Product Description: "The Rough Guide to Nepal" offers an insider's guide to Nepal, from its 'Tantric' temples to its lively bars. It details all the finest Himalayan treks, with practical, up-to-date and expert advice on where to go when and what to take...read more

Product Description: Just in time for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 celebrating Queen Elizabeth's sixtieth year of rule, The Rough Guide to the Royals offers background and insight into one of the world's oldest monarchies — plus plenty of juicy stories...read more

Product Description: "The Pocket Rough Guide Paris" is your essential guide to Europe's most elegant city; covering all the key sights, hotels, restaurants, shops and bars you need to know about. Slim, stylish and utterly pocketable, it comes with a full-colour pull-out map to help you find your way around - the only map of its kind to be marked with every single listing from the guide...read more

An engaging, enlightening “biography” of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world’s most famous sex manual The Kamasutra is one of the world’s best-known yet least-understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its actual contents widely misconstrued. In the popular imagination, it is a work of practical pornography, a how-to guide of absurdly acrobatic sexual techniques. Yet the book began its long life in third-century India as something quite different: a seven-volume vision of an ideal life of urbane sophistication, offering advice on matters from friendship to household decoration. Over the ensuing centuries, the Kamasutra was first celebrated, then neglected, and very nearly lost—until an outrageous adventurer introduced it to the West and earned literary immortality.In lively and lucid prose, James McConnachie provides a rare, intimate look at the exquisite civilization that produced this cultural cornerstone. He details the quest of famed explorer Richard F. Burton, who—along with his clandestine coterie of libertines and iconoclasts—unleashed the Kamasutra on English society as a deliberate slap at Victorian prudishness and paternalism. And he describes how the Kamasutra was driven underground into the hands of pirate pornographers, until the end of the Lady Chatterley obscenity ban thrust it once more into contentious daylight. The first work to tell the full story of the Kamasutra, The Book of Love explores how a remarkable way of looking at the world came to be cradled between book covers—and survived.

Product Description: Full-colour throughout, "The Rough Guide to Paris" is the ultimate travel guide to one of Europe's most elegant cities. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style "Rough Guides" cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights...read more

Product Description: Sex: The World's Favorite Pastime Fully Revealed discusses in lively narrative the history and psychology of sex, telling its story throughout the millennia. Scientific information on the laws of attraction and how hormones, pheromones, and evolution have influenced human sexuality is complemented by practical information on contraception, health, and extensive hands-on how-to advice...read more

Product Description: Everything you think you know is a lie. Or is it?The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories is the definitive guide to the world''s most controversial theories. With updated information on all the most infamous conspiracies, from phony crucifixions to who really did kill JFK, this fully up-dated guide also covers the murders of Alexander Litvinenko and Benasir Bhutto, the London bombings and the Iraq War, as well as the inquest into Princess Diana’s death...read more

'The Kamasutra' was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. This book provides a portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and women, for whom the book was written. It shows that the 'Kamasutra' was always much more than a sex manual.

Product Description: Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Paris is the perfect companion whether you’re on a week long break or flying visit to the popular French capital. This full-colour, pocket guide includes 28 themed sections – from ‘Monumental Paris’ to ‘Secret walks and hidden gardens’, to help you decide what to do, 24 hours a day...read more

Examines the historical facts and myths behind the best-selling novel, including discussions on the Templars, the Holy Grail, and the apocryphal gospels; a tour guide to sites of interest; and reviews of sources used by the author.

Product Description: Slim, stylish and pocketable, Florence Directions is full of ideas for stop-overs, long-weekends and flying visits to one of Italy''s most popular city break destinations, richly illustrated with hundreds of specially commissioned photos...read more

Examines the historical facts and myths behind the best-selling novel, including discussions on the Templars, the Holy Grail, and the 'Apocryphal Gospels'; a tour guide to sites of interest; and reviews of sources used by the author.

Product Description: The Rough Guide to Loire Valley is your essential guide to the “garden of France.” Discover the spectacular châteaux of Chenonceau to the glorious cathedral of Chatres, the full colour section gives a real sense of the best this bourgeois paradise has on offer...read more