Books about Refrence

Intended for the first-time visitors and China travel veterans alike, this guide offers advice on hotels, sights and transport. It features coverage of numerous ancient fishing villages; and do-it-yourself content - needed for such a gigantic country. It provides hotel and hostel addresses in both Chinese script and English.

Starting with the basics of image management, this book-DVD combo takes you step by step through Aperture's powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features. It covers Version 1.5's features, including the image editing tools, search capabilities, Loupe tool, and support for various RAW file formats.

In the follow-up to the successful first volume, this book provides photographers with nearly 200 ideas and suggestions for shooting dramatically sharper, more colorful, and more professional-looking photos with a digital camera.

A humorous collection of trivia that highlights the sublime and the ridiculous in our interpretation of these religious symbols.

Fast Talk is a series of pocket-sized language guides for short trips. Includes phrases to get you to tourist attractions; browsing, bargaining and buying language for shopping success; food section including a quick menu decoder in local cuisine.

This handbook aims to present clearly and concisely the basics of Japanese verb construction and to demonstrate how verbs work within various sentence structures. Additional features include comprehension exercises, and an English-Japanese dictionary.

The first comprehensive introduction to syntactical analysis of Classical Chinese, focusing on the language of the high classical period, from the time of Confucius to the unification of the empire by Qin in 221 B.C.

Providing practical, human advice on religion in real-life, this title is not a comparison of world religions but a hands-on resource to help readers understand their own religions, explore others and show how to incorporate spiritual practices into their own lives.

Draws on interviews with police and forensic scientists to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation.

This dictionary covers approximately 2500 graphic symbols used in the Western world. Each entry includes the sign's history, its meanings and the systems in which it is used, along with cross-references to other signs with the same meanings and structurally similar signs with different meanings.

Describes the different types of vegetarianism, explains how to get essential nutrients whle not eating meat, and offers substitutions for favorite meat dishes.