When Asia Was the World

When Asia Was the World

Author: Stewart Gordon

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0306815567

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Describes the important influence of Asia's great civilization on the West, as traveling merchants, scholars, philosophers, and religious figures brought the wisdom of China and the Middle East to medieval Europe during the Dark Ages.


Lonely Planet Pocket Ibiza

Lonely Planet Pocket Ibiza

Author: Lonely Planet

Publisher: Lonely Planet

Published: 2018-12-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 178868155X

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Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Pocket Ibiza is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Go bar hopping in Sant Antoni de Portmany, explore Ibiza Town and catch the island sunset - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Ibiza and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Ibiza: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Free, convenient pull-out map (included in print version), plus over 16 colour neighbourhood maps User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time Covers Ibiza Town, Santa Eularia d'es Riu, Portinatx, Port de Sant Miquel, Els Amunts, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Formentera, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Pocket Ibiza is our colourful, easy to use, handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, providing on-the-go assistance for those seeking the best sights and experiences on a short visit or weekend away. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Spain guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) *Source: Nielsen BookScan: Australia, UK, USA, 5/2016-4/2017 eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.


The Clever Camper Cookbook

The Clever Camper Cookbook

Author: Megan Winter-Barker

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1912983524

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Having spent months exploring the world in our trusty VW camper, we're experts at putting together incredible food equipped with just a two-burner camping stove and a tiny fridge or cool box. The Clever Camper Cookbook features over 20 of the best recipes we came up with on our travels―there's no fuss, nothing too fancy, just deliciously simple cooking. Whether you're on top of a mountain, down by the water's edge or setting up for a few nights at a festival, we've got all your food needs covered. Start the day with one-pot Mexican poached eggs with chorizo, tuck into satay chicken for lunch and enjoy an al fresco feast under the stars with ideas for Spanish meatballs, Asian stir fries, fiery curries, and more. No longer does food on the road have to involve yet another portion of beans on toast!


The Venice Variations

The Venice Variations

Author: Sophia Psarra

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1787352390

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From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.


By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher:

Published: 2006-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780007222582

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This is the story of Pilar, an independent and practical yet restless young woman, whose life is forever changed by an encounter with a childhood friend.


Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp

Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp

Author: Michelin Travel Publications

Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9782066528018

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In a colourful and compact format, the guides that make up the Michelin In Your Pocket series provide the traveller with maps and practical information on walks, tours and excursions to a range of holiday destinations throughout the world'


The Book of Imaginary Beings

The Book of Imaginary Beings

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0099442639

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As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition-The compilation and translation of this volume have given us a great deal of such pleasure; we hope the reader will share some of the fun we felt when ransacking the