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  How To Travel Europe Cheap

  HowExpert, Willoughby Ann Walshe

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  If you want to know how to travel to Europe cheap, then get "How To Travel Europe Cheap" by someone with real life experience who has traveled to Europe on a budget. 
  In this step by step guide you will be able to reap the following benefits: 
  - Learn how to plan your trip. From the layout ground rules, personal preferences,abilities and purpose of your trip. 
  - How to pick an off season time of the year. 
  - Check on budget bargains by countries and regions. 
  - How to evaluate alternatives to vacation. 
  - How to prepare your trip. 
  - How to commence the trip. 
  - And much more. 
  About the Expert 
  Willoughby Ann Walshe has amassed decades of experience traveling, living, and working in Europe. As a tourist she has criss-crossed the continent, learning to know the most different aspects of travel. She has lived in various locations, gaining inside insight into the people and their special cultures. In Germany, she worked 25 years as editor of the Made in Germany magazine, informing millions of readers in 180 countries worldwide six times a year in English about high technology, products, and services exported by German manufacturers. Her numerous translations of news articles and books from German into English make technical, cultural, and philosophical material understandable to a wide audience. 
  As author of this How to Travel Europe on a Budget: Off the Beaten Track guide, she summarizes her broad knowledge and experiences in travel for readers who want to visit countries on the continent, but have low-budget limitations for a vacation. She convinces readers they can plan itineraries that take advantage of the many free and very low-cost means of getting to meet the people, see the sights, enjoy the cuisines, and sample the beverages. She points out how along the way they can have such adventurous times they will come back home... 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z.

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  Ghost Towns of the Southwest -...

  Jim Hinckley

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  A traveler’s guide to ghost towns and historic villages of Arizona and New Mexico, featuring maps, historical background, and color photos. 
   
  The Southwest is home to an enticing array of ghost towns and historic villages. Once-bustling mining camps, frontier towns, and railroad towns stand today as reminders of the glory days of mining and the Wild West. Historic buildings, abandoned schoolhouses, old mills, and overgrown cemeteries offer fascinating glimpses into the past. 
   
  Ghost Towns of the Southwest guides you to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns of Arizona and New Mexico. Popular tourist destinations as well as out-of-the-way spots unfamiliar even to natives of the region are included. Many ghost towns are within a short drive of the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Big Bend, Phoenix, Albuquerque, and other tourist attractions. Maps, historical background, and stunning color photographs bring to life dozens of ghost towns and provide practical information for exploring this fascinating chapter of American history.

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  Fluent in Spanish The Best Tips...

  Maria Fernandez

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  How do you learn Spanish fast? My students often ask me that question. That’s why I wrote this short step-by-step guide. 
  Here I show you how to go from beginner to fluent amazingly fast. What I show you does not involve expensive courses, moving to Spain, spending hours a day studying, or doing tedious memorising. 
  Instead, I walk you step by step through how to develop your listening skills fast, how to start speaking today, how to remember words forever, and how to master the pronunciation easily. 
  In just a few pages, I show you how to make the most of your limited time, and the time-wasting things to avoid. I also show you how to love your Spanish lessons, boost your motivation, and create an enjoyable daily learning habit. 
  The tips in this short guide helped me become fluent in English, the language I now use in my career and daily life. 
  Would you like to become fluent in Spanish fast? Get this guide now! 
  About the author: I’m Maria Fernandez. I’ve been teaching Spanish, my mother tongue, for over twenty years. I’ve also taught myself several languages, including English. I wrote this short guide because I believe you can become fluent in Spanish fast, regardless of your age and background. My students have proved that to me over and over.

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  Brooklyn By Name - How the...

  Leonard Benardo, Jennifer Weiß

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  How the places in Brooklyn got their names--complete with vivid photographs and maps From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. Uncovering the remarkable stories behind the landmarks, Brooklyn By Name takes readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough’s textured past.Listing more than 500 of Brooklyn’s most prominent place names, organized alphabetically by region, and richly illustrated with photographs and current maps the book captures the diverse threads of American history. We learn about the Canarsie Indians, the region's first settlers, whose language survives in daily traffic reports about the Gowanus Expressway. The arrival of the Dutch West India Company in 1620 brought the first wave of European names, from Boswijck (“town in the woods,” later Bushwick) to Bedford-Stuyvesant, after the controversial administrator of the Dutch colony, to numerous places named after prominent Dutch families like the Bergens.The English takeover of the area in 1664 led to the Anglicization of Dutch names, (vlackebos, meaning “wooded plain,” became Flatbush) and the introduction of distinctively English names (Kensington, Brighton Beach). A century later the American Revolution swept away most Tory monikers, replacing them with signers of the Declaration of Independence and international figures who supported the revolution such as Lafayette (France), De Kalb (Germany), and Kosciuszko (Poland). We learn too of the dark corners of Brooklyn“s past, encountering over 70 streets named for prominent slaveholders like Lefferts and Lott but none for its most famous abolitionist, Walt Whitman.From the earliest settlements to recent commemorations such as Malcolm X Boulevard, Brooklyn By Name tells the tales of the poets, philosophers, baseball heroes, diplomats, warriors, and saints who have left their imprint on this polyethnic borough that was once almost disastrously renamed “New York East.”Ideal for all Brooklynites, newcomers, and visitors, this book includes:*Over 500 entries explaining the colorful history of Brooklyn's most prominent place names *Over 100 vivid photographs of Brooklyn past and present*9 easy to follow and up-to-date maps of the neighborhoods *Informative sidebars covering topics like Ebbets Field, Lindsay Triangle, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge*Covers all neighborhoods, easily find the street you're on

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  Hamptons The - The Delaplaine...

  Andrew Delaplaine

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  A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in The Hamptons where the uber-rich sand uber-famous gather every summer. Updated throughout the year, you'll save a lot of time using this concise guide. 
  “This book showed me you don’t have to be Steven Spielberg or the Clintons to have a good time in the Hamptons.” ---Gertrude H., Milwaukee 
  “We had a wonderful time in August—though the traffic was awful—once we got out toward Amagansett things were great.” ---Ramona E., Phoenix 
  =LODGINGS, from budget to deluxe 
  = RESTAURANTS, from the finest the area has to offer ranging down to the cheapest (with the highest quality). More than sufficient listings to make your Long Weekend memorable. 
  =PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you. 
  = SHOPPING – a few interesting alternatives.

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  Germania

  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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  The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, literally The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire. Germania fits squarely within the tradition established by authors from Herodotus to Julius Caesar. Tacitus himself had already written a similar essay on the lands and tribes of Britannia in his Agricola. The Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people; it then segues into descriptions of individual tribes, beginning with those dwelling closest to Roman lands and ending on the uttermost shores of the Baltic, among the amber-gathering Aesti, the primitive and savage Fenni, and the unknown tribes beyond them. 
  Tacitus’ descriptions of the Germanic character are at times favorable in contrast to the opinions of the Romans of his day. He holds the strict monogamy and chastity of Germanic marriage customs worthy of the highest praise, in contrast to what he saw as the vice and immorality rampant in Roman society of his day, and he admires their open hospitality, their simplicity, and their bravery in battle. One should not, however, think that Tacitus’ portrayal of Germanic customs is entirely favorable; he notes a tendency in the Germanic people for what he saw as their habitual drunkenness, laziness, and barbarism, among other traits. Tacitus says that physically, the Germans appeared to be a distinct race, not an admixture of their neighbors. In Chapter 4, he mentions that they have common characteristics of blue eyes, blond or reddish hair and large size. 
  In Chapter 7, Tacitus describes their government and leadership as somewhat merit-based and egalitarian, with leadership by example rather than authority and that punishments are carried out by the priests. He mentions that the opinions of women are given respect. In Chapter 9, Tacitus describes a form of folk assembly rather similar to the public Things recorded in later Germanic sources: in these public deliberations, the final decision rests with the men of the tribe as a whole. 
  Tacitus further discusses the role of women in Chapters 7 and 8, mentioning that they often accompany the men to battle and offer encouragement. He says that the men are often motivated to fight for the women because of an extreme fear of their being taken captive. Tacitus says that the Germans are mainly content with one wife, except for a few political marriages, and specifically and explicitly compares this practice favorably to other barbarian cultures, perhaps since monogamy was a shared value between Roman and Germanic cultures. He also records that adultery is very rare, and that an adulterous woman is shunned afterward by the community regardless of her beauty. 
  This translation by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, was first published in 1877. (Summary from Wikipedia.)

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