But the self-help author Gabrielle Bernstein, whose new book, "May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness," was published this month, sees no conflict in glamming up for meditation.
It seemed amazing that the intervening hundred years (and hurricanes) hadn't covered up the evidence of rice cultivation, but later the next day, a guidebook we picked up at the Grove Plantation partly explained why.
Starting Thursday, the guidebook, the White Mountain Guide, will be accessible online at www.wmgonline.org.org
I eagerly await the day that guidebooks begin including highlighted information on this crucial travel concern.
"The hiking in Napa Valley is phenomenal," said Ken Stanton, author of the guidebook "Great Day Hikes In and Around Napa Valley".
Ms. Hamburg had made something of a name for herself as a supplier of useful information while still in college, when she wrote "New York on $5 a Day" for the Arthur Frommer guidebook series.
On a blue-sky May day while researching a guidebook on Belgium, I traveled to a small town called Ieper, better known as Ypres, 75 miles west of Brussels.
She has introduced several ideas aimed at engaging disaffected parents, including a proposal on Thursday to create a guidebook for parents of children with special needs.
The archdiocese of Freiburg in Germany issued a guidebook on Monday for priests ministering to remarried Catholics that spelled out a way for them to express remorse for their failed first marriage and receive communion and other sacraments.
The company, based in San Francisco, on Tuesday began offering Guidebooks, a feature that lets those who rent out their homes on Airbnb share information about their neighborhood's best restaurants, bars and attractions, including local spots that might not be found on travel websites or guides, all in the Airbnb app.
