Many couples think Las Vegas is their only option for elopement. But the authors, a married couple and travel writers, have researched 25 other romantic getaways, such as Fiji and Israel. Each chapter includes sidebars on interesting activities, diversions, and local customs. 60 photos.

A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader.

A fresh and provocative approach to representations of exotic women in Victorian Britain.

A vet for 42 years, the author shares how he overcame his fear of animals as a child to become a skilled and compassionate doctor treating exotic, domestic, and a wild medley of animals.

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.

DIVStudy of how systems of power and domination have shaped representations of otherness in music./div

If you think the alphabet stops with Z, you are wrong. So wrong. Leave it to Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell (with a little help from Dr. Seuss) to create an entirely new alphabet beginning with Z! This rhyming picture book introduces twenty new letters and the creatures that one can spell with them. Discover (and spell) such wonderfully Seussian creations as the Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz and the High Gargel-orum. Readers young and old will be giggling from beginning to end . . . or should we say, from Yuzz to Hi!