea & Japan. To guide & inspire believers, innumerable symbols & images were made, beginning in India in the 3rd century BC. This phenomenally diverse tradition

Includes:: not only frescoes, relief carvings, colossal statues, silk embroideries & bronze ritual objects but also rock-cut shrines with a thousand Buddhas, the glorious stupas of South-East Asia & the pagodas of the Far East, the massive ”mandala in stone” of Borobudur in Java & entire 13th-century temple complexes at Angkor in Cambodia. The author describes all the Buddhist schools & cultures, & explains their imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams & Korean folk art to early Sri Lankan sites & Japanese Zen gardens.

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Newly available in paperback, this sumptuous volume presents a dazzling collection of photographs of the majestic landscape & Buddhist people of the Himalayas. The authors profound intimacy with their subject is immediately apparent in their awe-inspiring images, which present a harmonious mosaic of the unmatched richness of the civilizations on the Roof of the World. The pictures are accompanied throughout by contributions from nineteen eminent specialists on the region, who discuss the faith, culture, politics & traditions of the Himalayan world. Reflecting not only the cycle of human existence but also the history of the Himalayas, this lavish volume offers an unparalleled insight into Himalayan Buddhism in the 21st century. ...

In this follow-up to ” Buddhist Himalayas”, Olivier & Danielle Follmi have once more worked in vivid colour to document the beauty of the majestic Himalayan landscape, while delving yet deeper into the wisdom of the Tibetans. Each of the images presented here is mirrored by a meditation from one of the great masters & thinkers of Tibetan Buddhism, among them His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kalou Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa, Anagarika Govinda & Shabkar. These insights, divided into 52 themes to follow the rhythm of the year, encompass subjects that touch all humanity: from money, health & faith to trust & love. Their wisdom & power offer a means for daily meditation, whatever the reader`s beliefs or religious traditions. ...

Newton Ferrers, Noss Mayo & Wembury area of southern Devon on a very detailed, GPS compatible hiking, cycling & horse riding map from Croydecycle at 1:12, 500, printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. The map is part of publishers’ series covering the western coast of Somerset, both coastlines of Devon, & the adjoining areas of Dorset. Each handy size, 50 x 35cm, map is double-sided to cover a wider area. Topography is indicated by contours at 10m intervals with graphics and/or colouring for different type of terrain (s&, shingle, mud, high or low cliffs, etc) & vegetation (woodlands, gorse, scrub, etc). An overprint highlights footpaths, permissive paths & small permissive paths, Bridleways, cycle tracks & country roads which are byways for all traffic. On other roads markings indicate routes which are part of the National Cycle Network. Symbols show locations of campsites & caravan sites, riding stables, pubs/cafes/restaurants, shops & other local facilities, etc. For GPS users each map has in the margins National Grid coordinates. Most 1:12, 500 maps include enlargements of main town (s), an inset providing geological information, & details of transport options. To see other titles in this series, including cycle maps, please click on the series link. The 1:12, 500 maps are numbered on our website westwards along the Somerset & north Devon coast, & then eastwards along the southern coast of Devon & into Dorset. ...

Map No. 190, Bude & Clovelly, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, including Holsworthy, Stratton, Boscastle, Bideford, Stoke, Hartl&, Milford, Parkham, Lillteham, Woolfardisworthy (Woolsery), Buckland Brewer, Stibb Cross, Bradworthy, Welcombe, Morwenstow, Woodford, Kilkhampton, Sutcombe, Shebbear, Cookbury, Holsworthy Beacon, Bridgerule, Pyworthy, Clawton, Bangors, Halwill Junction, Ashwater, Luffincott, Boyton, Yeolmbridge, Broadwoodwidger, Canworthy Water, Hallworthy, Davidstow, Marshgate, Middle Crackington, Week St. Mary, Widemouth Bay & Bangors, plus Hartland Point, Roadford Lake & a section of the South West Coast Path. Edition D1; Revised 2003-4; Revised for selected changes 2008; Copyright date 2009 This title is also available on our website in a waterproof & tear-resistant version. Maps in this series are only published folded. Stanfords can also print flat versions of Ordnance Survey maps through the OS Select system, centring the map on a location of your choice & with a picture provided by you on the cover. For more information please click on the link at the bottom of this description. About Ordnance Survey ...