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	Eyewitness Guide Amsterdam  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 312 PAGES A wonderful guide to Amsterdam, filled with detailed drawings, photographs and thumbnail sketches. The highly visual format covers a wide range of information and is very well indexed, with color-coded pages for easy use. Slim and attractive, it also includes detailed maps and cutaway drawings of landmarks. (NTH01, $23.00)
	The Undutchables, An Observation of the Netherlands, Its Culture and Inhabitants  •  Colin White CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2006 •  PAPER  • 310 PAGES Covering topics such as home, money, children and politics, this inspired and funny book explores the myth of the stolid Dutch. It's a laugh-out-loud, irreverent guide to understanding Dutch character and habits, including how to drink coffee and why you shouldn't even think about haggling over prices. (NTH12, $15.00)
	Amsterdam, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Manfred Wolf ANTHOLOGY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 238 PAGES Organized by district, these 17 contemporary short stories by modern Dutch writers, including Cees Nooteboom and Geert Mak, are all set among the canals, cafes and neighborhoods of Amsterdam. (NTH33, $13.95)
	A Worldly Art, The Dutch Republic 1585-1718  •  Mariet Westermann ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES A slim, illustrated analysis of Dutch art in its golden age, divided by genre. Artists of the era included the masters Rembrandt, Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch and Frans Hals, painters whose interest in material detail resulted in canvases brimming with Dutch daily life. With 100 color illustrations. (NTH46, $25.00)
	Amsterdam Map  •   Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A laminated, folded map of the city center, at a scale of 1:11,000. (NTH36, $7.95)

	Blue Guide Amsterdam  •  Charles Ford   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide in the well known series, this book provides detailed coverage of the history, art and architecture of Amsterdam. Serious-minded travelers will not want to be without it. (NTH15, $19.95)
	Dutch, A Rough Guide Phrasebook  •   Rough Guide   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  An A-Z pocket dictionary, phrasebook and mini-guide to the Dutch language. (NTH74, $6.99)
	Dutch, Start Speaking Today  •   Language/30   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A 90-minute crash course in Dutch featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook. (NTH73, $21.95)
	Fodor's Amsterdam's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide includes an excellent map of the city center and can easily be slipped in your pocket. (NTH16, $11.95)
	Insight Guide Holland  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This beautiful guide features wonderful photographs and essays prepared by experts on Holland's attractions, history and culture. With dozens of excellent color maps. (NTH02, $23.95)
	Lonely Planet Amsterdam  •  Andrew Bender   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular series. (NTH106, $19.99)
	Wallpaper City Guide Amsterdam  •   Wallpaper Magazine   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (NTH86, $8.95)
	Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer  •  David Winner   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This odd book, all about soccer but not really about the sport at all, conveys the wry Dutch character in anecdote, image and history. (NTH56, $14.95)
	Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland  •  Paul Zumthor   • HISTORY  •  First published in 1959, this richly detailed portrait of Dutch society during the golden age looks at material life of the average citizen including food, housing, holidays, industry, relations between the sexes -- and even toilet habits. (NTH19, $26.95)
	The Autumn of the Middle Ages  •  Johan Huizinga   • HISTORY  •  A pioneering work of social and cultural history, this well translated classic is a richly detailed portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. (EUR17, $25.00)
	The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806  •  Jonathan Israel   • HISTORY  •  Impressive in scope (and daunting in size), we heartily recommend this massively well-researched, genuinely readable and authoritative history for travelers with a healthy appetite for history. (NTH76, $65.00)
	The Embarrassment of Riches  •  Simon Schama   • HISTORY  •  An engaging cultural history and much more, this book is a study of the Dutch in the 17th century and their surprising challenge to Spanish rule. (NTH04, $24.00)
	The Tulip  •  Anna Pavord   • HISTORY  •  In Holland, the tulip is not just another flower; it's a national obsession. Pavord traces the history of the magnificent flower through the last few hundred years, with stories about how much it was treasured and her own reflections on its beauty. (NTH21, $14.95)
	Tulipomania  •  Mike Dash   • HISTORY  •  In this witty tale, historian Mike Dash traces the story of the tulip from its origins on the Turkish steppes to its important role as the subject of financial folly in 17th-century Holland. (NTH30, $13.95)
	Dutch Painting (World of Art)  •  Rudolf Herman Fuchs   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Starting with Van Eyck and his 15th-century contemporaries, this volume in the "World of Art" series surveys nearly 500 years of painting in the Netherlands, ending with a discussion of late 20th-century artists. Featuring almost 200 illustrations. (NTH72, $14.95)
	Rembrandt, Master of the Portrait  •  Pascal Bonafoux   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  With over 200 illustrations, this pocket-size encyclopedia traces the life and career of Rembrandt. It offers insight into his influence on the art of the portrait -- an illuminating companion for any visit to Amsterdam and its museums. (NTH11, $12.95)
	Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye  •  Pascal Bonafoux   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • FAVORITE  •  From Paris to Asnieres, Amsterdam and Provence, this jewel of a book traces the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh, the spirited, self-destructive painter who celebrated the south of France. Engaging, compact and illustrated with hundreds of photographs. (FRN29, $12.95)
	My 'Dam Life, Three Years in Holland  •  Sean Condon   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A hilarious account of making do in Amsterdam. Sean and wife Sally relocate to the land of clogs and orange for a job that soon evaporates, leaving the duo scrambling for housing and work in a strange land. Condon is as edgy, sarcastic and insightful as ever. (NTH70, $14.00)
	The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition  •  Anne Frank   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The classic story of an adolescent Jewish girl's life and thoughts while in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Holland. A new edition with added material. (NTH05, $12.95)
	Headlong, A Novel  •  Michael Frayn   • LITERATURE  •  A Bruegel canvas claims a central role in Frayn's hilarious tale of an art heist gone awry. Frayn weaves detailed research about the Old Master with a philosopher's foiled plot to appropriate the valuable masterpiece from a boor he feels is unworthy of it. (NTH68, $15.00)
	Love in Amsterdam  •  Nicolas Freeling   • MYSTERY  •  Freeling's moody police procedural introducing Amsterdam detective Piet Van der Valk, orginally published in 1962 (and made into a television series in the 1970s). (NTH101, $14.95)
	Murder in Amsterdam, Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance  •  Ian Buruma   • MYSTERY  •  Buruma, a Dutch expat who spent years in Japan, turns crime reporter as he travels back to Holland to examine the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by an Islamic extremist. (NTH91, $15.00)
	The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi  •  Arthur Japin  •  Ina Rilke   • LITERATURE  •  An acclaimed debut novel by a young Dutch writer, concerning the tragic fortunes of two Dutch-educated West African princes circa 1830, whose schooling renders them neither Dutch nor Ashanti. (NTH45, $14.00)

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