Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs, and anecdotes centering on Amsterdam from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century, which gives unique insight into the history and culture of the city. The tales within range from Rembrandt to the Jewish persecution in World War 2, from barricades in a working-class district during the Depression to a writer's unhealthy obsession with a massage parlour. These eighteen newly translated works give the reader, and the traveller, a tantalising glimpse of the Amsterdam that lies beyond the tourist guidebooks.

Amsterdam Tales (City Tales)

Literature & Fiction

Vincent, Paul

Literary

Oxford University Press

Author Carlton Reid was rider/manager of the British Mountain Bike Team in the 1997 World Championships.

The Complete Book of Cycling (Complete Book)

Reid, Carlton

Joyce, Dan

Woodcock, Tim

Sports & Outdoors

Hamlyn

Keep every inch of your bike--from wheel to wheel, from pedal to seat--in tip-top shape. With the help of close-up and simple-to-follow photos, each part is broken down, explained, and reassembled. Don't start out without going through the pre-ride checklist, so you'll catch worn or poorly pressurized tires, loose cables, damaged links, and problem brakes before you're far away from home. (There's a post-ride checklist, too!) Feel confident about handling on-trail repairs if something does happen--like an unexpected puncture. Invaluable technical advice on looking after the frame, freewheels, spokes, chains, brackets, pedals, and more will help you attain top performance from your bike and assure its longevity. Silence unwanted noises, tune suspension forks, and find out what winter precautions to take. Plus: the top 10 tips for making your mountain biking safer and more enjoyable!

Mountain Bike Maintenance

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

From an early age, author Paul Vincent has been drawn to the night. With hope and joy, he has looked forward to sunsets and oncoming nights, a attitude counter to a thousand common religious metaphors. In The Star at the End of the River, Vincent shares his important life experiences in order to illustrate how to transform conventional religious ideas about darkness. Bringing to bear his forty years' experience as an amateur astronomer, Vincent shows how sustained night-sky observation enhances the human receptivity to transcendent departure. He examines one of the many treasures of the heavens, a star-which, under the paradoxes of the mystical journey, is the most apt symbol of the human hope for eternal happiness. The Star at the End of the River proposes a new kind of mysticism-an ascent, not of a mountain, as in the traditional metaphor, but of an inclined plane. Vincent sketches a spiritual journey of marked gradualism and invites contemplation of the mystical power of such pedestrian experiences and objects as supermarket aisles, interior stairways, gooseflesh, and penmanship.

The Star at the End of the River: Meditations on a Homeward Journey

Religion & Spirituality

iUniverse

A feast of ideas, practical suggestions and background information on how you can improve your mood instantly, and get on with living your life. These step by step suggestions are diverse, enjoyable, and not tied down to any one discipline. Start a new life today!

50 Things You Can Do Today to Beat Depression

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Upfront

This is a powerful study of the growth of the right wing in a reunited Germany. Setting this in its historical context, and especially in the context of the end of the Cold War, the author examines the implosion of communism and of the growth of xenophobia and right-wing politics in modern and contemporary Europe. The backdrop of 20th century German history and of Germany’s position as the European regional super-power make this book an especially important and topical contribution.

Children of a New Fatherland. Germany's Post-War Right-Wing Politics

History

Binder, David

Brinks, Jan Herman

Bromley, Chris

Smith, Ewan

Europe

I.B.Tauris

The new chief agent in Belgium and Luxembourg for the Edam cheese company, a clerk in Antwerp struggles with his lack of business and selling experience, his dislike of cheese, the rigid class divisions of the 1930s, and his obsession with status.

Cheese

Elsschot, Willem

Granta Books

Et soudain, l'avalanche (Ariane) (French Edition)

Hachette

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