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Frommer's Southeast Asia, Third Edition
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! This amazingly detailed guide, assembled by an intrepid and tireless team of writers, takes you through the best of 10 countries with all the practical information, late-breaking bargains, cultural insights, and user-friendly maps that have long been hallmarks of our series. In Singapore and Malaysia, we'll show you monks, mosques, and a multicultural nightlife, even stopping in Borneo for spectacular wildlife viewing in its jungle preserves. In Thailand, we'll pull back the curtain on Bangkok's notorious (and fascinating) underbelly; visit Phuket's decadent beach resorts; and explore the north's traditional tribal areas. In Brunei, we'll follow the trail of the Sultan, one of the world's richest men. In Bali, we'll check out the island's world-class resorts and introduce you to the stellar arts scene from shadow puppet performances to the famed "monkey dance." In Vietnam, we'll explore the thriving expat nightlife in Ho Chi Minh City (once Saigon), and journey by boat into the Mekong Delta, past rice paddies and riverside pagodas. In rugged Laos, we'll travel to the ancient capital of Luang Prabang, as well as the sacred limestone caves of Pak Ou, studded with thousands of ancient Buddha statues. We'll recommend the best Philippine beaches, dive sites, and rainforest treks. Finally, in Hong Kong, we'll tell you where to find the best shopping streets, dim sum palaces, and the world's largest seated Buddha. It's all here in one handy volume that comes complete with etiquette tips, advice for business travelers, practical advice on planning your trip and getting around, and language glossaries. Don't leave home without it!
Southeast Asia
The best guide to Southeast Asia, completely updatedJungle treks, smoldering volcanos, and white-sand beachesColorful bazaars, crafts villages, reliable jewelers and electronics stores--and where to get clothes made to orderWondrous golden palaces and ancient temple complexesWhere to stay and eat, no matter what your budgetMemorable accommodations, from beachside bungalows to luxurious mountaintop villas and swank urban palacesStylish Pacific Rim cuisine, high tea in Singapore, tasty local delicacies from cafés, noodle stands, and hawker centersFresh, thorough, practical--from writers you can trustCosts, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousandsAll reviews based on visits by savvy writer-residents58 pages of maps, vacation itineraries, and moreImportant Contacts A to Z; Smart Travel Tips; Fodor's Choice; What's Where; Pleasures & Pastimes; New & Noteworthy; complete index.
The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
Shantaram
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel se "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas???-this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature. 9780312330521 New 19.96 Y 60922 Standard 3.99 Shantaram St. Martin's Press Gregory David Roberts Fiction New Hardcover
9781597801119 The Demon and the City: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781597801119&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FThe-Demon-and-the-City%2FLiz-Williams%2Fe%2F9781597801119&usg=AFHzDLsIb422u5fhy8wvdQN_tLmhnKqy5Q&pubid=21000000000044242 http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781597801119&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FThe-Demon-and-the-City%2FLiz-Williams%2Fe%2F9781597801119&usg=AFHzDLsIb422u5fhy8wvdQN_tLmhnKqy5Q&pubid=21000000000044242 http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/77070000/77078668.JPG Books > Fiction > Fantasy - General When Chen goes on holiday, his demonic partner Zhu Irzh finds himself alone in Singapore Three. The missing body of a brutally murdered socialite and the strange experiments of a well-connected, beautiful, young heiress leads Zhu into a maze of death and When Chen goes on holiday, his demonic partner Zhu Irzh finds himself alone in Singapore Three. The missing body of a brutally murdered socialite and the strange experiments of a well-connected, beautiful, young heiress leads Zhu into a maze of death and corruption. Chen returns to the city just as Zhu's baser instincts seem to be getting the better of him. While the rest of the police department thinks the worst of Zhu, Chen suspects something more malignant, particularly when the forces of Heaven begin manifesting themselves in Singapore Three, taking sides and leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. 9781597801119 New 7.19 Y 217144 Standard 3.99 The Demon and the City: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel Night Shade Books Liz Williams Fiction New Other Format
9780486451640 Safety First Coloring Book http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9780486451640&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSafety-First-Coloring-Book%2FCathy-Beylon%2Fe%2F9780486451640&usg=AFHzDLtBo2s_Uos7KXtrbGSeUpdPar8L8w&pubid=21000000000044242 http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9780486451640&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSafety-First-Coloring-Book%2FCathy-Beylon%2Fe%2F9780486451640&usg=AFHzDLtBo2s_Uos7KXtrbGSeUpdPar8L8w&pubid=21000000000044242 http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/17240000/17247003.JPG Books > Juvenile / Children's Nonfiction > Activity Books - General Don't chase a ball into the street. Never talk to strangers. Always cross at crosswalks.??These and 27 other important??tips can help keep you and your friends safe. Read them and keep them in mind as you have fun coloring the big pictures that accompany th Don't chase a ball into the street. Never talk to strangers. Always cross at crosswalks.??These and 27 other important??tips can help keep you and your friends safe. Read them and keep them in mind as you have fun coloring the big pictures that accompany these wise words of advice. 9780486451640 New 2.65 Y 916743 Standard 3.99 Safety First Coloring Book Dover Publications Cathy Beylon Juvenile / Children's Nonfiction New Coloring Book
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9781416949503 Spiderwick Chronicles: Movie Sticker Book (Spiderwick Chronicles Serie http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781416949503&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSpiderwick-Chronicles%2FOrli-Zuravicky%2Fe%2F9781416949503&usg=AFHzDLtn6bptveuY1XqSK6tlDnVpNwWpVQ&pubid=21000000000044242 http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781416949503&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSpiderwick-Chronicles%2FOrli-Zuravicky%2Fe%2F9781416949503&usg=AFHzDLtn6bptveuY1XqSK6tlDnVpNwWpVQ&pubid=21000000000044242 http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/26000000/26007625.JPG Books > Juvenile / Children's Fiction > Media Tie-In Something strange is going on in the old Spiderwick Mansion.... Join Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace as they explore Arthur Spiderwick's world of fantastical creatures and try to save his field guide from the evil ogre Mulgarath! Re-create scenes from the Something strange is going on in the old Spiderwick Mansion.... Join Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace as they explore Arthur Spiderwick's world of fantastical creatures and try to save his field guide from the evil ogre Mulgarath! Re-create scenes from the movie, or invent your own in this book with more than sixty stickers! 9781416949503 New 6.28 Y 683698 Standard 3.99 Spiderwick Chronicles: Movie Sticker Book (Spiderwick Chronicles Serie Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Based On Work by Holly Black Juvenile / Children's Fiction New St
Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking
...you are certain to be amused and amazed in equal parts ... an entertaining and enlightening book."-Psychology TodayThinking is an innate ability that most people take for granted. But like writing well or speaking effectively before the public, thinki "...you are certain to be amused and amazed in equal parts ... an entertaining and enlightening book."-Psychology TodayThinking is an innate ability that most people take for granted. But like writing well or speaking effectively before the public, thinking well is a skill that can be learned and improved with practice. In this unique introduction to critical thinking, Robert Bartholomew and Benjamin Radford first lay out the principles of critical thinking and then invite readers to put these principles to the test by examining a series of unusual and challenging case studies. Assembling a wide range of bizarre but actual incidents from many cultures and various time periods, they demonstrate how the tools of critical thinking can help to unravel alleged paranormal events and seemingly mysterious behavior.What factors led to the "Martian panic" of 1938? Why did many people conclude that an alien spaceship crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947? How do we explain the panic expressed by otherwise normal Southeast Asian men who came to believe that a contagious disease was causing their genitals to shrink, or the frenzied dance manias that captivated thousands of Europeans during the Middle Ages? Bartholomew and Radford show that reality is very much a social construction, that cultural assumptions play a large part in our judgments about what is normal and what is deviant, and that the use of critical reasoning is our best means of ensuring an objective perspective.Robert E. Bartholomew, Ph.D. (Whitehall, NY), is an independent scholar, freelance writer, and the author (with George S. Howard) of UFOs and Alien Contact, among other books and articles.Benjamin Radford (Amherst, NY) is the managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and the author of numerous articles on critical thinking, hysterias, and urban legends. 9781615923380 New 9.59 Y 347851 0.00 Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking Prometheus Books Robert E. Bartholomew Philosophy NewDigital NOOKbook (eBook)
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9781451636345 Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781451636345&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSeeds-of-Terror%2FMaria-Ressa%2Fe%2F9781451636345&usg=AFHzDLt3s_uZXsyVEfzLflYFG-WhmbvGXg&pubid=21000000000044242 http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781451636345&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FSeeds-of-Terror%2FMaria-Ressa%2Fe%2F9781451636345&usg=AFHzDLt3s_uZXsyVEfzLflYFG-WhmbvGXg&pubid=21000000000044242 http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/87490000/87495691.JPG Books > Political Science & Government > Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucia For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long before the strikes on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, but when the allies overran Afghanistan, the new camps in Southeast Asia became the key training grounds for the future. It is in the Muslim strongholds in the Philippines and Indonesia that the next generation of al-Qaeda can be found. In this powerful, eye-opening work, Maria Ressa casts the most illuminating light ever on this fascinating but little-known "terrorist HQ." Every major al-Qaeda attack since 1993 has had a connection to the Philippines, and Maria Ressa, CNN's lead investigative reporter for Asia and a Filipino-American who has lived in the region since 1986, has broken story after story about them. From the early, failed attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton to the planning of the 9/11 strikes and the "48 Hours of Terror," in which eleven American jetliners were to be blown up over the Pacific, she has interviewed the terrorists, their neighbors and families, and the investigators from six different countries who have tracked them down. After the Bali bombing, al-Qaeda's worst strike since 9/11, which killed more than two hundred, Ressa broke major revelations about how it was planned, why it was a Plan B substitute for an even more ambitious scheme aimed at Singapore, and why the suicide bomber recruited to deliver the explosives almost caused the whole plan to fall apart when he admitted he could barely drive a car. Above all, Ressa has seen how al-Qaeda's tactics are shifting under the pressures of the war on terror. Rather than depending upon its own core membership (estimated at three to four thousand at its peak), the network is now enmeshing itself in local conflicts, co-opting Muslim independence movements wherever they can be found, and helping local "revolutionaries" to fund, plan, and execute sinister attacks against their neighbors and the West. If history is any guide, al-Qaeda revisits its plans over and over until they can succeed ??? and many of those plans have already been discovered and are here revealed, thanks to classified investigative documents uncovered by Ressa. 9781451636345 New 17.09 Y 393550 Standard 3.99 Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group Maria Ressa Political Science & Government New Paperback
9781602790117 Breakfast by the Numbers http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781602790117&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FBreakfast-by-the-Numbers%2FCecilia-Minden%2Fe%2F9781602790117&usg=AFHzDLvHe4bp13E55tAdymUqp1FOwz74Ig&pubid=21000000000044242 http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000012871747&pid=9781602790117&adurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2FBreakfast-by-the-Numbers%2FCecilia-Minden%2Fe%2F9781602790117&usg=AFHzDLvHe4bp13E55tAdymUqp1FOwz74Ig&pubid=21000000000044242 http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/31950000/31951697.JPG Books > Juvenile / Children's Nonfiction > Cooking & Food You may know that breakfast helps fuel your body for the day ahead. But did you know that math can help you make smart breakfast choices? Read this book to find out more about ... You may know that breakfast helps fuel your body for the day ahead. But did you know that math can he