Building on the success of the Eyewitness Travel Guides and Top 10 Travel Guides, DK has created e.guides, the perfect travel companions for the hip, style-conscious traveler. Highlighting the best places to eat and shop, and the coolest local hangouts, each guide has its own regularly updated website, ideal for accessing the very latest each destination has to offer.

Building on the success of the Eyewitness Travel Guides and Top 10 Travel Guides, DK has created e.guides, the perfect travel companions for the hip, style-conscious traveler. Highlighting the best places to eat and shop, and the coolest local hangouts, each guide has its own regularly updated website, ideal for accessing the very latest each destination has to offer.

Massimo Montanari is professor of medieval history and history of food at the University of Bologna. He has achieved wide recognition for his many searching and thoroughly researched studies of culinary traditions. Since 1979 he has authored and coauthored more than a dozen books, including Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History (Columbia), Food: A Culinary History (Columbia), Famine and Plenty: The History of Food in Europe, and the recent Bologna la Grassa.

Once people from diverse cultures start to work together, unexpected and puzzling behavior patterns can crop up. Suddenly things can go wrong an no one knows why! Now Gwyneth Olofsson takes on these work-related intercultural issues and offers practical advice in her new book, When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh. After sixteen years of cultural training and business consulting, Olofsson has collected the cultural questions her students and business trainees have asked her and compiled them in brief, to-the-point letters and answers.

Boston offers a unique blend of traditional and trendy…old and new, with ultramodern skyscrapers towering beside colonial historical sites. Whether you want to explore incredible museums or shop tempting boutiques, take in a game or take a cruise, this book points the way with info on:
    * Attractions for history lovers, sports lovers, and food lovers
    * Seven great itineraries and four fun day trips
    * Public Garden, the first botanical garden in the U.S., legendary Fenway Park, Longfellow National Historic Site, and more
    * All kinds of restaurants, ranging from local seafood and pizza favorites and ethnic eateries to elegant, high-end dining and unique neighborhood cafes
    * Shopping in stores that range from cheap to chic, boho to bourgeois, including Newbury Street, the “rodeo Drive of New England”
    * Walking the 3-mile Freedom Trail, Harvard Square, Commonwealth Avenue, or around Walden Pond
    * Taking in fantastic live performances or relaxing in fun pubs and bars