London is both traditional and trend-setting — the home of ceremonious pomp and pageantry and the “anything goes” aura of Soho. You can hang around the Tower of London or seek out the happening spots. Dine on fish and chips, try modern British cuisine, or take advantage of great ethnic restaurants, including Indian, French, Chinese, and more. Take in the historical sites or explore diverse neighborhoods. This guide gives you the latest scoop on:
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This manual explains Dominic O’Brien’s system intended to help the reader remember
Card games offer loads of fun and one of the best socializing experiences out there. But picking up winning card strategies is a bit of a challenge, and though your buddies may think that picking up the rules of the game is easy, winning is a totally different story.
Hardback with dust jacket, first edition, 162 pages, blue boards. This is a collection of composed problems. Book is good to very good: wear to edges and corners, previous owner’s name on front end paper, which also has 1/2 by 1 inch section torn from top front corner. Contents and clean and tight; one page is dog-eared. Dust jacket is good only, now enhanced by plastic mylar, chips along top edge and corners, two inch closed tear at bottom of spine with flap.
You’re no idiot, of course. You know smoking is bad for you and channel surfing doesn’t constitute exercise. But when it comes to figuring out how to care for your heart, you feel like the Tin Man with a rusty ticker. Don’t reach for the oil can just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to a Happy, Healthy Heart gives you the information you need on your bodys’ most important muscle.
Turn on the TV, drop by a newsstand, or just browse the checkout your local supermarket and you’ll see firsthand that Texas Hold ‘Em is the poker game everyone’s playing. It’s a game that’s deceptively simple, yet within its easy framework you’ll find truth and trickery, boredom and fear, skill and misfortune—in other words, all the things that make life fun and worth living!
In the introduction to this do-it-yourself manual on the history, teachings, practices, and applications of Buddhism, author Gary Gach feints, “A few people may scoff that this is sacrilegious, or something.” Yes, reading about suchness (the “unrepeatable interpenetration of impermanences”) in the standardized format of a Complete Idiot’s Guide is ironic. But Buddhism, of all religions, embraces irony and paradox. Think of this book as a koan, as the sound of one hand clapping.
