Vancouver in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

This third edition of Formac publishing`s Vancouver & Victoria Colourguide is written by expert local contributors who know their city. Every chapter has been fully revised & updated. There are over 300 colour photographs accompanying the text show visitors what they`ll see in as they explore Vancouver`s distinctive neighbourhoods, including the downtown area, the once-rowdy Gastown, Chinatown, Granville Isl&, Kitsilano, & the spectacular North Shore. In this edition there is an expanded section on Whistler, co-host of the 2010 Winter Olympics with Vancouver. There is also an extensive section on Victoria & its many attractions. Detailed listings give full website locations & email addresses, as well as phone numbers & street locations. ...

Vancouver`s Northshore Hiking Trails from ITMB combines coverage at 1:40, 000 of North & West Vancouver & their environs with a Canadian topographic survey map at 1:250, 000 of a wider region including Whistler. On one side is ITMB’s own map at 1:40, 000 covering North Vancouver & West Vancouver with the area north of the Burrard Inlet including the Britannia range, Seymour Lake, the Indian Arm & Lake Coquitlam. Separate panels provide coverage of Cypress Provincial Park, Capilano River Regional Park & Lynn Canyon. The map has contours at 50m intervals with bright altitude colouring & spot heights (all in meters). The map shows local roads into the interior, including the loose surface tracts & indicates various recreational areas, campgrounds/RV parks & cabins/lodges/huts, car parks, picnic sites, etc. The map on the reverse is a composite of several sheets of the Canadian topographic survey of this area at 1:250, 000, extending from Vancouver to well beyond Whistle (to 53°30’) & east beyond the Harrison Lake (to 121°30’). ...

` Prepare to be dazzled` Paula Mc Lain, author of The Paris Wife ` One of the essential reads of the year` The Times London, 1905. The city is alight with change & the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby & Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home & taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. & at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter & Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame & success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf`s book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, & John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists & intellectuals throw away convention & embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love & her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative & brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa`s constant attention & encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction & madness. As tragedy & betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia`s happiness or her own. ...

When Isobel Dusi visited Italy with her Australian husband Lou, little did they imagine that life would change forever. But, utterly besotted with the fragrant warmth & good-natured conviviality of Southern Tuscany, they decided to sell up their lives in the big city & move thousands of miles to follow the dream of a life more in keeping with ancient rhythms & time-honoured traditions of the Mediterranean. After months of searching they settled upon Montalcino, an intriguing hilltop medieval village with a reputation for some of the finest wine in Italy. VANILLA BEANS & BRODO is an account of Isobel`s hard-won acceptance into this tempestuous, warm-hearted & proudly independent community, whose voluble passions for home grown wine & Tuscan cuisine, for football & ancient traditions & festivals, puts paid to the myth that life in rural Tuscany is tranquil. Isobel & Lou are gradually transformed into Isabella & Luigi in this charming account of Tuscan village life that really gets to the beating heart of an Italian community
- its joys, pleasures, anxieties, but above all, its absorbing eccentricities.
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` One of the most original & vital voices in all of American crime fiction` Laura Lippman, author of Sunburn Virginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk & covered in someone else`s blood? When Claude Margolis` body is found a quarter of a mile away with half-a-dozen stab wounds to the neck, suddenly Virginia doesn`t seem such a nice girl after all. Her only hope is Meecham, the cynical small-town lawyer hired as her defence. But how can he believe in Virginia`s innocence when even she can`t be sure what happened that night? & when the answer seems to fall into his lap, why won`t he just walk away? ...

The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Now very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where she murders a security guard & seizes hostages, one of whom is the heavily pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But who is this woman, & what does she want? Only Jane can solve the mystery
- if she survives the night.
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From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of ” Europe: A History”, comes the magical history of Europe`s lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the ” Sunday Times”, ” Daily Telegraph”, ” New Statesman”, ” Independent”, ” Guardian” & ” Financial Times”. Europe`s history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires & republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean ` Empire of Aragon`? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original & enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries. ” Dazzling, provocative & brilliant”. (Dominic Sandbrook, ” Sunday Times”, Books of the Year). ”A luminous account.. .there are few better ways of understanding the multilayered splendours & horrors of Europe`s past than through the pages of this wise, humane & unfailingly engaging book”. (John Adamson, ” Sunday Telegraph”). ”” Vanished Kingdoms” is great history & also great art. It is written with verve, passion & profound empathy”. (David Marqu&, ” New Statesman”, Books of the Year). ”A magnificent achievement. Brocaded with scholarship, the book is unlikely ever to be equalled”. (Ian Thomson, ” Independent”). ...

In this new book he turns to one of nature's most fundamental survival techniques: the vanishing act. He shows animals & insects relying on deception, disguises, lures & decoys to disappear into their surroundings, confusing the eye of the predator. Nothing is as it appears to be, a lion blends into the tall grass; a harp seal disappears against his snowy backdrop. Pastel orchids suddenly morph into praying mantises; lizard heads become tails. What at first looks to be a torn & rotting leaf in a Peruvian forest floor suddenly sprouts legs & starts walking: it is a leaf-mimic katydid. Spotting each cryptic animal amid Wolfe's clever compositions is both a fun & informative challenge. As many species are performing permanent vanishing acts due to habitat loss & human encroachment, this book showcases the beauty & evolutionary brilliance of animal behavior & artfully illustrates the tenacious will to stay alive in an eat-or-be-eaten world. ...

This book represents months of work of planning & in the field, but above all it is a tribute to the eternal beauty of Africa; the photographs & text 'steal' from the peoples of the Omo a fragment of their mystery & truth. But with delicacy & respect. By examining a small region in the heart of the continent, the books attempts to trace the roots of remotest Africa; the cradle of man, where ancestral bonds with nature still exist. It is a place where the link with the dark side of existence is not hidden, as happens in the West, but exhibited. By means of his camera & his pen, in this book the author has encapsulated long years of study of the most interesting peoples & ethnic groups in Africa. Centered around a series of extraordinary photographs, the book is a sort of reportage from the edge of the world, in search of vanishing Africa. ...