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Packed with fresh perspectives on L.A.'s best beaches, the downtown revival, and a whole new take on Disneyland, this handbook focuses on less-touristy experiences for short-stay travelers. Full color. 14 maps.What Will Your Los Angeles Encounter Be? ...hunting for handbags and dodging the paparazzi... More

"Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century" examines the international context to, and influences on, Spanish history and politics from 1898 to the present day. Spanish history is necessarily international, with the significance of Spain's neutrality in the First World War and the global i... More

Simon Rosenbaum B.Sc. (b. 1877) was a British Jewish academic active in the early twentieth century, whose major field of study was statistics. He is perhaps best-known today for an editing a collection of essays entitled Against Home Rule: The Case for Union, which was first published in 1912 at th... More

While Spain is now a well-established democracy closely integrated into the European Union, it has suffered from a number of severe internal problems such as corruption, discord between state and regional nationalism, and separatist terrorism. "The Politics" "of Contemporary Spain" charts the trajec... More

Text extracted from opening pages of book: Grand Tour DIARY OF AN EASTWARD JOURNEY BY PATRICK BALFOUR ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR, MANY OF WHICH ARE UNIQUE HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY NEW YORK The Eyes of the Temple of Swayambunath, Nepal To 0. C. C. PREFACE THE Grand Tour to-da... More

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.... More

In "Mysterious Scotland," Michael Balfour investigates strange stories from the country's moors, forests, rivers, holy wells, and lochs--as well as the old legends and dark secrets of palaces, castles, and cathedrals. Roaming a land where the past is mirrored in the present, he explores standing sto... More