The Not For Tourists Guide to New York City is a map-based neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide designed to lighten the load of already street savvy New Yorkers, commuters, business travelers, & yes, tourists too. Each map is marked with user-friendly icons identifying our favorite picks around town &

Includes:: an invaluable neighborhood description written by locals. The book

Includes:: everything from restaurants, bars, & post offices to information on hotels, airports, & museums. This pocket-sized book

Includes:: 35 maps as well as details on Parks & Places, Sports, Transit, General Information, & Arts & Entertainment. It is the indispensable guide to the city.





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The Not For Tourists Guide to New York City is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy New Yorkers, commuters, business travelers, & yes, tourists too. Each map is marked with user-friendly icons identifying our favorite picks around town, from essentials to entertainment, &

Includes:: an invaluable neighborhood description written by locals, highlighting the most important features of each area.

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There are 37, 780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life
- estates, villages, places of
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Bernard`s got a problem. He`s found a monster in the back garden but his mum & dad are just too busy to notice. So Bernard tries to befriend the monster... & that doesn`t go quite to plan. Loved by children, monsters & adults for thirty five years, David Mc Kee`s iconic picture book is celebrated in this special anniversary paperback that

Includes:: embossing & a free downloadable audiobook.

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Since Marco Polo`s explorations & Montaigne`s travels, a lively dialogue has persisted about travel`s pros & cons -- its excitement, novelties, perils, & misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises serious & amusing questions.” Not Now, Voyager” takes us on a voyage of self-discovery as the author traces how travel shaped her. She visits Miami Beach as an adolescent with an aunt & uncle & confronts the sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman & ponders the difference between ignorance & innocence; she ventures to Jamaica & witnesses acute political & social unrest; & she takes a family road trip to Montreal & watches her daughters come to their own startling realizations. In this memoir, Schwartz`s history takes on new shapes, & her feelings about travel change as she does. Her story exemplifies a mode of travel: the mind on a journey, pausing, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, backtracking, but always on the move. ...

Part memoir, part remedy for the state we`re in, with liberal sprinklings of common sense, Chris Patten`s ” Not Quite the Diplomat” is a frank & funny book from a very outspoken politician. After spending several years in the thick of international events, Chris Patten has seen rather a lot of the world
- & the people who run it. & now he`s free from the bonds of diplomacy, he doesn`t have to be quite so careful about what he says. Here he gives us his forthright views on everything from the Tories` downfall to America`s empire, from whether Blair has any political convictions to why Britain should start liking the French. ” Masterly, elegant, sprightly, wry.. .the best political reading of the year”. (James Naughtie, ” The Times Books of the Year”). ”A garnering of rich personal experience... Frank & vivid.. .without betraying any confidences or relationships of trust (Sir Christopher Meyer, please note)”. (” The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year”). ” Elegant, warm, witty, stylish & readable... If politics were sane, appointments to ministerial rank anywhere would be conditional on reading, digesting, understanding & acting upon the wisdom of this book”. (” Independent”). ” Patten writes with wit, elegance & passion, showing a candour & courage uncommon among politicians”. (” Sunday Telegraph”). Chris Patten is currently Chairman of the BBC Trust, & Chancellor of Oxford & Newcastle Universities. He is well known for being the last Governor of Hong Kong 1992-1997, about which he wrote in ” East & West” (1998). Both that & his most recent book, ” Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs” (2005), were international best-sellers.
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The book’s full title gives a new reader an idea as to just what to expect from John Simpson; Not Quite World’s End
- A Traveller’s
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The defining calamity of the post-cold war era`, in Peter Oborne`s words, took place in 2003. The invasion of Iraq led to the collapse of the state system in the Middle East. Iraq is shattered, Syria will never be put back together again, & Lebanon hasn`t functioned as a unified state for a long time. & the great wave of refugees unleashed by this breakdown is threatening what is left of democracy in Turkey & the very existence of the European Union. Oborne provides a forensic examination of the way evidence was doctored & the law manipulated in 2002 & 2003 in order to justify a war for regime change. The government bent facts to fit its determination to join the US invasion, Parliament failed to scrutinise evidence, the intelligence service was perverted, & the media lost its head. This is a masterly account of the making of a disaster, written by a passionate British democrat. ...

“ Not the West Highland Way is part of Cicerone’s of Great Britain & Ireland Cicerone walking guides series on topics & grades covering short walks & day walks, coastal & ridge walks, lowlands & highlands, long distance trails & popular regional routes. This guide offers mountain alternatives to all but one of the West Highland Way’s 9 standard stages, as well as other nearby hill circuits, warm-up backpacking trips & routes into the deep north. 5 one-day hill outings are described, as well as 8 mountain alternatives for a great 14-day expedition; it

Includes:: two 2-day backpack trips for shoulder strengthening & 3 longer routes further afield. Guides are a smaller format & illustrated with OS mapping & colour photography. Very thorough route descriptions are given, with walk profile boxes summarizing essential data such as distance, height gain, grade, walking time, Ordnance Survey mapping references, & accommodation & parking options. Cicerone Press are one of the UK’s most well known & respected publishers of guidebooks for the outdoor enthusiast. Easily distinguished by their convenient pocket size, these books have been a favourite amongst walkers, climbers & cyclists for many years. Their guides for European & international destinations are highly popular amongst English-speaking tourists. The books are of the same high standard as the UK guides, with clear maps, detailed route descriptions & plentiful background information. The range is extensive & often they produce the only available English language guide available for a particular area or long distance route.

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The lady`s here. The lady with the big bag. She`s knocking on the front door. She`s knocking & knocking. I`m not opening the door. I`m not letting her in. I`m behind the black chair. I`m waiting for her to go away. Tomos lives with his mother, & sometimes her boyfriend. He longs to return to another place, a place he thinks of as home, & the people who lived with him there. & for Cwtch, who he had to leave behind, too. He knows that there are some things he cannot talk about
- except to Cwtch
- & then, just before Christmas, the difficult things come to a head. There are men outside who want to come in, & his mum has said not to answer the door. From behind his chair, Tomos waits, trying to make himself small & quiet. He doesn`t think it`s Santa Claus this time. When the men break in, Tomos`s world is turned on its head & the adults around him must fight to make it right again.

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