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Books, magazines, maps and entertainment products

Here are presented some good online stores for books, maps, magazines, courses and learning materials in all fields, and some selected indiviudual books and materials.

Please click at the banners and links to read more or purchase. Further down there are an artcicle about digital books or book formatted computers and one about encyclopedias.

 

GENERAL BOOK AND ENTERTAINMENT STORES

eBooks.com - a great store of digital books and magazines - This is a general bookstore where you can find books of all cathegories for an affordable prize.

You can find books with all types of content: Fiction for children, youth and adults: Crime Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thrillers, Drama, Humor, Games

Books about science, arts, crafts and hobbies: Business. History, Computers, Religion, Health & Fitness, Science, Body Mind SpiritArchaeology. Architecture, Fine arts like painting and sculpture, Biographies Autobiography, Business and economics, Computers, Current Events, Education, Family & Relationships, Folklore & Mythology, Food and Wine, Foreign Languagesy, Health & Fitness, History, Gardening. House & Home, Law science, Literary Criticism, Mathematics, Media, Medical science, Nature, Performing arts like drama and music, Pets, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Political Science, Psychology and psychiatry, Reference, Religion, Science, Self-Help, Sex, Social Science, Sports and Recreation, Study, Aids, Technology, Transportation, Travel and geography, True Crime

Download an eBook today

 

Amazon.com - a great general book store - This is perhaps the greatest online booksstore and perhaps that with the longest tradition. This store is great in all kind of information and entertainment medias and devices, like video games and video game  consoles. Please click at these banners to see featured products, look through product lists or search for specific titles or products.

 

 

Digital magazines

Zinio digital magazines- buy your magazines online - and build up a library accessable digitally or printable from any place  - Zinio transforms print magazines into digital format. Same content. Same design. Delivered over the Internet and straight to computers. You get instant access and no download, software installation or plug in required. You will be able to access your library online from any computer and from anywhere and have the option to download and read offline, too.

Zinio.com - Immediate Delivery

 

 

Maps and geographic services

Maps.com - maps, travel guides and geographic knowledge materials regarding every part of the word on paper and in digital form  - Product categories you can access in this store are travel maps and guides, road maps, wall maps, antique maps, globes, atlases, games , classroom products and map software.

In addition to Map.com's own products, you can find map products from several publishers selected for their good product quality: nternational Travel Maps, National Geographic Maps, Rand McNally Maps, Lonely Planet Guides, Michelin Maps, Thomas Guides, CRAM Maps, GeoNova Maps, UniversalMAP.

Please access the general store here:

The World's Largest Online Map Store!

Please use these links to sections of particular interest:

Buy Maps for all 50 states only at Maps.com!

Travel Guides for ALL 50 states can be found only at Maps.com

Buy Travel Maps for Your Next Vacation!

Buy and Use a Travel Guide On Your Next Vacation!

Buy Antique Maps at Maps.com!

Buy Atlases at Maps.com!

Great Selection of Desk, Floor and Illuminated Globes at Maps.com!

 

Electronic reading devices in book-like formats

Amazone kindle - This is a computer and displaying device that you can use to download books and other materials wirelessly. Instead of having a load of paper books, you can just download what you want, store it on the kindle device and read it on that device in much the same manner as youy read ordinary books.

 


OTHER ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS

DecaGirl - Skins to decorate any device you have - Here you can find fancy, funny and beautiful skins for any type of deice from any company: Cellphones, laptops, kindle, computers.

Chrissy Clark Skins by DecalGirl.com

 

Get custom made taddy bears and other cosy dolls -  Get a unique teddy bear to give as gift to children, or use as decorations for your home or business place.

Shop BuildaBear

 

Design your own clothes - with Spreadshirt Designer - Here you can decide patterns, colors, figures and texts for your own clothes by an online interface, and order the clothes you have designed. The shop will send the clothes in 24-48 hours. You can design T-shirts, men's and ladies's longsleeves, jackets, special ladie's wear, trigema, football shirts, shorts, socks, junior's clothes, headwear, underwear and several types of apparel accessories. Design clothes for yourself or as a gift for your friends.

For residents in US, please click at this banner:

Spreadshirt Designer

Residents in UK, please click at this banner:

Spreadshirt Designer

 

General hobby item stores - Wireless models of helicopters aircrafts cars and boats, electric and gas driven.  All kinds of electronic devices for use in audio, video and light arrangements. Electronic transmitters and resceivers. All kinds of electronic components to build sound equipment or any other type of equipment. Electronic hobby sets. Chemistry sets, magic sets, airsoft guns and a lot more.

Trend Times Toy Store

HobbyTron.com Robots Await

 

Xenon Project - RC helicopters, airplanes, cars, boats  - All types of RC models for all age groups and of all prize categories.

XenonProject.com - Your Source for RC Toys

 

A great collection of model helicopters - Here you find any advnced remote control model helicopter .

 

Special store for nitro driven aircraft models

This is a great store of nitro driven aircraft models.

 

Nitro driven and electric redcats and racing cars: Nitro driven redcats: Hurricane XP PRO, Monsoon XP, Avalamche XP, Tornado BP, Tsunami, Tsunami ultrawide, Volcano SV SV Pro, Tremor ATV XTB XtG XTK XTR. Electric redcats: Lightning XTK, Tornado EPX, Tsunami EPX, Volcano EPXr.

To find more types of hobby items, electronic instruments, car equipment, optical instruments please click here

 

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SOME FEATURED BOOK TITLES

Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive

For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in...dead or alive.




Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein

Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein

Featuring a fascinating exploration of Einstein's theories, this volume also looks at Einstein's tumultuous life, which included two failed marriages and a longtime commitment to pacifism, Zionism, and Communism.




The Confession

The Confession

An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction.

He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader.




The Real Private Eye Handbook: Learn to be a Private Investigator or Detective by a leading Investigation company

The Real Private Eye Handbook: Learn to be a Private Investigator or Detective by a leading Investigation company

The goal of this book is to present a basic outline of what private investigators do, how they do it and how you can do some things for yourself. It is in an easy-to-read format that provides tips and guidance on many critical topics that are useful to anyone.





The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge—against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back. From the Hardcover edition.




The Darkest Lie

The Darkest Lie

Forced to his knees in agony whenever he speaks the truth, Gideon can recognize any lie--until he captures Scarlet, a demon-possessed immortal who claims to be his long-lost wife. He doesn't remember the beautiful female, much less wedding--or bedding--her. But he wants to...almost as much as he wants her. But Scarlet is keeper of Nightmares, too dangerous to roam free. A future with her might mean ultimate ruin. Especially as Gideon's enemies draw closer--and the truth threatens to destroy all he's come to love....




Cross Fire

Cross Fire

Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante? A murderer returns The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation.

As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess. Caught in a lethal cross fire As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig.




Raw Food Life Force Energy

Raw Food Life Force Energy

Looking for a whole new approach to weight loss, health, and beauty without necessarily going all raw or strictly vegetarian? Welcome to Raw Food Life Force Energy. According to top nutritionist Natalia Rose, everyone is entitled to a beautiful lean body, youthful radiant skin, abundant energy, and a state of natural bliss. The secret is tapping into the ultimate source of well-being—Life Force Energy. If we can properly harness and increase our Life Force Energy through simple dietary and environmental principles, and therefore cleanse and bring our bodies back to their natural, harmonious frequency, we can experience radically improved levels of health, beauty, and happiness. Raw Food Life Force Energy is entirely compatible with the principles laid out in Rose's previous book,




Decision Points

Decision Points

Teach students valuable information retrieval skills and build information literacy with this excellent guide and activity book. Along with a simplified explanation of Boolean logic and how it is used for online searching, it offers reproducible worksheets that lead students through decision-making and powerful strategic techniques of search process. These skills help online searchers make decisions and gain access to the desired person, place, or thing; off-line, they can be used to narrow a topic and search through library information with focus and direction. They can even be used in everyday situations, such as choosing pizza toppings. A must-buy for school libraries and computer labs, this book can also be used by classroom teachers and for independent instruction with older students and adults. A great tool for working through the cobwebs of online searching.




The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago.




The Secret Lives of People in Love

The Secret Lives of People in Love

The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world. Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."




Secret File of Joseph Stalin

Secret File of Joseph Stalin

This account of Stalin's life begins with his early years, the family breakup, the abuse by his father and the growth of the traumatized boy into criminal, spy, and finally one of the 20th century's political monsters.




The Secret History

The Secret History

By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state. Faithfully rendered here in blunt and idiomatic English, Prokopios' tell-all is as shocking today as it was in the sixth century. Kaldellis' substantial Introduction addresses, among other topics, the historical background to The Secret History ; Prokopios' literary style and major themes; and the relationships between Prokopios, Justinian, and Empress Theodora. Maps, genealogies, a glossary, and a selection of related texts (including excerpts from Prokopios' Wars and Buildings and several contemporary documents) enhance and support the reading of this scandalous and suspenseful book.




Secrets, Lies, Betrayals

Secrets, Lies, Betrayals

Reading Maggie Scarf’s groundbreaking new book could change your life. In Secrets, Lies, Betrayals, the bestselling author of Unfinished Business, Intimate Partners, and Intimate Worlds brilliantly explores how the body holds on to painful episodes from the past—including secrets we may be keeping even from ourselves—and how we can release them to live freer, healthier lives.




Top Secret Recipes Unlocked

Top Secret Recipes Unlocked

More than 4 million Top Secret Recipes books sold! The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new Top bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes collection-the first book since his bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 . Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes, revealing the key ingredients in some of our favorite foods such as Starbucks' Peppermint Brownie, Krispy Kreme's original glazed donuts, Panera Bread's cranberry walnut bagel and Wendy's Garden Sensations Manadarin Chicken Salad. The book will feature 115 new recipes, including 40 previously unpublished recipes such as: *Panera Bread French Onion Soup *Burger King Onion Rings *Chick-Fil-A Honey Roasted BBQ Sauce *McDonald's Cinnamon Melts *Stouffer's Macaroni & Cheese *Chipotle Mexican Grill Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette *Popeye's Buttermilk Biscuits. Forget takeout-with these fun recipes and blueprints, all using ingredients you can buy at your local supermarket, you can re-create your favorite restaurant signature dishes right in your own kitchen for a lot less!




The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B

In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.




Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations

Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations

Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War. France had agents in the U.S., China had agents in East Germany, Poland had agents in Great Britain, and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had agents everywhere—in governments, in industry, in the military, and within each other's, and their own, intelligence agencies. A-Z entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the subterranean world, events, people and operations of the Cold War. Cold War espionage was a nightmare of errors, seen darkly in a wilderness of mirrors, raining desperate deceptions in a climate of treason, with assassins trading in treachery using hidden hands running invisible governments. As fascinating as it was lethal, this labyrinthian world is still masked in mystery. A good amount is known and knowable, however, and this encyclopedia offers up the latest and most up to date information available, drawn from scholarship, memoirs, and journalism.


 

Computers and communication devices in book format - the future of books

The future of book are electronic computers and telecommunication devices with all the following properties and functions:

- They have a size like an A4 book or A3 book, and are thin and lightweight.

- They have a big screen suited for reading with good resolution like a book baper..

- They have full telecommunication facilities built inn like a mobile telephone

. They have full networking capabilities so that they can be connected to any computer or telephone network,

- They have voice input and output unit like a mobile telephone

- They can be connected to any printer or scanner like any other computer.

- They have full computing capabilities like a mobile PC

- They have softwere that allows navigation vand isualisation of text, pictures and videos in a way analogically to the way you navigate through a book.

- There will be central databases of book titles so that any book can be uploaded for use or where own written material can be downloaded into the device so that others can upload it

- Use of the material in the central databases will sometimes be based upon a fee, and sometimes be free, according to decisions made by the database provider and the people and instances furnishing the databases with produced material or books.

These developments will provide for a more democratic distribution of books written by authors and other produced materials. Any person that write a book will be able to publish the book without it being accepted by a redactorial unit before publication.

In some way the future is here allready. Amazon Kindle and iPad are a new generation of elctronic booklike communication and computer devices. These devices and the central database services behind the devices do not still have the full capabilities listed, but these are gradually developed and brought to the market.

For the time being the central book databases are owned by Amason and Applem but gradually there will appear many such book databases fthat can be freely used by any author or instance to diribute own produced books.

The standard books with text and still pictures will still exist, but videos, music and interactive program units will steadily more be integrated into electronic books. 

 

 

ABOUT ENCYCLOPEDIAS (encyclopaedias)

An encyclopedia is a compendium of a certain size that is ment to encompass all knowledge in the world or all knowledge of a certain field. The compendium is divided in articles about each object treated. The articles are each constructed such that they can be read and understood separately, without reading other articles before or after.

Encyclopedias often contain guides on how to do a variety of things, as well as embedded dictionaries and gazetteers.

The articles in an encyclopedia are ordered in a predetermined way so that they can easily be searched out and  found. The articles in most encyclopedias are ordered alphabetically, but they can be ordered in another lexical or numerical way.  Som encyclopedias have an organization in hierarcical categories.

In addition to the primary organization, there may be several secondary modes of organizations as cross references, references by keywords and in encyclopedias on modern electronic media also keyword search or free text search.

In order to comprehend all knowledge in the size available, most of the knowledge in the articles must be generalized to a certain level. Knoweledge and detailles of a finer level can only be included when they are especially imortant for understanding the subjct as a whole or as examples.

Traditionally encyclopedias was contained in traditional book volumes. They have contained written text graphical pictures and photographs. Nowadays encyclopedias are found as online services, sold on CDs or DVD and can be installed on private PC or servers. This new mediums allow modern encyclopedias to contain live music and video movies in addition to rigid elements as text  and images. They also allow them to contain advanced functions for search by keywords, text combined with disambuigation help.

Traditional encyclopedias are written by experts in the various fields and have rigorous routines for professional and language quality.

The newest development are encyclopedias that are built up and edited by the users, so called wikis. Such encyclopeadias, of which the Wikipedia is the best known, are continually edited and improved by users that include their own knowledge into the database. Such encyclopedias have the advantage of being updated very swiftly.

They also have the advantage of including information that is not yet fully proven, but that can be of value for some people. They have however the problem of articles with various quality levels, with various sizes and depth of information, and it is not always easy to judge weather information is correct or not.

The future development of online encyclopedias will be articles consisting of three main areas. The first area is written by engaged experts and is subjected to rigorousl quality control. The second area will be free to edit for everyone, and can contain additional information. In the third areas users can leave comments and corrections to be concidered by the official editors of the encyclopedia.

By now general software systems for organizing, maintaining, publishing and editing encyclopedias has been developed and can be bought or resceived on tha market. They are generally based on web technology with general database systems in the bottom.  In this way organizations or people can build up their own private encyclopedias. Wikipedia and other wikis are maintained by means of such general software.

Software for publishing encyclopedias on mobile telephones or wap-units is also available by now, and many publishers of encyclopedias offer a mobile service in addition to the traditional web version.

Encyclopedias were developed in the 18th century from dictionaries. Dictionaries show the orthographic writing or a term, show some flectional detailles and a simple definition. The need for more detaiiled explanations were often felt, and this gave the idea of developing the dictionaries into treatises with fuller knowledge.

The pioneers of the first encyclopedias often had a wider idealistic aim. They wanted to preserve all information for the benefit of coming generations so that new development of knowledge could be based upon allready available knowledge in a smooth way and all knowledge be accessible for everyone that needed the knowledge.

The English-language Encyclopædia Britannica and German Brockhaus are well-known examples of general encyclopedias.  Examples of encyclopedias with a particular cultural, ethnic, or national perspective are the Great Soviet Encyclopedia or Encyclopaedia Judaica.

Encyclopedias of special professional fields, as for example medical encyclopedias, may have the aim of comprehending all information known on that field at a given time.

Many people use search engines as a sort of encyclopedia of everything in the world. The web contain after all knowledge of everything. However, the result you get from search engines are not allways what you expect. You get material containing certain words or word combination, but it is not given that much of that material really are articles about the subjects indicated by the words you use, and it is sometimes difficult to get material with the quality you want.

There is by now efforts going on to make search engines that behave in a more encyclopedia like fashion. The great search engines like google and yahoo are moving in that direction, by adding functionallity that make them suitable as a sort of ecyclopedia. AskTheBrain.com is another effort to make a web-based encyclopedia that uses material that is allready on the web and present it in a way that is most useful for a knowledge seeker.