This text is in Chinese & English. The author would like with this photoalbum to acquiant visitors with the capital of China & reacquaint the citizens who already know the city well with some famous sites. Since not all of them have the making of a good scene for panoramic photograph, his album does not follow the common & perhaps expected themes of similar endeavours. That's why there are some lesser known details & atmosphere in the book, on the other hand this makes it even more exciting & interesting. Each panoramic photo has an explanatory text that provides new knowledges about sites, events or habits. ...

Leads you straight to the best attractions both cities have to offer. This guide

Includes:: cutaways, floorplans

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What Will Your Beijing Encounter Be? Walking in the footsteps of the emporers in the ancient Forbidden City Checking out contemporary art's next big thing at the 798 Art Disctict Tucking into the city's signature dish, Peking duck Searching for hidden treasures & haggling like mad at the Panjiayuan Antique Market Getting lost amongst the songbirds & mah jong gamers in the maze-like "hutong" (alleyways) Experiencing Beijing's rich culture, from ancient history to medieval temples to modern literature Lacing up your hiking boots for an unforgettable trek atop the Great Wall at Simatai Discover Twice the City in Half the Time Easy navigation with a full-color pull-out map, detailed district maps & Chinese characters for places & streets throughout the book Our expert resident author reveals the city's best sights, eating, drinking shopping & entertainment Highlights & customized itineraries help you make the most of a short trip Get insider tips from tuned-in locals, from a boutique-owning fashionista to the city's most renowned bartender ...

Being A Scot is a vivid & highly personal portrait of Scotland & its achievements. With Murray Grigor, co-writer, film-maker, friend & fellow Scot, Sean's personal quest has been to seek answers to some perplexing questions. How did Scots come to devise so many new sports & games? What gave fire to the Gothic tendency in Scottish literature? Why have so many creatively inventive & influential architects been Scots? & where did Scotland's unreal blend of psychotic humour originate? Sean Connery offers a correction to misconceptions, whilst revealing as never before his own vibrant personal history. ...

Few actors are more eloquent, honest or entertaining about their life & their profession than Simon Callow. Being an Actor traces his stage journey from the letter he wrote to Laurence Olivier that led him to his first job, to his triumph as Mozart in the original production of Amadeus. ...

Elizabeth Turner, scion of the fabled Deravenel family, carries the red-gold hair & beautiful English complexion of her ancestors. & it is not just her colouring that she has inherited from Edward Deravenel. Astute & charismatic, she is also bold, daring & fiercely ambitious, with the same ruthless streak.

Now, aged just twenty-five, she stands in the position she has dreamed of
- inheriting the family business, Deravenels. Over eight hundred years old, the company is a bastion of male chauvinism & the challenge that lies ahead of Elizabeth is immense.

Cecil Williams acts as Elizabeths mentor while navigating the treacherous corridors of power with her. But her greatest ally is her childhood friend, handsome, charming Robert Dunley. Highly intelligent, he is her match in every way – & there is a spark between them that is impossible to resist. Yet Robert is already married. When they begin an affair it scandalises those around them. But far worse is to come…

From the family seat perched high on the Yorkshire moors to the glamour of London as the twentieth century draws to a close, Elizabeth fights for her birthright & her inheritance. Passion, drama, betrayal & death stalk the pages of this gripping new blockbuster from the author of A Woman of Substance.






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What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock

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Details: One of Annie's oldest friends has come looking for her
- & what's more amazing is that she's found her. Denise

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Leftfield comedy which marked the feature film debuts of director Spike Jonze & writer Charlie Kaufman. Unappreciated as a puppeteer & bored with his ten-year marriage, Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) takes a job in an office, where he discovers a portal ...

Since being crowned the Northern Businessman of the Year 1993, Keith Lemon has been going from strength to strength & now is regularly seen sandwiched between two bang tidy lasses on the funniest show on telly, ITV2's CELEBRITY JUICE. In BEING KEITH, Keith Lemon
- international ladies man & national treasure
- opens up & shares the juiciest parts of his life from the last five years; from selling Securipoles in America & travelling the world to his first encounter with Holly & Fearne & dirty dancing with Paddy
- & all the juicy details in between. Packed with photos & illustrations, this is Keith's story of success told in his own unique style. You'll never dream of him in the same way again... Ooooosh!


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