Touring the Neighborhoods One Bite and Libation at a Time
Philadelphia Food Crawls is an exciting culinary tour through this historic yet modern city. Each crawl is the complete recipe for the perfect tourist day, a new way to experience your own city, or simply food porn and great stories to enjoy from home. Put on your walking shoes and your stretch pants, and dig into the City of Brotherly Love one ......
Could the most photographed and picture-taking generation the world has ever seen end up having little or no photographic record? This straightforward guide shows how to establish order and security for your photo archiving in ways that are simple, affordable and achievable. Bring a little order to the chaos of your photo collection.
Easy to follow advice on fixing and optimising your photos, from resizing and cropping through to brightness, contrast, layers, colour adjustments, B&W, and how to prepare your best images for high-quality prints. This guide shows you how to take control of the many ways to improve and perfect your photos.
Easy to follow, expert advice on how to print long-lasting, impactful images: how to choose the right printer and paper; printer and driver set up tips; how to balance colours and tones; colour management and soft proofing tips; how to control the differences between how an image appears on a screen and when it’s output to paper.
This extensive guide shows how the history and culture of Illinois are embedded in the names of its towns, cities, and other geographical features. Edward Callary unearths the origins of names of nearly three thousand Illinois communities and the circumstances surrounding their naming and renaming. Organized alphabetically, the entries are ......
Plants of Northern California is the complete guide to the rich and unique flora of Northern California. From lush riparian forests along the rivers and streams to oak woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, and the ephemeral pools known as vernal pools, this handy volume enables both amateur and professional to quickly and accurately identify Northern ......
Celebrating Portland's best restaurants and eateries with recipes and photograph, Portland, Oregon Chef's Table profiles signature "at home" recipes from over 40 legendary dining establishments. A keepsake cookbook for tourists and locals alike, the book is a celebration of Portland's farm-to-table way of life.
Explore Prague on foot with the help of this innovative guide, filled with full-color, aerial-view maps and color photographs. The routes are comprehensive but not overwhelming, allowing you to connect neighborhoods, parks, and noteworthy sights at your own pace. The informative, lively text provides provides background information on all the ......
An absorbing tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark ......
