Travel related books
Company of Liars is a well written historical novel set at the time of the Great Plague in Europe, 1348. The disease has just reached the shores of England and the populace are starting to panic as it spreads across the country, sparing no-one. Although this is the background, the tale essentially
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Ishmael Reed's essay “The World is Here” is preceded by a well-chosen excerpt from a 1983 New York Times article which evokes an image that epitomizes the two tiered concept of Ishmael's proceeding essay. Reed offers several examples of cultural blending from inside the walls of a McDonald's
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First published in the early twentieth century shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin has been translated by Natasha Randall and republished in 2006. We is considered a precursor to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Fourand has a feeling similar to Ray Bradbury's Fa
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Top Indian author Chetan Bhagat leads as India's latest youth icon and the author of three immensely popular novels Five Point Someone, One Night @ The Call Centre and The 3 Mistakes of my life. His latest novel "2 States: The Story of my Marriage" has hit the stands just recently, and have showed
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As we have traditionally been a culturist nation, the multiculturalist outlook strips us of our ability to appreciate or understand our past. Applying culturist insights to the bookTranslating Property by Maria E. Montoya provides examples in spades. This book discusses how we settled land disput
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The merging of the American Indians and the white race which incorporated their lands was not always a simply process, indeed many lives were lost on both sides until things settled down. Now American Culture has become rich with American Indian Culture. Their customs, art, way of life and even th
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The secrets to the law of attraction have been changing lives worldwide since 'The Secret', a movie that has an accompanying book, was released by Rhonda Byrne in 2004. Byrne, an Australian woman, made 'The Secret' because she had recently come out of a series of misfortunes both personal and prof
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On my recent trip to Istanbul this past September I was looking for a guidebook that would offer me a fair amount of history and allow me to skip guided tours and save me money. Knowing Rick Steves mostly by his Rick Steves' Europe television series, I decided to purchase his guidebook and take
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Are travel books necessary, or is it practical to get the information they contain from other sources? As with any other type of publication, travel books have their benefits and drawbacks. It's advisable to consider both when deciding whether to purchase them. Travel Book Advantages Whether yo
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I purchased this "Poland Travel Guide Book," published by DK.com while taking a class in Polish. I found the book very interesting during my studies. While it did not go along with the language class in a parallel manner, it was quite useful regarding some of the history about Poland. I was under
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