Traveler's Companion Nepal 98-99 (Traveler's Companion: Nepal)
by Chris Taylor
Home of the renowned Gurkha warriors and Sherpa mountain guides, Nepal is the highest land in the world. A nation of vertical perspectives that boasts the mightiest mountains in the world, it is home to the world's highest, 8,848-meter (29,028-foot)-high Mount Everest, and 7 more of the 14 mountains above 8,000 meters (26,240 feet). Much of the land is remote and seemingly inaccessible - enchanted valleys tucked away between these great mountains - but Traveler's Nepal Companion takes travelers...
Premier foreign correspondent Michael Petrou treks through the Middle East and Central Asia, from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Syria and Egypt, and bring backs blistering stories of turmoil and the people who are driving significant changes.
An authoritative text supporting the newcomer to karate with all they need to know, up to black belt level. Packed with photographs detailing techniques and kata (the combinations of techniques students need to master to progress through the belts) this book is designed to take the student step by step through the progression of Shotokan Karate, taking each belt in turn. Photographs and clear instructions take you step by step through the kata. Karate is a martial art that focuses on the appl...
Essentially Israel (Essentially)
by Carole Stewart and Chris Stewart
A view of Israel and the occupied territories, where, in the eyes of the authors, nothing is typical except the contradictions. The traveller will find impossibly dry and harsh deserts (with tracts coaxed to fertility by the Israelis), valleys, mountains, ravines and canyons, flat coastal plains, golden beaches, lakes, oases, lush hills and pastures, orange and olive groves and vineyards, and the lowest point on earth where the Dead Sea lies. Scattered over this varied landscape are the remains...
In the most innovative account of Tokyo's urban sensations since Roland Barthes' 'Empire of Signs', Stephen Barber in Tokyo Vertigo probes the many ways in which Tokyo projects and hides itself, focusing upon its filmic, photographic, and media cultures as well as its extraordinary urban history of destruction and reconfiguration. Dividing his analysis into three parts, Barber first interrogates the disparate urban zones of Tokyo, from the districts of Shinjuku and Shibuya to the desolate periph...
