Good Ski Guide ... Good Party Guide! For a lot of people its not just about good snow and great skiing though you get that here, of course. Its also a holiday opportunity and other factors ought to be considered. So we have compiled a second Index for the Top 50 Resorts in which we reveal our Top 5s for Value, Charm and Extreme Skiing. Turn to page 7 for the full list of our Top 5s. This is the most socially aware Ski Guide you can buy. It recognises that different people want different thin...

Melody Foster has a PhD in marine biology and a master's in genetics, specializing in octopuses all over the world. When COVID stops all funding for her Octolab, she takes a consulting job in the Cook Islands for a deep-sea mining operation, looking for metallic nodules that litter the Pacific floor and contain the rare minerals needed for the electric vehicle industry. Issues with surprisingly intelligent guerrilla octopuses are monstrously hindering the operation, so billionaire Chinese ...

An essential resource for nurses and paramedics navigating the intricate world of police custody, providing a solid guide for both the novices and the veterans in the fieldAcross the UK there are on average over 750,000 episodes of police detentions annually, the equivalent of over 2,000 a day. Each one is entitled to healthcare comparable to the wider community. It is estimated on average 54% of these detained individuals are referred to a healthcare professional ...

Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide. The TB Sanitorium hospital housed those with tuberculosis, offering refuge f...

Travel guides are perfect for ebook readers because they're light and portable. Charming Small Hotel Guides are the only accommodation guides that combine these five essential qualities: places with character and charm, from budget to luxury; highly selective - every place worth a journey; fussy about size - smaller places with a personal welcome are favoured; two colour photos for every entry and a thoughtful description - no gushing prose; above all, they're independent - no one pays to ...

This is Switzerland's second largest city (behind Zürich), with 178,900 residents, and is heavily influenced by its French neighbors to the west and south. Here you'll find the quintessence or haute école of everything Switzerland stands for in the new century: beauty, wealth, education, international relations and culture, not to mention romantic scenery at its finest. One aspect of Geneva that is hard to miss is the Genevois' love of food. In fact, Geneva is home to more restaurants per cap...

The Rough Guides Snapshot Canada: Montréal and Southwest Québec is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Canada. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from strolling Vieux-Montréal and enjoying the city's summer festivals to cycling the P'tit Train du Nord trail and wine tasting on La Route des Vins. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hote...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to The Rhône Valley is the ultimate travel guide to this captivating part of France. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Lyon and its unmissable bouchons and museums to the tastiest nougat from Montélimar. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possi...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to Melbourne is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Chinatown to the Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Yarra Valley to the Penguin Parade on Phillip Island. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars, and nightlife, ensuring you make the most of y...

A resident of Paris for over thirteen years, Margie Rynn calls her adopted city "the pulsing heart of the French nation....worthy of all the superlatives that have been heaped upon it for centuries". It is also a place that every North American is determined to visit at some point in their lives, and that intense yearning has made this Easy Guide a massive best-seller in its premier edition, that has now been freshly revised for 2015. It contains new discoveries and adventures, all well co...

Between them, our three authors have either written or contributed to a dozen Frommer's travel guides to Quebec over the years. They have returned to these two, colorful, pleasure capitals of Quebec for this brand-new edition, which reflects their most recent discoveries in attractions, lodgings, meals, cultural highlights, and shops. Using the Easy Guide approach, they limit themselves to the very best in all price ranges--truly an "easy guide" to use and savor.

This is based on our comprehensive Adventure Guide to Switzerland, which is close to 600 pages in the print version. Here, we focus on Zurich and the surrounding area in Switzerland's northeast. Also included is a detailed introduction with full information about what you need to know when visiting Switzerland. Nestled in the heart of Europe, Switzerland is a feast for the eyes, with azure-blue lakes that shine brilliantly against the greenest slopes of the surrounding Alps. Its picturesque v...