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Guides and books on the best places, food, travel and football, selected by our editors. The products are sold by Amazon; the links below take you to the search results on amazon.com.

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Travel guides

1,000 Places to See Before You Die

Patricia Schultz

A travel book of places around the world, by region.

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Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet's ranked list of places to visit.

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Lonely Planet's Best in Travel

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet's yearly selection of countries, regions and cities.

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The Cities Book

Lonely Planet

A portrait of the world's cities.

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Condé Nast Traveller guides

Condé Nast

Travel guides and books from Condé Nast Traveller.

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The Geography of Bliss

Eric Weiner

A journalist travels in search of the happiest places on earth.

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Food & drink

1001 Restaurants You Must Experience Before You Die

Jenny Linford (ed.)

Restaurants around the world, from street food to fine dining.

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Books on the world's top chefs

various

Books by and about chefs of the world's best restaurants.

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The MICHELIN Guide

Michelin

The restaurant guide with the Michelin stars.

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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Samin Nosrat

A cookbook about the four elements of good cooking.

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Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails

David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, Alex Day

The cocktail book of the New York bar Death & Co.

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Football

Inverting the Pyramid

Jonathan Wilson

A history of football tactics.

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Soccernomics

Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

Football explained with economics and data.

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Books on the Ballon d'Or and its winners

various

Biographies and histories of the great players.

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Learning & health

Excellent Sheep

William Deresiewicz

A critical book about elite universities.

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Make It Stick

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel

The science of learning, in plain words.

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Mayo Clinic Family Health Book

Mayo Clinic

A home medical reference from the Mayo Clinic.

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The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

A biography of cancer and of the fight against it.

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Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

A surgeon on medicine and what matters in the end.

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