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- Paraguay in the Footprint Focus Guides, which are targeted at cities, regions & countries worldwide that
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Paraguay in the Travel Guide series from Bradt; encompassing a comprehensive range of titles to destinations worldwide, with a particular focus on Africa, Central & South America. Bradt are one of the country’s leading independent publishers & have an ethos that focuses on responsible travel, in alliance with a philosophy of sustainability; both in the destinations the guides cover but also in encouraging tourists to limit the impact they have on the local environment. Bradt guides have a reputation for appealing to more independent travelers & often cover destinations that are not available from other publishers. Each guide opens with two comprehensive chapters on Background & Practical Information, covering details of the country’s geography, culture, natural history, government & politics, economy, people, language, religion, education & culture. Important practical advice

Includes:: when to visit, highlights, suggested itineraries, tour operators, red tape, embassies & consulates, getting there & away, health, safety, what to take, money, budgeting, getting around, accommodation, eating & drinking, public holidays, shopping, arts & entertainment, media & communications, business, travel culture & cultural etiquette. Individual sections are organized geographically by region & typically open with information on practicalities & orientation, before focusing on what to see & where to go. Information on what to see, where to stay, where to eat & how to find your way around is provided, with a range of budgets catered for. Simple black & white maps locate key visitor sites & places of accommodation. Bradt Travel Guides include appendices that provide an in-depth introduction to the language of each country, a glossary of terms & a listing of books & internet resources providing further information on the destination.

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Walk around Asuncion`s historic centre & admire the grandeur of colonial-era buildings like the Palacio de Gobierno, styled on the Palace of Versailles, before hitting market stalls selling traditional arts & crafts. Paraguay is an under-explored pocket of South America, boasting rich wildlife, lush forests, & mighty rivers. This l&-locked country is home to a proud Guarani culture, as well as the 16th-century Jesuit Missions, which are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Footprint Focus Paraguay is a concise & portable guide to this friendly country, containing detailed information on attractions that are both popular & off the beaten track. Essentials section with practical advice on getting there & around. Highlights map so you know what not to miss. Comprehensive listings on where to eat & sleep, plus details on festivals & activities. Detailed street maps for Asuncion & other important towns. Slim enough to fit in your pocket. Loaded with advice & information, this concise Footprint Focus guide will help you get the most out of Paraguay without weighing you down. The content of the Footprint Focus Paraguay guide has been extracted from Footprint`s South America Handbook. ...

Paraguay on an indexed double-side map 1:800, 000 from ITMB with an enlargement for the environs of Asuncion plus a street plan of the capital’s city centre highlighting numerous hotels & various places of interest. The map divides the country east/west with a good overlap between the sides. Altitude colouring shows the topography, with swamps & marshes & national parks or other protected areas also marked. Road network gives distances on main routes & indicates locations of petrol stations. Symbols highlight places of interest, including locations with tourist accommodation & medical facilities. Also marked are internal administrative boundaries with names of the province. The map is indexed & has latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 1º. An enlargement presents the environs of Asuncion in greater detail including access to resorts on Lago Ypacarai. The centre of the capital is shown on a clear street plan highlighting hotels & various places of interest. ...

Celebrity, identity & sexuality
- the three poles of our fame-obsessed society, each one a magnet for secrets & lies. Despite
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Captain Fields` Pattern
- Bar Parallel Rule 400mm Divided with protractor markings (double reading) & compass points Manufactured
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Captain Fields` Pattern
- Bar Parallel Rule 500mm Divided with protractor markings (double reading) & compass points Manufactured
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Captain Fields` Pattern
- Bar Parallel Rule 600mm Divided with protractor markings (double reading) & compass points Manufactured
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In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench & alerts the authorities. This classic police-procedural scene opens an extraordinary novel, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans
- Hungarians, Jews, Germans, & Gypsies
- across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century. The social & political circumstances of their lives may vary richly, their sexual & spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Peter Nadas` magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny, reverberating parallels that link them across time & space. Three unusual men are at the heart of ” Parallel Stories”: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to dark secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s, Agost Lippay-Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary`s different political regimes for decades, & Andras Rott, who has his own dark record of dark activities abroad. They are friends in Budapest when we eventually meet them in the spring of 1961, a pivotal time in the postwar epoch & in their clandestine careers. But the richly detailed, dramatic memories & actions of these men, like those of their friends, lovers & family members, range from Berlin & Moscow to Switzerland & Holl&, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, & of course, across Hungary. The ever-daring, ever-original episodes of ” Parallel Lives” explore the most intimate, most difficult human experiences in a prose glowing with uncommon clarity & also with mysterious uncertainty
- as is characteristic of Nadas` subtle, spirited art. The web of extended dramas in ” Parallel Stories” reaches not just forward to the transformative year of 1989 but back to the spring of 1939, with Europe trembling on the edge of war; to the bestial times of 1944-45, when Budapest was besieged, the final solution devastated Hungary`s Jews, & the war came to an end; & to the cataclysmic Hungarian Revolution of October 1956. But there is much more to ” Parallel Stories” than that: it is a daring, demanding, & very moving exploration of humanity at its most constrained & its most free.


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One of the titles in a series of maps from the Israeli Survey, in Hebrew
- with some Roman alphabet equivalents, providing coverage
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