Northern Spain, 5th (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan)
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  • 400 hand-picked lodgings, 300 recommended restaurants
  • Despite errors, still the most thorough
  • Northern Spain (Cardogan Guides)
Northern Spain, 5th (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan)
Dana Facaros , and Michael Pauls
Manufacturer: Cadogan Guides
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ASIN: 1860113125

Book Description

Forget the Costas and discover a different, greener Spain with Cadogan's thoroughly researched and entertaining guide to Northern Spain. Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls will take travelers on a memorable journey through the magnificent Pyrenees and the Basque lands of Navarra and Euskadi, and fascinate them with their insightful commentary on the prehistoric art of the Puento Viesgo Caves and Spain's finest Visigothic architecture in Castilla-León. For wine-lovers, there's a trip to La Rioja, whilst sun-worshippers will enjoy the lively summer resort of Santander. And if travelers fancy something a little energetic to work off all the food and wine, special sections provide expert guidance on canoeing, fishing, and diving in the rapids of the Asturias and around the Bay of Biscay, plus golfing in Gijón.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars 400 hand-picked lodgings, 300 recommended restaurants.......2003-10-10

The collaborative effort of Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, Northern Spain is a detailed, comprehensive, portable, and "user friendly" travel guide to medieval villages, churches, cathedrals, legends, coastline, art collections, museums and so much more to be found in beautiful northern reaches of Spain. Offering 400 hand-picked lodgings, 300 recommended restaurants, as well as numerous bars and cafes, thirty maps, Spanish language tips, solid travel advice, and more, Northern Spain is an excellent consultation resource for vacationers and business travelers alike. Also very highly recommended for travelers in Spain are the regionally specialized companion guidebooks by Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls: Andalucia and Bilbao & The Basque Lands.

2 out of 5 stars Despite errors, still the most thorough.......2000-11-07

Facaros and Pauls are erudite people, who unfortunately do not always understand the delicate balance between good depth of knowledge, and useless obscure references. Furthermore, they made a few mistakes, and a subtle anti-Catholocism was evident in their writing (i.e. by not mentioing that Covadonga is a pilgrammage destination where a virgin's apparition occurred, and that the Oviedo's cathedral hosts the suderio santo, the rag Jesus wore while on his way to the Crucifixion). We sometimes doubted that the authors had actually visited the places described within, or if so, they they did not understand the guides! While not the best for logistics, this guide does offer the best quantity of history per page.

3 out of 5 stars Northern Spain (Cardogan Guides).......2000-06-05

After much search for a book on Northern Spain. I believe this Cardogan guide to be one of the better ones. It does provide some essentials: overview and history of Spain's northern regions, culture, cuisine and travel highlights. Also good recommendations on where to stay and have a friendly drink with the locals.

A few drawbacks: lack of comprehensive maps of regions in relation to Spain as a country and more specific maps of towns that you may want to visit.

All in all this is the best guide I've found available to get you started and excited about your trip as well as help you focus your travels to a particular area in Northern Spain if time is a concern.
Footprint Andalucia, 5th Edition (Footprint Andalucia Handbook)
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    Footprint Andalucía, thoroughly revised and updated for this fifth edition, is the one-stop practical guide to this seductive region. Containing detailed coverage of Granada, Seville, and Córdoba, this guide features the best places to sleep and eat from paradores to paella stalls, activities including rock climbing and beach lounging, and the full range of festivals and special events — all set in the context of the region’s colorful history dating back to Roman times.
    Frommer's Spain's Best-Loved Driving Tours: 25 Unforgettable Itineraries (5th Ed)
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      Frommer's Driving Tours are packed with detailed, color-coded maps and stunning full-color photographs. Each guide outlines dozens of driving tour options and then helps you plan your route with exact directions, distances, and driving times. You'll see all the top sights and then have the flexibility to discover the hidden pleasures of each destination - our suggested routes include scenic detours and stops for spectacular views, easy walks, shopping, dining, and fun breaks for travelers with children. We'll show you how to enjoy some of the world's most spectacular drives!

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      Time Out Barcelona 5 (Time Out Barcelona, 5th ed)
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • A Trip Essential
      • There's simply no substitute for Time Out
      • This book made my Barcelona trip!
      • EXCELLENT!!
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      Time Out Barcelona 5 (Time Out Barcelona, 5th ed)
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      ASIN: 0141008369

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A Trip Essential.......2004-08-01

      The British Time Out guides are always a trip essential: Their expertise is how to spend your time when you are not in the museum or staring at the major landmark; the eating/drinking/shopping/arts/entertainment portion of your trip. Especially music and nightlife, dance clubs or bars, restaurants and shopping, or where to meet/watch people, what to enjoy, their information in invaluable. This 7th edition is updated from last year's and they really have taken the time to update it, adding or dropping places reviewed, updating the reviews on the places carried over. They didn't just copy and paste a bunch of last year's material, they really work hard to make it good. Plus, this edition is currently $4.00 less than last years! The descriptions of the main attractions and the side/day trips are very good. Although not as pretty and picture heavy as other guide books, if you could only take one guide book for a stay of more than 3 or 4 days, this would be the best choice. Maps in the back are very useable, altogether a really great book.

      5 out of 5 stars There's simply no substitute for Time Out.......2003-10-19

      The Barcelona city information is thoroughly updated every year; the restaurant picks are naughty, opinionated and don't sound like a PR pitch; the writers are not afraid to point out any pitfalls or negative aspects of any particular experience; the various maps are clear; the guided city walks take all the effort out of exploring the city and the style in general is witty, erudite and a pleasure to read. What more can I say? Time Out Barcelona has no equal.

      5 out of 5 stars This book made my Barcelona trip!.......2003-09-25

      We just returned from 4 days in Barcelona and this book was the bomb! I bougght four books on Spain because I couldn't decide,and the Time Out guide was by far the most useful and informative, and comprehensive book. It was indispensible. In fact, when we were in other cities in Spainwe were wishing that Time Out had also made guides for those cities too. All the restaurants we ate at were amazing, and for the most part the info was accurate. The book has lots of color pictures and gives details on how to get where you are going. Oh yeah, the BEST, most USEFUL thing was that they had a bunch of different maps in the back of the book, and on any particular entry (say, a restaurant), they would give the page and the coordinates of where that restaurant could be found on the map, as well as the closest metro stop. It was great! Highly recommend this book and will be sure to buy other Time Out guides next time we travel.

      5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!!.......2003-09-16

      I just got back from Spain, and this guide was amazing. I highly recommend you check out their picks for top restaurants, I think they were very well chosen.

      The maps were excellent, and very helpful. This is the guide to take to Barcelona!

      5 out of 5 stars Great guide.......2002-10-21

      Detailed, great maps, good information...5 stars

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      Civilizacion y cultura de España (5th Edition)
      Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
      • An excellent overview of Spanish culture, art and history
      • Convoluted and confusing
      • confusing
      • The best book available to learn all about Spain!!!!!
      Civilizacion y cultura de España (5th Edition)
      Vicente M. Cantarino
      Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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      ASIN: 0131946382

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      This interpretative history of Spain — in Spanish — presents not only the basic political, social, economic, religious and cultural data that constitute the structure of Spanish history, but also singles out and explains those elements that have been decisive in forging the cultural history of Spain. Reflects new developments and trends in the cultural life of Spain during the last few years. Offers a comparative approach — showing the horizontal line connecting Spanish events with those of other nations of the European community with which Spain was in close contact. Extensive coverage of the visual arts and the music of Spain — including more popular forms of music and dance.

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      4 out of 5 stars An excellent overview of Spanish culture, art and history.......2003-01-30

      I used Cantarino's "Civilización y cultura de España" for some of my classes in Burgos, Spain, and found it to be an excellent supplement to the material that we were studying in class (from prehistory and Atapuerca to post-Franco democratic Spain). Each chapter covers a specific period in Spanish history, along with notes on art, architecture, music, literature for each time period. I found the level of Spanish to be very easy, although it might prove a bit challenging to second or third year Spanish students. The look of the book is a bit outdated (colour photos would have been nice for the art photos!), and the "history" ends at 1996 or so. Overall, a worthy investment, complete with maps, a timeline, a glossary, and plenty of useful, compact information about the most important events and people in Spain throughout the ages.

      2 out of 5 stars Convoluted and confusing.......2001-07-06

      I bought this book because it was required reading for a class. The text is written in such a way as to be unclear and and very unweildy for third year Spanish students. The vocabulary was very advanced and I found it more helpful to read about the history of Spain on the internet or in the encyclopedia for an overview before thinking about attempting this book. This is not a book that I would strongly recommend to an intermediate student.

      1 out of 5 stars confusing.......1999-02-07

      I have been reading this book and think the format is awful. He skips around time periods and has details of one thing and then nothing on another. There is no visual aid for where the people came from and occupied Spain. There also is no outline or good intro for the book.

      5 out of 5 stars The best book available to learn all about Spain!!!!!.......1998-04-13

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      Portugal, 5th (Cadogan Guides)
      Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
      • If you are not renting a car....
      Portugal, 5th (Cadogan Guides)
      David J.J Evans
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      ASIN: 1860111262

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      From the beaches of the Algarve to the cosmopolitan city of Oporto, Cadogan will entice, inspire, and excite the senses with shrewd analysis and evocative description of this varied landscape.

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      1 out of 5 stars If you are not renting a car...........2004-11-04

      Travelling through Portugal trying to use this book led to a ridiculous series of misadventures. We had thought about renting a car beforehand, but ended up visiting Coimbra and Lisbon only - making this book completely useless.

      The guide's profile of each of these cities (two of the three biggest) was abysmal. The maps had no scale or even north/south orientation, and included only a small section of each city. Also, the location of each place to stay and every other sight was given in address only, rather than as reference points on a map (Such as they do in Lonely Planet). Several of the addresses were not even on the maps provided by the guide, and some were on streets that were too small for the guide to print the street name.

      Basically our strategy became to get to the city and go straight to the tourist office. The only time the guide was remotely helpful was in listing a laundry facility located in Lisbon - but again, we had to rely on a tourist office map to find it. This guide was endlessly frustrating, and we constantly had to rely on the help of other travellers/citizens, the ever-useful tourist offices, and our ability to wander endlessly, to find anything and everything from internet cafes to hostels to clubs to good dining spots to fado.

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      Advances in Fluid Mechanics V (Advances in Fluid Mechanics)
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        Advances in Fluid Mechanics V (Advances in Fluid Mechanics)
        A. C. Mendes , M. Rahman , and Portugal) International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics (5th : 2004 : Lisbon
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        In this book highly regarded scientists, engineers and other professionals from around the world present their latest research in various aspects of fluid mechanics.

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        Andalucia, 5th (Cadogan Guides)
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          Dana Facaros , and Michael Pauls
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          Applications of Computational Mechanics in Geotechnical  Engineering V + CD Rom: Proceeding of the 5th International Worskshop. held in Guimaraes, Portugal 1-4 April 2007
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            Applications of Computational Mechanics in Geotechnical Engineering V + CD Rom: Proceeding of the 5th International Worskshop. held in Guimaraes, Portugal 1-4 April 2007

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            Artificial Immune Systems: 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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              This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2006, held in Oeiras, Portugal in September 2006.

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              Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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              • A story whose time has come to be told AND don't be put off by the book's cover!
              • An important story about a little-known subject
              Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns
              Kenneth Briggs
              Manufacturer: Doubleday
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              ASIN: 0385516363
              Release Date: 2006-06-20

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              This groundbreaking exposé of the mistreatment of nuns by the Catholic Church reveals a history of unfulfilled promises, misuse of clerical power, and a devastating failure to recognize the singular contributions of these religious women.

              The Roman Catholic Church in America has lost nearly 100,000 religious sisters in the last forty years, a much greater loss than the priesthood. While the explanation is partly cultural—contemporary women have more choices in work and life—Kenneth Briggs contends that the rapid disappearance of convents can be traced directly to the Church’s betrayal of the promises of reform made by the Second Vatican Council.

              In Double Crossed, Briggs documents the pattern of marginalization and exploitation that has reduced nuns to second-, even third-class citizens within the Catholic Church. America’s religious sisters were remarkable, adventurous women. They educated children, managed health care of the sick, and reached out to the poor and homeless. They went to universities and into executive chairs. Their efforts and successes, however, brought little appreciation from the Church, which demeaned their roles, deprived them of power, and placed them under the absolute authority of the all-male clergy.

              Replete with quotations from nuns and former nuns, Double Crossed uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the Catholic Church. Their voices and Briggs’s research provide compelling insights into why the number of religious sisters has declined so precipitously in recent decades—and why, unless reforms are introduced, nuns may vanish forever in America.

              Customer Reviews:

              3 out of 5 stars Been There...Seen That.......2007-04-01

              The book is well written, factual, true! It is of great interest for anyone involved in the Catholic Church and the book holds a few surprises for the ordinary Catholic regarding the "nuns"

              4 out of 5 stars Title Change.......2007-03-24

              I enjoyed this book and found it has useful insights to the changes that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. I think it could easily be titled as "Double Crossed: Uncovering Amercian Nuns' Betrayal of the Catholic Church".

              1 out of 5 stars Good Title; Poor book........2007-02-02

              I read the book, all 258 pages. His idea for the book is good, but not backed up by any research he did for this book. Much of the writing seems to be stuff he wrote over the years for newspapers. His agenda is clearly evident by his lack of any knowledge of the Catholic church. Basically, his axe he grinds is true blue extreme liberal left, i.e. lack of abortion rights, women should be priests, women should be free, condoms will save the children, and etc.

              5 out of 5 stars A story whose time has come to be told AND don't be put off by the book's cover!.......2007-01-05

              Being a woman religious and having lived through a good part of the research Mr. Briggs has done, I found what he had to say quite accurate. I found him redundant at times, but his findings are, sadly, true. He has done a very good job researching and telling facts that have needed to be told. I applaud him and I recommend this book to all who want to know about America nuns' experience these passed 40 plus years.
              PS Don't let the cover put you off!

              5 out of 5 stars An important story about a little-known subject.......2006-12-03

              I did personally feel that this book felt a bit academic at times, as opposed to giving us this fascinating information mainly through longer personal stories and remembrances, but writing style aside, it really gets the subject across. The fact that Mr. Briggs put 8 years into this book really shows, not only in the compelling material and telling personal stories, but also in his knowledge of Catholic history and theology in spite of not being Catholic himself. This book was interesting to me as a feminist, as one interested in Catholic history and nuns, and someone who, several times, thought semi-seriously about becoming a nun when younger (the religion I ended up choosing was not Catholicism, so the sisterhood was obviously ruled out for me).

              The history of nuns in America is a very long and fascinating one, and the numbers of American sisters steadily grew over time, till their ranks were swelling in the decades just before Vatican II. Even though some sisters might not have considered themselves such (for various reasons that Mr. Briggs explains throughout the book), nuns really were the original feminists. They were liberated women ages before the ordinary secular American women were. They might not have been liberated from things like hierarchical control and institutionalised sexism in the Church, but they were liberated insofar as they were out there working, going to college, getting advanced degrees, being administrators of hospitals, schools, and social welfare agencies, having their own identities instead of being identified through a husband, and being childfree, in an age where pregnancy could be a death sentence for women, particularly before birth control was legal and widely available; nuns could always work and control their own lives because they had no husbands and children. Historically, unmarried women, nuns or not, have always had more power and freedom than married women; only in the past few decades has that begun to change.

              Topics covered in the book include the habit, unforeseen consequences of Vatican II's call for renewal and re-examination of religious life and the histories of these orders, the horrible poverty many aging nuns have found themselves in, the mass exodus of nuns in the years after Vatican II, nuns and feminism, the backlash against progressive nuns (and feminism in general), groups working for female ordination, and nuns getting advanced degrees. Since no two orders and no two nuns are alike, there are a plethora of viewpoints on these issues. For example, some orders never really had a habit, and there were some orders in the 19th century whose founders got away with never wearing a habit. Many different nuns offer differing viewpoints on the future of the sisterhood in the face of their dwindling ranks and the continued interference from bishops. As Mr. Briggs shows, there's no one clear and simple answer to the question of why there are relatively few nuns under the age of 50 today, and what might be done to attract more young women to the sisterhood. Yes, there are certain areas and orders that do have many fresh-faced younger sisters instead of geriatric retired women, but when looking at the numbers, there's no denying that the vast majority of American sisters are over the age of 50. The amount of young women entering has slowed to a trickle in comparison to the huge amounts of women in their late teens and early twenties who entered in the Forties, Fifties, and early Sixties. A big part of this certainly is because today women are allowed secular opportunities for freedom and liberation, and don't have to be nuns to improve their chances of getting advanced degrees, being administrators, and entering the workforce. Another big part is how at every turn, the Church hierarchy "double-crossed" these women who had given so much for so many years, being unpaid servants and the backbone of the Church, really taken for granted because they weren't ordained and because they were women. Many bishops, archbishops, and cardinals were afraid of these newly-assertive nuns championing progressive causes, questioning the order of things, rethinking their position in the Church hierarchy, pushing for more rights and representation, and openly embracing feminism. A lot of their critics blanketly tossed around the term "radical feminism" when in actual fact most of these nuns were not affiliated with that particular branch of feminism. I guess it really is true that to many people, basic feminist principles and the notion that women are people really are radical. Many women who might have considered the sisterhood were thus dissuaded by seeing how all of these efforts for reform and basic rights were viewed by the higher-ups, attempting to block them and paint them as unreasoning radicals at every turn. Amazingly enough, many of these bishops, archbishops, and cardinals also blamed these women for things like their dwindling numbers and the fact that they were living in poverty in old age and having to beg for salaries. If only they hadn't rebelled against Mother Church, hadn't dropped their habits, hadn't pushed for more rights, everything would still be swell for them.

              This is a very important work on a chapter in American history (and Catholic history) that deserves to be better-known, although it's just the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully it will inspire the reader to go and seek out more books on the subject of contemporary nuns and the social and political forces shaping the sisterhood in the past few decades. My only problem with the book, apart from the at-times somewhat academic style (as opposed to a more personal and casual tone to convey the same information) was that there weren't any pictures. It would have been nice to have matched these names to faces.
              DOUBLE CROSSED (Sweet Valley High)
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              DOUBLE CROSSED (Sweet Valley High)
              Francine Pascal
              Manufacturer: Sweet Valley
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              Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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              Release Date: 1994-09-01

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              4 out of 5 stars What secret is Jeremy hiding?.......2006-05-25

              Jessica's plan to break-up Jeremy and Sue worked perfectly, or so it seems.
              Right after Jeremy leaves Sue at the altar and runs off with Jessica, he asks her to marry him, and promply leaves Jessica alone for two months while he goes on a business trip to South America. As the days pass, Elizabeth, Jessica's sister begins to think that Jeremy and Sue aren't as honest as they seem. Sue has already confessed to Elizabeth that she lied about her having a rare blood disease and it seems that Jeremy is lying to Jessica as well. Is Jeremy really in South America? He never seems to answer the phone when Jessica calls? And his excuses are getting stranger and stranger.
              Finally, after two months apart, Jeremy returns to Sweet Valley and decides to reunite with Jessica at a party on the lake. But when Jessica finds Jeremy in a passionate kiss with Sue in the woods, she rushes out of the party in tears.
              Later on that night, Jeremy appears at Jessica's door with some bad news, it seems that Sue has strangely vanished after Jessica saw her and Jeremy kissing. To Elizabeth it all sounds fishy, but to Jessica it seems that Jeremy is telling the truth.
              Just what is Jeremy hiding? Did he really run off to South America, or did he stay in Sweet Valley the whole time? Are Sue and Jeremy back together?
              Those are just some of the unanswered questions that the book ends with.

              5 out of 5 stars Jeremy/Jessica/Sue.......2005-05-09

              Jessica becomes engaged to Jeremy,when Jeremy is still engaged to Sue. He takes her to expensive restaurants,I don't know how he pays for it. Winston becomes bald,or something happens to his hair,but something about Roberto's,the Barber's. Todd grows a mustache,Elizabeth doesn't like it. Mr. and Mrs.Wakefield don't like that Jessica is engaged to Jeremy,so they plan to enroll Jessica in a girls' military school. Sue tries to commit suicide,and Elizabeth and others are in the Go Math program. Todd and Elizabeth break up,but get back together at the Halloween Party at Project Nature. Jeremy says that Sue's "Disappeared" after the twins have gone home.

              4 out of 5 stars suprising.......1998-01-01

              Confusing I can't wait to read the next one
              Double-Crossed in Gator Country (Eric Sterling, Secret Agent, Book 2)
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              5 out of 5 stars great book.......2000-05-06

              wonderful book i loved it.it was exciting. It has good christian morals for kids. It is an excellent book and a must buy.
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