Pocket Rough Guide: Venice is your essential guide to this beautiful city, with information on all the key sights in an easy-to-use, pocket-size format, and with a full-color, pull-out map. Whether you have an afternoon, a few days, or more time at your disposal, the carefully curated itineraries found inside Pocket Rough Guide: Venice will help you plan your trip, and the "Best of" Venice section picks out the highlights you won't want to miss. Visit the magnificent Basilica di San Marco; take to the water on a gondola; explore the bars of the atmospheric Rialto.
Pocket Rough Guide: Berlin is your essential guide to one of Europe's most exciting cities, with information on all the key sights in an easy-to-use format. Whether you have an afternoon, a few days, or more at your disposal, Rough Guides' carefully curated itineraries help you plan your trip, and the "Best of" Berlin section picks out the highlights you won't want to miss, from the city's dynamic architecture to world-famous clubs, cozy corner cafés, and relaxed beer gardens. Divided by area for easy navigation, the Places section is written in Rough Guides' trademark honest and informative style, with listings for what to see and where to eat, drink, sleep, and play.
The Rough Guide to Amsterdam is your essential travel guide to this compact and instantly likeable city, with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions. From the Anne Frank House to the Rijksmuseum, The Rough Guide to Amsterdam will steer you to outstanding art galleries, elegant canal-side architecture, and all the must-see city sights. This full-color, updated guide provides comprehensive coverage of the best restaurants, stylish bars, intimate cafes, vibrant markets, and hottest nightlife in Amsterdam for all budgets.
Although it focuses on Tokyo and Kyoto–the two Japanese cities that most tourists want to visit–Frommer's Easy Guide to Japan also examines the Japanese locations to which most tourists make day-trips or longer excursions from the two must-sees. Enjoying a far more favorable exchange rate than in recent years, the now-moderately-priced Japan is enjoying a major upswing in its incoming tourism, and our experienced author of many previous guidebooks to Japan has made it even easier to enjoy, easier to understand, easier to tour, in a concise "Easy Guide" designed to fit into pocket or purse.
Plain English is the art of writing clearly, concisely, and in a way that precisely communicates your message to your intended audience. This book offers 25 practical guidelines to help improve your vocabulary, style, grammar, and layout in order to achieve clear writing. It gives expert advice on all aspects of the writing process: from avoiding jargon and legalese, to organizing written information in print and online. It also includes hundreds of real examples, including 'before' and 'after' versions to show exactly how its done. All this is presented in an authoritative and engaging way.
