DK Eyewitness Argentina
DK Eyewitness Argentina

Author: DK Eyewitness

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1465496548

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Argentina 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 sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer, whether you're planning trips to the elegant, modern capital of Buenos Aires, spectacularly scenic Patagonia, or rich wine country of Mendoza. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region, from the best milonga — a place for dancing and listening to tango — in Buenos Aires, to the best horseback riding in the pampas, and the best parrilla (steakhouse) in every region of the country. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, while detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus, or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Argentina effortlessly. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Argentina truly shows you this country as no one else can.

Cityscopes: Buenos Aires
Cityscopes: Buenos Aires

Author: Jason Wilson

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1780232667

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Whether for tango, football, or art, passions in Buenos Aires run high. The largest city in Argentina, it is chaotic and lively, dangerous and cosmopolitan, and presents seemingly unlimited attractions for tourists. This book provides a view into the city today, and into its past. Europeans colonized Buenos Aires in the 16th century, and from this modest start by the end of the nineteenth century it had boomed. Its history is one of excesses and swings between authoritarian and democratic governments. By examining Buenos Aires past, we can appreciate what remains as story, urban myth, or reality. "

Buenos Aires: The Biography of a City
Buenos Aires: The Biography of a City

Author: James Gardner

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1466879033

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Buenos Aires, Argentina, recognized for its European-style architecture and lively theater scene, is a truly special place. The second-largest city in South America, it has been the home of such renowned cultural and historical figures as Jorge Luis Borges and Astor Piazzola, Che Guevara and Eva Peron. Like every truly great city, New York, London and Prague; Buenos Aires is its own universe, with its own center of gravity, its own scents and flavors, its own architectural signature-in short, its own way of being. From San Telmo's oak-paneled restaurants and brightly tiled apothecaries from 1900, and the phantasmagoric Beaux Arts palaces along Avenida Alvear and Plaza San Martin, to the parks of Palermo and the bustling bars and cafes along Corrientes and LaValle, Buenos Aires is steeped in exotic culture and history. In Buenos Aires, Art and culture critic James Gardner offers a colorful biography of the "Paris of the South," from its origins and time as a colonial city, through its Golden age, the rise of Peron, and the Falklands War, to the present day. With entertaining asides about art, architecture, literature, food and dance, as well as local customs and colorful personalities, this is a rich and unique historical narrative of Buenos Aires.

At Home in Buenos Aires
At Home in Buenos Aires

Author: Edward Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780789202512

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Featuring a detailed map and an extensive visitor's guide to the museums, art galleries, theatres, hotels, restaurants, bars and cafes, and shopping centres, this book celebrates the Paris of South America, Buenos Aires.

Goodbye Buenos Aires
Goodbye Buenos Aires

Author: Andrew Graham-Yooll

Publisher: Eland Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906011703

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This title is a celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the '20s and '30s through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives - a hard-drinking, womanising Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars and brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers up-country.

Bad Times In Buenos Aires
Bad Times In Buenos Aires

Author: Miranda France

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1780225784

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A funny and poignant account of life in Buenos Aires, by a young prize-winning writer. In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Aires as the intellectual hub of the continent, with its wealth of writers and its romantic, passionate and tragic history. She found that is was all these things, but it was also a terrible place to live. The inhabitants of Buenos Aires are famously unhappy. All over South America they are known for their arrogance, their fixation of Europe and their moodiness. Very soon, Miranda France encounters' bronca' - the simmering and barely controllable rage that is a staple feature of life in the Argentinian capital. She finds that 'bronca' has deep roots: the violence and racism of the first European settlers; the dictatorships, especially in the 1970s when so many 'disappeared'; even Evita Peron, for there was no rage to rival Evita's.

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

Author: Kage Baker

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2005-04-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0553383396

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“Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you’re afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!” —Book Sense You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled—each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isn’t heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome. Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that can’t go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you don’t have Pentzler’s Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection.

The Pocket Guide to Opera
The Pocket Guide to Opera

Author: Anna Selby

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2011-06-13

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1844685349

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Everything you need to know about opera in one handy guide. Part of our best-selling Pocket Guide series, The Pocket Guide to Opera contains A-Z synopses of operas and biographies of the characters, lyricists and composers. The book features the history of opera, setting it in the context of its day and discussing the influence of world events and influences such as the Freemasons and the composers patrons. With factboxes highlighting surprising, little known and often quirky operatic facts, this fascinating book is a must-buy guide for everyone who loves opera.

Pocket Guide and Toolkit to Dejong's Neurologic Examination
Pocket Guide and Toolkit to Dejong's Neurologic Examination

Author: William W. Campbell

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780781773591

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Designed as a diagnostic tool for non-neurologists or first-year neurology residents, this pocket guide contains the most essential information from the best-selling DeJong's The Neurologic Examination, Sixth Edition. Included are step-by-step instructions for each stage of the neurologic examination, numerous illustrations depicting examination techniques, and frequently used tests and scales such as the Boston Naming Test, Glasgow Coma Scale, and Denver Scale of Communication Function. A "toolkit" at the back of the book contains lightweight adaptations of implements used in performing the examination, such as visual acuity charts, a red lens, a multi-pinhole, an optokinetic nystagmus tape, and other devices.