Where Paris once led the way as the centre of Europes bohemian lifestyle, Prague now comes out on top. The fourth edition of Lonely Planet: Prague manages to be both compact and comprehensive and is generally a good introduction to this city where European and North American wannabe poets now hang out.

Although the guides structure follows the layout used by most books in the Lonely Planet series, there is more of a concentration on cultural issues than is often the case. As well as an..

Theres something immensely satisfying about thick technical computer books, and the PC Upgrade and Repair Bible is no exception. Throughout its not inconsiderable 1383 pages, the PCURB will leave only the most technical engineer hungry for more detail.

Aimed at technically literate users already familiar with both the inside and outside of their PCs, the PCURB clearly explains a vast range of hardware issues, and what you can do about fixing them. It goes without saying C..

Little fingers and minds will love to be stimulated by the Lamaze Discovery Book, a bright, colourful cloth book full of different shapes and textures.

The book has been developed by Lamaze International, an award-winning American Childbirth and Early Parenting Organisation, as part of its Infant Development System. The toys are specially designed to encourage development in various aspects, according to age, so that parents can select the most appropriate and enjoyable one. Lamaze identifie..

Optical Character Recognition is a technology that sets out to do what the human brain can do almost instantly--convert visual data into textual data. In other words, to read and understand printed text. To a certain extent, todays generation of OCR software manages to recognise most text you can throw at it, but still needs to be babysat.

Readiris Pro will, fairly quickly, recognise large blocks of text with deft precision, provided the text is in a monospaced font with no page creases..