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Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern-day center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's most beautiful and historic cities.

With over 500 beautiful photographs, Cool Hotels showcases the best hotels in India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Asia is now at the forefront of the international spa movement with the creation of many of the world's finest luxury spasmost of which base their treatments on traditional Asian therapies and formulas.

This Japanese design and interior decorating book focuses on the traditional country homes of rural JapanFrom Japanese antiques to home and garden design, Japan Country Living is a delightful introduction for art and furniture lovers.

With hundreds of photographs, this spa guidebook presents the best quality spas in Australiafrom Queensland's palm-fringed coast to Tasmania's wild mountain wilderness.

This is an up-to-date guide to Buddhist centers, facilities, teachers, retreats and courses throughout the United States and Canada.

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Cook delicious and authentic Japanese meals in the comfort of your own home with this easy-to-use homestyle Japanese cookbook!

The cities of Kyoto and Nara are known throughout the world for their extraordinary beauty.

It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!

For every fan of kung fu, steamed dumplings, Confucius and giant skyscrapers, A Geek in China is a hip, smart and concise guide to the Middle Kingdom.

Well-travelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the world is found in the warm waters of tropical Asia.

This is a concise and user-friendly book for learning polite spoken Japanese or written Japanese.

A handy Chinese phrasebook and guide to the Chinese language, Survival Chinese contains basic vocabulary necessary for getting around.

Island of Bali is now available with a foreword by Professor Adrian Vickers which puts the book into context for a modern audience.

More Making Out in Japanese is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to the Japanese language as it's really spoken.

Making Out in Chinese is your indispensable guide to contemporary Chinese as it's really spoken on the streets of Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei or Singapore.

Much more than a Japanese phrasebook, this entertaining guide to Japanese slang is full of interesting and hilarious anecdotes and advice.

This is a concise and userfriendly introduction to the Japanese language.

This is a concise and userfriendly introduction to the Indonesian languageThis concise book aims to introduce the reader to the Indonesian language not by creating a course, with grammar and exercises, but by describing it from various points of view, such as telling what it is related to and how it has developed, and on this basis saying where some of its words originate, as a means of familiarization with some common examples.

The Complete Japanese Expression Guide enables students to speak and understand idiomatic Japanese with the ease and fluency of a native speaker.

This collection of Zen essays by the author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones offers an enlightening perspective on a variety of topics.

This classic phrasebook is an important historical curiosity as well as a practical guide to the Hawaiian language.

This classic text of Japanese culture contains a wealth of information about traditional Japan and Japanese customs.

Learn about the many kids of tropical seashells with this useful and portable reference book.

Bargain shopping in Japan can be a challenge, but this book succinctly explains all the ins and outs to making the most of your Japanese shopping experience.

The Tokyo New City Guide goes far beyond the well-worn tourist itineraries and deep into the complex, highly contrasted heart of one of the world's largest and most exciting cities.

Tokyo Night City will take you on a trek through the previously unmapped maze of Tokyo's myriad bars, clubs, and dives.

This Tokyo guidebook provides an intimate and detailed look at Japan's dynamic capital.

Increase your fluency of English through the mastery of common English idioms and expressions.

Dining in Japan is both an art and an adventure an experience that is made memorable by the variety of unique dishes, their gourmet quality, and the style in which they are served!

"e;This portrait of Japanese country life reminds us that at its core, a happy and healthy life is based on the bonds of food, family, tradition, community, and the richness of nature"e; John Einarsen, Founding Editor and Art Director of Kyoto JournalWhat would it be like to move to Japan, leaving everyone you know behind, to become part of a traditional Japanese household?

With over 500 beautiful photographs, Cool Hotels showcases the best hotels in India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Europe.

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania.

Making Out in Spanish is a fun, accessible and thorough Spanish phrase book and guide to the Spanish language as it's really spoken.

Making Out in Spanish is a fun, accessible and thorough Spanish phrase book and guide to the Spanish language as it's really spoken.

When chef Matt Rapposelli left the National Park Service to attend culinary school in New England, he was moving from one passion to another.

Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history.

Spaces Between the Nile and the True North traces Mohsen Rifaat's journey from British-occupied and revolutionary Egypt to a new life in Canada.

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Central Europe.

Ian Adams is perhaps the best-known landscape photographer in Ohio, and in the first volume of A Photographer's Guide to Ohio, he shared his knowledge of what to photograph in the Buckeye State and how to photograph it.

The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands.

Jim Dean, longtime editor of Wildlife in North Carolina, offers his personal observations on the pleasures and frustrations of hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor pursuits.

Read your way across North Carolinas Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the states rich literary history to life for travelers and residents.

In Monsoon Postcards, journalist David H.

The Bali Travel Map from Periplus is designed as a convenient, easy-to-use tool for travelers.

Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and Georgia.

Discover twice the city in half the time as Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to Krakow.

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to the Netherlands.