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Author : Editors of Time Out Publisher : Time Out Guides Page : 258 pages File Size : 42,5 Mb Release : 2009 Category : Transportation ISBN : 9781846701511
Time Out Great Train Journeys of the World by Editors of Time Out Pdf
Time Out Great Train Journeys is a selection of forty of the world's best train journeys, from nostalgic steam lines to state of the art high-speed locomotives. Beautifully illustrated and written with passion, it will appeal to dyed-in-the-wool enthusiasts, but also reaches out to a new generation of train travellers, both actual and armchair.
Author : Editors of Time Out Publisher : Time Out Page : 0 pages File Size : 48,8 Mb Release : 2008 Category : Prague (Czech Republic) ISBN : 1846701058
Time Out Shortlist Prague 2009 by Editors of Time Out Pdf
This book "selects the very best of Prague's sightseeing, restaurants, shopping, nightlife and entertainment, with Time Out's trademark expertise. And, because it's annual, it also takes you straight to the latest venues, tips you off to the news and fashions and gives the dates that matter. It's the best reference for anyone visiting Prague in 2009, in a handy size and easy-to-use format." - product description.
Time Out Mallorca & Menorca by Editors of Time Out Pdf
Mallorca and Menorca - two of Europe's most popular holiday resorts - are often unfairly maligned as overdeveloped package tour playgrounds. This guide seeks to redress the balance by revealing the variety to be found on these small islands.
Time Out Shortlist Kyoto by Editors of Time Out Pdf
Time Out's Shortlist guides offer all the usual visitor information, presented in a way designed to take you straight to what you're looking for: reviews of the classic sights and venues in area-by-area chapters, maps with all the entries pinpointed, customised itineraries and visitor basics, all illustrated with inspiring photography. To help you make city-wide choices, they include critical and useful venue selections in a variety of fields u our Shortlists.
Time Out Shortlist Amsterdam by The Editors of Time Out Pdf
Amsterdam tourism figures have grown dramatically every year, as the festival city of Europe, with its mild winters and cool summers has a wide variety of attractions and activities for every type of traveler. The majority of residents speak English, another enticing factor for tourists. The city boasts over 50 art museums and 1,200 restaurants, not to mention the Artis Zoo which houses over 6,000 animals. If you are an early riser, head over to the Aalsmeer Flower Auction, which covers an area greater than 200 football fields. If you are seeking something mellower, quaint fishing villages, cycle tours along the dunes and boat tours are also available.
Author : Editors of Time Out Publisher : Time Out Guides Page : 0 pages File Size : 50,5 Mb Release : 2008-09 Category : London (England) ISBN : 1846701015
Time Out Shortlist London 2009 by Editors of Time Out Pdf
Packed with up-to-the-minute information, this compact guide celebrates all that's new in one of the world's most visited cities. It includes hundreds of detailed listings for bars, restaurants, shops, and hotels, plus Time Out's picks for the best places in a variety of categories. Easy-to-read maps pinpoint the exact locations of bars and restaurants. Convenient area-by-area guides show the dining, nightlife, and entertainment options along with suggested daytime itineraries. Highlights from London's ever-evolving entertainment scene cover everything from underground gigs and this year's hottest clubs to gay culture and fine arts. A full calendar of festivals, events, and museum and gallery openings includes actual dates.
Author : Editors of Time Out Publisher : Time Out Guides Page : 0 pages File Size : 46,7 Mb Release : 2008-09 Category : Rome (Italy) ISBN : 1846701066
Time Out Shortlist Rome 2009 by Editors of Time Out Pdf
Perfect for frequent visitors or those on a quick trip, this easy-to-use, up-to-date guide spotlights all that's new and noteworthy in the Eternal City. It divides Rome into six areas, each with suggestions for eating, drinking, shopping, sightseeing, clubbing, and more. The comprehensive arts and cultural coverage includes an in-depth look at Rome's superb museums and antiquities.
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear. Bren challenges simplistic dichotomies of fearful acquiescence and courageous dissent to dramatically reconfigure what we know, or think we know, about everyday life under communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers' letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel's greengrocer actually experienced "normalization" and the ways in which popular television serials framed this experience. Now back by popular demand, socialist-era serials, such as The Woman Behind the Counter and The Thirty Adventures of Major Zeman, provide, Bren contends, a way of seeing—literally and figuratively—Czechoslovakia's normalization and Eastern Europe's real socialism.
It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's 'socialism with a human face' is smiling on the world. Meanwhile Sam Wareham, a first secretary at the British embassy in Prague, is observing developments in the country with a mixture of diplomatic cynicism and a young man's passion. In the company of Czech student Lenka Konecková, he finds a way into the world of Czechoslovak youth, its hopes and its ideas. It seems that, for the first time, nothing is off limits behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background. The Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev is making demands of Dubcek and the Red Army is massed on the borders. How will the looming disaster affect those fragile lives caught up in the invasion?
As the newest member of the EU, the Czech Republic formally sheds its East Bloc past - but that development only formalizes what's been a rollercoaster of change since the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Written and researched by Prague residents, the Time Out guide leads you to medieval Old Town's new design bars, to the crusty Zizkov district's classic pubs, to the romantic restaurants of Mala Strana and the hippest of clubs in the reclaimed industrial quarter of Holesovice. The poet president Vaclav Havel may have stepped down and returned to scribbling but the opening up of Bohemia is still gaining momentum every year. A mad community of expats call Prague home, having been attracted, like so many newly minted Bohemians down through the centuries, by the city's affordable lifestyle, gorgeously spooky architecture, and reputation for decadence. Meanwhile the Old European side of Mozart's adopted home beckons with improbably grandiose opera houses, Vienna-style coffee houses, and fairy-tale palaces that serve as gallery space - like as not, for the latest modern art experiments.
High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass. This radiant 1930s house, with its unique Glass Room, quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather. The house passes from hand to hand, from Czech to Russian, and bears witness to both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern Europe.
BONUS: This edition contains a The Song Is You discussion guide and excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, Prague, The Egyptologist, and Angelica. Each song on Julian’s iPod, “that greatest of all human inventions,” is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was single, there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there’s one for the day his son was born. But when Julian’s family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life’s soundtrack—and life itself—start to play again. Julian stumbles into a bar and sees Cait O’Dwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock singer, performing with her band, and a strange and unlikely love affair is ignited. Over the next few months, Julian and Cait’s passion plays out, though they never meet. What follows is a heartbreaking dark comedy, the tenderest of love stories, and a perfectly observed tale of the way we live now.
The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley,Nick Hubble,Leigh Wilson Pdf
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading. Through consideration of, among other things, the treatment of neuroscience, violence, the historical and youth subcultures in recent fiction, the essays in this collection explore the complex and still powerful relation between the novel and the world in which it is written, published and read. This major literary assessment of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of newer voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy, David Peace and Zadie Smith as well as those more established, such as Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan making it an essential contribution to reading, defining and understanding the decade.