This Japan travel guide presents a journey into the true heart of the Kyoto experience one which brings you deep into the world of Kyoto`s ancient Zen Buddhist culture. This is the first comprehensive guide to Kyoto`s most important Zen garden & temple sites. Kyoto`s Zen heritage represents one of mankind`s greatest achievements recognized by the large number which have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Millions of visitors travel to Kyoto yearly in search of their secrets, & here for the first time is a comprehensive overview of every major site. Over 50 Japanese temples & gardens including all World Heritage Sites are captured in sensitive photos by acclaimed Kyoto-based photographer John Einarsen. A detailed introduction to each temple by local expert John Dougill

Includes:: information about special opportunities for visitors to the temples such as early morning meditation sessions, temple food offerings & special green tea sets provided to enhance the contemplative experience along with other insider information that no other guide provides. The foreword by Takafumi Kawakami, the deputy head priest of the respected Shunkoin Temple in Kyoto, serves to place the book in the context of eastern & western Buddhist thought & practice. His widely viewed TED Talk How mindfulness can help you to live in the present has been viewed by over 100, 000 people.

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” Illuminations” are a unique new format from Running Press Miniature Editions. These beautiful keepsake light-boxes shine from the inside out to display five exquisite, interchangeable images. The transparencies are illuminated by a battery-operated light, creating a gorgeous glow for an inspirational effect. A little booklet is attached to each box &

Includes::"es & stories that make the package complete. Perfect for the bedside table of desktop, ” Zen Wisdom” contains a series of transparencies that cast light on specific Chinese characters for such positive virtues as Luck, Life, Love, Knowledge & Peace. The booklet explains the relevance of these ancient symbols.

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Narrator Nanou, a street prostitute, gives a detailed account of her day, from the moment she wakes up with a foul taste in her mouth, in her sordid rented room, until the minute she crawls back into her bed at night to sleep. Interwoven with her story are portraits of her clients. Oscar Coop-Phane invents an astonishing cast of original & deeply human characters
- losers, defeated by the world around them
- who seek solace in Nanou`s arms. Original & moving, this short book deftly paints a world of solitude & sadness, illuminated by precious moments of tenderness & acts of kindness.

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Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore is set in spring, 1917, where war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor: ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, & newspapers are full of spy-fever. Into this turmoil come D. H. Lawrence & his German wife Frieda, hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Clare Coyne, a young artist, struggling to console her beloved cousin John William who is on leave from the trenches & suffering from shell shock. Yet the dark tide of gossip & innuendo means that Zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape... ...

Fifth title of a series of 8 DVDs covering the whole country. About this series: The Swiss Map 25 series covers the whole of the country at 1:25, 000,

Includes:: the complete official Swiss footpath network & it is compatible with both Swiss Map 50 & 100, & with the Dufour Map. There are 8 DVD titles in the series, each also including the Swiss Map 500 covering the whole country. The cartography of Swiss Map 25 is equivalent to that of the printed Swiss Survey maps & the individually selectable map extracts can be easily printed & exported. The diversity of the graphic tools makes it possible to show political & administrative boundaries (including municipalities, districts & cantons), highlight castles, heritage sites & other tourist information, & search for all displayed place names. It is also possible to calculate distances, hiking times & profiles' elevation, to enter individual routes or add personal data to a map. Up-to-date information from the Switzerland Tourism organisation about holiday destinations, hotels, events & excursions can also be accessed from the map via the Internet. Each DVD is compatible with Windows, Mac & GPS (NMEA, Garmin & Magellan). All data is available in English, German, French & Italian. System requirements:1 GB free hard disk space Screen 1024 x 768 pixels Thousands of colours (16 bits) Internet Browser 4.x (or higher) Windows
- 2000 or XP
- Pentium processor III
- 256 MB RAMMacintosh
- Mac OS X 10.1.5 (or higher)
- G3 500 MHz
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A Guardian Best Book of the Year 2014 11pm, Tuesday 4 August 1914: with the declaration of war London becomes one of the greatest killing machines in human history. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers pass through the capital on their way to the front; wounded men are brought back to be treated in London`s hospitals; & millions of shells are produced in its factories. The war changes London life for ever. Women escape the drudgery of domestic service to work as munitionettes. Full employment puts money into the pockets of the London poor for the first time. Self-appointed moral guardians seize the chance to clamp down on drink, frivolous entertainment & licentious behaviour. As the war drags on, gloom often descends on the capital. & at night London is plunged into darkness for fear of German bombers & Zeppelins that continue to raid the city. Yet despite daily casualty lists, food shortages & enemy bombing, Londoners are determined to get on with their lives & flock to cinemas & theatres, dance halls & shebeens, firmly resolved not to let Germans or puritans spoil their enjoyment. Peopled with patriots & pacifists, clergymen & thieves, bluestockings & prostitutes, Jerry White`s magnificent panorama reveals a struggling yet flourishing city. ...

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Zermatt & the Mattertal, including Täsch, Randa, St. Niklaus, Grächen & the peaks of the Mischabel range, at 1:50, 000 in a series from Hallwag covering Switzerland’s popular hiking regions on light, waterproof & tear-resistant maps highlighting long-distance paths: the nine national routes plus special regional routes, as well as other local hiking trails. Cartography is similar to that used both in Hallwag’s hiking atlases & in the walking series from Kümmerly + Frey at 1:60, 000 covering the whole country. The maps have contours at 50m or 25m intervals according to the terrain, enhanced by graphic relief & shading. A special feature of this series is an overprint indicating the nine national long-distance routes, plus regional long-distance trails. The overprint also shows other local paths, distinguishing between sign-posted hiking paths, mountain paths where proper walking shoes are necessary, & alpine paths requiring special equipment for glacier traverses & light climbing. Mountain huts are marked, plus various types of accommodation: campsites, youth hostels, “ Friends of Nature” houses, & secluded hotels & restaurants. Road network indicates local bus routes with stops. Railways, narrow gauge mountain railways, cable car lines, & chair lifts are shown, with various symbols highlighting places of interest, viewpoints, picnic sites, swimming pools, etc. The maps have a 1km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH1903 Bessel), with latitude & longitude shown as margin ticks at 5’. * Map legend

Includes:: English.* On the reverse, an index of towns & villages

Includes:: names of geographical features such as mountains, alpine passes, glaciers, lakes, rivers, as well as places of interest. Also provided is a small road map at 1:301, 000 of a wider region around the area covered by each title.* In this title:* two national routes, Alpine Pass Route (6) & Tour of Monte Rosa
- Swiss section (27). The overprint for local paths & huts extends across the Italian border to Breuil-Cervinia.




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Map No. 2515, Zermatt
- Gornergrat, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Swisstopo, covering the upper
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The Mattertal & the lower part of the Saastal valleys, the Mischabel group with Dom, & the upper part of the Val d` Anniviers presented at 1:50, 000 on a waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible map from the Hallwag/Kümmerly + Frey group, with route profiles, grading for the severity of the terrain & the degree of fitness required, etc. Coverage

Includes:: several popular holiday destinations in the Valais/ Wallis & peaks including Matterhorn & Monte Rosa. The cartography provides an excellent picture of the terrain through contours at 25-metre intervals enhanced by shading, graphic relief for exposed rock, & colouring for glaciers & woodlands. All local footpaths are on the maps, but the overprint specifically highlights 33 trails selected by the publishers in collaboration with Geo-tracks. The colouring of each trail indicates the degree of fitness needed, from “no physical shape required” to “extremely high level of physical fitness necessary”. The trails start near a railway station or a bus stop (the colouring of the road network indicates routes with public transport & locations of individual bus stops). The maps have the lines of the Swiss national grid at 1-km intervals. On the reverse each trail has a route profile, its grading according to severity of the terrain & the degree of fitness required to attempt it, details of length & approximate timing, the change in altitude on assent & descent, plus a brief description. Map legend

Includes:: English; all the text on the reverse is in German. Each title also

Includes:: a code for a free download onto a smartphone. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.USEFUL TIP: the same cartography, reduced slightly to 1:60, 000, is used in Kümmerly + Frey’s hiking series with highlighting for all the waymarked trails rather than, as in this series, just a selection of 33 special routes recommended by the publishers.





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