Przewodnik ksenofoba to żartobliwe, ale pouczające spojrzenie na charakter i dziwactwa r�żnych narod�w.W tym tomie autorzy pokazują, kt�re wyjątkowe zalety i słabości Japończyk�w czynią ich Japończykami oraz jak te cechy są postrzegane przez inne narody. Szczera, napisana z nutą ironii książka stanowi gwarantowane lekarstwo na ksenofobię.Lektura obowiązkowa dla turyst�w i wszystkich ciekawych świata.
Warum der private Golfcamp von König Hassan von Marokko während eines versuchten Attentates in ein Gefängnis umfunktioniert und dem König fast zum Verhängnis wurde? Wie Dank eines Erdbebens das Einlochen auf einen Schlag gelang? Warum Hund Chico 1971 Ehrenmitglied im Waihi Colf Club in Neuseeland wurde? Diese und viele andere kuriose Golfgeschichten erzählt auf höchst amüsante Weise Jonathan Rice in 'Golfkuriositäten' Golfgeschichten über die Größten und Besten sind hier ebenfalls versammelt: So über Bob Hope, der noch im Alter von neunzig Jahren auf einen Schlag einlochte, über den englischen Premierminister Arthur Balfour, der gleich dreimal das 'Parlaments-Handicap ' gewann oder über die japanische Prinzessin Asuka, die 1929 im 'Ladies Challenge Cup Miyanosihita' Vize-Weltmeisterin wurde. Golfkuriositäten ist eine höchst unterhaltsame Sammlung von zumeist grotesken Anekdoten, die auf wahren Begebenheiten basieren.
From the authors of the best-selling "Guinness Book of British Hit Singles" comes the completely revised and updated 4th edition of British hit albums, covering every LP which has entered the charts from 1958-1989. With an alphabetical list of every act that has had an album in the Top 100, part 1 details the all-important name, label, peak position and length of time in the charts of each LP, as well as including a special section on compilation albums. Part II is a fascinating look into the statistical facts and feats including a complete record of all the No. 1 LPs, who has had the most chart success, whose is the best-selling album of all time, which LP has spent the longest time in the charts and which artists have entered at No.1. Part II also gives an overview of the album/music scene of the past 30 years and highlights major landmarks, people and titles that were important in the development of the 12 inch disc. The 4th edition of the "Guinness Book of British Hit Albums" with its many black and white photographs, is not only the definitive reference book for those in the music business, but an invaluable source of information for all rock and pop fans.
Golf has been considered a strange pastime, by players and non-players alike, since its inception in Scotland half a millennium ago. In Curiosities of Golf , Jonathan Rice has turned up the truly unusual in the course of the game's history— Chico the dog, who was made a member of the Waihi Golf Club in New Zealand because of his "infallible gift for finding balls;" Bob Hope, who shot a hole-in-one at the age of 90; King Hassan of Morocco, whose personal golf course was turned into a prison camp during a coup attempt; or the course in Uganda where balls may be placed no nearer the hole without penalty if they land in a hippo's footprint measuring more than 18 inches in diameter and two inches deep.
'I have distilled the accumulated wisdom of years of candlelight suppers and charity sub-committee meetings in creating this tastefully designed book which will help you live your life in the way I expect you to... Read it and please don't let me down any more.' Mrs. Hyacinth Bucket"Keeping Up Appearances" is a book of etiquette on modern social behaviour. As a book on etiquette it delves into what to do and what not to do in times of social indecision.
With a song title index and a statistical facts and feats section, plus 150 new photographs, 'The Guinness Book of No 1 Hits' reveals the who, why, when, and where of each chart-topper.