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 World Atlas & Almanac is presented in an A5 format, & has a 20, 000 entry index, accompanied by legend pictorial symbols illustrating the nature of the place. 130 pages of physical cartography is accompanied by political overview maps & a series of world reference maps depicting tectonic plates, climate, energy, vegetation, population density & cultural characteristics. A 32 page almanac provides key facts & statistics about the world, with a dedicated section highlighting the remarkable natural & man-made wonders. Cartography shows key physical features, main centres of population, & road & rail arteries, as well as airports & European ferry routes. Spot heights are given, lines of latitude & longitude are shown at 5 degree intervals & a grid system of number/letter referencing is used. ...

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 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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`A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life.. . Exquisitely wrought, heartrending & joyous` Joyce Carol Oates Bill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket & only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city`s incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, & New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. & he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend & neighbor, the writer & neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance is captured in funny & touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal & endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness & death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief & a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes`s distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city & to all who have felt the particular magic & solace it offers. ...

A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls ”the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected” of life in New York City, & an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. ”A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, & the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, & New York, & laughter & all of creation.”--Anne Lamott Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket & only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city`s incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, & New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. & he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend & neighbor, the writer & neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--”I don`t so much fear death as I do wasting life, ” he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny & touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal & endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness & death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief & a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes`s distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city & to all who have felt the particular magic & solace it offers. ...

In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician`s wife has done her husband`s career a great service, by dying under suspicious circumstances. That the corpse & the trail have been cold for fifteen years hasn`t saved Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID from being sent to investigate. But what chance does he have when his chief suspect is so powerful, when the whole district is against him, & when a holy man is fasting to the death to protest his prying? But still the good inspector dutifully goes, carrying just the honour of his police force & a box of double-sized eggs. ...