Books about Rough Guides

Essential guide to buying, using and upgrading PCs, choosing and downloading software, and getting the most from Windows XP. Contains everything you need to know about getting the right hardware whether you're buying a whole system on the high-street, upgrading or even building a machine from scratch.

The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies is a comprehensive guide to the 'final frontier' of film. It explores our fascination with space exploration, time travel, fantastical worlds and alternative futures.

A pocket-sized Dutch phrasebook, featuring A-Z English to Dutch and A-Z Dutch to English translations. There are 16-pages of scenario material, recorded by native Dutch speakers, in the format of downloadable audio files. This phrasebook also includes a grammar section, and a menu and drinks list reader.

Contains descriptions and listings of the bars, restaurants and music venues to be seen at, from the city of Havana to the seaside resorts of Cayo Coco and Guardalavaca. This guide also takes a look at the country's history, sport, music and wildlife.

A guide to Turkey, which includes a colour section that introduces Turkey's highlights, from the markets of Istanbul to the rock churches of Cappadocia. It features accounts of the country's wide-ranging sights and reviews of the best places to eat, sleep and drink. It also provides background on Turkish history, literature, music and film.

Since its inception in 2001, the World Mapping Project has taken as its task the last great adventure in cartography...to map every country with state-of-the-art technology . This map is one of a series offering this, combined with practicality, clarity of design and value.

Looks at Switzerland's history, wildlife and culture, with maps and plans. The color section introduces the country's highlights, from snowboarding in the Alps and sampling swiss wine to the country's Gothic cathedrals and medieval castles. This guide includes listings of the places to eat, drink and stay, plus 'author picks' to present the best.

A useful reference work on sounds from around the globe which offers coverage of genres from Afrobeat to Arabesque, and artists from Amadou & Mariam to Umm Kulthum. It includes articles on more than 60 countries written by contributors, discographies for each article with biographical notes on thousands of musicians, and reviews of their CDs.

A guide to the oldest tourist destination on earth. It includes coverage of Nile cruises and diving in the Red Sea and Mediterranean, as well as coverage of Cairo, with accommodation and restaurants organised by district. It highlights various places to eat, drink. It takes a look at Egypt's history and culture.

Covers from Reykjavik's nightlife to the dramatic Western Fjords and table-top mountains to the rich birdlife of Lake Myvatn. This guide offers practical advice for a host of outdoor activities, from skiing on the Vatnajokull glacier to whale-watching and viewing the Northern Lights.

With more than 300 artist biographies and band stories, this is the essential heavy metal companion. Additional features include dozens of boxouts and sidebars on topics as diverse and disturbing as Weird Hobbies, Christian Metal, the Japanese Scene, Weird Day Jobs, the Eastern European Scene, Hardcore Crossover and Drummer Jokes.