Product Description: The Pocket Rough Guide to Paris is the ultimate insider's guidebook to Europe's most elegant city and includes a full-color pull-out map. Inspirational photography, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guides, and detailed, up-to-date maps help you get the most out of a visit to Paris, whether that means the Eiffel Tower and a boat trip on the Seine or visits to offbeat art galleries and hidden gardens...read more

Product Description: Just in time for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 celebrating Queen Elizabeth's sixtieth year of rule, The Rough Guide to the Royals offers background and insight into one of the world's oldest monarchies — plus plenty of juicy stories...read more

An engaging, enlightening “biography” of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world’s most famous sex manual The Kamasutra is one of the world’s best-known yet least-understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its actual contents widely misconstrued. In the popular imagination, it is a work of practical pornography, a how-to guide of absurdly acrobatic sexual techniques. Yet the book began its long life in third-century India as something quite different: a seven-volume vision of an ideal life of urbane sophistication, offering advice on matters from friendship to household decoration. Over the ensuing centuries, the Kamasutra was first celebrated, then neglected, and very nearly lost—until an outrageous adventurer introduced it to the West and earned literary immortality.In lively and lucid prose, James McConnachie provides a rare, intimate look at the exquisite civilization that produced this cultural cornerstone. He details the quest of famed explorer Richard F. Burton, who—along with his clandestine coterie of libertines and iconoclasts—unleashed the Kamasutra on English society as a deliberate slap at Victorian prudishness and paternalism. And he describes how the Kamasutra was driven underground into the hands of pirate pornographers, until the end of the Lady Chatterley obscenity ban thrust it once more into contentious daylight. The first work to tell the full story of the Kamasutra, The Book of Love explores how a remarkable way of looking at the world came to be cradled between book covers—and survived.

The Rough Guide to Paris is the ultimate insider's guidebook to Europe's most elegant and romantic city. Inspirational photography, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guides, and detailed, full-color maps help you get the most out of a visit to Paris — whether that means climbing the Eiffel Tower and boating on the Seine or visits to offbeat art galleries and hidden-away gardens. Frank, incisive reviews take you straight to the best of the city's cafés, restaurants, and nightlife venues, from the ultra-stylish to the magnificently traditional, while tell-it-like-it-is listings help you find the right accommodation for your budget, including boutique design hotels on the Left Bank, grand classics on the Right, or just-perfect budget hideaways. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Paris, the perfect companion for a city break or a longer stay.

Product Description: Sex: The World's Favorite Pastime Fully Revealed discusses in lively narrative the history and psychology of sex, telling its story throughout the millennia. Scientific information on the laws of attraction and how hormones, pheromones, and evolution have influenced human sexuality is complemented by practical information on contraception, health, and extensive hands-on how-to advice...read more

'The Kamasutra' was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. This book provides a portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and women, for whom the book was written. It shows that the 'Kamasutra' was always much more than a sex manual.

Examines the historical facts and myths behind the best-selling novel, including discussions on the Templars, the Holy Grail, and the apocryphal gospels; a tour guide to sites of interest; and reviews of sources used by the author.

Product Description: Slim, stylish and pocketable, Florence Directions is full of ideas for stop-overs, long-weekends and flying visits to one of Italy''s most popular city break destinations, richly illustrated with hundreds of specially commissioned photos...read more

Examines the historical facts and myths behind the best-selling novel, including discussions on the Templars, the Holy Grail, and the 'Apocryphal Gospels'; a tour guide to sites of interest; and reviews of sources used by the author.

Product Description: The Rough Guide to Loire Valley is your essential guide to the “garden of France.” Discover the spectacular châteaux of Chenonceau to the glorious cathedral of Chatres, the full colour section gives a real sense of the best this bourgeois paradise has on offer...read more