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Books: Travel: Azerbaijan
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. |
9 11 and Terrorist Travel: A Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United Statesby National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States List Price: $10.00 Available from Amazon $7.70 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Finally, the answer to the question people have asked since 9/11: "How DID the terrorists enter the United States?" Includes the complete staff report Time.com called "tantalizing and important" Before 19 hijackers could commit the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2004, they passed through U.S. border security 68 43 contacts with immigration and customs authorities—none of whom suspected they were al Qaeda operatives. In the words of the 9/11 Commission's Executive Director, this staff report "offered substantial information or analysis not well represented in the Commission's report." Now for the first time in book form, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel also includes full color digital images of the travel documents used by the 9/11 hijackers. This report includes the complete 9/11 and Terrorist Travel monograph produced by the staff, including: o A chronology of the 9/11 terrorist travel operation and the hijackers’ contacts with U.S. border officials; The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was established by law in November 2002. Congress and President George W. Bush gave this independent, bipartisan Commission the mandate to study, evaluate, and report on "immigration, nonimmigrant visas and border security" as these areas relate to 9/11.
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Armenia and Azerbaijan Map by ITMB (Travel Reference Map S.)by International Travel Maps and Books Available from Amazon $10.95 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description English-language waterproof folded road and travel map in color of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Scale 1:650,000. Distinguishes 6 types of roads, ranging from highways to seasonal tracks. Legend shows places to stay and places of interest, International and domestic airports, airfields, lighthouses, beaches, fortresses, churches, monasteries, wintersports resorts, architectural/historic monuments, ruins/archaeological sites, museums, mosques, defence towers. Includes inset of Baku, Yerevan. About The Author ITMB Publishing (International Travel Maps and Books) of Vancouver, Canada, has published detailed reference and travel maps of countries, regions, and cities around the world since 1985. The company's titles include many that are unique or the first of their kind, including the first commercially available travel map of South America. |
Azerbaijan, 3rd: With Excursions to Georgiaby Mark Elliott List Price: $23.95 Available from Amazon $15.57 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review "Azerbaijan by Mark Elliott (Trailblazer) is an excellent guidebook with useful maps that make exploring in and around Baku possible. It is much more detailed than the new but disappointing Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (Lonely Planet)."
--The Guardian (UK) "Recommended reading." --The Financial Times (UK) "As the first modern guide to Azerbaijan it is a real tour de forcemeticulous research and evident affection for Azerbaijan." --Daily News (Azerbaijan) Book Description Third edition of the guide that was the first and still remains the only dedicated guide to Azerbaijan. Features 200 maps with 180 explanatory visuals--vital in a country where there are few reliable maps. Includes full historical background, cultural tips, visas, where to stay, and where to eat for all budgets.
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Wanderlust Travel Journalby Troy M. Litten List Price: $16.95 Available from Amazon $11.53 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Travel encompasses more than arriving in a new place -- it's about the view through an airplane window, the colors of the phone booths, the conversations with strangers, and the unique mementos collected along the way. In this journal, you'll find evocative travel images plus plenty of room to record your experiences and space to paste in ticket stubs, matchbooks, and postcards. The durable vinyl sleeve will withstand time and weather. About The Author Troy M. Litten is a San Francisco-based photographer and designer and a compulsive world traveler. |
Hammond World Travel Atlas (Hammond World Travel Atlas)by Hammond World Atlas Corporation List Price: $65.00 Available from Amazon $40.95 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Booklist Hammond, now a part of Langenscheidt Publishing, has produced an atlas with a new concept. It is billed as a source of geographic knowledge as well as a travel guide. The 300-plus pages of maps are of good quality but are littered with "pictograms," which are icons identifying features and attractions. There are more than 100 of these color-coded symbols. Natural attractions are blue or green; cultural sites are yellow. The subjects of the pictograms are diverse--glaciers, deserts, wildlife reserves, museums, battlefields, markets, festivals, impressive skylines, Aborigine reservations, hill resorts, places of interest for religious cultures, and more. An extreme example of the pictograms is a double-page spread of Hispaniola and Lesser Antilles filled with symbols as well as names of cities, national parks, and airports. The pictograms used on a particular page are listed at the bottom of the page, but on a map it is difficult to distinguish an active volcano from a rock landscape or a memorial from a palace. The atlas is visually attractive, with many color photographs. Each double-page spread of maps has a border of small photographs with a description of sites or attractions and a grid locator. Descriptive information on countries is very limited. No mention is made of current wars or conflicts. The index contains about 100,000 entries with pictograms and page and grid locators. It is unfortunate that the example used in the good explanation of how to use the index lists an incorrect page number. The use in the index of international license-plate codes for identifying countries is confusing. Who would guess that ROU is Uruguay or SP is Somalia? The Hammond World Travel Atlas is a medium-sized atlas with competition from DK's World Atlas (2005), Oxford's Atlas of the World (2004), and the Reader's Digest Illustrated World Atlas (2004). It could be considered by any library that wants a current atlas with a new twist. Christine Bulson |
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languagesby Mark Abley List Price: $14.00 Available from Amazon $11.48 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly There are roughly 6,000 languages in use in the world today, most of them spoken by a tiny number of people-further proof of humanity's ability to generate intoxicating variety. Sadly, the processes of linguistic imperialism may still be as strong as they have ever been; expansion of the major world languages, particularly English, is, according to Abley, likely to bring about the elimination of most of these languages by century's end. Canadian journalist Abley shrewdly frontloads his book with some of the most exotic languages before moving on to better-known cases (which are also considerably less at risk) such as Proven‡al, Yiddish and Welsh. Readers who think they "get" how languages work may be startled by the considerable deviation from Western norms: for instance, Murrinh-Patha, spoken in Australia, boasts a bewilderingly complex system of pronouns; Mi'kmaq, from eastern Canada and Maine, and Boro, a northern Indian tongue, all but eschew nouns. To read these accounts of dwindling languages-and their often forlorn, marginalized speakers-is to gain insight into the powerful colonial forces still in play. Abley's informal approach makes this more a travel book than a language book; while describing the people and places in affecting detail, he sometimes stints in depicting the languages. Abley also sometimes conflates the extinction of a language with that of the people who speak it; however, his contention rings true that the disappearance of these languages represents "a loss beyond estimation." This generous, sorrow-tinged book is an informative and eloquent reminder of a richness that may not exist much longer. Copyright 2003 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From The New Yorker Of the six thousand or so languages that exist today, more than ninety per cent are endangered. Abley has travelled as far afield as arctic Canada and the Timor Sea documenting the survival strategies or last gasps of some of these languages. The state of Israel resurrected Hebrew, albeit at the expense of Yiddish and Ladino. Faroese, a descendant of Old Norse, is a source of pride to the inhabitants of the Faeroe Islands, but the young "see Faroese as embodying the past, Danish the present, and English the future." English, the language of the marketplace, is spoken by more people than any other language in history, and Abley seems resigned to the judgment of Li Yang, who claims "to have taught English to more than twenty million Chinese": "Chinese people don't learn English because they love it, but because Coca-Cola and microsoft rule the world." Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iranby Touraj Atabaki Available from Amazon $26.95 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description This is a study of modern Iranian political history and is set in the international context of the Second World War and its aftermath. The book covers the essential background in Iranian political history in the 20th century including the role played by Azerbaijani politicians in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-6, the drastic reforms of the autocratic Reza Shah regime and its effect on ethnic identity in Iranian Azerbaijan, the abdication of the Shah, the role of the Allied Powers, and the occupations of Iran. The book draws on Turkish, Persian, and Azeri sources as well as British, French, American, and Soviet materials and interviews with surviving members of the period of autonomous government in Iranian Azerbaijan.
About The Author Touraj Atabaki is Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. |
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