Shop Beirut by Marwan Naaman explores Lebanese culture through the prism of retail, highlighting the shops that best embody Lebanese lifestyle. Restaurants & hotels offering the chance to buy interesting products reflecting the cosmopolitan lives of Beirut’s citizens have also been included. Each chapter is related to a district of Beirut or to a neighbouring city & offers a street map of the area concerned. Nicely illustrated with great pictures of the city, this book definitely offers you the opportunity to take a fresh look at Beirut. ...

Don't let shopping in the Big Apple stress you out! With text in English, Japanese, French & German this is the perfect start to any serious shopping trip. The map shows individual stores & shopping centres. Telephone numbers are included so you can check whether Macy's has the size you need or whether that little restaurant is open for a lunch stop. The map is made from tearproof paper & would fit neatly into a handbag or suit pocket! ...

Don't let shopping in Frisco stress you out! With text in English, Japanese, French & German this is the perfect start to any serious shopping trip. The map shows individual stores & shopping centres. Telephone numbers are included so you can check whether Macy's has the size you need or whether that little restaurant is open for a lunch stop. The map is made from tearproof paper & would fit neatly into a handbag or suit pocket! ...

London has always been a shopper`s paradise, tempting to every taste, mood & budget. Shop London helps you narrow in on the most talked-about, tucked-away, unique, & exciting retail experiences, opening doors to 200 of the best independent boutiques, fashion stores, specialist shops, markets, vintage meccas & more. It also explores the capital`s shopping districts & hotspots, from the super smart Chiltern Street to the endlessly cute Columbia Road. ...

In 1909, the largest department store in London`s West End, designed & built from scratch, opened in Oxford Street in a glorious burst of publicity. The mastermind behind the facade was American retail genius Harry Gordon Selfridge: maverick businessman, risk-taker, dandy & one of the greatest showmen the retail world has ever known. His talents were to create the seduction of shopping, & as his success & fame grew, so did his glittering lifestyle: mansions, yachts, gambling, racehorses
- & mistresses. From the glamour of Edwardian Engl&, through the turmoil of the Great War & the heady excesses of the 1920s & beyond, Selfridges Department Store was `a theatre with the curtain going up at 9 o`clock each morning`. Mr Selfridge reveals the captivating story of the rise & fall of the man who revolutionised the way we shop. ` Lively & entertaining` Sunday Telegraph ` Will change your view of shopping forever` Vogue ` Harry Selfridge revolutionised the way we shop.. .fascinating` Daily Mail
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Shopping shoulder bag made from recycled leather. The leather is produced from ground down leather scraps that are a by-product of leather manufacturing. It retains most of the properties of regular leather & it will maintain its beauty for many years. The shoulder bag features interior cotton lining in matching colour, two small side compartments suitable to store mobile phones & a side pocket with zip fastening. The open top presents a strap with a metal magnet push-button to secure the content of the bag. Available in different colours. ...

Shopping shoulder bag made from recycled leather. The leather is produced from ground down leather scraps that are a by-product of leather manufacturing. It retains most of the properties of regular leather & it will maintain its beauty for many years. The shoulder bag features interior cotton lining in matching colour, two small side compartments suitable to store mobile phones & a side pocket with zip fastening. The open top presents a strap with a metal magnet push-button to secure the content of the bag. Available in different colours. ...

Jeff Greenwald`s classic travelogue follows his quest for the ”perfect” Buddha statue. At turns hilarious & moving, his quest features a cast of amazing characters -- from a passionate palmist to a flying lama -- who provide unforgettable glimpses into the daily life & culture of the former kingdom (including a wild ride on Kathmandu`s very first escalator). Greenwald doesn`t shy away from Shangri-la`s darker side. Along with colorful descriptions of Hindu & Buddhist mythology, the book tells of the rampant corruption, art smuggling, assassination attempts & human right abuses that would ignite Nepal`s violent ” People Power” Revolution in April 1990. A new afterword by the author recounts Nepal`s tumultuous recent history -- including the massacre of the royal family -- in vivid detail. & a new preface introduces this 25th anniversary edition with some thoughts about how Nepal, & travel writing, have evolved since the book`s first publication. Shopping for Buddhas remains a must-read for anyone who has visited, or plans to visit, Nepal. ...

In ” Shopping for Pleasure”, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London`s Victorian & Edwardian West End as an entertainment & retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, & spacious parks & squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity & the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged & discouraged women`s enjoyment of public life & particularly shows how shopping came to be seen as the quintessential leisure activity for middle- & upper-class women. Through extensive histories of department stores, women`s magazines, clubs, teashops, restaurants, & the theater as interwoven sites of consumption, ” Shopping for Pleasure” uncovers how a new female urban culture emerged before & after the turn of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the question of whether shopping promoted or limited women`s freedom, the author draws on diverse sources to explore how business practices, legal decisions, & cultural changes affected women in the market. In particular, she focuses on how & why stores presented themselves as pleasurable, secure places for the urban woman, in some cases defining themselves as instrumental to civic improvement & women`s emancipation. Rappaport also considers such influences as merchandizing strategies, credit policies, changes in public transportation, feminism, & the financial balance of power within the home. ” Shopping for Pleasure” is thus both a social & cultural history of the West End, but on a broader scale it reveals the essential interplay between the rise of consumer society, the birth of modern femininity, & the making of contemporary London. ...

Shoreditch in 1870 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Three versions of this map have been published, stretching from Cropley Street & City Road eastward to Cambridge Road & Corfield Street, & from the Regents Canal southward to Bethnal Green Road & Bishopsgate Station. The maps include Shoreditch, Hoxton, Haggerston & the west part of Bethnal Green. Features include the GER railway approaches, Bethnal Green Junction station, Bishopsgate station on 1872 version, Bishopsgate Goods station on later maps; tramways, Shoreditch station, St Luke`s Hospital, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Aske`s Hospital, gas works, Columbia Market, Regents Canal, numerous small industries, e.g. vinegar works among the houses, the area known as The Jago. Streets include Hackney Road, City Road, New North Road, St John`s Road, Hoxton Street, Gosset Street & countless more. Each map has extracts from contemporary street directories. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...