Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay eat & drink but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up & coming areas landmark buildings in an ' Architour' design centres & the best shops to buy items unique to that city. Wallpaper* City Guides present travellers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best most exciting & the most beautiful of that particular city. As well as looking beautiful the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority & have tabbed sections so that readers can easily find the information they are looking for. The guides include rate & currency information maps & a colour-coding system to help you navigate the different parts of the city. They are the ultimate combination of form & function. ...

New York is much more than the gateway to opportunity it s a city of triumph a capital of exploration & experimentation; a place where one is truly free to be themselves. Brandon Presser 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 Full Color Guide Pull-out City Map 843 acres of Central Park plus map!247 h&-picked restaurants 176 ways to swipe your plastic 84 museums & galleries 11 walking tours Feature coverage of top sights Range of planning tools In-depth background on New York s food scene ...

The ultimate New York pocket city map! Explore the awe-inspiring city of New York with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. *

Includes:: 2 Pop Out maps
- a detailed street map of downtown Manhattan & a detailed street map of central Manhattan * Additional maps of Greenwich Village & the subway are also included * Handy self-folding tourist map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Key places of interest are listed offering you advice on the best things to see


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(Re)discovering Europe. Dream weekends with practical itineraries from Paris to Perm. Culture history natural beauty fine cuisine artistic masterpieces cutting-edge architecture & style
- Europe overflows with so many riches that a lifetime seems too short to appreciate them. But with the right guidance you can go far in a single weekend. Stylishly written & carefully researched this updated & expanded collection of the popular New York Times" "36 Hours" feature offers you 125 well-crafted itineraries for quick but memorable European trips accompanied by hundreds of color photographs to fire your imagination. You can explore the expected: the Renaissance in Florence surfing in Biarritz flamenco in Seville. & discover the unexpected: Sicilian mummies dressed in their Sunday best a dry-land toboggan ride on Madeira a hotel in Tallinn with a KGB spies' nest on the penthouse floor. Your guides are seasoned " New York Times" journalists & savvy travel writers. Elaine Sciolino a longtime foreign correspondent offers three tours of Paris & a side trip in southern France. Frank Bruni the " Times" op-ed columnist & food writer advises on pizza & priceless art in Rome. Matt Gross the Frugal Traveler takes you to a gorgeous beach in Pol&. With the peripatetic author Tony Perrottet follow the footsteps of Lord Byron & the Shelleys around Lake Geneva. & Seth Sherwood one of America's liveliest & most prolific travel writers lays out a dozen weekends from Copenhagen to St. Tropez. World capitals ancient nations that once ruled wide domains tiny countries with big personalities
- it's all Europe & all fun to read about (whether you actually go or not) in this handsomely designed & illustrated book. It

Features: 4 500 hours worth of insightful itineraries to make the most of your stay; 125 European destinations from major cities to lesser known gems; practical recommendations for over 500 restaurants & 400 hotels; color-coded tabs & ribbons to bookmark your favorite cities in each region; nearly 800 photos most of them from " The New York Times" archive; all stories have been updated & adapted for this volume by Barbara Ireland a veteran " Times" travel editor; new illustrations by " Times" illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli of Milan; easy-to-reference indexes; & detailed city-by-city maps pinpoint every stop on your itinerary. Also available: "36 Hours: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada"."



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New York homicide cop Eve Dallas is plunged into a terrifying nightmare where her past & the present are about to collide. Eve Dallas was just a rookie cop when her instincts led her to the apartment of Isaac Mc Queen a murderer & paedophile who was keeping young girls in cages. Now a homicide Lieutenant Eve is one of the most distinguished officers in the city
- & then she learns that Mc Queen has escaped from jail. Bent on revenge against Eve & with a need to punish more 'bad girls' Mc Queen heads to Dallas Texas
- the place where Eve was found as a child the place where she killed her own abusive monster when she was only eight-years-old. With Eve & her husband Roarke in pursuit of Mc Queen everything is on the line & secrets from the past are about to be explosively revealed.

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The New York Trilogy" is an astonishing & original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction & achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Austers book is modern fiction at its finest: bold arresting & unputdownable." ...

New York: 365 Days" is the equivalent of a walking tour through time & space. Beginning with New Year's Day the reader takes a fascinating & evocative journey through the New York Year stopping at such calendrical landmarks as the opening of the baseball season the Fourth of July the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade & the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center illustrated with compelling "then & now" photographs that capture the changing look of the city. We see New Yorkers sunbathing in Central Park in the summer & hurrying through snowy Times Square in the winter; gathering in restaurants & clubs; meditating in the city's great museums; & enjoying quiet moments on fire escapes & park benches." ...

Remember New York for ever with this exquisite cut-paper souvenir. Presented in a beautiful slipcase this stunning memento ...

This title presents the riotous world of the classroom captured by the cartoonists at The New Yorker". " The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons Second Edition" is a hilarious compilation of cartoons that capture the joy terror excitement anxiety fun & bedlam that teachers experience every day as seen through the eyes of " The New Yorker's" best-loved cartoonists. A wonderful collection from some of the best & brightest artists in the world " The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons" takes a wry look into the classroom
- at the students at their devoted & demanding parents & especially at the teachers in the thick of things. This title

Includes:: more than 100 hilarious cartoons. The updated edition reflects recent changes in the world of education. It features an introduction by Lee Lorenz. Compiled by Robert Mankoff cartoon editor of " The New Yorker" & creator of more than eight hundred cartoons published in the magazine " The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons" is a perfect gift for teachers & an encyclopedia of laughs for us all."


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The Number 1 Bestselling Guide to New Zealand! Plucked straight from a film set or a coffee-table book of picture-perfect scenery New Zealand is jaw-droppingly gorgeous. The word Wow! will escape from your lips at least once a day. Charles Rawlings-Way 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 Pull-out touring maps 5 authors 26 weeks of on-the-road research 116 maps 59 000 square kms of parks & reserves Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Trekking skiing & extreme activities feature Comprehensive planning tools In-depth background ...