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Lonely Planet Marrakesh Encounteris your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch the nonstop drama in the Djemaa el-Fna, find treasures in the souqs, or admire Moroccan artistry at Ali Ben Youssef Medersa; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the best of Marrakesh and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Marrakesh Encounter:

 * Full-colourmaps and images throughout
 * Highlightsand itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
 * Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
 * Essential infoat your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
 * Honest reviewsfor all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

 * Free, convenient pull-outMarrakesh map (included in print version), plus over 12 colour neighbourhood maps
 * User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhoods to help you determine the best spots to spend your time
 * Coverage of Palmeraie, Nouvelle Ville, Bab Doukkala & Dar el-Bacha, Mouassine, Djemaa el-Fna, Riads Zitoun, Kasbah, Central Souqs & Derb Debachi, and more

The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet Marrakesh Encounter is a handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, providing on-the-go assistance to travellers who seek only the can't-miss experiences. Colourful and easy-to-use, this neighbourhood-focused guide includes unique local recommendations to maximise your quick trip experience.

 * Looking for more extensive coverage? Check outLonely Planet's Moroccoguide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

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Marrakesh Encounter

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio from New York for the first time in twenty years. It is not a nostalgia trip for him-Jeebleh's last residence here was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? The U.S. troops have recently come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Jeebleh is returning to visit his mother's grave and to settle her outstanding accounts-but more urgently, the youngest member of his oldest friend's family has been abducted. Though they have not seen each other in two decades, Jeebleh knows from their childhood that his friend-a virtual brother, who remained in Somalia when Jeebleh left-will need Jeebleh to step in. Jeebleh is determined to cut through the swirling violence and corruption to rescue the little girl-and, perhaps, a piece of his own identity. Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Linksis the finest work yet from Farah, a novel that will secure his place in the international literary firmament and stand as a classic of modern world literature.

Links

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A Novel

Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novelsSweet and Sour Milk,Sardines, andClose Sesame. In this volume, the third and final book in the series, the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. An old man finds himself poised in mortal combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in an atmosphere where the distinction between public and private justice is always obscured.

Close Sesame is a novel that offers "an eloquent indictment of the tyrannies committed both under Islamic law and in the name of Socialism" (The Observer).

Close Sesame

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Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship

Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award

The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimedVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy,Sweet and Sour Milk chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as "Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own" (Chinua Achebe).

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Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novelsSweet and Sour Milk,Sardines, andClose Sesame. In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam.

Sardines brilliantly combines a social commentary on life under a dictatorship with a compassionate exploration of African feminist issues.

Sardines

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A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children

For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and forced to commit unspeakable crimes.
Grace Akallo was one of these. Her story, which is the story of many Ugandan children, recounts her terrifying experience. This unforgettable book--with historical background and insights from Faith McDonnell, one of the clearest voices in the church today calling for freedom and justice--will inspire readers around the world to take notice, pray, and work to end this tragedy.

Girl Soldier

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An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill. Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history. Meacham’s new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR’ s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill’s joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle. Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

Franklin and Winston

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The Worst Alphabet Book Ever

Turning the traditional idea of an alphabet book on its head, P is for Pterodactyl is meant for anyone who has ever been stumped by silent letters or confused by homophones. It takes silent letter entries like "K is for Knight" a step further with "The noble knight's knife nicked the knave's knee." Illustrations provide context clues, and alliterative words help readers navigate text like "A bright white gnat is gnawing on my gnocchi."

P Is for Pterodactyl

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A Somali Folktale

A Somali-English Bilingual Children's Picture Book. The heart? The leg? The ribs? What part of the sheep is the answer to the Sultan s riddle? When wise Somali leader Wiil Waal asks the men in his province to bring him the part of a sheep that best symbolizes what can divide men or unite them as one, most present him with prime cuts of meat. But one very poor man s daughter has a different idea. In this clever folktale, a father reluctantly follows his daughter s advice and has astonishing results.

Wiil Waal

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Igal Shidad searches the drought-stricken land looking for a better home for his family, asking Allah for guidance. He eventually discovers that his prayers have been answered without even realizing it.

The Travels of Igal Shidad/Safarada Cigaal Shidaad

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A Scary Somali Folktale

In this hair-raising cautionary tale from Somalia, the Hargega Valley is plagued by the monstrous Dhegdheer, who gobbles up anyone unlucky enough to cross her path. A widow and her young son try to escape her. Will they be Dhegdheer's next meal or will their virtue save them and help bring an end to Dhegdheer's reign of terror?

Dhegdheer

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Star Wars A New Hope

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This guide covers all the Gulf states and pays special attention to history, culture and special activities.

OMAN, UAE AND ARABIAN PENINSULA

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This guide includes a safari section and expert advice on trekking and diving in the area. There are also details on wildlife, including a colour birding section, and complete coverage of Tanzania's diverse national parks and reserves.

Tanzania, Zanzibar and Pemba

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Math

A Self-Teaching Guide

Quick Calculus 2nd Edition A Self-Teaching Guide Calculus is essential for understanding subjects ranging from physics and chemistry to economics and ecology. Nevertheless, countless students and others who need quantitative skills limit their futures by avoiding this subject like the plague. Maybe that's why the first edition of this self-teaching guide sold over 250,000 copies. Quick Calculus, Second Edition continues to teach the elementary techniques of differential and integral calculus quickly and painlessly. Your "calculus anxiety" will rapidly disappear as you work at your own pace on a series of carefully selected work problems. Each correct answer to a work problem leads to new material, while an incorrect response is followed by additional explanations and reviews. This updated edition incorporates the use of calculators and features more applications and examples. ".makes it possible for a person to delve into the mystery of calculus without being mystified." --Physics Teacher

Quick Calculus

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The fastest, easiest way to master precalculus . . . by doing it!
Do logarithmic functions throw you for a loop? Does the challenge of finding an inverse function leave you overwhelmed? Does the Law of Cosines make you feel clueless? With this helpful, easy-to-follow guide, you will gain total command of these precalc concepts-and many more-in no time at all.
Precalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide includes an algebra review and complete coverage of exponential functions, log functions, and trigonometry. Whether you are studying precalculus for the first time, want to refresh your memory, or need a little help for a course, this clear, interactive primer will provide you with the skills you need. Precalculus offers a proven self-teaching approach that lets you work at your own pace-and the frequent self-tests and exercises reinforce what you've learned. Turn to this one-of-a-kind teaching tool and, before you know it, you'll be solving problems like a mathematician!

Precalculus

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How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.

The European Dream

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A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment

The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets.

In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent "churning" of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including "pay-to-play" product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickbacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges.

Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain. The common practice of selling losers and buying winners (and doing both too often) damages portfolio returns and increases tax liabilities, delivering a one-two punch to investor aspirations.

In short: Nearly insurmountable hurdles confront ordinary investors.

Swensen's solution? A contrarian investment alternative that promotes well-diversified, equity-oriented, "market-mimicking" portfolios that reward investors who exhibit the courage to stay the course. Swensen suggests implementing his nonconformist proposal with investor-friendly, not-for-profit investment companies such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. By avoiding actively managed funds and employing client-oriented mutual fund managers, investors create the preconditions for investment success.

Bottom line? Unconventional Success provides the guidance and financial know-how for improving the personal investor's financial future.

Unconventional Success

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World Languages

Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners: with Online Media

The second edition of this widely used text covers the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach students to read, speak, and write Arabic, while presenting an engaging story that involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying in the United States, and Michael, an American student studying in Cairo. In diaries, letters, and postcards, the two students describe their thoughts and activities, revealing how a non-American views American culture and how the Arabic culture is experienced by an American student. This edition features online video, filmed in Syria; expanded communicative activities; an updated audio program; and material designed according to proficiency principles.

Features of this Edition include:

 * video, filmed in Syria
 * expanded communicative activities
 * updated audio program
 * material designed according to proficiency principles

Components of the Second Edition include:

 * A full-color Student Textbook with included online audio and video access
 * Annotated Instructor's Edition (ISBN 978-0-300-14047-7)
 * Sound and Script Workbook
 * Online, interactive exercises

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A Somali Folktale = Qayb Libaax

After the animals hunt and kill a camel, the lion asks them how the meat will be shared.

The Lion's Share

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Your portable resource for Arabic vocabulary

Thematically organized into 66 subject areas, Harrap's Pocket Arabic Vocabulary provides thousands of essential terms and phrases that will quickly help you increase your word power.

This pocket-sized guide is ideal for study or review and is particularly useful for essay writing and other homework exercises, while the handy format makes it perfect for quick reference. Arabic script is used throughout.

Harrap's Pocket Arabic Vocabulary

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When Carolyn Forché chose Barbara Cully's first book, The New Intimacy, for the National Poetry Series, she wrote, "Cully is a poet reading the world for the brutality of its inequities, aware of the flattening compression of historical memory and the dissolution of the body." This new book offers a critique of the "heroic" that results in elegy and wisely offers no resolution. These poems point to the forms of faith as both genius and as the fount of much of the world's anguish. Such writing proceeds from the recognition of the end of irony; in it elegy has become, finally, all.

Desire Reclining

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Poetry. Simon Pettet is among his generation's most highly regarded poets. Known to his peers as one of few whose control of the language is flawless, he is a master of his craft. MORE WINNOWED FRAGMENTS, Pettet's first book in a decade, is among the most important books of poetry of our time. "[Pettet] lives as though life were its own pleasure, which it is and must obviously be. He sounds those same simplicities of profound music Blake also knew. He moves with a deft and practiced quiet. `It is as though he were telling us/ that this small space/ contains the pattern for/ all eternity.' He speaks the truth"--Robert Creeley. Simon Pettet was born in England but has made his home on Manhattan's Lower East Side for the past three decades.

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