The smart way to travel Planning the perfect short break or day trip to Amsterdam? With a detailed fold-out map and all the sights you shouldn’t miss, this handy guide is just what you need – and it’s just the right size to put in your pocket. Inside Mini Map + Guide Amsterdam, you’ll find: - An easy-to-use pull-out map, showing Amsterdam in detail - A colour-coded area guide, making it easy to find sights quickly and plan your day - Illustrations and images, showcasing Amsterdam's most exciting museums, architecture, attractions and more - Essential travel tips, including our expert choices of where to eat, drink and shop, plus useful transport, currency and health information Mini Map + Guide Amsterdam is abridged from DK Eyewitness Amsterdam. For an alternative pocket guide, try Top 10 Amsterdam.
A pocket-sized travel guide, packed with expert advice and ideas for the best things to see and do in Lisbon, and complemented with a sturdy pull-out map - perfect for a day trip or a short break. Whether you want to trundle through cobbled streets on a vintage tram, be moved by spine-tingling fado, enjoy spectacular panoramas from a rooftop bar, or simply eat a lot of custard tarts - this great-value, concise travel guide will ensure you don't miss a thing. Inside Mini Map and Guide Lisbon: - Easy-to-use pull-out map shows Lisbon in detail, and includes a transport map - Colour-coded area guide makes it easy to find information quickly and plan your day - Illustrations show the inside of some of Lisbon's most iconic buildings - Colour photographs of Lisbon's museums, architecture, shops, cathedrals and more - Essential travel tips including our expert choices of where to eat, drink and shop, plus useful transport, currency and health information and a phrase book - Chapters covering Alfama; Baixa and Avenida; Bairro Alto and Estrela; Belém; Beyond the Centre; The Lisbon Coast Mini Map and Guide Lisbon is abridged from DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Lisbon Staying for longer and looking for a more comprehensive guide? Try our DK Eyewitness Top Ten Lisbon. About DK Eyewitness Travel: DK's Mini Map and Guides take the work out of planning a short trip, with expert advice and easy-to-read maps to inform and enrich any short break. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.
A pocket-sized travel guide, packed with expert advice and ideas for the best things to see and do in Lisbon, and complemented with a sturdy pull-out map - perfect for a day trip or a short break. Whether you want to trundle through cobbled streets on a vintage tram, be moved by spine-tingling fado, enjoy spectacular panoramas from a rooftop bar, or simply eat a lot of custard tarts - this great-value, concise travel guide will ensure you don't miss a thing. Inside Mini Map and Guide Lisbon: - Easy-to-use pull-out map shows Lisbon in detail, and includes a transport map - Colour-coded area guide makes it easy to find information quickly and plan your day - Illustrations show the inside of some of Lisbon's most iconic buildings - Colour photographs of Lisbon's museums, architecture, shops, cathedrals and more - Essential travel tips including our expert choices of where to eat, drink and shop, plus useful transport, currency and health information and a phrase book - Chapters covering Alfama; Baixa and Avenida; Bairro Alto and Estrela; Belém; Beyond the Centre; The Lisbon Coast Mini Map and Guide Lisbon is abridged from DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Lisbon Staying for longer and looking for a more comprehensive guide? Try our DK Eyewitness Top Ten Lisbon. About DK Eyewitness Travel: DK's Mini Map and Guides take the work out of planning a short trip, with expert advice and easy-to-read maps to inform and enrich any short break. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.
This guidebook describes the Way of St Francis a 550km month-long pilgrimage trail from Florence through Assisi to Rome. Split into 28 day stages, the walk begins in Florence and finishes in the Vatican City. Stages range from 8km to 30km with plenty to see, including ancient ruins, picturesque towns, national treasures, and stunning churches. This comprehensive guidebook fits in a jacket pocket or rucksack, and contains information on everything from accommodation and transport in Italy, to securing your credential (pilgrim identity card), budgeting, what to take, and where to do laundry. Stories of Francis of Assisi's life are also included. Although the route includes climbs and descents of up to 1200m, no special equipment is required - although your hiking boots and socks definitely need to get along. Following the steps of heroes, conquerors and saints on this pilgrim trail is manageable all year round, but is best done from April to June and mid-August to October. Route maps are given for every stage, and basic Italian phrases are included in the guidebook.
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
In Teaching ‘Proper’ Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The case studies in the book offer the first detailed surveys of efforts to teach responsible drinking practices to Aboriginal people by installing canteens in remote communities, and of the purchase of public hotels by Indigenous groups in attempts both to control sales of alcohol and to create social enterprises by redistributing profits for the community good. Ethnographies of the hotels are examined through the analytical lens of the Swedish ‘Gothenburg’ system of municipal hotel ownership. The research reveals that the community governance of such social enterprises is not purely a matter of good administration or compliance with the relevant liquor legislation. Their administration is imbued with the additional challenges posed by political contestation, both within and beyond the communities concerned. ‘The idea that community or government ownership and management of a hotel or other drinking place would be a good way to control drinking and limit harm has been commonplace in many Anglophone and Nordic countries, but has been less recognised in Australia. Maggie Brady’s book brings together the hidden history of such ideas and initiatives in Australia … In an original and wide-ranging set of case studies, Brady shows that success in reducing harm has varied between communities, largely depending on whether motivations to raise revenue or to reduce harm are in control.’ — Professor Robin Room, Director, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
Focused on the dual aspects of access and quality, this publication discusses the role of textbooks in facilitating quality education for all. The book consists of reviews of the international perspectives as well as case studies on Brazil, Russian Federation, and Rwanda. It also documents strategies that could help to optimise procedures of textbook development, production, and evaluation; enhance textbooks' pedagogical impact; improve teachers' selection of textbooks; and raise textbook supply efficiently.
Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Pocket Lisbon is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Marvel at the intricacy of Belém's monastery, experience Lisbon on the golden tram and enjoy a city view from the Castelo de Sao Jorge - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Lisbon and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Lisbon: 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 15 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 Alfama, Castelo, Graça, Baixa, Rossio, Bairro Alto, Chiado, Marquês de Pombal, Rato, Saldanha, Estrela, Lapa, Alcântara, Belém, Parques das Nações, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Pocket Lisbon 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 break. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Portugal 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.
Is Paris really the eternal City of Love? Dumped suddenly by her Parisian boyfriend, sultry expat Lily is left wondering if je t'aime still exists. Instead of crying into her glass of wine, she decides to heal her bruised ego and quash her romantic doubts with a carefree summer fling . . . or as the French call it: une aventure. Supported by her faithful friends and trusty Saint Amour wine, Lily embarks on her presumably easy quest. Little does she know what-or whom-this adventure has in store! Rather than guide her into the arms of a perfect summer amoureux, the sexy streets of Paris lead her from one impossible candidate to another: disappearing foxy Frenchmen, unavailable Latino heartthrobs, overly-mysterious world travelers, mistress-hunting married men, and not-so-single amnesiacs-oh la la! As her amorous mishaps accumulate, Lily gradually re-evaluates her strategy. But will her good intentions be enough to lead her to the right homme . . . one who might last out the summer-and maybe even beyond? Or will she continue to get embroiled in more mesaventure? This novelized memoir tells the tantalizingly true romantic odyssey of a 21st-Century young woman caught in the mire of desires-which is only intensified by the passion of Paris.
Lisbon’s proximity to the coast makes it an ideal choice for both sightseeing and sunbathing and with over 500 sumptuous colour photographs, maps & illustrations, this is your indispensable guide to Portugal’s bright capital. This expanded and fully-revised edition includes 3-D aerial views of Lisbon’s most interesting districts and cutaways and floor plans of all the major sights including the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos. Four great days out of sightseeing and two specially devised walking tours will allow you to discover the harbour city’s architectural charm and rich history in depth, whilst a reliable selection of bars, hotels, shops, and entertainment venues will ensure you don’t miss a thing. The enlarged and enhanced colour Street Finder and detailed public transport map, will ensure you'll have no problem finding your way.
