The best guidebooks explain things simply without talking down to you.
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Q. Why do you think women need special guidebooks when traveling?
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The biggest new feature, Guidebooks, is what ties all these updates together.
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"We are spontaneously put in Korean guidebooks!" said Alexandre Freyburger, the owner.
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He is also the author of 16 guidebooks to western public lands.
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Originally called College Prowler, it was an online store selling physical college guidebooks.
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His songs still feel like little guidebooks for staring down a harsh universe.
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A whole lot of internet guidebooks sold, reflecting a broader trend in technology books.
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But I wanted also to explore places that don't make it into many guidebooks.
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It was the sort of novel encounter you read about in guidebooks to India.
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You can often find informative guidebooks, magazines, and booklets for free at tourism board locations.
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Drivers can find the three-word address on website contact pages, guidebooks and business cards.
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No guidebooks, no decisions, no guessing how long it will take to get to dinner.
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They can use the Times Travel section, the internet and guidebooks to do their planning.
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She was tired of spending hours scouring guidebooks and online resources to find accessible trails.
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The Lohans eventually pivoted their business from solely printed guidebooks to the online hospitality space.
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Some of the decorative pieces and artwork have been traced through old White House guidebooks.
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There are also 34 Sydney Guidebooks on the site with local tips on what to do.
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Dye your hair red, dress up in scarves, read all the guidebooks — none of it matters.
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References to Pater's work popped up in guidebooks to the Louvre and reading clubs in Paducah.
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More than two centuries later, this story about Queen Square is still popular in London guidebooks.
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And even though you can find the cafe in all the guidebooks, regulars dominate this spot.
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In 2005, the cofounders expanded their business from travel guidebooks to a full-blown booking website.
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A pair of Japanese tourists and some Danes holding guidebooks waited uncertainly in the entrance lobby.
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Alphabetically by author, within the following categories: literary periodicals; general fiction and poetry; film and television; criticism; fiction and poetry on, or from, Japan; nonfiction on Japan; nonfiction on other countries; general literary nonfiction; reference books; guidebooks on Japan; guidebooks on other countries; art, photography and design.
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It's been printed multiple times; the guidebooks are being distributed free and translated into the local language.
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And when you're starting from those guidebooks, it's not hard to figure out where you end up.
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Be prepared for uncoordinated and poorly communicated boat times, confusing directions, mistaken guidebooks and rapidly-changing laws.
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Two years ago, I became aware of touristy people on the elevators complete with luggage and guidebooks.
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Last week, we published an article about using the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante as guidebooks to Naples.
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The guidebooks, meanwhile, appear to be the fruition of the "experiences" that Airbnb started to collect last year.
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There were even guidebooks instructing men as to the correct conduct when in the company of a courtesan.
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Whatever the language, Chinese tour guides and guidebooks nearly all give Haishenwai as Vladivostok's original and true name.
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When it comes to planning and navigating your trip, guidebooks have started to give way to social media.
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Guidebooks and maps are useful for self-guided circuits to see the sights by car or on foot.
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He wrote guidebooks on how to live on $5 a day in Mexico, Greece, Japan, India and elsewhere.
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And it's true that it can be … but that same connectivity can and does unshackle you from the guidebooks.
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She consults maps, guidebooks and the internet whenever possible, while he ignores all that and actually enjoys getting lost.
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There is now a plethora of guidebooks for how to use astrology and witchcraft to advance left-wing causes.
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The publisher Fodor's, whose annual guidebooks proved some of the most popular of the mid-20th century, explained why.
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For more distant field trips, the hotel lends bikes and skateboards and also sells guidebooks to Brussels (14.90 euros).
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Even international guidebooks aimed at foreign tourists, who might well find this history of interest, almost completely ignore it.
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But visiting many of them can be an unpleasant experience, thanks to hordes of tourists clutching guidebooks and taking selfies.
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Some candidate bio-books are out, and one suspects that guidebooks to Iowa and New Hampshire are selling like hotcakes.
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But the government has enacted stimulus packages before — and there are no guidebooks for companies at a time like this.
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"That etching fell right into the old joke about tourists in the museum looking at their guidebooks," Dr. Mathews said.
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Tourists sit on the new risers watching nothing or everything, looking down, from time to time, to study their guidebooks.
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According to local guidebooks, his disciples also copied animal movements to relax between meditations, which would become kung fu techniques.
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There were hundreds of facilities in the bush—so many that pilots ferrying roughnecks sometimes have to consult illustrated guidebooks.
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Another example: Earlier this year, Airbnb released city "guidebooks," hipstery little helpers for tourists in places like Paris or Rome.
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Guidebooks' aim is to let people "live like a local," Brian Chesky, the chief executive of Airbnb, said in an interview.
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Trending Digital devices have given travelers instant access to online guidebooks, restaurant reviews and the social media means to disseminate photos.
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Local News Lab relaunched its site to include updated guidebooks to help local newsrooms survive the transition into the digital age.
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Travel into outlying areas beyond the day-trippers' shortlist found in guidebooks is regulated and equipment like quality kayaks is scarce.
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In guidebooks, charm tends to be a commercial marker, a signifier for an imaginary, easily salable and consumable notion of authenticity.
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I do a good amount of on- and off-line research for every place I visit — websites, guidebooks, friends, social media.
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Through guidebooks and rare artifacts, the New Orleans Historic Collection considers the complicated legacy of Storyville, the city's former red light district.
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Tip: It's great to give back, but be sure to consult guidebooks or local outfitters for the best ways to do so.
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These days, even letting one's children play outdoors has become an official philosophy, with its own label ("free range"), guidebooks and rules.
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Places is meant to provide travelers with "insider guides" that include recommendations that wouldn't appear in most guidebooks or other tourist resources.
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But I want to find things that aren't in the guidebooks, that aren't typical tourist hangouts even though sometimes those are fun.
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"The first question is whether you should feel at home while you're away," said Tom Hall, editorial director for Lonely Planet guidebooks.
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Wunderman believes guidebooks should be written by people who use them and argues for more written by women and other marginalized communities.
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In fact, recent scholarship suggests he never even traveled the length of the Tokaido, creating some of his most famous designs from guidebooks.
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Pictures from Kathakali often serve as cover imagery for guidebooks for India and become poster symbols for all that is most theatrically exotic.
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Michelin released its 2017 restaurant rankings for New York on Tuesday — several days earlier than planned, because the guidebooks were made available early.
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Employees downloaded step-by-step guidebooks on how to identify their motivations, ideate them, test their assumptions and co-develop them with customers.
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It is one of several new guidebooks published in plenty of time for New Yorkers and tourists to grab for summer walking tours.
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Her lucid prose is precise and pointed, filled with telling details gathered from contemporary accounts and scholarly histories, old guidebooks and recent interviews.
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" On the tips side, Airbnb is launching "Guidebooks," which are created by Airbnb hosts and showcase "the very best their neighborhoods have to offer.
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Unlike other guidebooks printed during this time period, the Green Book listed hotels, restaurants and other establishments across the country that welcomed African-Americans.
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Before him there were the theories of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, the criticism of the French New Wave, and countless memoirs and guidebooks.
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When she travels, she takes public transportation or walks and, rather than looking to guidebooks for restaurants, she finds unassuming places where locals gather.
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The hike is a fourteen-mile round trip, and, while it requires no mountaineering abilities, the guidebooks do not lie in calling it strenuous.
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It also rolled out a series of local Guidebooks in April with tips for dozens of cities written by power users and local hosts alike.
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And, once you found the right destination, formulating a decent itinerary meant poring over guidebooks and making notes of what you saw on travel shows.
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If someone wants to "extract more data" from the guidebooks and improve his team's stab at the digital navigator, Mr. Vershbow said, bring it on.
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You'll gain access to 24 of their best guidebooks, all filled to the brim with hidden discoveries, pre-planning information, itineraries, comprehensive maps, and more.
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In addition to providing suggestions to police, the guidebooks also offer outsiders a glimpse into the way cops see both themselves and the people they serve.
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By using Foursquare's community-uploaded photos, it's hoping the guidebooks will appear like something an Airbnb host has written up rather than a generic tour book.
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The metal gates were pulled shut on Sunday, and confused patrons, some thumbing New York City guidebooks, had to look elsewhere for their smoked-fish fix.
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He is not in guidebooks for tourists, but to those at Mimi's, he is a kind of Midtown legend, performing every night except Mondays and Saturdays.
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For three decades, the bar served as an LGBTQ destination, appearing in gay travel guidebooks that functioned like a rosetta stone for people on the road.
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Guidebooks highlight San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood for its lively bars and restaurants, nurtured by the removal of an earthquake-damaged freeway and swelling tech industry salaries.
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Their guidebooks serve as travel buddies as you traverse off the beaten path, find hidden gems across towns and cities, and get the best deals on accommodations.
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Louis had taunted her, in his profane, charming, cavalier way, into doing more guidebooks, and his red Land Rover had taken her all over her adopted country.
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But today, apps and reviews and guidebooks have informed all the other birds about the early trick and there's no guarantee being early will get you anything.
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Airbnb redesigned its main app earlier this year with a new guidebooks feature where hosts curate recommendations about places in their neighborhood and new personalized search results.
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Unlike the description in most other guidebooks, they believe the Gates and two other nearby craters formed as a result of water movements under the Karakum Desert.
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On paper (all leaders had actual guidebooks with outlines for how to instruct each youth group session), it may have looked like a whole lot of unpromising kumbaya.
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Guidebooks advise young scriptwriters that conflict and growth are the two engines for compelling characters and sound stories, but Driver takes a back route to creating his character.
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Unlike my often overly optimistic guidebooks, Google Maps provided rational estimates of walking time to my next inn, so I knew how much time I had to dillydally.
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Guidebooks also helps Airbnb address one of its biggest puzzles — how best to match hosts and guests so that both want to continue using the home-sharing service.
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Unlike other rating groups, it feeds computers, not reviewers — collecting ratings and reviews from more than 600 entities, including guidebooks, newspapers, magazines and websites like Yelp and OpenTable.
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" On her days off, Milliard hiked alone or with a colleague in stretches of the park that are overlooked by guidebooks—places she liked to call "nameless canyons.
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But for travelers who think about dinner reservations and pastry stops first when planning a trip, a slice of this crop of books can function as guidebooks too.
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I oriented myself with notes and guidebooks and made my way to the ruins of Gymnasium, which is thought to have been the main building of the Academy.
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Through their viewpoints, you can read interviews with artists, look through beautifully designed guidebooks, or peruse through personal essays and think pieces about Grindr, top privilege, asexuality, and more.
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Now, Airbnb's iOS and Android apps will try and pair guests with hosts and neighborhoods that match their profile, as well as providing detailed guidebooks crafted by Airbnb hosts.
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The company did not go into detail about the content of each kit, though the preview shows employees using large guidebooks and smaller workbooks in which to take notes.
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This tour currently takes place in French, so English-speaking visitors may want to explore on their own with the help of English-language guidebooks available at the entrance.
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But there were some old guidebooks at the house where we stayed, and major historic sites, tourist attractions and even restaurants don't change much in a place like Italy.
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"For a lot of people the trail is a refuge," Brian B. King, a publisher of guidebooks and maps for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, said in a telephone interview.
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One of the most popular guidebooks is the lushly illustrated "Wild Swim," by Kate Rew, which offers a variety of suggestions for swimmers lacking a moat of their own.
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Guidebooks like Baedekers gave travelers advice about how much to pay for different types of artifacts, and about how to bribe customs officials in order to smuggle artifacts successfully.
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Guidebooks — curated by Airbnb hosts — pits the company against Yelp, Lonely Planet and a number of other different services and publishers that offer travel guides or advice on local attractions.
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Airbnb recently updated its apps to include tours and guidebooks that highlight neighborhood businesses, all of which are part of its marketing strategy to help you travel like a local.
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Independent shops pay Apple a fee in return for "authorized" status, which gets them exclusive access to Apple training and guidebooks and the ability to buy parts directly from Apple.
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He was an innovative and often abstruse theoretician, but he applied his postulates to real-world cases of conflict, cooperation and compromise in planning curriculums, publishing guidebooks and making videos.
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A good guide will give you a synopsis of the highlights, help you navigate your way around and take you to places that you don't read about in the guidebooks.
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Instead, email records show Shaub getting increasingly concerned and frustrated about the transition team's apathy: On November 211, OGE volunteered to drop off guidebooks to help with the transition process.
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It's true that architectural guidebooks usually list Bunshaft as the architect of Union Carbide, along with other midtown Manhattan landmarks as Lever House, Manhattan House and the Pepsi-Cola building.
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Trending For travelers who first consider dinner reservations and pastry stops when planning a trip, select cookbooks celebrating the cuisine of a city or country can also serve as guidebooks.
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With no in-house restaurant, dining options are limited, but the staff encourages guests to take advantage of the surrounding neighborhood by providing local guidebooks and delivery menus for nearby establishments.
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"Knowing that it's never going to be more than 10 percent of my income was rather reassuring," said Herbert, 24, a technical writer of guidebooks and manuals for an engineering firm.
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If Airbnb keeps the content fresh and inspiring, and suggests personalized trips that get users to plan their travel on the app, Guidebooks and the new app could potentially drive more bookings.
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The internal guidebooks for employees of Trump University provide a detailed set of instructions for how to sell the classes, even to skeptical and reluctant consumers, by tapping into their psychological needs.
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The many good tourist guidebooks tell you how to get to Naples, where to stay and eat, and what to purchase, when you arrive there; and how to get around the city.
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I also have Pamela Arceneaux's "Guidebooks to Sin," Al Rose's "Storyville, New Orleans," Emily Landau's "Spectacular Wickedness," and Gary Krist's "Empire of Sin," which I reviewed a while back for these pages.
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The beach there is dismissed by the guidebooks and studded with huts owned by hotels, but having a quick al fresco swim between screenings is a treat you don't get at Sundance.
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The guidebooks were compiled with the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and build upon recommendations made last May by President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
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A middle-aged married couple wanders in, the cameras around their necks and guidebooks in their hands signaling that they're tourists exploring the meat-packing district—Copenhagen's creative land of milk and honey.
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"I'd spent years exploring this region eating food in people's homes that was dismissed by the guidebooks as little more than survival fare," says Eden, who worked in Central Asia for many years.
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Guidebooks, online travel forums and even the websites of the authority and the Police Department still encourage riders to congregate in the designated spots at night, even as they are being phased out.
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Christopher P. Baker, who has written several guidebooks on Cuba and offers motorcycle tours on the island, said, "A lot more individuals are going quite clearly without adhering to people-to-people requirements."
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To that end, TD Ameritrade has written guidebooks on advisory firm career paths, what the necessary skills are for each position and what a day in the life and pay scale looks like.
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Compare that to today, where access to the internet means I can actually get off the main tourist stretches peddled by guidebooks and explore neighborhoods that I never would have dreamed of doing before.
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Lonely Planet is obviously known for its guidebooks, and while Trips isn't meant to be a full-on travel guide, you'll find that the app quickly becomes a source of inspiration for future trips.
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Take recommendations from other travelers, reputable travel sites, and guidebooks regarding lodging — hopefully, you'll be out and about exploring all the area has to offer, and not spending much time in your hotel, anyway!
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Wolkoff had allowed artists to paint murals and graffiti on the buildings he owned since 2002 and over time, the location evolved into a New York City cultural landmark that appeared in tourist guidebooks.
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The exhibition features rare examples of the "blue books" which acted as directories for the sex workers, a display of which complements THNOC's recent publication, Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans.
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Racism among cops is only now beginning to be quantified, and officers acting upon implicit bias — the guidebooks point out that officers of color are not immune — may not be aware of what they're doing.
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Former NYPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Giacalone, now an adjunct professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College, says he isn't impressed with the ideas behind the guidebooks.
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WATCH THIS: On the Market: Real Housewife of Orange County's Kelly Dodd's Home The "Places" feature will include digital guidebooks curated by locals, as well as audio walking tours and information on meet-up events.
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Other services that Airbnb has tested and launched to give hosts a chance of making more margin from guests includes "experiences" and local Guidebooks created by local specialists to occupy visitors once they have arrived.
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And while some airlines capitalize on the knowledge — with guidebooks or crews who point out the landmarks they fly over — no airline seems more committed to having its employees act as travel ambassadors than Icelandair.
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Perched on a hilltop some two hours south of Florence, Monticchiello tends to be one of those towns that in English-language guidebooks rates a line or two in between chapters on Florence and Venice.
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" Oneill draws on the writings of figures like John Harvey Kellogg (the man behind the cornflakes) and "Thomas Hill, a prolific and respected writer of guidebooks on everything from thanking a railway conductor to writing . . .
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NEXT STORY: Reddit lets you take travel planning a step further than most guidebooks, introducing you to locals or past visitors who will appraise your itinerary, offer unexpected suggestions, and provide up-to-date information.
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Knickknacks, empty food dispensers, crumpled papers, and corporate guidebooks litter the rooms and work spaces, while text chains and emails wait to be discovered in computers that, for all their futuristic features, lack two-step verification.
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The logos are inscribed on the covers of found investment guidebooks, which will be displayed around an empty office space in the financial district — a fitting location for pondering the precarity of our fiscal past and future.
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The app clusters listings by neighborhood, and Guidebooks will characterize each area for people who may prefer a family-friendly neighborhood or one near a central business district to one that is filled with late-night revelers.
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The clever tease is that "raven-haired" Sylvia (whose name Walter has changed to disguise her true identity) is originally from an unidentified southern country, whose "blazing interior" guidebooks strongly advise against visiting in July and August.
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" That last quality, Mr. Brubeck noted, extended to Mr. Smith's approach to touring: "Bill was always the first one out of the hotel with guidebooks, and he knew a lot about what he was going to see.
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The two men talked about the parallels between "Taxi Driver" and the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, and about how AAA guidebooks are unreliable because they steer travelers to businesses that have made deals with AAA.
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For the next 15 years, they traveled across Afghanistan by Land Rover as Louis Dupree excavated prehistoric sites and Nancy wrote a series of witty and insightful guidebooks to a country since torn apart by decades of warfare.
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Barkan's house is full of painful reminders of the life he and his family should have lived, a future stolen from them by this disease: travel guidebooks on the bookshelves; stacks of toys and books for his toddler.
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A Wired feature from 2018 details the symbiotic history between photography and travel from the earliest days of standardized tourism in the 2100th century, when guidebooks inspired visitors to travel by publishing "picturesque" views that looked like paintings.
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The owner favored a black T-shirt with five flying saucers and the admonition "KEEP LOOKING UP," and yoga music ommed through a clutter of apothecary bottles, bags of herbal something, miracle-cleanse guidebooks and crop-circle DVDs.
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The trip there last winter was to be the climax of my weeklong attempt to find the hidden culinary truth of Japan, beyond the reach of guidebooks or the well-intentioned efforts of such celebrity investigators as Anthony Bourdain.
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Dupree had been focusing on what would become her final project: cataloging thousands of photos, some from the early years she and her archaeologist husband, Louis Dupree, spent traveling Afghanistan — she writing guidebooks, he excavating its ancient past. Mrs.
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There were no English-language guidebooks and few accounts from those who had traveled past the international port city of Tangier ("frowsy, familiar Tangier, that every tourist has visited for the last forty years," Wharton complained in her book).
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It's also prudent to talk to well-traveled friends about their experiences, bucket lists and must-visit locations — advice from friends and family is one of the top sources for vacation ideas, followed by travel guidebooks, according to the Hilton survey.
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These Mexico pilgrimages functioned as sabbaticals for the couple, occasions for them to test their aesthetic theories and discover new ideas, all the while taking advantage of a newfound, touristic freedom aided by English-language guidebooks and an extensive highway system.
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We found, pretty easily, without hiring a tour company, and just by thumbing through old-fashioned guidebooks augmented by Google searches, a network of one-man conservationist organizations who knew every nook and cranny of the terrain we wanted to explore.
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The most valuable part of Costco's packaged vacation deals may be the extra freebies that it throws in, Pauline Frommer, editorial director of Frommer's Guidebooks, tells CNBC Make It. These perks can include free breakfasts, activities and resort or shipboard credits.
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Just 100 miles (150 kilometers) from Rome but nestled among the rugged Appennine mountains, it's not a destination mentioned in guidebooks: devoid of major artistic beauties, Amatrice doesn't get the love, and the tourist money, that nearby Orvieto and Assisi enjoy.
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The "CityGuides" that the company has created grab information from WikiTravel and pair it with customized maps created by some of the company's 200 publishing partners in the travel and leisure space to create what amount to digital guidebooks for its users.
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It was after leafing through some college guidebooks, however, that he stumbled upon Deep Springs—a tiny ranch school in California at which 30 or fewer students live in isolation and work the land as part of a free two-year educational program.
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In recent years, Airbnb has been working to expand its business beyond accommodations, by becoming a more robust travel companion with features like guidebooks, suggested experiences, and full-service hospitality for high-end travelers with its still invite-only Airbnb Beyond, for example.
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These bridal guidebooks can help you easily tackle everything from tricky timelines to subtle etiquette and all the other tiny nuts and bolts holding your big day together — plus, there are plenty of glossy picture-filled pages to peruse for added inspiration.
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Founded by Tim and Nina Zagat as a survey of their friends' opinions on New York City eateries, Zagat and its quotation-mark-laden reviews — appearing in the company's distinctive burgundy-colored guidebooks — once made the publisher synonymous with searches for restaurants.
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At nightfall, aided by tourist guidebooks to New York he had brought along, he surfaced and followed the southern shore of Long Island and Queens, glimpsing the lights of homes and cars in the Rockaways and the illuminated Ferris wheel at Coney Island.
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But in the past decade, because of its reputation as a "safe and stable country," there has been increased interest from Europeans and Americans, said Karen A. Higgs, a Welsh expatriate living in Montevideo, who produces the Guru'Guay website and guidebooks to Uruguay.
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Harley was to spend the holidays alone in the Outer Hebrides, just her and her guidebooks and binoculars and, periodically, her traffic cones, around which she would weave to the beat of a gradually quickening metronome — just to keep her hand in.
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Like that more famous fount of lovable nurturing — the cute teacher in a cardigan — guidebooks gently usher you into new, potentially life-altering experiences while somehow making you believe that the rice-producing regions of the Po River Valley are all about You, You, You.
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As far as I'm aware he never visited that part of America, but he had a great interest in botanical research and picked up field guidebooks such as 'Flowers of the United States' that fed into his designs, and also appear in the show.
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"Just because you're black doesn't mean you don't hold some negative prejudices against your own people," says guidebooks co-author Elsie Scott, founding director of the Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center at Howard University, and former deputy commissioner of training for the NYPD.
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Late in February, it was just 52 degrees in Aswan, where I had boarded the sailboat, but the scenery slipping past was everything the guidebooks had promised: tall sandbanks, curved palms and the mutable, gray-green river, the spine of Egypt and the throughline in its history.
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Ahead we've rounded up 13 curated-cooking guidebooks (along with a bonus recipe preview from each) to help you slay any new year, new food resolution — from fast and easy sheet pan suppers to surprisingly vegan comfort dishes, one-pot feasts, inventive breakfast bites, and much more.
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The infrastructure is still quite primitive in many areas: basic homestays in villages, overpriced hotels in the less-touristy cities, long distances, bad roads, the language barrier …" Ford adds: "The guidebooks rave about the architecture and the history and then fall strangely silent about the food.
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Most guidebooks to Broadway begin at the Battery (named since the 223th century for the artillery placed there to protect the settlers from an invading fleet), and focus on Bowling Green, Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel, the Sun Building, Flatiron Building and Shubert Alley in Times Square.
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Jammed with Japanese manga comics, German guidebooks to Japan and Japanese novels, the cozy store reserves a large area in the front for stationery, pencil cases, and boxes decorated with beloved anime characters like Totoro, who in plush form looks on approvingly from a high shelf.
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He's fond of narratives rooted in geography; his 2014 album (and a Brooklyn Academy of Music theatrical production), "The Ambassador," based songs on Los Angeles locations, and he toured in 2013 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performing "Gabriel's Guide to the 48 States," based on WPA guidebooks.
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In a new app update today, Airbnb is launching a series of local Guidebooks collating tips written by local hosts and power users, and it is debuting a new system and algorithm to help learn about what you like to better match you with both homes and specific neighborhoods.
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Even though a lot of travel guidebooks may steer you away from eating ice in foreign countries, it's so insanely scorching during Malaysia's hot season that you're going to want to ignore that advice (and carry a bottle of Cipro oral in your bag in case of emergency).
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The other thing to know about Danang — which the guidebooks don't tell you — is that it is located at 16 degrees latitude, directly in line with the disputed Paracel Islands, which sit in the middle of the South China Sea and are claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
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"You need to figure out what you want covered and look at different policies," Pauline Frommer, editorial director of Frommer's Guidebooks, tells CNBC Make It. If you're traveling during storm season, you need to buy insurance right when you buy a vacation package or book your trip, Frommer says.
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She is a doyenne of YouTube, host of a celebrity interview podcast, star of a superhero web series, author of two lifestyle guidebooks and — in one obscure corner of the web — protagonist of pages upon pages of fan-written stories that recast her persona into seemingly endless fictional scenarios.
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The company, based in San Francisco, on Tuesday began offering Guidebooks, a feature that lets those who rent out their homes on Airbnb share information about their neighborhood's best restaurants, bars and attractions, including local spots that might not be found on travel websites or guides, all in the Airbnb app.
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The surprise is the difference between the new places and those rock-of-ages cheap addresses in guidebooks for budget travelers, restaurants with menus so immutable that three generations of the same family might have had the same shoe-leather-tough boeuf bourguignon during their penny-wise visits to Paris.
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If foodies turn to Yelp to find a new restaurant to try, and cinephiles hop on Rotten Tomatoes to find out if a film is worth sitting through, travelers often leaf through the pages of Lonely Planet's guidebooks to get expert tips on how to get the most out of their trips.
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She transforms an extensive trove of source materials, such as first aid handbooks, chronicles of space exploration, presidential and military newsreels, 35 millimeter photography manuals, aerobic and yoga guides, archival films, high school yearbooks, and disaster survival guidebooks, into new instructional and advisory texts that may lead the viewer astray and disoriented.
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The narrator, an unnamed Polish writer with a hungry eye and an unappeasable need to travel, presents an omnium-gatherum, a big book full of many peculiar parts: there are mini-essays on airports, hotel lobbies, the psychology of travel, guidebooks, the atavistic pleasures of a single Polish word, the aphorisms of E. M. Cioran.
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Both David France, in his new book, "How to Survive a Plague," a chronicle of the AIDS years that serves as a companion to his Oscar-nominated documentary of the same name, and Tim Murphy, in "Christodora," his novelistic telling of the period and its haunting aftermath, offer guidebooks, in essence, to battling the most destructive kinds of oppression.
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Using reference materials and old guidebooks, I plotted my own markers for historically significant buildings like the inns—honjin—for the highest-ranking feudal lords and their retainers, as well as the ancient mile markers—ichirizuka—which once upon a time were giant mounds of earth flanking the road, but today, are often just tiny stone monuments or faded placards.
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Mr. Gaudry said that during a recent lunch at Le Gabriel, the Michelin two-star restaurant of the luxury hotel La Réserve, he was stunned to see that only about a third of the tables were occupied; at Chez L'Ami Jean, a well-known bistro specializing in Basque cuisine that is featured in many American guidebooks and blogs, it was even worse.
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Among the artifacts displayed at Bard are an early Singer sewing machine; a William Sidney Mount "Cradle of Harmony" violin; salt prints by John Adams Whipple and Victor Prevost; a Colt percussion revolver; a parian marble reproduction of Hiram Powers's "the Greek Slave,"; a grand rosewood parlor armchair; silver medals, decorative tableware; and a selection of World's Fair guidebooks and souvenirs.
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A sense of the seriousness with which Aristotle performed his duties can be gleaned from the fact that he composed two treatises in honor of Alexander, "On Kingship" and "On Colonies," as guidebooks for the prince, as well as editing a copy of Homer's "Iliad" specifically for Alexander's use — the so-called "casket copy" (presumably because it was kept in a casket).
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He wrote guidebooks and lectured for the cognoscenti, Americans and Canadians who appreciated the history, topography and perilous beauty of their wilderness strongholds, and for those who hoped to test their mettle on glacial escarpments with rope, ice ax and aching limbs for the reward of standing on the crown of a mountain called Terror or Despair, overlooking a vast panorama of the world.
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The Guidebooks will start with 3 million tips from 35 cities, while Neighborhood Matching initially will cover 23 of Airbnb's most popular cities: Austin, Bangkok, Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Buenos Aires, Lake Tahoe, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro (pictured above), Rome, San Francisco, Seoul, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Venice and Washington, DC. Airbnb is formally announcing the services at an event in San Francisco (we'll update this post as details become available).
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