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Cadogan celebrates the city of the millennium! Bilbao has undergone an amazing rejuvenation in the past few years, becoming an international center of art and culture, and its tourist industry is booming. A new airport terminal and improved public transport have helped make the city and surrounding area a more appealing and convenient destination for travelers. "El Goog", as the Basques call Frank Gehry's titanium wonder, was meant to attract attention, and it has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams. But there's more to Bilbao than the Guggenheim Museum, and there's much more to the Basques, Europe's oldest people. Cadogan takes visitors through their stunning habitat of velvet green mountains, immaculate villages, vineyards, and ancient holy places. Now in its second edition, this first-ever guide to the entire Basque country (including both the Spanish and French sides of the border), gives readers the lowdown on the Basques' history, culture, ancient language and festivals, and explores the dramatic vistas of the Pyrenees. With Cadogan's expert guidance, experience vibrant Vittoria and live it up in the glittering resort of Biarritz.
In this guide...
*Find a detailed section on the Guggenheim Museum and its collection, with floor plans, full practical information, and the story behind this remarkable structure
*Indulge in some of the world's finest cuisine at Cadogan's choice of restaurants and cafés--over 300 personally selected places to eat
*Experience the best of Bilbao's energetic nightlife and surge of new bars, nightclubs, and hotels
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Great overview guide to the Basque Area of Spain and France.......2005-10-26
This book offers an overview of the Basque lands and culture, a general travel guide for the region, followed by more detailed guides for specific towns and areas (listings of accomodation, restaurants, buses, things to do, etc).
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1) The Basque Lands: a photo essay
2) Introduction
3) History
4) Culture
- The Language that Defeated the Devil Himself
- Giants, Shaggy Men and a Not-So-Virgin Mary
- Basque Accessories
- Music, Dance and the Basque Yodel
- Surviving the Pilgrimage to Sanitiago
- The Sporting Life
5) Food and Drink
- Traditional Basque Cuisine
- New Basque Cuisine
- Learning to eat like a Basque
6) Travel
- Getting there
- Entry Formalities
- Getting Around
- Self-catering and Special Interest Holidays
7) Practical A-Z
- Before you go
- Climate and When to Go
- Crime and the Police
- Disabled Travellers
- Eating Out
- Embassies and Consulates
- Festivals
- Health and Emergencies
- Internet
- Maps
- Markets and Shopping
- Money
- Natural Parks
- Opening Hours
- Post Offices
- Sports and Activities
- Telephones
- Toilets
- Tourist Information
- Where to Stay
8) Bilbao
- Getting there
- Getting around
- Tourist information
- Shopping
- Sports and Activities
- Where to Stay
- Eating Out
- Tapas/Pintxos
- Entertainment and Nightlife
- The Casco Viejo
- The Ensanche
- Along the Nervion
- The Guggenheim Museum
- Around Bilbao
9) Euskadi
- Vitoria (Gasteiz)
- Alava Province
- Haro
- Around Haro
- Inland: Bilbao to San Sebastian
- San Sebastian (Donostia)
- Inland from San Sebastian
- Along the Coast - San Sebastian to France
10) Navarra
- History
- Pamplona (Iruna)
- West of Pamplona: Aralar and San Miguel in Excelsis
- West of Pamplona: The Camino de Santiago
- Estella
- South of Pamplona to Tudela
- Sanguesa, Javier and Leyre
- Routes into France: Up the Valleys of the Pyrenees
11) The Pays Basque
- The Cote Basque
- St-Jean-de-Luz
- Ciboure
- Biarritz
- Bayonne
- The Labourd Interior: Around La Rhune
- Sare
- Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle and Ainhoa
- The Valley of the Nive
- St-Jean-Pied-de-Port
- The Haute Soule
Reference
- Chronology
- Language
- Menu reader
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
Read before, leave at home.......2004-09-12
A very interesting guidebook to Bilbao and surrounding areas including the French Basque region. Great and lengthy historical and cultural introduction, many sidenotes that have been well-researched. Probably an excellent guide if you plan to drive the region with descriptions of several routes and geographical organization. (You would still want some excellent highway maps.) However, if you plan to use public transit, specific helpful data are lacking. Reviews of lodging, restaurants, attractions are out-of-date despite 2003 copywrite. Some attractions are closed and many prices are way off.
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Exploring the Non-Western World Student Workbook
Globe Fearon
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Pony Problems (Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #3)
Carolyn Keene
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ASIN: 1416918159 |
Book Description
This pony knows quite a few tricks!
A new petting zoo has opened in River Heights. Nancy, George, and Bess can't wait to check it out -- the zoo has the cutest shetland pony named Buttons. And it looks like the Clue Crew won't have to wait very long to get a glimpse of Buttons -- he keeps escaping from his pen and showing up all over town! He's getting pretty famous for eating the flowers in everyone's front lawns. As much as Nancy secretly wishes Buttons would turn up on her lawn, she knows it's important to make sure he stays put. The only trouble is, no one knows how he's getting out. Sounds like it's time for the Clue Crew to saddle up and settle this pony problem!
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Shetland Ponies (Majestic Horses)
Pamela Dell
Manufacturer: Child's World
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ASIN: 159296785X |
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The Shetland Pony (Edge Books)
Amanda Parise-Peterson
Manufacturer: Edge Books
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ASIN: 0736843744 |
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When Emma falls through the ice on Horseshoe Pond, Sheltie, her Shetland pony, bravely comes to the rescue. But his dip in the icy water makes Sheltie very sick, and the vet doesn't hold out much hope. Can Emma save her beloved Sheltie's life?
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Emma's dream has just come true -- her parents have given her a Shetland pony of her very own! Sheltie is the best pony in the whole wide world. Maybe he can even help Emma solve the mystery of who¹s been stealing from Mr. Crock!
Read all about Emma and her wonderful Sheltie in this first book of their adventures.
Customer Reviews:
Boring!.......2004-10-18
I found this book in my closet and decided to read this book again. The illustations in this book are cruddy like most of those cruddy book series. It is impossible for a girl that is 5 times as big as the smallest pony breed being able to RIDE him in shows and stuff. Only small toddlers can ride Shetlands. What is up with "Bahh!"? Mr. Clark (I think that is his name) always says that. Emma is a jerk since she calls us country style folks "Stupid" and "Dumb". The plot is really lame.
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 6!!!!
This is a great book!.......2002-08-10
A little girl named Emma has to leave her house and move to a farm . Emma does not want to move she likes her house and backyard but her mother wants Emma and her baby brother Joshua to grow up with fresh air to breath, and green fields to run and play in Emma is not so sure . But Emma changes her mind when her parents give her Sheltie a Shetland pony Emma loves Sheltie and a women named Mrs. Linney teachs her how to ride Sheltie , Soon Emma rides Sheltie every day everythings great But MR. Crock thinks the little Shetland pony is eating his cabbages and one time he even tied Sheltie to a tree ! The summer fair is coming up where the Nasty Mr. Crock is selling is cabbages but more are disapearing . Can a little girl and a small Shetland find the real theft ?
Sheltie the Shetland Pony.......2001-03-31
This is the best chapter book that I have ever read on my own - even better than the Magic Treehouse books! It is about a little girl named Emma who doesn't want to move, but then her parents surprise her with a pony, Sheltie. Sheltie is really sweet and nice but very mischievious. She solves a mystery in the story, with the help of Emma. I read it in one day because the story was so interesting and I liked the characters so much. I can hardly wait to read the rest of the books in the series.
Great Moral.......2001-01-06
My 7 year old daughter enjoyed reading this book to me and was so excited to know that she had figured the mystery out before the end. She also figured out the moral of the story before they had a chance to explain that stealing and lying was not appropriate. This is one of the first Horse stories that she has read and really sank her teeth in it. She was toting the book everywhere she went, which of course made me proud of her. What a morale booster for kids. The story was holsum and refreshing. We look forward to reading the rest of the series.
sheltie the shetland pony.......2000-06-24
Excellent book for fairly new readers. My 6 year old read it on one go. She loved the characters, especially the main one, Emma. As always horse stories are a favorite among this age range. It is well set out, with just enough pictures for this age. My 7 year old enjoyed the story also, even though it was below her reading level,
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The Shetland pony
L. Frank Bedell
Manufacturer: Iowa State University Press
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ASIN: B0007E53ZQ |
Book Description
"Imagine Andy Rooney with a Georgia accent." The Houston Post
John Wayne had it. True Grit, that is. Bestselling humorist and philosopher Lewis Grizzard looked for other Americans with true grit. What he found will make you laugh and perhaps even wipe away a tear. True Grit. The people in this book have it. And so does Lewis Grizzard.
Customer Reviews:
Funny book....but not that great otherwise........1999-04-12
Lewis Grizzard is a funny guy. But I thought the book was lacking in so many other ways. All in all an enjoyable read............once.
Book Description
SHELTIE The Little Pony with the Big Heart!
Sheltie is very happy when Mudlark, Marjorie Wallace's donkey, comes to stay. But one morning Mudlark disappears. Only Sheltie seems to know what has happened to him. Will he and Emma be able to bring Mudlark back before Marjorie returns from her vacation?
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Sheltie is awesome.......2001-03-25
The Sheltie series is fun to read. I couldn't put it down. Sheltie is very clever. I wish I could have a pony like Sheltie. The story was not hard to read for me and I'm in second grade. I think all kids should read this book. Boys or girls. This book is only one in a series. I hope they keep making more Sheltie books.
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5 massmarket paperback Titles By Grizzard - Kathy Sue Loudermilk I Love You - Shoot Low Boys They're Riding Shetland Ponies - Don't Sit Under the Grits Tree with Anyone Else but Me - If Love Were Oil I'd Be About a Quart Low - My Daddy Was a Pistol and I'm a Son of a Gun
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Tomart's Price Guide to Twentieth Century Books
John S. Wade
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ASIN: 0914293257 |
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It’s the best beginner’s book on stonescaping ever—a simple guide to projects novices can handle. There’s guidance on developing a layout, drawing a plan, choosing tools, mixing mortar, jointing, excavating, providing drainage, and aesthetics. Pictures present magnificent stones, from granite to marble to quartzite.
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Philo and the Church Fathers: A Collection of Papers (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 32)
David T. Runia
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The extensive writings of the Jewish philosopher and exegete Philo of Alexandria (15 BCE to 50 CE) were preserved through the efforts of early Christians, who decided that these works could assist them in developing their own distinctive kind of thought. The present collection of papers, written from 1989 to 1994, is published as a companion volume to the author's monograph Philo in Early Christian Literature: A Survey (1993). The papers deal with various aspects of the process of reception that Philo received at the hands of the Church Fathers. Authors who are given particular attention are Athenagoras, Clement, Origen, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Isidore of Pelusium and Augustine. The papers also include a hitherto unpublished English translation of the author's inaugural lecture held at Utrecht in April 1992.
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Tom Arma Babies: Notecard Box
Tom Arma
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"A thoughtful and historically insightful book . . . the Young Lords challenged the system as no one else has done before them. . . . Their philosophy served as an inspiration for many of us."—Representative Jose Serrano (Democrat, New York)
"This account of the formation of the Young Lords is fascinating. . . . [It] grows as one reads until one is experiencing elements of the epic, the surprising, and the tragic."—Norman Mailer
In 1968 Miguel "Mickey" Melendez was a college student, developing pride in his Cuban and Puerto Rican cultural identity and becoming increasingly aware of the effects of social inequality on Latino Americans. Joining with other like-minded student activists, Melendez helped form the central committee of the New York branch of the Young Lords, one of the most provocative and misunderstood radical groups to emerge during the 1960s. Incorporating techniques of direct action and community empowerment, the Young Lords became a prominent force in the urban northeast. From their storefront offices in East Harlem, they defiantly took back the streets of El Barrio. In addition to running clothing drives, day-care centers, and food and health programs, they became known for their media-savvy tactics and bold actions, like the takeovers of the First People's Church and Lincoln Hospital.
In this memoir, Melendez describes with the unsparing eye of an insider the idealism, anger, and vitality of the Lords as they rose to become the most respected and powerful voice of Puerto Rican empowerment in the country. He also traces the internal ideological disputes that led the group, but not the mission, to fracture in 1972. Written with passion and compelling detail, We Took the Streets tells the story of how one group took on the establishment—and won.
Customer Reviews:
As a Black Male this book made me cheer proudly.......2006-06-10
I gre up during the 80's in west harlem, later the BX, went to manhattan center high school on 116 & pleasant ave .... you can't grow up anywhere in new york city and not recognize puerto rican pride, all you have to do is head up to Orchard Beach after memorial day, but it's a powerful part of the NY experience ....... I picked this up because of the Lincoln hospital story, and garbage offensives, these men and women are patriots of the black and latin community! The New York City minority community! great read, I learned about them in a american history class @ laguardia comm college, and was surprised I'd never heard of them before, I'd passed by lincoln hospital over 100 times, to hear about them being reason for it being built! I'll say it's a different time period now, but the children of NYC need to learn about this group, and movements like these, to learn discipline, and study the pride but learning journey of mister Melendez, then kids wouldn't get lost, because we are losing our city now as the rents are escalating, people are hurting now, and this knowledge is key to a new generation that needs to move forward and stand for something, not just accept circumstances, this book is excellent, powerful, and informative! True "hood", cultural, minority heroes! I'm glad and insprired by it
A Dream Realized.......2004-02-28
Miguel Melendez has given us a thoughtful,inspirational, and sensitive account of the Young Lords Party and also of the many pivotal events of his own life. I loved reading this book full of cultural tidbits and an insider's history of a group of dedicated individuals. This book offers important lessons for today's youth, many of whom feel no connection to the larger society. It serves as a tremendous contribution to young people by sharing positive ways to channel rage and frustration with one's social and emotional condition. The writer brilliantly shows what it is to search for meaning and purpose in one's life as he questions events occurring around him.
Quiero agradecerle a Mickey para haber escrito un libro tan bello que demuestra que todos tenemos el derecho a la humanidad y dignidad.
Excellent Boricua History- Palante!!!.......2003-06-26
Micky Melendez has written an excellent easy to read history of Puerto Rican efforts for social, political and economic empowerment from the Young Lords Party in the 1960's to today's struggle for a Latino mayor of Nueva York. This monograph by Micky Melendez is a powerful weapon in Boricua's long walk to freedom. palante
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