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Books: Travel: Acapulco
The Travel Bookby Roz Hopkins List Price: $50.00 Available from Amazon $31.50 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page From Booklist *Starred Review* Even the most avid readers of travel guides and travel literature will not have encountered a book quite like this one. It is huge and heavy but reasonably priced, and it is vastly informative, which is its calling card. All the writers who contribute to the Lonely Planet travel guide series have put heads, knowledge, and experience together and come up with an A-Z series of capsule profiles of every country in the world, 230 in number. Each country gets a two-page spread, on which are placed, like luscious dishes set before one at a feast, illustrations that are typical of Lonely Planet's unique, non-picture-postcard brand of shots. The accompanying text presents a cogent rundown of the best experiences for gaining the essence of the place; books to read beforehand; music to listen to before you go; food and drink to consume once you are there; and a few brief but pungent closing comments on the trademark things to do and buy and see and what, ultimately, is the best surprise awaiting the tourist. For borrowers in the travel section to sit down, look at, and make notes from, without taking off the premises. Brad Hooper Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Book Description The world is a breathtakingly big place, and in this big book we have undertaken the big task of detailing as much of it as we can - every single country, many of the larger dependencies and other, smaller destinations. With the traveler's experience at its heart, this book shows a slice of life in every corner of the globe, and all points in between, engaging the reader's senses in an adventure which conjures up the sights, smells, tastes, sounds and feel of our amazing world. |
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Destinations: A Travel Journal by Chronicle Books LLC Staff List Price: $19.95 Available from Amazon $13.57 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Modeled after an exquisite travel journal from the turn of the century, Destinations has the look and feel of a beautifully crafted vintage diary. This portable and supple leather-bound journal features antique color illustrations as well as indispensable travel facts and modern-day information. Along with plenty of pages for recording adventures abroad, there is a roomy pocket for mementos, making this a beautifully distinctive keepsake book for travelers. |
The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (The Best American Series (TM))by Jamaica Kincaid and Jason Wilson List Price: $14.00 Available from Amazon $10.78 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Booklist Great travel writing feeds our hunger for armchair journeys while somehow making the armchair less comfortable. Series editor Wilson searched for the rare pieces that weren't "aggressively positive"; Kincaid chose finalists that she says "underline my sense of my displacement." True enough, whether discussing suburban Florida or the bullet-riddled border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, these essays and articles show us the overlooked and never-seen with curiosity, insight, engagement, and humility; none of these writers brags about being at home in the world. Standouts are many: in "Into the Land of bin Laden," Robert Young Pelton finds a soldier who says, "I have no idea who we are fighting"; in "Tight-Assed River," John McPhee sails with the men who pilot aircraft carrier-length barges down Illinois' narrow waterways; and in "Trying Really Hard to Like India," Seth Stevenson serves a stern rebuke to travelers who return with praise for a country simply because they made it there and back. Readers may try to sample this, but they'll end up devouring it all. Keir Graff Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description Edited by the renowned novelist and travel writer Jamaica Kincaid, this year's collection reflects the wandering spirit and ever-present quest for adventure of the seasonedand not so seasonedtraveler. Contributors include Tom Bissell, Ian Frazier, Simon Winchester, Murad Kalam, and others. |
Making It Big In Small Business 2006by Beatrice Mulzer Available from Amazon $39.95 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Alan Weinberger, CEO, ASCII Group Finally - someone has written the essential guide to running a smart SMB consulting practice! Book Description Imagine attending a dinner party with the top 15 SMB consultants\resellers, learning all about their awarding winning business model recipes and engaging in invaluable "table talk." That’s what this book is about! Over 350+ pages, long-time respected Windows Small business Server (SBS) consultant, trainer and writer Beatrice Mulzer digs deeps and uses her honed investigative reporter skills to extract the "secret sauce" from each profiled incumbent. She was granted unusual access to these extremely busy top performers. Along the way, she built a "two-way trust relationship" over months of interviews that allowed her to extract unique individual and professional insights not normally shared by these SMB success kings and queens. Specific SMB consultants and resellers profiled include microsoft Small business Server Advisory Council members, SBS MVPs, microsoft Certified and Gold Partners (including worldwide annual partner award winners) and other "thought leaders" you will find extremely interesting and informative: • Matthew Dickerson (Australia), top reseller, consulting practice owner, worldwide award winner Honorable mentions include up-and-coming SMB consultants\resellers from India, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Australia and USA. Join Mulzer on her international journey around the SMB world and reap the benefits from her intensive research efforts to find out what makes these inner circle SMB people "…so successful." Along the way – you’ll pick up specific business and technical tips and tricks that will pay the cost of this book over and over. Your first smart move is to buy this book rather than trying to recreate its content from scratch. Imagine attending countless conferences and workshops to credibly try to earn the inside confidence of these SMB barons and baronesses followed by hundreds of hours of interviews? Or would you rather read a chapter a day over lunch from this book and be a much more successful SMB channel partner in just over a fort night? The choice is obvious. Purchase this book and start walking a new path to increased profitability and greater professional and personal happiness! PS - This is written in a warm, friendly manner that is readily readable. Most enjoyable and you'll love the tight editing, improved format and perfect content!
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Footprint Belize, Guatemala, and Southern Mexico (Footprint Belize, Guatemala and Southern Mexico Handbook)by Peter Hutchinson and Claire Boobbyer List Price: $19.95 Available from Amazon $12.97 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description With 80 years' experience publishing guidebooks to Latin America, Footprint knows the region as no other publisher does. The Backpackers' Latin America series helps travelers explore the international backpacking routes of Latin America, experiencing the excitement and exuberance of the region while stretching their budget and time as far as possible. Backpackers' Latin America: Belize, Guatemala, and Southern Mexico covers three Latin American regions for all levels of backpackers. With extensive planning tools, this guide helps travelers find the best adventures: diving the depths of the Blue Hole, trekking through the jungle, or just relaxing on the beach. It features extensive maps including a colored atlas section with marked routes, details on all modes of transportation, and up-to-date information on trails and treks, with difficulty level and places to crash. |
El Guero: A True Adventure Story (Sunburst Book)by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino and Leslie Bowman Available from Amazon $5.95 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly Based on the adventures of the author's father-in-law, this story of survival takes place in Mexico in the late 19th century. "Trevino writes with authority and dignity, and her prose is lucid and powerful," said PW of this "outstanding novel by a master of historical fiction." Ages 8-12. Copyright 1991 Reed business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal Grade 4-7-- A fictional depiction of Mexican Judge Cayetano Trevino--an uncorruptible and highly respected jurist who was banished by Mexican dictator General Diaz in 1876 to the then unsettled, bandit-ridden territory in Northern Mexico known as Baja California. Narrated by the judge's son, El Guero, the story follows his family as they are uprooted from a comfortable life in Mexico City and forced into a frontier environment. In this back country, the judge establishes a modest shelter for his family and sets up a court, while El Guero (who is the author's father-in-law) makes friends with local Indian children. However, tragedy soon strikes: a younger sister dies of diphtheria, and outlaws eventually take control of the area (which is now Ensenada) and imprison the judge. The remainder of the story deals with El Guero and his friends' attempts to rescue his father and rid the area of bandits. The narrative lacks the elegant simplicity of I, Juan de Pareja (Farrar, 1965). Instead, it is stiff and emotionless, and inexplicably avoids dramatizing the inherently exciting parts of this story. In less than a page, for example, de Trevino dispenses with the defeat of the bandits and the freeing of Judge Trevino. The well-drawn charcoal art accompanying the story highlights the plot action, but it fails to overcome the lethargy and colorlessness of El Guero's disappointing narrative of this interesting slice of Mexican history. --Jack Forman, Mesa College Library, San Diego Copyright 1989 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
Mexico: Health and Safety Travel Guideby Robert H. Page, Curtis P. Page, Robert H. Page M.D., and Curtis P. Page M.D. List Price: $19.95 Available from Amazon $13.57 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Including a directory of more than 180 English-speaking physicians and 50 of the best hospitals in 40* popular Mexico destinations, this guide is for the traveler or expatriate who falls ill or seeks to travel healthy while in Mexico. Hospital listings include services and specialties available, English-speaking administrative and medical liaisons, a rating of care, and a detailed description of each hospital and its strengths and weaknesses. Doctor listings include contact information, hours, charges, specialties, and a description of experience and certification. Included are city maps and emergency information, a pharmaceutical guide, translations of common medical terms and phrases, pre-travel advice, a comprehensive symptoms and conditions guide, and recommendations on traveler's insurance and immunizations.
* cities covered in this guide: Acapulco, Bahías de Huatulco, Cabo San Lucas, Cancún, Cozumel, Cuernavaca, Ensenada, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Hermosillo, Isla Mujeres, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Lago de Chapala, La Paz, León, Los Mochis, Manzanillo, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexico City (Distrito Federal), Monterrey, Oaxaca City, Palenque, Progreso, Playa del Carmen, Puebla, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, San Carlos / Guaymas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, San Felípe, San José del Cabo, San Miguel de Allende, Taxco, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Veracruz,Villahermosa, Xalapa About The Author Robert H. Page, MD, cofounded the Tlaquepaque Free medical Clinic while he was a medical student in Guadalajara. He has served as chief of staff for Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital and has been an Arizona delegate to the American medical Association for more than 10 years. He lives in Tempe, Arizona. Curtis P. Page, MD, a graduate of Harvard medical School, is a member of the International Society of Travel medicine and a private family practitioner. He lives in Tempe, Arizona. |
Moon Handbooks Pacific Mexico: Including Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Acapulco, and Oaxaca (Moon Handbooks : Pacific Mexico)by Bruce Whipperman List Price: $21.95 Available from Amazon $14.27 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review It is the age of specialization, which is a good thing if you're traveling to Pacific Mexico. Let's say you're heading off to Mazatlán or Guadalajara, Oaxaca or Acapulco, you no longer need to lug along every detail on every town, city, and hotel in Mexico. Just the pertinent particulars will do, and that's what Bruce Whipperman delivers in his Lowell Thomas Award-winning Pacific Mexico Handbook. Stretching over 1,000 miles along the Pacific coast from Mazatlán in Sinaloa down to Bahias de Huatulco in Oaxaca, the choices of tropical, palm-lined lagoons and soft sandy beaches seem without end yet easily accessible, thanks to Mexico's Highway 200 on the Pacific coast and a plethora of airplane access. Yet not each beach resort town is the same in character and opportunities. One of the great services rendered by Whipperman's handbook, before you ever set foot on Mexican soil, is the concise yet evocative description of the distinguishing personalities of the many towns and cities along the water. Especially useful if you're venturing south for the first time, Whipperman's introductions help you plan your itinerary to suit your mood and style. Of course he backs his narrative up with all the facts one might need, the hotels and restaurants, means of transportation and nightlife, shopping, sports, sights, and beaches. But he fleshes these guidebook details out with his sensitive and scholarly attention to the people, history and culture, the land and sea, the vegetation and the animals to be seen and experienced. All the options are spelled out, from the hedonistic immersion in resort relaxation to a glossary of helpful Spanish if you choose to explore further afield. --Stephanie Gold
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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