Author: Victoria Brook
Publisher: GreatestEscapes.com Publishing
Keywords: dream, red
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0968613721
ISBN-13: 9780968613726

Author: Victoria Brooks
Publisher: GreatestEscapes.com Publishing
Keywords: fame, footsteps, following, trips, literary
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2000
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0968613705
ISBN-13: 9780968613702

"The excitement of finding something strange consists precisely in noting its strangeness," says Paul Bowles in the foreword. In his final bit of writing before his death last year, Bowles hit on the driving force that impels the best travel writers: the urge to tell someone about their trips. In this book, they find the opportunity, bringing readers along on their journeys to places made unique and fascinating by the works of the best writers in literature. This book enables readers to turn a simple trip into a pilgrimage and an ordinary sightseeing tour into an adventure. Combining evocat

Author: Victoria Brooks
Publisher: GreatestEscapes.com Publishing
Keywords: famous, food, faces, places
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-06
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 096861373X
ISBN-13: 9780968613733

Great authors have always left their mark on their landscapes. In Famous Faces, Famous Places & Famous Food, Victoria Brooks travels the planet in search of them, illuminating their fascinating lives with the exotic, sometimes erotic ink of their chosen lands. This collection of biographical and culinary wanderlust includes her personal experience with the amazing and lively Arthur C. Clarke in terrorist-torn Sri Lanka, her heart-wrenching visit with the late literary beacon Paul Bowles in seedy Tangier, and a visit with mystery writer and steeplechaser Dick Francis in the banker’s h

Author: Ian Graham
Publisher: QED Publishing, a division of Quarto Publishing plc
Keywords: machines, mighty, trucks, monster
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $7.56
ISBN-10: 184835035X
ISBN-13: 9781848350359

Author: Neal Rechtman
Publisher: Bascom Hill Publishing Group, a division of Hillcrest Publishing Group
Keywords: amendment, 28th
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0979846749
ISBN-13: 9780979846748

The 28th Amendment is a timely and compelling political thriller that explores the very real potential for conflict between entertainment and politics in a media-defined age. What happens when an actor who portrays a fictional US president on television gets drawn into real-word politics? In Neal Rechtman’s future political thriller The 28th Amendment, set in the year 2019, an actor named Victor Glade plays the President in a long-running television series called The Oval Office, and does his job a little too well--embarrassing and threatening the Administration of the real President, Re

Author: Jonsson Yinya Li
Publisher: GMB Publishing
Keywords: global, market, briefings, industry, capital, china, emerging, venture, investing
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 1905050135
ISBN-13: 9781905050130

Investing in China: The Emerging Venture Capital Industry is a unique and invaluable guide to venture capital in China. This important new book provides a detailed profile of the current state of the venture capital backed SME sector and an authoritative look at trends and future prospects. It provides an explanation of the mechanics of the investment process, from due diligence and investment monitoring, to exit, and a unique look at M & A opportunities and rules for foreign investors. The guide includes many detailed case studies and profiles of the IT, E-commerce, bio-technology and other s

Author: Pascal Baetens
Publisher: DK Publishing
Keywords: craft, art, photography, nude
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0756631769
ISBN-13: 9780756631765

Follow practical advice from nude photography experts and learn to create picture-perfect results every time with this master class in photographing the human form. Everything’s covered, from working successfully with amateur and professional models to getting great results in your own home or outdoors. Find tips on setting up a shoot, lighting effects, and post-production techniques, so you can turn a good picture into a really great one. Get inspired by a stunning Photographer’s Gallery featuring the work of an international panel of photographers, from Andreas Bitesnich and Sylv