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This mini pocket Dubai travel guidebook is perfect for travellers looking for essential information about Dubai. It provides details on key places and main attractions, along with a selection of itineraries, recommendations for restaurants and top tips on how to make the most of your trip. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility.In this Dubai guidebook, you will find:Curated recommendations of places – expert picks of main attractions, child-friendly activities and relaxing spots, plus where to take the best photosWhat's new, when to go and sustainable travel – all-new features direct you to what you need to knowThings not to miss in Dubai – Burj Al Arab, Sheikh Zayed Road, The Gold Souk, Al Fahidi, Dubai malls, abras (water taxis), desert safaris, Madinat Jumeirah, Downtown DubaiThree unique trip plans – itinerary suggestions for those on a short break, including one for a Perfect dayFood and drink – recommendations for local specialities and the best dining experiencesWhat to do in Dubai – recommendations for entertainment, shopping, sports, children’s activities, events and nightlifePractical information – how to get there and around, money, health and medical care, and tourist informationOverview maps – handy maps on the inside cover flaps show Dubai and aroundArabic section – basic vocabulary and phrases from the local languageStriking pictures – inspirational colour photography throughoutFree download of the eBook – available after purchase of the printed guidebookCoverage includes: Shindagha, Bur Dubai, Deira, Umm Hurair, Downtown Dubai, Jumeirah, Umm Suqeim, Palm Jumeirah and Dubai Marina Autorid: Rough Guides, Gavin Thomas

The works of French philosopher Alain Badiou range from novels, poems, 'romanopéras' and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arguments engaging with mathematical theory. Badiou suggests that 'philosophy is always a biography of the philosopher', and throughout all of his writing there is a staunch commitment to emancipatory politics and a radical yet faithful subjectivity. His famous, or infamous, philosophy of emancipation is firmly grounded in his fidelity to the universal idea of a collective life. Introducing Alain Badiou is an elegantly written and crisply illustrated guide to an essential contemporary thinker. Autorid: Michael J. Kelly, Piero Pierini

"Frank Lorenzo, or more formally, Francisco, is the son of Spanish immigrants who came to New York in the early 20th Century speaking no English and looking for a better life. The United States offered endless opportunities for them and, eventually, for Frank. Growing up in the shadows of New York's La Guardia Airport, Frank became enamored with airlines at a young age. With some help from his parents and working as a delivery truck driver and other jobs, he put himself through Columbia College and Harvard Business School. Then, after working office jobs at TWA and Eastern Airlines, he joined with a college classmate and began a career of entrepreneurialism that started with a two-person aviation advisory firm operating initially out of New York's Donnell Public Library and then, after completing a transaction, moving to a small office on the top floor of the Pan Am building. In a few years, Frank and his partner were able to purchase a small regional carrier, Texas International Airlines (TIA), that wasteetering on bankruptcy, which Lorenzo went in to run. TIA's debts had to be restructured, as did its revenue base and its competitive position. With Airline deregulation on the horizon in 1978, Frank and his team introduced drastically discounted fares as a government sanctioned experiment. Labeled "peanuts fares," the lower prices sharply stimulated traffic and brought major attention to the small airline. From this humble start, Frank and his team set sights on acquiring so-called "major" airlines to grow TIA into a survivable national carrier. Failing to acquire National Airlines (but reaping a healthy profit) and TWA, Texas International made a bid for Continental Airlines that ultimately was successful. Other acquisitions set TIA on the path to becoming the largest airline group in the free world. In 1990, at age 50, Frank decided to move on from the life of running airlines and founded Savoy Capital, Inc. to foster his investment and charitable interests"-- Lessons in business and life from the executive who helped shape the modern airline industry Frank Lorenzo is the epitome of the American dream. A first-generation American and entrepreneur, Lorenzo started an airline advisory business in his mid-twenties based on little more than bravado and ultimately rose to control the largest fleet of airplanes in the free world. Flying for Peanuts recounts how Lorenzo grew his empire from nothing and helped shape the airline industry as we know it.Flying for Peanuts explains how the son of Spanish immigrants put himself through Columbia College by driving a Coca-Cola truck and then grew the fledgling advisory into ownership of Texas International Airlines. At TIA, he fought through the industry’s transformation, in part by introducing the new, low-cost model for fares that are a major part of the industry today. From there, through a series of shrewd moves and a hostile takeover, Lorenzo became CEO of Continental Airlines, a large loss-making west coast airline at the time. This airline business memoir gives a play-by-play of the high-stakes negotiations that got Lorenzo there, including faceoffs with Carl Icahn and a chapter devoted to selling the Eastern Airlines Shuttle to Donald Trump, soon to become the doomed Trump Shuttle. It details Lorenzo’s competition with upstarts like Southwest Airlines and the clashes with unions that led Fortune’s to name him one of “America’s toughest bosses,” along with accolades from his employees. Along the way, Lorenzo highlights the strategies and tactics that propelled his growth.Flying for Peanuts is a compelling read for anyone interested in the American airline industry and anyone wanting to apply a trailblazing executive’s lessons for their own career success. Autorid: Frank Lorenzo

Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and flesh The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies-two subjects seldom theorized together-signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the question of the animal, challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Shukin argues that an analysis of capitals incarnations in animal figures and flesh is pivotal to extending the examination of biopower beyond its effects on humans. Rendering refers simultaneously to cultural technologies and economies of mimesis and to the carnal business of boiling down and recycling animal remains. Renderings accommodation of these discrepant logics, she contends, suggests a rubric for the critical task of tracking the biopolitical conditions and contradictions of animal capital across the spaces of culture and economy. From the animal capital of abattoirs and automobiles, films and mobile phones, to pandemic fear of species-leaping diseases such as avian influenza and mad cow, Shukin makes startling linkages between visceral and virtual currencies in animal life, illuminating entanglements of species, race, and labor in the conditions of capitalism. In reckoning with the violent histories and intensifying contradictions of animal rendering, Animal Capital raises provocative and pressing questions about the cultural politics of nature. Autorid: Nicole Shukin

Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna (1638-1665) was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese School. Not only a painter, she was also a printmaker and a teacher. Based on extensive archival documentation and primary sources including inventories, sale catalogues and her work diary Elisabetta Sirani provides an overview of the life, work, critical fortune and legacy of this successful Baroque artist. Placing her within the context of the post-Tridentine society that both inhibited and supported her, Modesti examines Sirani's influence on many of the artists studying at Bologna's school for professional women artists, as well as her significance in the professionalisation of womens artistic practice in the seventeenth century. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Elisabetta Sirani focuses on womens agency. More specifically, it explores Siranis identity as both a woman and an artist, including her professional ambition, self-fashioning and literary construction as Bolognas pre-eminent cultural heroine. Autorid: Adelina Modesti

Selge ja otsekohene teejuht jooksjatele, treeneritele ja terviseasjatundjatele, mis näitab, kuidas anatoomia mõistmine koos kõige uuemate tugevdavate harjutustega võib soodustada vigastusteta jooksmist. Iga kord, kui jooksja jalg maapinda puudutab, läbib tema keha kiirusega üle 320 km/h keskmiselt kolmekordse kehakaaluga võrdne löögijõud, mis paneb luud vibreerima ja kõõlused venima. Keskmine jooksja lööb vastu maapinda keskmiselt üle 10 000 korra tunnis, mille tulemusena avaldub kehale märkimisväärne jõud. Ometi ei pea see löögijõud olema nii ohtlik, kui esmapilgul tundub. Tom Michaud selgitab oma raamatus „Vigastusteta jooksmine“, kuidas anatoomia ja biomehaanika mõistmine koos kõige uuemate tugevdavate harjutuste ja taastusravi protokollidega võivad hoida jooksjaid vigastustest priina. Muutes pisut jooksutehnikat ja tehes spetsiifilisi kõõluste vastupidavust parandavaid harjutusi, võime õppida, kuidas energiat efektiivsemalt salvestada ja tagastada ning samal ajal kiiremini ja väiksema pingutusega joosta. Selles raamatus näitab autor, kuidas teha kodus sooritusvõime parandamiseks kõnnianalüüsi; tuvastada tugevuse, painduvuse ja/või neuromotoorse koordinatsiooniga seotud probleeme; kaasata uusi harjutusi, millega soodustada kõõlustes energia salvestamist ja tagastamist; ravida teaduslikult põhjendatud protokollide abil 25 kõige levinumat jooksmisega seotud vigastust; valida oma vajadustele kõige paremini vastav jooksuking. See üle 200 illustratsiooni ja 300 viitega raamat sobib ideaalselt harrastusjooksjatele, aga ka füsioterapeutidele, treeneritele, kiropraktikutele ja spordiarstidele. „Kahtlemata üks väga vajalik ja ülevaatlik juhis igale jooksuhuvilisele. Raamat annab rohkete jooniste abil suurepärase ülevaate jooksutehnikatest, riskidest ja vigastustest. Lisaks õpetab paljude uuringute ja näidete varal, kuidas joosta nii, et ei kaasneks vigastusi. Kohustuslik lugemine kõigile, kes soovivad olla teadlikumad sellest, kuidas meie keha füüsilise tegevuse ajal toimib.“ Gätly Valge, jooksuentusiast ja ettevõtte Jooksonlahe asutaja Autorid: Tom Michaud

Welcome to the home of Wallace and Gromit, and Blackbeard and Banksy. Bristol is where the worlds first solid chocolate bar was created (Ribena was also invented here) and you can still watch delicious chocolate creations made by modern day Willy Wonkas. The city has a hidden castle (you just need to know where to look) and secret vaults underneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge only rediscovered recently after being hidden for more than 100 years. Climb inside these vaults, or into the cockpit of the final Concorde to fly or ride your skateboard in what used to be a swimming pool. If water is your thing, you can surf guaranteed waves at an inland surfing lake or take a trip in a boat that used to fight fires. Science and art collide at We The Curious, which has the UKs only 3D planetarium. If you think you know Bristol, think again. Allow this book to be your guide to Bristols best bits for kids. Autorid: Martin Booth, Barbara Evripidou

Representation of geographical data using graphs, diagrams and mapping techniques is a key for geographers and for researchers in other disciplines to explore the nature of data, the pattern of spatial and temporal variations and their relationships, and formulation of principles to accurately understand and analyze features on or near the earth’s surface. These modes of representation also enable the development of spatial understanding and the capacity for technical and logical decision making. The book depicts all types of graphs, diagrams and maps, explained in detail with numerous examples. The emphasis is on their appropriate data structure, the relevance of selecting the correct technique, methods of their construction, advantages and disadvantages of their use, and applications of these techniques in analyzing and realizing the spatial pattern of various geographical features and phenomena. This book is unique in that it reflects a perfect correlation between theoretical knowledge of geographical events and phenomena and their realistic implications, with relevant examples using appropriate graphical methods. The book serves as a valuable resource for students, researchers, cartographers and decision makers to analyze and represent various geographical data for a better, systematic and scientific understanding of the real world. Autorid: Swapan Kumar Maity