This pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around Malta. It covers top attractions like Valletta, Mdina and the Blue Lagoon, as well as hidden gems, including enjoying a leisurely lunch at the picturesque fishing village of Marsaxlokk. This will save you time, and ......
An essential guidebook for walking the GR5 trail, 660km from Lac Leman (Lake Geneva) to Nice or Menton, through the French Alps. Includes all the main variant routes as it passes Mont Blanc, then through the Vanoise, the Queyras and the Mercantour National Parks. Includes accommodation, profiles and maps. Suitable for fairly experienced hikers.
In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, Joris Escher finds two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The sheets haven't seen the light in more than 90 years. He believes that these early studies may be the missing link in the development of Escher as an artist and starts a voyage of discovery to the origins ......
The True Stories of the Reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions behind D-Day
Detailed look at the intelligence work carried out by the allies before D-Day could take place Full of previously unseen recently de-classified material Foreword by General Sir Gordon Messenger, KCB, DSO, OBE, ADC Vice Chief of Defence Staff
What We Got Wrong about Immigration and How to Set It Right
The idea of population diversity and its benefits seem irrestible both in theory and in fact, as well as an everpresent element of the human condition. In this groundbreaking analysis, Ed West investigates the causes for Britain's disenchantment with a fifty year experiment with diversity gone wrong. He uncovers shocking mismanagement by the ......
"It is a well-known fact that The Isenheim Altarpiece has in the past been seen as having central significance as a 'medium for healing' by the Antonites. To what extent this function has taken hold again in our 'modern' times can be seen not only in the steadily growing numbers of visitors, but also in the fact that this book had to be ......
This book addresses the deconstruction of a founding myth and the last "great narrative" (for the time being) of the Occident - the narrative that Europe grew out of liberal humanistic traditions and, by way of several intermediate stages since classical antiquity, has gradually come to have its present form, one based on democratic values.
Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe's Refugee Crisis
This book offers a critique of asylum in Europe from the standpoint of autonomous border struggles, enacted both by refugees and those in solidarity with them.
