With this up-to-date authoritative guide you can experience all the sights & Best Of" recommendations for Shanghai Hangzhou & Suzhou. You can discover great restaurants hotels trendy places & nightlife venues & also pick up tips on what to do on a limited budget & ideas for shopping & travel with kids sport & lots of other activities. Also contains: Festivals & Events Travel Tips Links Blogs Apps & More & index. The Useful Phrases in Chinese section is helpful as are the Chinese characters for the places listed. Shanghai
- an endless sea of houses buildings towering up into the sky roads on multiple levels. An irrepressible creative drive imaginative art & a vibrant culture: the megacity by the mighty Huangpu River pulsates to the beat of the future. With MARCO POLO Shanghai you dive into the varied world of this great city. Take a stroll through the narrow streets of the Old City where life still goes on as it did a hundred years ago & take a look at the Pudong skyline reminiscent of a science fiction film. Shanghai offers an abundance of attractions. A visit to the Shanghai Museum is an essential part of your programme as is an evening in the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre or a trip to the water town of Zhujiajiao. In Hangzhou & Suzhou you can discover the beauty of the West Lake & the Classical Garden. The Insider Tips reveal where you can find much sought after designer clothes where its all happening & where Shanghai cuisine is served in a refined ambience. The " Best Of" pages show you where the great places for free are & whats unique to Shanghai. They also offer tips for rainy days & tell you where you can relax & chill out. Youll find out whats hot
- be it bike tours or sweet desserts. The Walking Tours take you into the Chinese Old City the former French Concession & the former International Settlement. Finally the Dos & Donts warn you of how not to get ripped off or buy bootleg goods. MARCO POLO Shanghai gives comprehensive coverage of all the citys districts. To help you find your way around theres a detailed street atlas with town plans of Hangzhou & Suzhou & map of the surrounding area practical map inside the back cover metro map & removable pull-out map."

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The ultimate pocket city map of Shanghai! Explore the amazing city of Shanghai 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 popout maps including central Shanghai * Additional maps include a map of the Shanghai area & a metro transport map * 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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This book by the author of Rogue Warrior of the SAS" retells the story of a series of murders by the Ulster Volunteer Force in N. Ireland in the 1970s. When convicted the killers received over 2000 years in jail the longest sentences ever given in a single trial in British legal history." ...

It was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the great mans arrival at Anfield & it gave a new generation of football fans a unique insight into the real man behind the legend. The new hardback edition was extremely popular & has sold out prompting this follow-up paperback edition. Ghost-written by John Roberts
- one of the only journalists Shankly trusted to tell his life story
- this is the tale of his rise from a poor Scottish mining village to international fame as creator of the most successful side of the era
- Liverpool. This book provides in-depth analysis in the inimitable Shankly style of the players he nurtured
- from Ian St John to Emlyn Hughes & Kevin Keegan
- & revealing descriptions of the methods that made Liverpool uniquely feared & respected. Written in the years after his dramatic resignation as Liverpool manager it gives an insight into Shanklys feelings about the club that he felt had turned its back on him & explores the astonishing relationship he had with the supporters they called Shanklys Red Army. Shanklys unputdownable memoirs show the man: tough cracking with wit full of insights & that quality which made him a great football manager & personality
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FROM THE SUMMER OF '62. FROM THE SECOND DIVISION. ONE MAN'S VISION TO REBUILD LIVERPOOL FC...WE THINK we have learned all we can about the one & only Bill Shankly. His famous"es live long in the memory. His autobiography penned after he had dramatically called time on his Anfield reign gives us a real insight into the passions that motivated this remarkable football man. Now comes a new discovery from deep within the archives of the Liverpool Echo newspaper. Shankly rarely gave in-depth interviews to journalists but in the summer of 1962 the time was right to speak his mind. Liverpool had just finished as champions achieving promotion from the Second Division & Shankly was looking forward full of confidence clear about the next step in a rebuilding job that would restore the sleeping giant of Liverpool Football Club back to the summit of English football within two years. Over the course of a tortuous football-free few months he agreed to a series of in-depth personal columns revealing his innermost thoughts on the great Anfield masterplan. This is the real Shankly talking to you once more. Published again for the first time in 50 years. A rare find & a must read for every Liverpool fan. ...

A novel of high adventure great storytelling & moral purpose based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. In the early 80s Gregory David Roberts an armed robber & heroin addict escaped from an Australian prison to India where he lived in a Bombay slum. There he established a free health clinic & also joined the mafia working as a money launderer forger & street soldier. He found time to learn Hindi & Marathi fall in love & spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. Then in case anyone thought he was slacking he acted in Bollywood & fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan.. . Amazingly Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. Its a profound tribute to his willpower.. . At once a high-kicking eye-gouging adventure a love saga & a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision. Time Out ...

Exploring the authentic art of chuan fa this exciting three-part DVD series

Includes:: Shaolin animal

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The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers & prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello one of the local movers & shakers apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes
- refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano as honest as he is streetwise & as scathing to fools & villains as he is compassionate to their victims is not ready to close the case
- even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief judge & bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption delicious meals vendetta firepower & carefully planted false clues Montalbano can be relied on whatever the cost to get to the heart of the matter.

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Shake up your wardrobe! Create 19 unique fashionforward garments with simple sewing techniques. Graphic designer turned fashion designer Natsuno Hiraiwa returns with patterns & instructions for 19 innovative womens garments & accessories in classic minimalist Japanese style. Many of her signature vests collars & shrugs are cut from a single flat piece of cloth then ingeniously draped & fastened around the body. Other pieces are artfully twisted & folded like origami giving a unique shape to the resulting blouses tops & skirts. All her designs create the striking silhouettes that epitomize her fashion collections & result in one-of-a-kind garments suitable for all ages. These pieces are uniquely constructed in a Japanese style but modified for the more Western figure with the pattern grading & sizing adjusted accordingly. Sewists will be fascinated by the novel minimalism of Shape Shape 2 ...

Garet James & Will Hughes find themselves back in 21st century Paris each with an unusual romantic quandary. The 400 year-old remorseful vampire that Garet still loves remains trapped in time in 1602 as is Marguerite the young Wills love who might reconsider her decision to reject him now that he has become an unvampire. Their time reversing prospects include guidance from the Institut Chronologique & from another time-traveller the astronomer Johannes Kepler who Will encounters on one of the bridges across the Seine. It is by no means an easy task. & complicating things further is the fact that they appear to have brought with them a monster from the past: the shape-shifting blood-drinking Marduk. They set out to find Marduk but its not easy to find a creature who can change shape at will. When they realize that Marduk has not only stolen Will Hughes face but also his identity they fear that he has teamed up with their old nemeses John Dee & Cosimo Ruggieri to gain control of
- & destroy
- the worlds financial markets. & when they learn that Marduk is on his way to New York Garet fears that her family & friends will be his next target. Will & Garet leave Paris for New York where they also hope to resolve their own romantic dilemmas. Which Will does Garet really love? The innocent young man
- or the man wracked with remorse for his history of violence & bloodshed? & does Will still love Marguerite? Or has he fallen in love with her time-travelling descendant?


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