Insight Pocket World Atlas Exclusive Edition (Rouge) is bound in a moleskine-style finish, & comes with elastic fastener, satin page marker & an expanding notes pocket. Indexed with 20, 000 place names, a Nations of the World section contains flags, facts & figures on the 196 sovereign nations of the world. Mapping is generally reproduced at a scale of 1:20, 000, 000, with lines of latitude & longitude shown at 5 degree intervals, & number-letter combination/index markers. The atlas contains additional political & physical overview maps of areas of the world, as well as topical, thematic reference maps. Physical cartography is portrayed on the more traditional green spectrum. Pages show each country ...

Insight Pocket World Atlas Exclusive Edition (Sapphire) is bound in a moleskine-style finish, & comes with elastic fastener, satin page marker & an expanding notes pocket. Indexed with 20, 000 place names, a Nations of the World section contains flags, facts & figures on the 196 sovereign nations of the world. Mapping is generally reproduced at a scale of 1:20, 000, 000, with lines of latitude & longitude shown at 5 degree intervals, & number-letter combination/index markers. The atlas contains additional political & physical overview maps of areas of the world, as well as topical, thematic reference maps. Physical cartography is portrayed on the more traditional green spectrum. Pages show each country ...

The Select Guide series offers a more exclusive range of handy-sized city break guides from the publisher Insight, with a collection of over 100 inspiring ideas for your chic-urban stay, including plenty of secret gems & off-beat haunts designed for informed, experienced travellers & those on a repeat visit but looking for fresh insights. All recommends have been carefully selected by a local writer who knows the city inside out & can sincerely recommend great places to eat, drink, relax & explore. Guides are constructed with an introductory city overview & then an ‘in the mood for…’ section which presents a particularly tailored selection of past-times options, e.g. lazy days, romance or a night on the town.. Individual neighbourhoods are then covered by a-typical ‘dip-in-to’ listings which consist of a h&-picked assortment of places to see, go & experience, with neighbourhoods presented on an overview street map at the start of the section. Hotels are then detailed in their own chapter, arranged by budget & an A-Z of essentials, looking at logistics & practicalities concludes the guide. The series is illustrated throughout, in a large palm-sized format, with an attractive cloth-like material binding & a page marker ribbon. ...

The Smart Guide series from Insight is a streamlined version of travel information, in a smaller, concise format arranged in three sections
- Areas, A-Z & Atlas. Areas & districts in & around town are described before the guide moves on to an A-Z detailing of attractions & services, from accommodation to transportation via history & nightlife. Each guide has a climate chart & top attractions on its fly-leaf &, for non-English speaking destinations, language tips are provided on the inside jacket. For English-speaking destinations a facts & figures list is given instead. A selective, indexed mini Atlas of a few maps at the back of each guide helps place sites & attractions for the tourist, metro plans are includeded where relevant & each guide is illustrated with colour photographs throughout.
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The Step by Step series by Insight Guides focuses on providing tailor made walks & tours around city locations & itineraries for touring country locations. The guides feature between ten & twenty routes that link up known sights as well as attractions off the beaten track. They are written by local experts who have personally selected places to eat & drink en-route & offer insider tips on culture, shopping & nightlife. The guides feature an array of colour photographs which help bring to life the descriptive information provided for destinations & attractions. An orientation or overview chapter opens each guide with reviews on history, customs & culture, food & drink, shopping & entertainment. Then, the selected itineraries for walks and/or tours are explained with a good amount of accompanying information & a simple route plan. A user friendly alphabetical directory lists practical information to do day-by-day & listings of h&-picked hotels & restaurants are provided to suit different budgets & tastes. The publisher’s own Step by Step pull out map is provided &, where applicable, metro plans are shown. ...

Insight Atlases specialise in combining physical relief cartography with tourist information, using an expressly developed pictorial legend system which is translated onto the maps & illustrates 120 different place characteristics (i.e. whether the place is a city, a river, a mountain or a leisure related site). Inclusion of tourist site information & infrastructures is prominent, with larger atlases having separately tailored legends for each double page spread to indicate visitor sites of natural, historical or cultural importance. Atlas index references are also accompanied by pictorial legend symbols to doubly assist orientation. Insight atlases frequently come with reference sections on Nations of the World, providing facts & statistics as well as descriptive information. Political overview maps & additional maps on current topical geographical subjects, such as climate & population density, are also generally included. A number of the atlases feature a large range of colour photographs. Main auto, rail & shipping routes are shown, as are airports, key physical features & boundaries. Atlases have a number/letter grid referencing system & lines of latitude & longitude are shown.* Please note
- Details may vary, please check individual atlas descriptions. As a general rule of thumb, the more expensive the atlas, the more detail/information is shown.*
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Insight World Travel Atlas, which comes with its own slipcase, marries usage as a traditional atlas & as a travel guide. Each double page spread of mapping comes with its own specific legend & features recommended & grid referenced places to visit, such as exceptional natural landscapes, & places of cultural significance or historical monument, which are introduced with small colour photographs & summary blurbs. Longer introductory paragraphs to locations feature at the head of the pages The atlas itself is made up of 304 pages of updated, digital mapping. The publisher ...

Insight World Travel Atlas Deluxe DVD ROM Edition comes with all the features of the Insight World Travel Atlas plus a supplementary DVD ROM, as well as bonus 96 pages in the atlas, focusing on Dream Routes of the World which are illustrated with an additional 1000 colour photographs. The atlas features up-to-date digital mapping, 2000 colour photographs plus informative text. 17, 000 points of interest are highlighted using Insight ...

Insight World Travel Encyclopedia, which comes with its own slipcase, is a visual reference book to the world, combining an indexed 60 page atlas of digital cartography, extensive, informative text & 1, 300 colour photographs. In a break away from the standard A-Z country listings, this reference guide is structured by continent to aid orientation. The encyclopedia looks at geography, population, culture, economy, history & the political system of each country on the planet. Special features provide insights into important global issues such as China ...

A book to offer guidance, companionship & consolation to the restless insomniac; analysis & philosophy combine to provide comfort on even the longest of sleepless nights. Not being able to sleep is deeply frightening. We panic about our ability to cope with the demands of the next day; we panic that we are panicking; the possibility of sleep recedes ever further as the clock counts down to another exhausted, irritable dawn. Our societies have learnt to treat insomnia with the best applied discipline we know: medicine
- in particular, with pills powerful enough to wrestle consciousness into submission. But there are other things to do besides, or alongside, medicalising insomnia. We can reflect on our sleeplessness, define it to ourselves & others, try to understand where it springs from in human nature & speculate on what it might
- in its own confused way
- be trying to tell us. This book is an eloquent guide to, & companion through, the long sleepless hours of the night. We come away from its soothing pages informed, consoled & armed with insights that will make us feel a lot less alone
- as we wait for sleep, eventually, to come.



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