With the inauguration after ten years of the newly expanded Accademia gallery, Venice`s grandi maestri are fighting back against the lagoon city`s slew of cutting-edge contemporary offerings. & while lambent madonnas continue to preside in the ageless gloom of any number of ancient churches, the modernist jewel of Carlo Scarpa`s Olivetti showroom in St Mark`s square has been returned to the public after loving restoration. Time Out Venice`s team of local experts gives the lie to La Serenissima`s reputation as unchanging museum. Charting new openings & major revamps in a city where it pays to look beyond the tourist-trade veneer & take a peek its own unique way of life, the guide leads you to restaurants where Venetians dine, shops where the glass really is blown in Murano & exquisite corners where the visiting hordes seem light years away. Venice city guide highlights: full colour & illustrated throughout with exclusive photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place; handy pull-out Venice map; extensive area guides not only cover the sightseeing in Venice, but also restaurants, bars & shops
- all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter; Top 20 list of the must-see highlights; itineraries to help you plan your visit; Critic`s choices pick out the best Venice sights, experiences & cultural highlights
- at a glance; all Venice restaurants & bars have been visited & reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way; & Venice hotels independently reviewed. The revamped Time Out Guides retain the independence & local expertise that the series is known for, while adding more features to help the visitor navigate the city. Whether you have an action-packed 24 hours or a leisurely week in which to take it all in, these guides are more essential than ever.

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The Shortlist Venice selects the very best of Venice`s sightseeing, restaurants, shopping, nightlife & entertainment, with Time Out`s trademark expertise. It also takes you straight to the latest venues, tips you off to the news & fashions & gives the dates that matter. It`s the best reference for anyone visiting Venice in a handy size & easy to use format. Features include: Full colour & illustrated throughout with exclusive photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place Area guides not only cover the sightseeing in Venice, but also restaurants, bars & shops
- all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter Top lists of the must-see highlights Itineraries to help you plan your visit Critic`s choices pick out the best Venice sights, experiences & cultural highlights
- at a glance Venice restaurants & bars have been visited & reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way Venice hotels independently reviewed

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Great Britain & Ireland are home to some of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. Stonehenge, Hadrian`s Wall & Ironbridge are familiar to us all & each year thousands flock to witness their spectacular beauty. But what can these fascinating sites tell us about the lives & times of our ancestors? Now, Channel 4`s perennially popular Time Team take us on an archaeological sight-seeing tour of Britain & Irel&. Region by region, they select the most interesting & important sites which are open to visitors, some familiar to all, others relatively unknown. Each is treated with the inimitable no-nonsense Time Team style. This book is like having Tony, Mick, Geo-Phys & the gang in the back seat of your car
- sharing their specialist knowledge & fascinating historical insights wherever you travel in the British Isles...
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In this intriguing & very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th & 78th birthdays, & looks back on her earlier life. With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s & 1930s in Cambridge, & then giving birth to her second daughter during the worst of the Doodlebug bombardment in London during the war. It follows her work, starting out as an administrator in the National Health Service, then on to the Home Office in the forensic & criminal justice departments. She later served as a Governor of the BBC, an influential member of the British Council, the Arts Council & the Society of Authors, & eventually entering the House of Lords. Along the way, this diary & personal memoir deals with her burgeoning reputation as a novelist, starting with Cover Her Face in 1962, & with the craft of the classical detective story. She also details the writing of one of her most intriguing & carefully researched books, A Certain Justice. This wonderful memoir will enthral aficionados of detective fiction, & will also appeal to anyone who lived through those turbulent years of the twentieth century. ...

The world & its resources are finite, yet we are seemingly locked into a system based on growth: growth of population, growth of income & growth of consumption. From this irrefutable starting point, Time to Eat the Dog? attempts to uncover what sustainability really means. Brenda & Robert Vale explore the environmental impact of the decisions we make, from what we eat & what we wear to how we travel & enjoy ourselves. Their book will make you see your life & your place in the world in a completely new light. Challenging the orthodoxies that underpin our entire economic system, this is one subversive read. ...

From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned & awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks & the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude & the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of `supernatural windfall` which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records. ...

Take it from a friend who knows: ”travel is not scary or difficult for the mature single woman. Confidence & planning are the keys.” Rome, Chicago, London, Vienna, Berlin.. .best-selling author & entrepreneur Jayne Seagrave has traveled there, & she`s done it solo. With this guidebook, she has compiled information, tips, & tricks to share with mature women interested in seeing the world. Like a world-traveled, well-informed friend, Seagrave provides encouragement, advice & support for the safest, & most comfortable sojourns, & offers practical guidance based on her first-hand knowledge of the locations she recommends. She shares tips for researching, booking, & packing for your vacation,

Includes:: checklists to follow when preparing to leave, & even discusses insurance, jet lag, traveling through menopause, & financial considerations. Seagrave also recommends twenty-three popular locales throughout Europe & North America, & suggests what to do upon arrival (how best to get from the airport to your hotel), where to book your accommodation (and which areas to avoid), activities for your stay, & additional tidbits of information & personal anecdotes she`s learned along the way. For the mature woman looking to travel safely, comfortably, & solo, Time to Take Flight is the ultimate guide.

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From the acclaimed author of The Information & Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature & science, & its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick`s story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing & rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical & some technological
- the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, & the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture
- from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes & examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction & modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present & vanishing future.

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From the acclaimed author of The Information & Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel. Gleick`s story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing & rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical & some technological
- the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, & the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture
- from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes & examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction & modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present & vanishing future.

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A truly original debut novel from an extraordinarily talented new voice in children`s books. Laugh, cry & wonder at this race-against-time story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a go-kart accident, & save his father`s life...” My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine & again four years later when he was twelve. The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn`t been for his `time machine`...” When Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad`s time machine, he finds that going back to the 1980s requires daring & imagination. It also requires lies, theft, burglary, & setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer... ...