Product Description: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Madrid will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer. This fully updated guidebook includes 3-D cutaway illustrations, floor plans, and reconstructions of Madrid's major architectural sights, plus maps of the key districts to explore on foot...read more

Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

Product Description: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns...read more

DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.Each guide is packed with the up-to-date, reliable destination information every traveler needs, including extensive hotel and restaurant listings, themed itineraries, lush photography, and numerous maps.

Product Description: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Madrid will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer. The guide includes unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of major architectural sights, plus a pull-out city map clearly marked with attractions from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index...read more

Conceived as a showcase for Britain's manufacturing industries and the products of its Empire, the Great Exhibition was a national spectacle. This text examines how the exhibition came into being; the key characters who made it happen; and the tales behind the exhibitors and exhibits themselves.

Product Description: Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design, yet this self–taught son of a cloth worker was to bring classicism to England. His surviving buildings, including the Banqueting House in Whitehall and the Queen’s House at Greenwich, remain testaments to his genius...read more

Product Description: Includes sections on: Old Madrid, Bourbon Madrid, La Castellana, and several other sites beyond the city.

Provides information on accommodations, restaurants, sights, shopping, events, and nightlife.

Tells the stories of eight children who felt the influence of Nazi persecution, including Beata Siegel, Anne Frank, Alexander Michelowski, and Joseph Steiner.

The pioneer of hybridization is chronicled in a fascinating portrait of the earliest days of genetic engineering as it describes the life and times of Thomas Fairchild, an eighteenth-century London nurseryman who created the first human-made hybrid in Europe. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

One of the classic Companion Guides, this is devoted to New York City. Each volume in the series aims to provide a comprehensive travel companion in the person of the author, who knows intimately the places and people of which he or she writes. (view table of contents)

A large format version of the popular Eyewitness Travel Guide features meticulously detailed three-dimensional and cutaway illustrations of popular landmarks and sites throughout Great Britain, along with fascinating travel information, full-color photography, and detailed captions. (view table of contents)