Columnist June Keith calls her relationship with Key West and the Florida Keys a love affair. After you read this candid and very funny guidebook, you'll understand why. Whether you're an armchair tourist dreaming of the Keys, a perennial visitor, or a one-time tourist plotting a return trip, this book full of insights, anecdotes and tell it like it is information will save you time and money

This book describes the author`s experience while walking the Appalachian Trail and reflects his opinions relating to those experiences

The author in his book takes a new and original look at the complex workings of the slave trade. The result is an astonishingly detailed look at the voyage of a single ship that sheds new light on the collaborative nature of the slave trade and how it shaped morality, politics and economics on three continents. By combining the detailed story of an expedition with an exploration of the significant personalities and events that were shaping Europe, West Africa and the Caribbean in the early 18th century, this book provides an intimate understanding of a horrifying world

In this leadership classic, Donald T. Phillips creates a structured guide useful to anyone - from a high school student to a Chief Executive Officer - for learning what it takes to be a truly great leader, particularly in times of great change. Here is an organized set of steps, strategies, and belief systems useful in forging the way to steady change, with the historic backdrop of the challenges faced by MLK and millions of other African Americans

Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical prose, Matthiessen describes the wildlife he encounters and the region it inhabits, along with historical information regarding the greatest pioneers and adventurers who preceded him

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. This book includes political, economic, diplomatic, social, and military history

Black Heritage Sites is a unique travel guide to the major landmarks of African American history across the United States. This volume includes descriptions and detailed visitor information for hundreds of places of national and local significance, from churches and schools to battlefields and cemeteries, from stops on the Underground Railroad to landmarks of the 1950s civil rights movement. Black Heritage Sites is perfect for travelers and historians of all kinds - from the family planning a cross - country trip to the armchair traveler interested in gaining a unique perspective on African American history

Shanghai Almanac is a systematic record that illustrates different aspects of Shanghai Municipality, concerning its geographical facts, the political, economical and cultural events as well as the social situation. This large-scale book, a literature of data, is the yearly book under the special series of state press and publication. Shanghai Almanac 2012 records and illustrates the overal conditions of Shanghai in 2011. By retaining a fundamental stability in the structure of the former edition, the 2012 English version has inserted the account of those events that newly appeared in 2011

Shanghai Almanac is a systematic record that illustrates different aspects of Shanghai Municipality, concerning its geographical facts, the political, economical and cultural events as well as the social situation. This large-scale book, a literature of data, is the yearly book under the special series of state press and publication. Shanghai Almanac 2011 records and illustrates the overal conditions of Shanghai in 2010. By retaining a fundamental stability in the structure of the former edition, the 2011 English version has inserted the account of those events that newly appeared in 2010

The fifteen routes recommended in this guidebook contain the best of walking in the Himalayas, combining detailed illustrations with exceedingly useful advice on what equipment is needed, on when to set out, and on engaging guides, and when they are needed