Baedeker; the most famous & cherished travel brand in the world is now adding this exciting new title to its innovative series. This superb full-colour illustrated guide features 3D laminated cut-outs to show you the key sights in perspective & a large fully-indexed pull-out map. Additional detailed maps & plans can also be found throughout the guide clearly pin-pointing the best places to stay & the top places to eat & drink. At the heart of the guide is a wealth of comprehensive information written by experts on the sights & top attractions in an easy-to-read A-Z format. Also included are great practical travel tips covering accommodation & food & drink for all budgets entertainment sport transport & health; not to mention some insider tips for saving money or having a unique travel experience. There is also a variety of recommended tours covering the best routes available to ensure you get the most from your destination. The plastic wallet means that you can keep the guide & map together & ensures that both will survive in all weather. Baedeker
- setting a new standard in 21st century travel guide publishing.
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Glorious colour images complete with informative captions & introductory chapter of the rare & varied Cuban-owned 1950s American & European automobiles trucks & station wagons that were imported before 1961. Sections include Last Chance Saloons Winged Rockets & 38 D-Cups Cuban Coupes Keep On Trucking Cuban Heels Drive & Determination & The Weird & Wonderful. Among the famous Marques that feature are Cadillac Chevy Buick Dodge Oldsmobile Ford Packard De Soto Pontiac Plymouth Edsel Mercury & Metropolitan Hillman Singer & Austin Nash Sedans a Lloyd 600 German 2-cylinder/4-stroke 596cc car Ramblers & SAABs Mercs Humber Standard Vanguard Ford Consul/ Zephyr Hillman Husky & Minx Singer Gazelle & Austin
- most in running order & passed down from generation to generation. Trucks include Fords a Fargo Dodges & Chevys not forgetting cigars street urchins & the lovely ladies of Havana. All uniquely photographed written & compiled by our man in Havana.
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For a growing number of British holidaymakers Cuba is a Caribbean paradise but it is also a land of cutbacks & economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island & his search for the real Cuba inevitably becomes a search for Fidel Castro too. Before meeting his quarry Smith travels extensively through the land of miracles in an old American automobile. His highly-personalised account features a bloody initiation into a voodoo-like cult dining on giant rat & checking into the Love Hotel. & he goes on manoeuvres in the Everglades with armed but not especially competent Cuban exiles dreaming of a second Bay of Pigs. With disarming wit & considerable insight Stephen Smith investigates a country where communism & voodoo coexist & where the influence of its leader of forty years continues to throw a long shadow. ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. Contains 6 city maps: Playas del Este Varadero La Habana Cienfuegos Camaguey & Santiago de Cuba. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. Comprehensive index booklet. The map scale is 1: 1 000 000.
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Cuba is often perceived in starkly black & white terms
- either as the site of one of Latin Americas most successful revolutions
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When Elsie & Bert Jones move with their children Ann & Arthur to Candle Lane a modest street in Battersea they miss their comfortable house in Wimbledon. But the move is the right thing to do as it will enable Bert to finance his new removal business. They are a warm-hearted family & Elsie soon makes friends with her less fortunate neighbour Ruth & her daughter Sally. But before long Elsie realises that all is not well in the house next door... ...

Keep your enemies close your family less so... Last year Nat found herself with nowhere to live. She considered sleeping on the bus & washing in the rain but inevitably ended up on her parents doorstep. It was only for a month she assured them if that. She repeated this phrase a lot over the next six months while the housing market stagnated like a spoilt kids fish tank & her life followed suit. While her friends pursued normal adult lives Nat was taking packed lunches to gigs & being treated to lectures on Why Its Nice When All The Tins Face Forwards In The Cupboard. (So we can see what they all are at a glance!) Nat wouldnt say she & those like her were the real victims of the recession but it would be nice if you did. Then she would do a tiny brave smile. A book for anyone whos been forced back to the family nest parents who cant shake off their adult kids or anyone whos ever excused themselves from a family gathering for a quick scream into a pile of towels. ...

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However her brother has his doubts & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However her brother has his doubts & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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Your customers want rock-solid bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they cant always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. The Cucumber Book dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people. Cucumber saves the day; its a testing communication & requirements tool
- all rolled into one. Well show you how to express your customers wild ideas as a set of clear executable specifications that everyone on the team can read. Youll learn how to feed those examples into Cucumber & let it guide your development. Youll build just the right code to keep your customers happy & not a line more. The first part of the book teaches you how to use the core features of Cucumber. Youll learn how to use Cucumbers Gherkin DSL to describe-- in plain language
- the behavior your customers want from the system. Youll learn how to write Ruby code that interprets those plain language specifications & checks them against your application. In Part 2 youll consolidate the knowledge you just gained with a worked example. Although it was born in the Ruby community you can use Cucumber to test almost any system from a simple shell script or a Perl script to enterprise PHP or a Java web application. In Part 3 youll find a selection of recipes for some of the most common situations youll encounter using Cucumber in the wild. Youll learn how to test Ajax-heavy web applications with Capybara & Selenium REST web services Ruby on Rails applications comm&-line applications legacy applications & lots more! Written by the creator of Cucumber & one of its most experienced users & contributors The Cucumber Book is an authoritative guide that will give you & your team all the knowledge you need to start using Cucumber with complete confidence. What You Need: Windows Mac OS X (with XCode) or Linux Ruby 1.9.2 & upwards

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