The traveller guides series are informative & concise & are aimed at mainstream travelers wanting to discover something a little different on their trip. These indispensable guides offer the perfect blend of culture history practical information mapping photography & listings. ...

Until the sixties Ibiza belonged to the Ibizans & only a few artists poets & writers lived in this paradise. Then the flower-children arrived the hippies & drop-outs. In the last 30 years however mass tourism has taken over & unfortunately destroyed much of the charm of Ibiza & Formentera. But not everything on the islands has been spoiled. Bed & burgerbar building has reached saturation point & a visit to the pine islands (the Pityussae as the Greeks called them) is still worthwhile today. Theres an unending wealth of hidden beauty spots to be discovered & this new edition of the book helps you to find the best of Ibiza & Formentera whether you travel by car bicycle or on foot. ...

This is a guide for all tastes & budgets with a choice of sites not to be missed. Fold-out maps give the reader instant orientation & help visitors to make the best of their stay. The guide also contains details of restaurants bars pubs theatres music venues shops markets hotels...and all the practical advice needed. This is a map & a guide all in one. ...

In 922 AD an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous & astonishingly objective description of Viking customs dress table manners religion & sexual practices as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth & fourteenth centuries Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely & frequently into the far north crossing territories that now include Russia Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes & people they encountered traded furs paid tribute & waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers & the medieval lands of the far north. ...

i Boy" is a thrilling young adult novel from Kevin Brooks author of " Naked" where a freak accident with an iPhone 3GS gives a normal teenage boy superhuman powers. Before the attack sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy. But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain & its having an extraordinary effect... Because now Tom has powers. The ability to know & see more than he could ever imagine. & with incredible power comes knowledge
- & a choice. Seek revenge on the violent gangs that rule his estate & assaulted his friend Lucy or keep quiet? Tom has control when everything else is out of control. But its a dangerous price to pay. & the consequences are terrifying..."A compulsive atmospheric mystery". (" Sunday Times"). "A masterly writer & this book would put many authors of grown up detective fiction to shame". (" Mail on Sunday"). Kevin Brooks is the award-winning author of nine gripping teenage novels usually with a thrilling detective twist. His novels " Being" " Black Rabbit Summer" " Killing God (published as Dawn in the USA) & " Naked" are also available from Penguin. Kevins brand new novel " The Bunker Diary" will be published in 2013. If you enjoyed "i Boy" & want to get inside more of your favourite books then check out spinebreakers.co.uk for exclusive author interviews competitions & much more."
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The website inbedwithmaradona.com has become a home to some of the most talented writers bloggers artists designers & photographers working with & taking football as their inspiration today. From a humble beginning as a blog to cover Argentina & their manager Diego Maradona at the 2010 World Cup this book covers the first two years & the evolution of IBWM into the site it has now become. Rather than the news based output of most football sites IBWM has a philosophy of letting contributors write the stories they want to on subjects that maybe dont get the coverage they deserve elsewhere making it an eclectic eccentric informative entertaining & unusual body of work all celebrated here in this book. With a revamp in 2011 came the chance for the site to showcase photography design & artwork & expand further making it one of the most influential football websites operating today. With 26 of the best & most important articles from the first two years of the site featuring writers such as Iain Macintosh Jeff Livingstone Ben Shave David Hartrick Andi Thomas & many more as well as artwork & photography from amongst others Stuart Fuller Danny Last Dan Leydon & Steve Welsh as well as a foreword from noted football author & journalist Jonathan Wilson this book is a celebration of a revolution. IBWM welcome to left-field. ...

In The Icarus Deception" Seth Godins most inspiring book he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art. Everyone knows that Icarus father made him wings & told him not to fly too close to the sun; he ignored the warning & plunged to his doom. The lesson: Play it safe. Listen to the experts. It was the perfect propaganda for the industrial economy. What boss wouldnt want employees to believe that obedience & conformity are the keys to success? But we tend to forget that Icarus was also warned not to fly too low because seawater would ruin the lift in his wings. Flying too low is even more dangerous than flying too high because it feels deceptively safe. The safety zone has moved. Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce & more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable & brave: Make art. Being an artist isnt a genetic disposition or a specific talent. Its an attitude we can all adopt. Its a hunger to seize new ground make connections & work without a map. If you do those things youre an artist no matter what it says on your business card. Godin shows us how its possible & convinces us why its essential. " If Seth Godin didnt exist wed need to invent him". (" Fast Company"). " Seth Godin is a demigod on the web a bestselling author highly sought-after lecturer successful entrepreneur respected pundit & high-profile blogger". (" Forbes"). Seth Godin is the author of thirteen international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about marketing the ways ideas spread leadership & change including " Permission Marketing" "violet Cow" " All Marketers are Liars" The " Dip" & " Tribes". He is the CEO & a very popular lecturer. His blog is the most influential business blog in the world & consistently one of the 100 most popular blogs on any subject." ...

Provides clinical descriptions diagnostic guidelines & codes for all mental & behavioural disorders commonly encountered in clinical psychiatry. The book was developed from chapter V of the Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases & Related Health Problems (ICD-10). The clinical descriptions & diagnostic guidelines were finalized after field testing by over 700 clinicians & researchers in 110 institutes in 40 countries making this book the product of the largest ever research effort designed to improve psychiatric diagnosis. Every effort has been made to define categories whose existence is scientifically justifiable as well as clinically useful. The classification divides disorders into ten groups according to major common themes or descriptive likeness a new feature which makes for increased convenience of use. For each disorder the book provides a full description of the main clinical features & all other important but less specific associated features. Diagnostic guidelines indicate the number balance & duration of symptoms usually required before a confident diagnosis can be made. Inclusion & exclusion criteria are also provided together with conditions to be considered in differential diagnosis. The guidelines are worded so that a degree of flexibility is retained for diagnostic decisions in clinical work particularly in the situation where provisional diagnosis may have to be made before the clinical picture is entirely clear or information is complete... . As befitting a publication of considerable influence the amount of work that went into preparing ICD-10 has been formidable..."
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In Ice" Gillian Clarke turns to the real winters of 2009 & 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself & renewed the environment for the imagination. The poem " Polar" is the poets point de repere evoking a polar-bear rug she had as a child & here resurrects in a spirit of personal & ecological longing that becomes a creative act. She lives with the planet its seasons & creatures in a joyful anxious communion. The book also

Includes:: the asked for & commissioned poems & the " Guardian" spreads Clarke has written during her time as National Poet of Wales (2008-2013). She follows in the rich millennium-old Welsh tradition of occasional writing going back to the first-known named British poets Aneirin & Taliesin in the sixth century."

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This unique book explores the extraordinary sculpture & drawings created during the last European Ice Age between 40 000 & 10 000 years ago the oldest known figurative art in the world. Over 100 objects are featured alongside stunning illustrations including small but exquisite sculptures made from mammoth ivory engraved drawings & jewellery from the age of the great painted caves in addition to celebrated masterpieces. Featured are the Swimming Reindeer" (13 000 years old) the so called " Willendorf Venus" (25 000 years old) & the " Vogelherd horse" (32 000 years old) examining them in a new light. This compelling narrative is also illustrated with a wealth of contextual images from classical sculpture to twentieth century painting & even contemporary advertising campaigns which demonstrate surprising aesthetic parallels between these ancient works & familiar modern pieces. In this way " Ice Age Art" will bring home the point that the minds that created these objects in all their diversity & inventiveness were modern minds like our own capable of highly sophisticated thought & expression." ...