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	American Journeys Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys, acclaimed author Don Watson set out to explore the nation that has influenced him more than any other. Travelling by rail gave Watson a unique and seductive means of peering into the United States, a way to experience life with its citizens: long days with the American landscape and American towns and American history unfolding on the outside, while inside a tiny particle of the American people talked among themselves. Watson's experiences are profoundly affecting: he witnesses the terrible aftermath of Hurricane explores the savage history of the Deep South, the heartland of the Civil War and journeys to the remarkable wilderness of Yellowstone National Park. Yet it is through the people he meets that Watson discovers the incomparable genius of America, its optimism, sophistication and riches - and also its darker side, its disavowal of failure and uncertainty. Beautifully written, with gentle power and sly humour, American Journeys investigates the meaning of the United States: its confidence, its religion, its heroes, its violence, and its material obsessions. The things that make America great are also its greatest flaws. Author: Don Watson Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9781741666212 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Adventures in the Rocky Mountains Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered. Author: Isabella L. Bird Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 9780141025346 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $14.20
	TRANS Canada Rail Guide The world's most scenic rail ride. A journey on Canada's transcontinental railroad ranks as one of the greatest rail experiences in the world. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the lines span 3974 miles, taking in not only several of North America's finest cities but also some of the most dramatic scenery on earth, including the spectacular Rocky Mountains. Rail travel for all budgets - This comprehensive guidebook gives information for all budgets, from the cheapest rail tickets with shoestring accommodation in the cities along the route to the most luxurious guided tours. - Fully revised 4th edition - updated and with new mapping - Rail travel for all budgets - where to get the best deals - Mile-by-mile route guide - what to see along the route with 25 maps - Railway history - the rail link that created modern Canada - City guides and maps - the best sights, recommended hotels and restaurants in eight major stops along the lines: Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary Author: Melissa Graham Publisher: TRAILBLAZER PUBLICATIONS ISBN: 9781905864010 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $34.95 Our Price: $31.11
	Cadillac Dreams Cadillac Dreams-Baby Booming Across Southern America is the story of four people living the dream of a lifetime, a musical journey across the southern states of America. Written by Phil Gifford, a multi-award winning journalist and radio host, the four revel in live music at a juke joint in Clarksdale Mississippi, a crawfish festival in Breaux Bridge Louisiana, the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the Continental Club in Austin Texas, the national blues awards, and rock and roll's legendary Ponderosa Stomp, in Memphis. They visit Graceland, Jerry Lee Lewis' family home in Ferriday Louisiana, Elvis' birthplace in Tupelo Mississippi, and have close encounters with alligators in the Louisiana bayou. They stay at Heartbreak Hotel in Memphis, and a former sharecropper's shack in Mississippi. They eat ribs in Memphis, frijoles in Texas, hushpuppies and catfish in Mississippi, and onion mums in Louisiana. If you've ever dreamed of visiting the land that brought the world the blues, country and rock and roll music Cadillac Dreams is a must read. Author: Phil Gifford, Tristan Brehaut Publisher: Willson Scott Publishing ISBN: 9781877427046 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $42.95 Our Price: $38.23
	Boston for Dummies Boston offers a unique blend of traditional and trendy old and new, with ultramodern skyscrapers towering beside colonial historical sites. Whether you want to explore incredible museums or shop tempting boutiques, take in a game or take a cruise, this book points the way with info on: attractions for history lovers, sports lovers, and food lovers seven great itineraries and four fun day trips public garden, the first botanical garden in the U.S., legendary Fenway Park, Longfellow National Historic Site, and more all kinds of restaurants, ranging from local seafood and pizza favorites and ethnic eateries to elegant, high end dining and unique neighborhood cafes shopping in stores that range from cheap to chic, boho to bourgeois, including Newbury Street, the rodeo Drive of New England walking the 3 mile Freedom Trail, Harvard Square, Commonwealth Avenue, or around Walden Pond and taking in fantastic live performances or relaxing in fun pubs and bars.Like every For Dummies travel guide, Boston For Dummies, 4th Edition, includes: Down to earth trip planning advice What you shouldn't miss and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget and Handy Post it Flags to mark your favorite pages. With this friendly guide, you'll enjoy a Boston vacation that suits you, whether that's exploring the old or celebrating the new. Author: Dummies - Travel, Marie Morris Publisher: John Wiley and Son ISBN: 9780470128176 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Frommer's - Las Vegas Day by Day These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. This guide is a full-color package at an affordable price. It offers star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions. It includes foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information. It features a tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet. It comes in a handy pocket-sized trim.Las Vegas Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Las Vegas in a short time - with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Las Vegas Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip.Inside this book you'll find: full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps sample one- to three-day itineraries that include tours of the major Strip hotels, the city's best attractions, Downtown Las Vegas, and more star ratings for all hotels, restaurants and attractions clue readers in on great finds and values a tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet and, a foldout front cover, with at-a-glance maps and quick-reference info. Author: Frommer's Travel Guides, Mary Herczog Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780470134696 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.76
	Reflections on America At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of 'the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States. Claus Offe considers the perspectives adopted by three of Europe's greatest social scientists - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber and Theodor W. Adorno - in their comparative writings on Europe. While travelling, studying and working in the US, all three constantly looked back to their European origins, trying to decipher from their American experience what the future may hold for Europe, be it for better or worse. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat, observed the functioning of American democracy with a mix of admiration, envy and deep concerns about the fate of liberty in the 'democratic age'. Max Weber, the German sociologist, reported enthusiastically about the youthful energy he found in the United States, which, however, he saw as gradually succumbing to the stifling tendencies of European bureaucratization. Theodor W. Adorno, the critical theorist and refugee from Nazi Germany, observed with a sense of despair the workings of the American 'culture industry' which he equated to the totalitarian experience of Europe, only to switch to a much more favourable picture upon his return to Germany. Europe and the US are conventionally assumed to share the same trajectory and develop according to some common pattern of 'occidental rationalism', with the observed differences resulting from mere lags and relative advances on one side or the other. In this insightful book, Offe questions the relevance of this paradigm to transatlantic relations today. Author: Claus Offe Publisher: Blackwell Publishers ISBN: 9780745635064 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.88
	Wallpaper - Toronto City Guide Compiled by the magazine's travel experts, and by the extraordinary network of international correspondents, the guides are truly the insider's guide to each featured city. Both people who live there, as well as the well-travelled editorial team of Wallpaper, have put their heads together to come up with a fascinating, efficient guide that keeps the hip, urban traveler with his/her finger on the pulse. The Wallpaper City Guides are especially useful for the weekend tourist, and the business traveller. If you only have 24 hours to discover a city, each guide offers an exact hour-to-hour plan of what to see, eat, and purchase. For those travelling for a weekend, the guides even go as far as to tell you what you could see for a day-trip outside the city. The City Guides are being published as Wallpaper magazine celebrates its 10th anniversary. For a decade, Wallpaper has been the first to uncover and present enticingly the best in new design and urban travel spots from across the globe. The City Guides are the perfect way to present a decade of experience in one precisely edited guide to each of the 40 cities to be published in 2007. Author: Wallpaper* Magazine Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd ISBN: 9780714847337 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $12.95 Our Price: $11.53
	1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die Now, for the first time from the best selling travel author, Patricia Schultz, comes 1000 Places To See In The U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die. Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska's Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City - from Arthur Bryant's to Gates to B.B.'s Lawnside to Danny Edwards to LC's to Snead's. There's the ice hotel in Quebec, the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, cowboy poetry readings, what to do in Lexington after the derby's over, and for every city, dozens of unexpected suggestions and essential destinations. The book is organized by region, and subject-specific indices in the back sort the book by interest - wilderness, great dining, best beaches, world-class museums, sports and adventures, road trips, and more. There's also an index that breaks out the best destinations for families with children. Following each entry is the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone numbers, costs, best times to visit. Author: Patricia Schultz Publisher: Workmans Publishing ISBN: 9780761136910 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $45.00 Our Price: $40.05
	New York's 50 Best Places to Take Tea Taking tea is a convivial activity--a perfect way for friends to get together--and yet the ritual is also contemplative. Simultaneously stimulating and soothing, tea relaxes the body and rejuvenates the soul. In New York City, the venues for taking tea are as varied as the delights of the brew itself. Completely revised and updated for its new incarnation as part of City and Company's celebrated 50 Best series, New York's 50 Best Places to Take Tea walks you through the city's most delightful and unusual tearooms, providing the avid and novice tea-drinker with information on where to take tea--from hotels and teashops to department stores and museums. Indulge in a traditional British afternoon tea at a lavish hotel, meditate over a cup in a quiet Japanese tearoom, or try a milky-sweet tapioca bubble tea in a hidden spot in Chinatown. With an index by neighborhood of the newest and finest tearooms in the city, New York's 50 Best Places to Take Tea is the perfect companion for everyone who cherishes the most welcoming and accommodating of beverages. Author: Bo Niles Publisher: Universe Publishing (Incorporated, Div. of Rizzoli International Pubns., In ISBN: 9780789315861 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $32.95 Our Price: $29.33
	New York's 50+ Best Places to Enjoy Dessert, 2nd Edition New York is happily celebrating the joys of the sweet tooth. An expanded and all-new second edition, New York's 50 Best Places to Enjoy Dessert is an A-to-Z guide to the sweetest dessert destinations the Big Apple has to offer. Looking for the holy grail of tarts? The swankiest spot for souffle? The best boite for butter cookies? Indexed by neighborhood, ethnicity, and major dessert category, this book will reveal who bakes and makes the best pies, pastries, chocolates, cupcakes, cookies, donuts, spoon desserts, hot chocolate, egg creams, and more. For this updated second edition, readers will be treated to exciting new dessert adventure destinations highlighting new flavor combinations that Manhattan's best pastry chefs are introducing to our palates, as well as sidebars concerning the best places to indulge your most passionate of chocolate cravings, a helpful sidebar for the most kid-friendly dessert eateries as well as a glossary and guide to cassatas, charlottes, and other lesser-known delicacies. Conveying atmosphere as well as local lore, New York's 50 Best Places to Enjoy Dessert 2nd Edition is the ultimate resource for every butter-sugar-cream-chocolate craving fiend living or visiting New York City. Author: Andrea Dinoto & Paul Stiga Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY) ISBN: 9780789317995 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $32.95 Our Price: $29.33
	New York City A comprehensive guide to all the best places to visit, enjoy a meal, and stay in New York City, for travelers and residents alike. From Harlem to the East Village to the Bronx's City Island, this guide covers each major neighborhood and borough. In this new second edition, veteran travel writer Paul Karr updates the latest goings-on in the Big Apple, including: - The skinny on the newly reopened Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), back in its Midtown home after a hiatus in Queens - The latest on the exciting new Time-Warner Center, which brings together a world-class hotel, an unparalleled collection of renowned chefs, live jazz, and first-class shopping beneath one colossal roof--actually, two - The opening of a new observation deck at Rockefeller Center, offering an alternative to the Empire State Building - The hottest new boutique hotels, restaurants, and nightlife - Updated subway maps reflecting the latest changes in New York City mass transit, as the city continues to rebuild after 9/11. - 15 maps, 75 black & white photographs, index. Author: Paul Karr Publisher: Countryman Press Inc. ISBN: 9780881507584 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.88
	The End of the Street This book talks about balancing the needs of the social world with the needs of the ecosystem. Dobereiner's concept of sustainable development contains not only the physical elements of a community but also its economic and social impacts. Dobereiner looks at how development ideals can be transferred into practical techniques - site planning, designing and building green projects - that conserve natural resources, take advantage of existing urban structures and improve the economic and social dimensions of a community, while considering the financial realities that must be faced. Most of what needs to be done is both known and technically feasible. Dobereiner's development strategy is unique in that it takes into account the pre-existing structure of the community to which it applies. It is realism applied to the most urgent of needs - a manual and manifesto for taking active steps to ensure that conurbations exist properly in synergy with the environment in which they are built and from which they take their energy. The social world of human beings is, in its own right, a living animal and an animal that requires a home. The environment in which it houses itself can be better harnessed and worked with more effectively - a greater symbiosis between animal and land. Dobereiner's vision applies sensible, achievable planning notions and visionary guidelines to an extremely pressing situation. Author: David Dobereiner Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd ISBN: 9781551642789 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $42.95 Our Price: $38.23
	Georgia This all-new Explorer's Guide to Georgia is the most comprehensive travel guide you'll find to the Peach Tree State. Georgia is one of the top domestic travel destinations in the U.S. From ancient mountains and winding rivers to charming towns, plush coastal island communities, and the lively metropolis of Atlanta, this guide offers a vast variety of opportunities for travelers of many interests. Travel writers Carol and Dan Thalimer lead you to find the best barbeque, white-water rafting, historic battlefields, cultural opportunities, and much more. This new addition to the popular Explorer's Guide series includes hundreds of dining recommendations, from roadside eateries to fine cuisine. Opinionated listings of inns, B&Bs, hotels, vacation cabins, and campgrounds are also featured. Other features include up-to-date regional and city maps an alphabetical What's Where guide for trip planning handy icons that point out best values, wheelchair access, and family- and pet-friendly activities and establishments. 100 black & white photographs, 7 maps, index. Author: Carol Thalimer Publisher: Countryman Press Inc. ISBN: 9780881506396 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $26.66
	Golf Courses of the U.S. Open Golf Courses of the U.S. Open is a comprehensive work, profiling all 50 courses that have or will host the U.S. Open. There are descriptions and photos of some of the country's best and most famous courses, including Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pinehurst No. 2 and Winged Foot Golf Club. These are courses that every golfer is familiar with and every golfer aspires to play, made famous because they have hosted the U.S. Open. In addition to descriptions of the holes and recounting of the tournament action, the text will go behind the scenes into some of the background of how these courses came to be built and came to host the U.S. Open, such as the way members at Medinah Country Club, located outside Chicago, held repeated votes for renovation of the course (a necessary condition for hosting the U.S. Open), which passed only when a new vote was held after a number of opponents had left the building - only in Chicago! In addition to profiles of the famous courses, readers will get a chance to learn about some of the lesser known host sites like Myopia Hunt Club and Inwood Country Club. This book is historical, informative and beautiful to look at, with photgraphs and maps that provide a great overview of what the course is like. Author: David Barrett Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN: 9780810933873 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $80.00 Our Price: $71.20
	Stephen Fry in America Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in this beautifully illustrated book that accompanies his journey for the BBC1 series. Author: Stephen Fry Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007266340 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $39.99 Our Price: $35.59
	The Cactus Eaters Tells the story of "one and a half step" Warren Rogers, co-founder of the Pacific Crest Trail. Rogers overcame polio and risked ruin during the Great Depression to chart the trail from beginning to end. Author: Dan White Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780061376931 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $23.95 Our Price: $21.32
	American Hoax In 2005, Charles Firth travelled to the US, and over a period of six months invented five fictional American characters - each of whom represents a different point of view in American politics - and sent them out into the real world to see how successful they would be. Charles's hypothesis was simple: whichever character got the furthest in America's fiercely competitive marketplace of ideas would be the victor. Would it be the conservative economist, the national security consultant, the left-liberal advertising executive, the working class white trash, or the Muslim poet? The result is a compelling tale of an Australian 'outsider' (and his dubious acting skills) coming to grips with America, Americans and the American dream, by confronting real Americans with their own rhetoric. Along the way, you'll share in each character's hilarious triumphs and tragic setbacks and you'll share Charles's frustration as he meets more and more real Americans who seem even more fictional than the people he has invented. Author: Charles Firth Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia ISBN: 9780330423670 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Frommer's - San Diego Day by Day These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. The guides feature full-color package at an affordable price star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet handy pocket-sized trim 17 Self-guided tours 36 maps and, one great trip.At last, a travel guide that tells you how to see the best of everything - in the smartest, most time-efficient way. This book offers the best of San Diego in one, two, or three days thematic tours for every interest, schedule, and taste walking tours of the city's best-loved neighborhoods hundreds of evocative color photos bulleted maps that show you how to get from place to place hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife for all budgets and, a tear-resistant foldout map - enclosed in a handy plastic wallet. You can also use for tickets and souvenirs Frommer's. The best trips start here. Author: Frommer's Travel Guides, Mark Hiss Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780470209356 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.76
	Frommer's - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island 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. Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island, 9th Edition is the premier guide to the Atlantic Provinces, with complete coverage of the title destinations as well as Newfoundland and Labrador. You'll get the inside scoop on the best hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife, as well as the author's picks for the best travel experiences, including: sea kayaking Nova Scotia biking the Cabot Trail hiking Gros Morne National Park driving along the Viking Trail in Newfoundland walking through Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia feasting on fresh lobster and Digby scallops and more. Author: Frommer's Travel Guides, Paul Karr Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780470257098 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $22.95 Our Price: $20.43