"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Northern Spain" is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. The guide is also packed with p[...]
"DK Eyewitness Back Roads Spain" driving vacation guide will take you via scenic routes to discover charming villages, local restaurants, and intimate places to stay. Twenty-five themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences th[...]
"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 England's Lake District" will lead you straight to the very best the region has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights, or want to find the best local pubs, this fully updated guide with pull-out map is the perfect pocket-[...]
This comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable reference features hundreds of tin toy cars from toy makers around the world. Included are toys from Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. The toys represent cars of the[...]
This comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable reference features hundreds of tin toy cars from toy makers around the world. Included are toys from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States. The toys repres[...]
Enjoy the most healthful and luxurious beauty treatments from the best spas worldwide, using ingredients from your own kitchen. The pursuit of beauty today is happily fused with a desire for inner health. Drawing from her extensive travels, fashion model Dawn Gallagher presents a natural, multicultu[...]
Discover a whole new world of dogs with these revolutionary, breed-specific guides accompanied by a free DVD. The American Pit Bull Terrier is a working breed. This book includes an extensive chapter on activities and sports that are especially appropriate for this breed's energetic nature.[...]
Long banned in the United States and England, My Life and Loves is one of the most notorious autobiographies ever written. Famous for its erotic passages, it is also one of the richest and most entertaining views ever of fin-de-siecle literary and social life.
In this unexpurgated chroni[...]
In 1832-34, German scientist Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied travelled the interior regions of North America to document what he regarded as vanishing cultures. Accompanying him was the twenty-two-year-old Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809-93), whom Maximilian employed to create a "faithful and vivid[...]
In "Trinity", the illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm tells the history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb, and the ethical debates that followed. He sets the stage with early research in Europe, which began prior to World War I and accelerated rapidly as World War II a[...]
"The American Civil War: 365 Days" comprises a vivid visual history of one of the most tumultuous and pivotally important eras in the history of the USA. From pre-war political clashes over slavery in the South, to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army, "The American Civil War" constitutes a telling[...]
Experts estimate that perhaps forty square miles of Detroit are vacant-from a quarter to a third of the city -a level of emptiness that creates a landscape unlike any other big city. Author John Gallagher, who has covered urban redevelopment for the "Detroit Free Press" for two decades, spent a year[...]
Steers readers away from the common mistake of focusing on what's wrong, and shows them instead how to provide clear, constructive, positive messages. This book offers readers insight into how we all react naturally to criticism and how to transform interactions that might become verbal tugs of war [...]
The worst customer situations demand more of front-line employees than good intentions and the right attitude. These kinds of issues can send seasoned service professionals into red alert, and require the communication skills of a crisis counselor. "The Customer Service Survival Kit" explains how to[...]
Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic nation. In this insightful examination of modern Romania, Tom Gallagher provides an overview of Romania's un[...]
St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, is one of the most influential spiritual leaders of all time, yet many readers find his Rules for Discernment hard to understand. What can Ignatius teach us about the discernment of spirits that lies at the very heart of Christian life? In "The Discernmen[...]
Gallagher an authority and gifted teacher, help us understand the rule and how its insights are essential for our spiritual growth today.[...]