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How to Travel the World on $50 a Day
Third Edition: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
***UPDATED 2017 EDITION*
New York Times bestseller!**
No money? No problem. You can start packing your bags for that trip you’ve been dreaming a lifetime about.
For more than half a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has been showing readers of his enormously popular travel...
Fly Solo
The 50 Best Places On Earth For a Girl to Travel Alone
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
There's a whole big world out there. Here's how every woman can get out and conquer it-solo.
This is an inspiring guide for women who want to "fly solo"-yet stay safe, sane, and solvent during their travels. With candid advice and insider's secrets about some of the most exciting...
The Titanic Awards
Celebrating the Worst of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Read Doug Lansky's posts on the Penguin Blog.
"In a nutshell, the Titanic Awards are the Darwin Awards for travel- only nobody dies." -Los Angeles Times
Everyone who's ever checked (and lost) their luggage or discovered that their hotel misplaced their reservation knows there...
The Romanian
Story of an Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
Winner of the 2004 Prix de Flore—one of France's most distinguished literary prizes—a wildly romantic, true-life love story
“History follows a trail of sputtering desire, often calling upon the delusions of lovers to generate the sparks. If it weren’t for us, the world would suffer...
I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It)
Extremely Important Stuff About the Songs and Bands You Love, Hate, Love to Hate , and Hate to Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Music breeds duality. We enjoy the music we love-listening to it, talking about it, reading about it. But it's just as fun to passionately revel in mocking the music we hate. Fortunately, musicians make this two-lane path very easy to follow. Half the time they're creating timeless works of art that...
by Julia Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
In this long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron presents the next step in her course of discovering and recovering the creative self.
Walking in This World picks up where Julia Cameron's bestselling book on the creative process, The Artist's Way,...
The Vein of Gold
A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1997
In the Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in The Artist's Way, she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential...
Seducing the Demon
Writing for My Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Erica Jong's memoir-a national bestseller-was probably the most wildly reviewed book of 2006. Critics called it everything from "brutally funny," "risqu? and wonderfully unrepentant," and "rowdy, self-deprecating, and endearing" to "a car wreck."* Throughout...
Wretched Writing
A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad.
It’s also...
The Totally Sweet 90s
From Clear Cola to Furby, and Grunge to "Whatever", the Toys, Tastes, and Trends That Defined a Decade
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
If you can tell the difference between the Petes in Pete & Pete, know every step to the Macarena by heart, and remember when The Real World was about more than just drunken hookups, The Totally Sweet ’90s will be a welcome trip down memory lane.
With this hella cool guide, you’ll reminisce...
by Heinrich Harrer
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet. Harrer was traveling in India when the Second World War erupted. He was subsequently seized and imprisoned by British authorities. After several...
Scandalous Women
The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a ruckus during their lifetimes-turning heads while making waves. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk takers...
Signspotting III
Lost and Loster in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A full-color illustrated collection of humorous, confusing, and amusing signs from around the globe.
From ?UFO University? to ?Speedo Check Ahead? to ?Fecal Face Dot Gallery,? Signspotting III: Lost and Loster in Translation takes the reader on a pictorial worldwide tour of the bizarre and hysterical street signs and advertisements that provide way more laughs than information.
Eureka!
The Surprising Stories Behind the Ideas That Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The fascinating inspirations behind common inventions and creations- from Barbie to Sweet and Low to Mt. Rushmore.
The slinky was born aboard a World War II ship.
The Barbie doll was inspired by a German sex toy.
Weight Watchers began with a Jewish housewife in Queens, New York.
Eureka!...