Eight American authors draw on their own works to describe the creative process involved in writing a memoir

Product Description: London is a city with an abundance of bizarre and curious places and stories, being ancient, vast and in a constant state of regeneration. London's Secrets: Bizarre & Curious includes some of the city's most unusual buildings, striking public artworks, outrageous museum and gallery exhibits, hauntings (including by animals), legends and much more...read more

Product Description: British pubs and bars are world famous for their bonhomie, great atmosphere, good food and fine ales. Nowhere is this more so than in London, which has a plethora of watering holes of all shapes and sizes: classic historic boozers and trendy style bars; traditional riverside inns and luxurious cocktail bars; enticing wine bars and brew pubs; mouthwatering gastro pubs and brasseries; welcoming gay bars and raucous music venues...read more

Product Description: A walking guide with a difference, taking you off the beaten tourist track to discover London’s hidden and lesser-known (but no less fascinating) sights. Step beyond the chaos, clichés and queues of London’s tourist-clogged attractions and explore its secretive, enigmatic side...read more

Product Description: A unique and unusual guide to London's hidden and lesser-known sights not found in standard guidebooks. Step beyond the chaos, cliches and queues of London's tourist-clogged attractions to its quirkier side. Discover its loveliest ancient buildings, secret gardens, strangest museums, most atmospheric pubs, cutting-edge art and design, and much more: some 140 destinations in all corners of the city...read more

Product Description: Essential reading for anyone planning to live or work in the Gulf States or Saudi Arabia and the most up-to-date source of practical information available about everyday life. It's guaranteed to hasten your introduction to the Arabian way of life, and, most importantly, will save you time trouble and money! The best-selling and most comprehensive book about living and working in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia, containing up to three times as much informatio...read more

Product Description: Written in an entertaining style with a touch of humor, Living and Working in London is designed to provide newcomers with the practical information necessary for a relatively trouble-free life. It contents include finding a job, permits & visas, health, accommodation, finance, insurance, education, shopping, post office and telephone services, public transport, motoring, TV and radio, leisure and much, much more...read more

Product Description: Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s the rise of contemporary ‘network’ movements...read more

Product Description: Written in an entertaining style with a touch of humor, Buying a Home in New Zealand covers everything a prospective buyer could wish to know, including buying for investment or pleasure, the best places to live, finding your dream home, money matters, the purchase procedure, moving house, taxation, insurance, letting and much, much more...read more

Product Description: Anti-capitalism is now a worldwide movement. Campaigns and protests have acquired a popularity and prominence in recent years that has been the subject of intense speculation and media coverage. Yet the diverse range of groups involved in 'anti-capitalist' protest means that it has little theoretical coherance as a whole...read more

Product Description: Culture Wise New Zealand is essential reading for anyone planning to visit New Zealand, whether for business or pleasure, for a few days holiday or to start a new life. It is guaranteed to help newcomers avoid cultural and social gaffes; make friends and influence people; and enhance their understanding of New Zealand and the New Zealand people...read more

Product Description: Culture Wise Canada is essential reading for anyone planning to visit Canada, whether for business or pleasure, for a few days holiday or to start a new life. It is guaranteed to help newcomers avoid cultural and social gaffes; make friends and influence people; and enhance their understanding of Canada and the Canadian people...read more

Fully updated and revised 2nd edition. Essential reading for anyone planning to live or work in Italy and the most up-to-date source of practical information available about everyday life. It's guaranteed to hasten your introduction to the Italian way of life, and, most importantly, will save you time trouble and money! The best-selling and most comprehensive book about living and working in Italy since it was first published in 2001, containing up to three times as much information as similar books!

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-to-face gatherings and protests constitute a 'multitude' not easily grasped through established models of social and political change.Drawing upon extensive empirical research and utilizing concepts drawn from the natural and social sciences this book suggests a framework for understanding mobilization, identity formation and information flows in global social movements operating within complex societies. It suggests that this 'movement of movements' exhibits an emergent order on the edge of chaos, a turbulence that is recasting political agency in the twenty-first century.

Product Description: Written in an entertaining style, Buying or Renting a Home in New York covers everything a prospective buyer could wish to know including buying for investment, renting, the best places to live, finding your dream home, finance, the purchase procedure, moving house, taxation, insurance and much, much more, including a comprehensive survey of all New York boroughs...read more

Provides information on living in Canada.

Product Description: The latest title in our best-selling Buying a Home series. The only book published about buying real estate in Austrailia and New Zealand, packed woth vital information to help readers avoid disasters that can turn their dream home into a nightmare.

Product Description: Fully updated and revised third edition. The best-selling and most comprehensive book about living and working in New Zealand since it was first published in 1999, containing twice as much information as similar books.

Product Description: The only book that is dedicated to buying property in SOuth Africa, an increasingly popular choice for second homes and property investment.

Product Description: Provides a fascinating insight into what motivates people to relocate to Spain and the major factors that help ensure success or failure.

Product Description: Essential reading for anyone planning to live or work in the Far East and the most up-to-date source of practical information available about everyday life. It's guaranteed to hasten your introduction to the oriental way of life, and, most importantly, will save you time trouble and money! The best-selling and most comprehensive book about living and working in the Far East, containing up to twice as much information as similar books...read more

Product Description: How to Avoid Holiday & Travel Disasters will help you make the right decisions regarding every aspect of your holiday and travel arrangements. Whether you're a day-tripper or a round-the-world traveller, a backpacker or a five-star tourist, this book will help you choose the most appropriate destinatio...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)