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Tuscany and Umbria
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Cadogan Guides Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches is a good example of these always-reliable guides friendly format. The book acknowledges that the travellers have moved beyond the golden hills of Tuscany west to the Bolgheri and Maremma seasides and east into the regions of equally stunning Umbria and the Marches. Its insider focus on food and wine based on a healthy appreciation of the culture gives it a mix that other guidebooks can miss. The drawback to this approach, when coupled wi..
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Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara
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From 1514 to 1542, Dosso Dossi was official painter to the court of Ferrara, one of the most enlightened centres of the Italian High Renaissance. His accomplished allegorical works and landscapes were very highly regarded--in 1568 Vasari, the leading critic of his time, described him as the greatest landscape painter in northern Italy. This book catalogues almost all Dossos surviving paintings, brought together in exhibitions by the Metropolitan Musuem in New York and Getty Museum in Los An..
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Italy
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Dangling from the centre of western Europe like a Christmas stocking, Italy is stuffed to the brim with marvels such as the opera of Verdi, Brunelleschis dome over Florence Cathedral and the pagan tombs deep beneath St Peters. With its bribery scandals and Mafia trials, even contemporary Italy is extravagant. Northern Italy is the wealthiest third of the republic: Italys industrial revolution began in the regions capital city of Turin, now home to the Fiat Corporation, Europes largest car manufa..
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AA Where to Stay in Britain & Ireland
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The AA Where to Stay in Britain & Ireland CD-ROM is a comprehensive accommodation guide covering all types of places to stay from bed and breakfast to the most expensive of hotels. The AA has been publishing this guide for several years now and this time around the interface has had an overhaul. There are more than 7,000 establishments covered and it is still easy to find precisely what you want. First choose a location. Then point-and-click at the screen to indicate the maximum you ar..
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Improve Your Eyesight: A Guide to the Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses
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Jonathan Barnes, author of Improve your Eyesight is a living testament to the Bates Method: he says that his eyesight has improved considerably since he started using the special techniques, and that he no longer needs to wear his glasses. The Bates Method is best described as a plan for re-educating your eyesight, with errors which cause short-sightedness, long-sightedness, astigmatism and "old-age sight" corrected by a range of techniques which promote the healing and self-regulatory..
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Following the Fairways: A Distinguished Companion to the Golf Courses of Great Britain and Ireland
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The 1998 edition of Following the Fairways is a comprehensive reference book on many of the finest golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland, plus a chapter on golf in France. The book is an easy-to-follow guide on "Where to Play- -Where to Stay" and has 30 chapters, each of which deals with a small geographical area. An attractive, hand-drawn map at the start of each chapter shows the location of each golf club and the information is then given under three headings. First th..
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