The Yakutia (also know as Sakha Republic) Modern Guidebook by Press Pass is intended to provide information of this particular region, ranging from the peoples, culture, climate, flora & fauna, economy as well as sights, museums & activities to do. Accompanied by inspirational photographs, insets that explore history, cultures & safety in more depth & map extracts this guidebook enables you to underst&, love & explore this region. After a general introduction to Yakutia including its history, climate, geography, culture etc., the guide explores in more details each regional area, starting with the centre & the suburban area, then moving on to the north, east, south & west. In each chapter an introduction to the particular area presents the region’s culture, climate, economy & history, as well as what activities are on offer at different times of the year; all accompanied by photographs, illustrations, infographics & map extracts. The guide then explores which places to visit & activities to do, providing brief description, & information on location & contact details. Insets boxes explore themes like history, sports, safety etc. in more depth. There are also concise suggestions on places to stay. This guide will appeal to people who want to know more than just where to go & what to see, & the wealth of information provided is suitable for armchair travellers & those looking for inspiration to travel to this region.IMPORTANT
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Yakuza Moon is the shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37-year-old Shoko Tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss. Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was sent to prison & her family fell into terrible debt. Bullied by classmates & terrorized at home by a father who became a drunken, violent monster after his release from prison, Tendo rebelled. A regular visitor to nightclubs at the age of 12, she soon became a drug addict & a member of a girl gang. At 15 she was sentenced to eight months in a juvenile detention center.
Adulthood brought big bucks & glamour when Tendo started working as a bar hostess during Japan's booming bubble economy of the nineteen-eighties. But among her many rich & loyal patrons there were also abusive clients, one of whom beat her so badly that her face was left permanently scarred. When her mother died, Tendo plunged into such a deep depression that she tried to commit suicide twice.
Tendo takes us through the bad times with warmth & candor, & gives a moving & inspiring account of how she overcame a lifetime of discrimination & hardship. Getting tattooed, from the base of her neck to the tips of her toes, with a design centered on a geisha with a dagger in her mouth, was an act that empowered her to start making changes in her life. She quit her job as a hostess. On her last day at the bar she looked up at the full moon, a sight she never forgot. The moon became a symbol of her struggle to become whole, & the title of the book she wrote as an epitaph for herself & her family.

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Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon`s sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter & a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, & then a rapist. & then he falls in love with his victim
- who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern Thousand & One Nights, a series of confessions extracted under torture, a recitation of all of his memories, all his sorrows, all his guilt
- & of the other crimes his interrogators have him confess to. Beirut & the legacy of the wars of the Middle East are the texture of Elias Khoury`s extraordinary literary achievement.

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Yalta street plan from Kartografija Kiev in an international edition with all names in Latin alphabet plus English/ German/ French map legend & all other text. An enlargement shows the city centre in greater detail at 1:5, 000. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & larger streets are named & listed in a street index. The plan is annotated with symbols highlighting various facilities & places of interest, e.g. hotels, restaurants, cultural institutions, places of worship, markets, petrol stations, etc. which are also listed in an index on the reverse of the map. Also included is a road map showing the central part of the Crimean coast from Foros to Hurzuf at 1:150, 000 annotated with accommodation facilities, a history of Yalta, plus a glossary of various terms used on the plan. Map legend & all the text include English.IMPORTANT
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Map No. 119, Yampa
- Gore Pass in Colorado, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national
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Already an online phenomenon, East Meets West is the first volume in designer Yang Liu`s successful infographic series. Conceived & designed with perceptive wit & her signature graphic simplicity, Yang Liu`s pictograms convey the obvious & sometimes not so obvious discrepancies in life on opposite sides of the globe. Drawing on her own experiences of China & Europe, Yang Liu explores a rich range of differences between Eastern & Western experience, from sleeping patterns to the role of senior citizens, from leisure activities to attitudes towards beauty, property & public space. With their clarity, insight & fundamental fondness towards both cultures. Yang Liu`s work has become not only a social media & magazine darling, but also a favorite with professional training programms around the world. ...

Time travel: A pictogram journey through now & then In this third installment in her pictogram series for TASCHEN, leading graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we are. Hot on the heels of the bestselling predecessors, Today meets Yesterday deploys the same vivid pictogram pairings to explore the transformations, & the challenges, of our ever-evolving world. Liu has made her name with a combination of graphic precision & incisive observation of behavior patterns. In Today meets Yesterday, her eye for tastes & trends takes ambitious scope, juxtaposing past with present to explore fundamental shifts in society. Along the way, we encounter the tussle between competing ideologies, historic & current global dangers, our interaction with the environment, & the wholesale impact of technology on our ways of ways of living, learning, & loving, from online retail to the rise of the smombie. With an eye on everything from geopolitics to concentration spans, Liu s panorama incorporates the details of daily experience as much as the momentous happenings in history. Through Facebook, food waste, collectivism, & much more, Today meets Yesterday casts the familiar situation in a crisp & discerning light, bringing fresh awareness, as well as some ironies, to who we are & where we came from.” ...

Yangon (Rangoon) street plan at 1:24, 000 from Odyssey Books with on the reverse a road map of Burma/ Myanmar at 1:2, 150, 000, both with informative descriptions & colour photos of places of interest highlighted on them & various aspects of the country. On one side is a street plan of Yangon showing locations of numerous hotels, as well as museums, pagodas or zedis, & other places of interest. Surrounding the plan are descriptions of 37 various sites, illustrated with colour photos & cross-referenced to the plan. The districts immediately south of the city’s central railway station are also sown in greater detail on an enlargement. On the reverse is a road map of Burma at 1:2, 150, 000. Road & rail networks are shown on a base map with satellite-based relief shading & altitude colouring. Symbols indicate major historical or scenic sites, national parks & nature/wildlife reserves, international & domestic airports, & border crossings. The map has no geographical coordinates. Neither the street plan nor the road map is indexed. Like the plan of Yangon, the road map is also surrounded by informative descriptions & photos. ...

Yangon Echoes is a popular history of buildings used as homes in Burma`s bustling, former capital, charting social space & urban folklore & linking past to present via living memories. This anthology records everyday life through domestic connections to old places & explores the present day significance of Yangon`s rich inheritance of built form. Our storytellers speak of joy & tragedy, simple pleasures & aching issues. They share thoughts & feelings of living through Yangon`s emergence from decades of stagnation to engagement with a rapidly spinning world. Told with courage & charm, these informal stories of home offer insight into what has happened & is happening to the city. ...

Architectural Guide Yangon presents around one hundred memorable buildings from Myanmar`s historical capital. Following decades of international isolation, the city`s vast heritage remains largely, surprisingly & spectacularly intact. Rangoon_- as it was known under the British
- was a melting pot of British India. Vivid traces of this legacy are everywhere, especially in the city`s Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish & Muslim houses of worship that often stand side by side, down town, in Yangon`s tightly-gridded streets. Since the country`s independence from the British in 1948, successive authoritarian regimes have also stamped the cityscape with their legacies. Today Yangon is a bustling & busy city in flux, at the frontier of Myanmar`s rapid opening to the wider world. Yangon`s urban fabric deserves a systematic guide that nourishes every visitor & resident`s shared fascination for the city & its history, offering countless anecdotes & notes on architectural detail.
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