Since the dawn of history Israel & the Palestinian Territories at the intersection of Asia Europe & Africa have been a meeting point of empires religions cultures & cuisines. Daniel Robinson Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is. Inside This Book 30 major archaeological & religious sites 42 festivals & events 58 maps 56 plates of pita & hummus consumed Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Pull-out city map 3D plans of iconic sights Comprehensive planning tools In-depth background ...

Israel has changed. The country was born in Europe's shadow haunted by the Holocaust & inspired by the Enlightenment. But for Israelis today Europe is hardly relevant & the country's ties to the broader West even to America are fraying. Where is Israel heading? How do citizens of an increasingly diverse nation see themselves globally & historically? In this revealing portrait of the new Israel Diana Pinto presents a country simultaneously moving forward & backward looking outward & turning in on itself. In business Israel is forging new links with the giants of Asia & its booming science & technology sectors are helping define the future for the entire world. But in politics & religion Israelis are increasingly self-absorbed building literal & metaphorical walls against hostile neighbors & turning to ancient religious precepts for guidance here & now. Pinto captures the new moods & mindsets the anxieties & hopes of Israelis today in sharply drawn sketches of symbolically charged settings. She takes us on the roads to Jerusalem to border control at Ben Gurion Airport to a major Israeli conference in Jerusalem to a hill overlooking the Dome of the Rock & Temple Mount to the heart of Israel's high-tech economy & to sparkling new malls & restaurants where people of different identities share nothing more than a desire to ignore one another. Vivid & passionate but underpinned by deep analysis this is a profound & sometimes unsettling account of a country that is no longer where we might think. ...

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Fight the Beasts Fear the Magic! Join the hero Tom on a high-action adventure with terrible Beasts & deadly danger! Tom faces terrible danger on a brand new Beast Quest. Issrilla the Creeping Menace is out for blood! How can Tom defeat this ferocious Beast? Only one thing is certain: if he fails the Beast Quests end forever... ...

Turkeys greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments & lost paradises dilapidated Ottoman villas back streets & waterways of Istanbul
- the city of his birth & the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of one mans love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth.
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This magical meeting place of East & West has more top-drawer attractions than it has minarets (and that s a lot). Virginia Maxwell Lonely Planet Author Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is. Inside This Book 1 expert author 5 walking tours 7 hamams 32 pages of maps 77 top restaurants Feature coverage of top sights Range of planning tools In-depth backgrounds on Istanbul s architecture ...

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How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to be made? A neutral capital straddling Europe & Asia Istanbul survived the Second World War as a magnet for refugees & spies trafficking in secrets & lies rather than soldiers. Expatriate American businessman Leon Bauer was drawn into this shadow world doing undercover odd jobs & courier runs in support of the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up & an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of postwar life Leon is given one last routine assignment. But when the job goes fatally wrong
- an exchange of gunfire a body left in the street & a potential war criminal in his hands
- Leon is plunged into a nightmarish tangle of intrigue shifting loyalties & moral uncertainty. Played out against the bazaars & mosques & faded mansions of this knowing ancient Ottoman city Leons conflicted attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt that ultimately threatens his own survival. Rich with atmosphere & period detail Istanbul Passage is the unforgettable story of a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War of an unexpected love affair & of a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.

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