Shanghai in the City & Regions series from Time Out; comprehensive guides to a range of cities & their surrounding regions & including some of the most detailed listings & directories of places to eat & drink & things to do & see. Time Out guides are strongly focussed on local entertainment & nightlife, in addition to principal sights & attractions, with expert local writers providing an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city. This unique quality has ensured that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. The surrounding region is also incorporated in some guides, with information on the principal attractions, sites, landscapes & the best way of exploring them. Each of the Time Out city & region guides has a similar layout, allowing visitors to explore their destination easily. An ...

Shanghai in the National Geographic Traveler guide series, produced by America’s leading travel publishers, exploring a range of cities, regions & countries worldwide & using the expertise & tradition of National Geographic to provide a comprehensive survey of each destination. Each of the guides in the series draws upon National Geographic’s rich history of travel experience & is researched by authors familiar with the area. Whilst the content is influenced by an American editorial style, individual titles are still accessible to a non-American audience, with a combination of practical guidance & detailed information included in each guide. The series also relies upon the extensive image libraries of National Geographic to present a rich visual image of each destination. Individual National Geographic Traveler titles are organised uniformly, allowing readers to access information quickly & easily. Introductory sections provide information on Charting your Trip, with details of getting there & around & a History & Culture chapter profiling history, food & drink, land & landscape, flora & fauna & arts & literature. Chapter are arranged geographically by region, with notable cities & areas principally describing the main sites & attractions, with further information on directions, history & practicalities. There are also a number of individual features & insider tips throughout each guide covering subjects such as walking tours, local culture, driving tours, recommended local experiences & in-depth thematic short histories of the culture & histories of individual regions. A Travelwise section at the back of each guide provides essential practical information on when to go, what to take, further reading, getting there & around, local etiquette, media, holidays, money matters, religion, smoking, time differences, opening times, travellers with disabilities & accommodation. Restaurants & hotels are listed with brief descriptions & information on prices, location, contact details & facilities for the relevant regional chapters in the guide. ...

The fast-track guide for the smart traveler. A tightly edited, discreetly packaged selection of city highlights for the design-conscious visitor. Each Wallpaper* City Guide unearths the most happening restaurants & nightlife, the buzziest hotels, the most influential art galleries & enticing retail, the very best in local design, & the historical styles & contemporary architecture that define a destination. Local writers have delved deep into the urban psyche to enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real flavor of the creative scene & the satisfaction you ve seen all that you should.” ...

The fast-track guide for the smart traveller Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider`s checklist of all you need to know about the world`s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we`ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city`s landscape & the satisfaction you`ve seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

From Michelin starred restaurants to local bistros & from luxury hotels to rooms with a view, this unique guide journeys through ...

This is a raw, honest & amusing look at travelling through Asia & India. The true story of an Australian man on the run from himself, & a hit man, which sinks the reader into the swirling madness & paradoxical horror & beauty of India, portrayed without sentiment. Fleeing his shady Australian past, Aaron Smith travels to India & encounters a murder mystery, witnesses the tragic death of a friend, dodges terrorist attacks & a revolution & befriends a colourful cast of fellow characters fit for a Bollywood flick. ...

Don Mc Cullin has held many exhibitions over the years, including his first landmark show at the V&A in London nearly thirty years ago. As the greatest war photographer of his time, it is no surprise that his work is the subject of a huge exhibition currently being organized by the Imperial War Museum. The exhibition will open at the museum`s Manchester site in February 2010, where it will run for a few months & then open at the London museum a year later. The accompanying book will be a departure from the usual format of MCullin publishing & will be sized to match the original ” Sunday Times Magazine”, where so much of his work first appeared. Focusing on his important stories, the book will trace his entire career. Mc Cullin has been interviewed on film for many hours for this project & the edited transcriptions of those interviews will form much of the substance of his text. Mc Cullin`s little known colour work will be reproduced along side pages from the magazines & an assemblage of Mc Cullin`s personal material & documents. These include his cameras, boots & helmet, numerous passports & photographs of him at work on the battlefield, together with illuminating personal correspondence. ...

From Comrade Shakespeare Mc Nab who enlists the help of La Diablesse to retrieve his faltering career at a Caribbean broadcasting station, to the fourteen-year-old English girl who develops a terror of infi nity; from the electrifying description of a woman attacked as she lies sleeping, to the lyrical exploration of myths of El Dorado, Pauline Melville lures the reader into intriguing different worlds. The sheer malevolence of everyday life is offset with hilarity, making these stories both unsettling & funny. ...

To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer & doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind & body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about. We can`t avoid puberty, the menopause, or our hair turning grey. Others may be welcome milestones along our path
- a much-wanted pregnancy, a cancer cured, or a long-awaited transition to another gender. We may find ourselves turning down dark paths, towards the cruel distortions of anorexia, or the shifting sands of memory loss. New technologies can upgrade us, & even without them our bodies can transform in rare, almost magical, ways
- with gigantism, or the sun-sensitivity & facial hair that led porphyria sufferers, once upon a time, to be suspected as werewolves. Medicine now has unprecedented power to alter our lives, but that power has limitations. As he helps patients face transformations both temporary & sustained, Francis draws on history, art, literature, myth & magic to show how the very essence of being human is change.

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Illustrated with maps, archive photographs & paintings, as well as some original sketches, “ Shaping London” sees architect & urban planner Sir Terry Farrell create connections between London’s past, present, & future. In this book Farrell charts how London’s messy & complex architectural shape has evolved over time from a series of layers- natural & man-made. It gives an account that stretches from the banks of the Thames to Richmond & Kew to London Docklands & the heavily industrialised Thames Estuary, whilst also looking at well-known landmarks & sights.“ Shaping London” suggests a way of observing & learning from London today that are key to understanding how the capital might grow & change in the future. ...