В данной книге попытку составить рейтинг ста великих евреев всех времен предпринял Майкл Шапиро - Hью-йоркский публицист и композитор. Легкий, порой ироничный стиль, доступное изложение достаточно сложных и запутанных проблем являются несомненными достоинствами этой книги. Конечно, не все читатели смогут согласиться с тезисом об определяющем влиянии иудаизма на морально-этические нормы человечества, на становление всех ведущих мировых религий. Однако автору удалось нарисовать на страницах книги живые портреты самых выдающихся евреев от Авраама и Моисея до Фрейда и Эйнштейна.

В книге 1000 псевдонимов собрана коллекция псевдонимов известных людей, по какой-то причине взявших себе вымышленное имя. Это писатели, актеры, композиторы, музыканты, ученые… Приводятся интересные биографические данные.

По Парижу приятно гулять, бесцельно бродить, кружить по узким улочкам, отдыхать в маленьких кафе и в парках у фонтанов. Здесь есть все для любителей архитектуры, ценителей живописи, театралов, меломанов, гурманов, поклонников всевозможных развлечений. Париж притягивает, удивляет, очаровывает, постепенно приоткрывая тайны любознательному гостю, который теряется от сложности выбора: что же увидеть прямо сейчас, а что отложить на потом. Мои 112 страниц про Париж, надеюсь, помогут сделать этот выбор. Предложенные 7 прогулок по городу включают в себя не только известные всему миру достопримечательности, но и множество других, которые часто остаются за пределами стандартных туристических маршрутов.

Julie Duchaine would like to thank her editor, Jennifer Reilly, for her clear, helpful directions and good cheer. It helped a great deal in writing these reviews. Holly Hughes thanks her family for crossing every bridge and hopping on every ferry with her. She’s grateful to all the other Frommer’s writers who shared their own favorite islands—what a great worldwide team you are! And she sends a million thanks to her editor, Jennifer Reilly, for steering this complicated yacht safely into harbor. Alexis Lipsitz Flippin says she could not have completed this fascinating and challenging assignment were it not for the unerring good sense, unflagging support, utter graciousness, and reassuring serenity of her editor, Jennifer Reilly. She is a dream to work for. Thanks, too, to her husband, Royce, for his unflagging support. Sylvie Murphy would like to thank all her island-junkie friends and family for their extraordinarily helpful tips and insights.

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With over three million copies in print, CultureShock! is a bestselling series of culture and etiquette guides covering countless destinations around the world. For anyone at risk of culture shock, whether a tourist or a long-term resident, CultureShock! provides a sympathetic and fun-filled crash course on the do's and don'ts in foreign cultures. Fully updated and sporting a fresh new look, the revised editions of these books enlighten and inform through such topics as language, food and entertaining, social customs, festivals, relationships, and business tips. CultureShock! books are packed with useful details on transportation, taxes, finances, accommodation, health, food and drink, clothes, shopping, festivals, and much, much more.

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In a region of violent physical and cultural contrasts, Costa Rica is often easy to overlook. Among the six small countries of Central America, it tends not to make the news very often. Costa Rica is not the Central American country with the famous U.S.-built canal and the corrupt military dictator overthrown by U.S. armed forces in 1991. It is not the one ruled by Marxists for most of the 1980s and with whom the U.S. waged a small proxy war. It is not the one that suffered through nearly 35 years of a civil war that has only recently ended. The natural disasters associated with Central America–hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions–also seem to happen elsewhere in the region, just across the border in Nicaragua or to the south in Panama. In 2000, Hurricane Mitch, for example, killed thousands of people in Central America and devastated much of the banana industry in Guatemala,Honduras, and Nicaragua, but it spared Costa Rica. Is Costa Rica lucky? In part, this may be the case. Major tropical storms and hurricanes in the Caribbean Basin usually strike just to the north of Costa Rica. The country’s history certainly reveals some lucky decision-making. For instance, the first Spanish colonists avoided settlement close to the country’s active volcanoes; this was not the case in other parts of the region. It is also true that Costa Rica has worked to avoid the mistakes made by its neighbors. While international attention has focused on the plight and misery of its neighbors,Costa Rica has quietly worked to develop democratic institutions and a sense of national identity that makes it exceptional, not just in the context of Central America but throughout the world. As the civil wars and political problems of the region seem to be coming to an end in the twenty-first century (due in part to efforts that began in Costa Rica), the country is emerging from the shadow of its violent neighbors. The world is finally recognizing Costa Rica as a natural wonderland and as a political model for stability and peace.