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Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Norway by : DK Travel
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Norway written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Norway will lead you straight to the best attractions this breathtaking country has to offer. Packed with stunning photography and illustrations, this guide helps you discover Norway region by region, from the enchanting Northern Lights and beautiful fjords to the vibrant Oslo nightlife. Explore the culture, history, wildlife, and architecture of Norway with walks and hikes through dramatic landscapes, scenic routes, and guidance on Norwegian cuisine. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Norway provides all the insider tips you need, whether you are whale watching, exploring museums, or hiking across spectacular mountains. This fully updated guide includes 3-D cutaway illustrations and floor plans of must-see sights, comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife in each region for all budgets, and reliable information about getting around this incredible country. With hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and maps, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Norway shows you what others only tell you.
Book Synopsis Frommer's? Denmark by : Darwin Porter
Download or read book Frommer's? Denmark written by Darwin Porter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer’s, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer’s. Your guide to a world of travel experience. Choose the Only Guide That Gives You: Outspoken opinions on what’s worth your time and what’s not. Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget. Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions. The best hotels and restaurants in every price range, with candid reviews.
Download or read book Frommer's Norway written by Darwin Porter and published by LibreDigital. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go — they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us! Turn to Frommer's for complete, up-to-date coverage of Europe's most scenic and unspoiled region. In one easy-to-use guide, you'll find the very best of Norway from city sightseeing to wilderness adventures, fjord cruises, and great small towns. Loaded with detailed maps and smart tips that help you stretch your dollar and plan your trip more easily, our guide features accommodations for every taste and budget, the best in authentic dining, and terrific shopping finds. We'll outline spectacular driving tours; visit the most intriguing Viking ruins; and cover the best of the magnificent countryside, from mountain climbing and skiing to fishing and hiking in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Download or read book Brando Unzipped written by Darwin Porter and published by Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That ongoing, barely under control drama known as Marlon Brando--Hollywood's Ultimate Bad Boy, Megastar, and Sexual Outlaw--with a special focus on his early rise to fame and his social and sexual associations with the A-list legends of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Brando Unzipped is the definitive gossip guide to the late, great actor's life --New York Daily News. Lurid, raunchy, perceptive, and certainly worth reading, it's one of the best show-biz biographies of the year. --London's Sunday Times. Brando Unzipped received an Honorable Mention from Foreword Magazine in its Book of the Year competition, and it won a Silver Ippy award for Best Biography from the Independent Publisher's Association.
Book Synopsis Hollywood Babylon by : Darwin Porter
Download or read book Hollywood Babylon written by Darwin Porter and published by Blood Moon Productions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of indescretion compiled from 60 years' exposure to America's entertainment industry, which makes the original Hollywood Babylon look tame, polite and restrained. In the first volume in a new series, Blood Moon apply the tabloid standards of today to the scandals of Hollywood's golden age, also including shocking rundowns of today's Hollywood scandals in the making. Includes chapters on Well Hung Hollywood, Victors and Losers in the Battle of the Bulge, Fan-Worship and Necrophilia, Murder, Marilyn, a Death in a Dinghy and more lurid revelations!
Book Synopsis OECD Economic Surveys: Norway 2019 by : OECD
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys: Norway 2019 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellbeing in Norway is high; GDP per capita is among the top-ranking countries and the country scores well in measures of inclusiveness. Several challenges must be addressed, however, if this good standing is to be sustained. The economy is vulnerable to trade risks. Also, though property markets and related credit appear to be heading for a soft landing, risks remain. Norway has substantial opportunities for more effective public spending remain, and exploiting these will become more important as fiscal space narrows. Productivity growth remains low, requiring attention to business policy.
Book Synopsis Berlitz: Norway Pocket Guide by : Berlitz
Download or read book Berlitz: Norway Pocket Guide written by Berlitz and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlitz Pocket Guide Norway is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the very best that this beautiful country has to offer. The Where to Go chapter details all the key sights in the capital Oslo and the other principal cities - Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim. Each region is covered in detail, from the Western Fjords to Trondelag and Nordland in the north and beyond to remote Svalbard. Handy maps on the cover help you get around Oslo and Bergen with ease. To inspire you, the book offers a rundown of the country's Top 10 Attractions, followed by an itinerary for A Perfect Tour in Norway. The What to Do chapter is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from hiking and glacier walking to quintessential Norwegian experiences like dog-sledding and ice-fishing. It also lists the best places to see the Northern Lights. You'll also be armed with background information, including a brief history of the country and an Eating Out chapter covering its the fish and seafood for which it is famous. There are carefully chosen listings featuring Norway's best hotels and restaurants, plus an A-Z to equip you with all the practical information you will need. Planning to stay in Oslo? Why not pick up Berlitz Pocket Guide Oslo, packed with even more information on this attractive city.
Download or read book Timbuktu written by Marq De Villiers and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book for general readers about the storied past of one of the world’s most fabled cities. Timbuktu — the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place, even though the city’s glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendour and decay of one of humankind’s treasures. Founded in the early 1100s by Tuareg nomads who called their camp “Tin Buktu,” it became, within two centuries, a wealthy metropolis and a nexus of the trans-Saharan trade. Salt from the deep Sahara, gold from Ghana, and money from slave markets made it rich. In part because of its wealth, Timbuktu also became a centre of Islamic learning and religion, boasting impressive schools and libraries that attracted scholars from Alexandria, Baghdad, Mecca, and Marrakech. The arts flourished, and Timbuktu gained near-mythic stature around the world, capturing the imagination of outsiders and ultimately attracting the attention of hostile sovereigns who sacked the city three times and plundered it half a dozen more. The ancient city was invaded by a Moroccan army in 1600, beginning its long decline; since then, it has been seized by Tuareg nomads and a variety of jihadists, in addition to enduring a terrible earthquake, several epidemics, and numerous famines. Perhaps no other city in the world has been as golden — and as deeply tarnished — as Timbuktu. Using sources dating deep into Timbuktu’s fabled past, alongside interviews with Tuareg nomads and city residents and officials today, de Villiers and Hirtle have produced a spectacular portrait that brings the city back to life.
Book Synopsis Banua Toraja by : Jowa Imre Kis-Jovak
Download or read book Banua Toraja written by Jowa Imre Kis-Jovak and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 1988 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Zimbabwe by : Peter S. Garlake
Download or read book Great Zimbabwe written by Peter S. Garlake and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Are We Rome? written by Cullen Murphy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows
Book Synopsis When China Ruled the Seas by : Louise Levathes
Download or read book When China Ruled the Seas written by Louise Levathes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought China’s treasure ships across the China Seas and Indian Ocean, from Japan to the spice island of Indonesia and the Malabar Coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the East African coast, to China’s “El Dorado,” and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook’s landing. It was a time of exploration and expansion, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China’s enigmatic history, focusing on the country’s rise as a naval power that briefly brought half the world under its nominal authority. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China’s most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of China by other contemporary cultures. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming dynasty—the last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasion.
Book Synopsis Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums by : Franklin D Vagnone
Download or read book Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums written by Franklin D Vagnone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these days of an aging traditional audience, shrinking attendance, tightened budgets, increased competition, and exponential growth in new types of communication methods, America’s house museums need to take bold steps and expand their overall purpose beyond those of the traditional museum. They need not only to engage the communities surrounding them, but also to collaborate with visitors on the type and quality of experience they provide. This book is a groundbreaking manifesto that calls for the establishment of a more inclusive, visitor-centered paradigm based on the shared experience of human habitation. It draws inspiration from film, theater, public art, and urban design to transform historic house museums while providing a how-to guide for making historic house museums sustainable, through five primary themes: communicating with the surrounding community, engaging the community, re-imagining the visitor experience, celebrating the detritus of human habitation, and acknowledging the illusion of the shelter’s authenticity. Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums offers a wry, but informed, rule-breaking perspective from authors with years of experience and gives numerous vivid examples of both good and not-so-good practices from house museums in the U.S.
Book Synopsis The Smart Growth Manual by : Andres Duany
Download or read book The Smart Growth Manual written by Andres Duany and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best practices. With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning" (The New Yorker). With this long-awaited companion volume, the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation's leading practitioners. "The Smart Growth Manual is an indispensable guide to city planning. This kind of progressive development is the only way to fully restore our economic strength and create new jobs, new industries, and a renewed ability to compete in the first rank of world economies." -- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco "Authors Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon have created The Smart Growth Manual, a resource which not only explains the overarching ideals of smart growth, but a manual that takes the time to show smart growth principles at each geographic scale (region, neighborhood, street, building). I highly recommend [it] as a part of any community participant’s or urban planner’s desktop references." -- LocalPlan.org Planetizen Top 10 Books – 2010 On the ninth annual list of the ten best books in urban planning, design and development: "The goal of The Smart Growth Manual is clear from page 1: to create a guidebook for smart growth following the pattern of the Charter for New Urbanism. Duany, Speck and Lydon have achieved that in spades (the Charter is included in the appendix, in case we missed the connection). It even clears up some of the architectural arguments that attach themselves to New Urbanists, such as this segment of Section 14.1, Regional Design; 'While new buildings should not be compelled to mimic their historic predecessors, designers should pay attention to local practices regarding materials and colors, roof pitches, eave lengths, window-to-wall ratios, and the socially significant relationship of buildings to their site and the street; these have usually evolved in intelligent response to local conditions.' In addition to making the old 'traditional vs. modern' argument irrelevant, Duany, Speck and Lydon have truly managed to boil down the best parts of current practices into a highly readable, portable book."
Book Synopsis Wonders of the African World by : Henry Louis Gates
Download or read book Wonders of the African World written by Henry Louis Gates and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an illustrated journey through the history and contributions of Africa's lost civilizations, from the ancient pyramids of Nubia to the ruins of Ethiopia's Christian kingdom to the great library and university of Timbuktu.
Book Synopsis Design Studio Pedagogy by : Ashraf M. A. Salama
Download or read book Design Studio Pedagogy written by Ashraf M. A. Salama and published by ARTI-ARCH. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prototyping Architecture by : Michael Stacey
Download or read book Prototyping Architecture written by Michael Stacey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prototyping Architecture explores the importance of prototypes in the delivery of high quality contemporary architecture - performative architecture that is inventive, purposeful and beautiful. The book brings together the work of architects, engineers, manufacturers, product designers, research teams, and artists, sourced from around the world. Placing a particular emphasis on research and experimentation, authors show how prototyping can inform architecture with maquettes, models and full-scale trial assemblies. The importance of prototyping within architecture to achieve high quality construction is also examined.
