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Today Rough Guides announce a partnership with HostelBookers as a new accommodation provider on roughguides.com.

The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 3rd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options-global and personal-for dealing with the threat of a warming world.

Forget the economic woes and the hassle of travelling abroad – the real reason Brits want to holiday in Great Britain is because they “love holidaying” at home!

Rough Guides today announce the availability of the new Rough Guides London, Paris, New York and Rome city apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, the company's first city destination apps on the App Store.

Rough Guides was last night awarded the Best Integrated Digital Marketing Campaign at the Bookseller FutureBooks Digital Innovation Awards for their Make the Most of your Time on Earth campaign.

Make the Most of Your Time in Britain presents 500 of the best travel experiences from across the country bringing together Rough Guides’ top picks for the most inventive, exciting and downright bizarre things to see, do and explore in Britain.

Psychology finds the scientific answers to questions that people have pondered for centuries, The Rough Guide to Psychology provides an illuminating tour of this varied subject covering classic studies and the most recent academic findings.

Spend more time exploring and less time reading with the new Pocket Rough Guide city break series. These slim, full-colour guides will help travellers make the most of the great cities of the world. So, for those of us without amigos in Barcelona, without amis en Paris or buddies in New York, these Pocket guides will fill the gap with tell-it-like-it-is text and reliable recommendations.

From January 24th, commuters on the London Underground will have the chance to watch 20-second “mini-guides” to some of the most exciting travel destinations in the world, broadcasting exclusively on 60 screens across the capital. The campaign is the result of a pioneering partnership between CBS Outdoor UK and Rough Guides.

Mobile Commerce, the UK’s leading provider of location-based services (LBS) and mobile content integration, today announces a partnership with leading travel content provider Rough Guides with the launch of a suite of travel guides as apps for download at Nokia’s Ovi Store.

With a friendly, no-nonsense approach, The Rough Guide to the Guitar will have you playing your first riffs and songs in no time at all, and tell you how to get the sounds of the guitar greats.

Rough Guides are giving travellers the chance to have their favourite travel photo featured in the new Rough Guides World Lens App. Budding photographers can upload their top travel photos to win the chance of having the image included in this free inspirational travel app alongside the best of the Rough Guide picture library.

London topped the poll for where Rough Guide fans enjoyed some of their best travel experiences of 2010. We asked thousands of avid travellers what made them tick while travelling in 2010 and London was the city most often at the top of the chart.

Almost one in every five smartphones sold in the UK run on Android™ and with a range of handsets, providers and thousands of apps, the Android platform looks set to dominate the market. So, where can you turn to for friendly, accessible advice about this up-and-coming mobile platform?

Rough Guides today announced its Rough Guides World Lens App is now available on the App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The free, inspirational travel app showcases the best of Rough Guides’ picture library.

The Best Art You’ve Never Seen restores to view 101 great treasures from around the world. From the richly-painted Buddhist caves of Mogao in northern China to the haunting self-portrait of Felix Nussbaum, an artist persecuted by the Nazis, author Julian Spalding takes us into a world of startling and beautiful artefacts and reveals the amazing, and often moving, stories behind each one.

The Rough Guide to Classical Music contains over 200 biographies of composers, from the usual suspects such as Bach and Beethoven, to less well-known figures like British modernist Elisabeth Lutyens and the womanizing Baroque genius Alessandro Stradella. This revised and expanded fifth edition makes the ideal handbook for aficionados and novices alike, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian Chant to contemporary figures such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho.

From simple sites in stunning wilderness locations to glampsite chic complete with chandeliers, the new Rough Guide to Camping in Britain brings you the best campsites from across the country.

Keep your inner Bridezilla or grumpy groom under control and get your wedding planning off to a flying start with The Rough Guide to Weddings, packed with everything you need to know from popping the question to the big day itself.

Following on from the best-selling first edition of Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide to the World, Rough Guides’ pick of 1000 ultimate travel experiences now comes in a smaller, compact format. This condensed guide still includes every original experience and stunning images but this mini edition might even fit in your backpack!

The Rough Guide Book of Brain Training contains 100 days’ worth of puzzles designed to give your brain a thorough workout. Brain training is the new craze that can improve your mind’s performance in a multitude of ways, and this book – the first interactive Rough Guide – allows you to play along, fill in the gaps, and exercise your mind.

The Rough Guide to Manga provides an in-depth exploration into what has become one of the most fashionable genres in modern popular culture. For the comic book novice and the hardcore otaku (manga super-fan) alike, The Rough Guide to Manga is the complete guide to the world of Japanese comics.

From the new inspirational travel title ‘Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World’ to a new Rough Guide to Istanbul or updated editions to favourite destinations, you’ll find details of new Rough Guide titles published this summer here...

Have you ever wondered who was Spirited Away, why Howl’s castle moves? Let The Rough Guide to Anime bring you up to speed with the colourful and dynamic world of Japanese animation. Discover artists such as Osamu Tezuka and marvel at the work of Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, who brought the magical stories of Princess Mononoke and My Neighbour Totoro to the big screen.

Boasting one of the most dramatic stretches of coastline in all of Europe, as well as some of the continent’s wildest mountains, tiny Montenegro is likely to confound most people’s expectations. Step into the heart of this European wilderness with the new Rough Guide to Montenegro and explore every corner: whether it’s getting lost in Kotor’s Old Town, visiting Njegos Mausoleum nestled in Lovcen National Park, or braving the view from the Tara Canyon.

South America summons the most intrepid of travellers. Visitors can scale the Andes, explore the immense Amazonian jungle, experience the world’s highest waterfall, driest desert, southernmost town or largest river. The new Rough Guide to South America on a Budget is written by Rough Guide authors and eager bargain-hunters [students] and suggests lively itineraries, tips on crossing borders, outdoor activities, nightlife, history and even a pre-warning for your pallet – anyone for caldo de patas?

With everything you need to know about being a teenage girl, The Rough Guide to Girl Stuff is designed to be a friend through the teenage years – it tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth, to let girls make up their own mind about things.

Rough Guides have chosen World Nomads as their recommended travel insurance provider. World Nomads insurance will be integrated into www.roughguides.com and feature in the Rough Guide travel books. Rough Guides will be promoted as a key partner on www.worldnomads.com.

From the newly discovered remains of his first Shoreditch theatre to a possible new portrait of the Bard himself, Shakespeare continues to entertain, inspire and challenge readers all over the world. The eagerly anticipated new edition of the bestselling Rough Guide to Shakespeare is not just a comprehensive reference tool, but a celebration of all things Shakespearian.

From Jamie’s Ministry of Food to Labour’s promise of better school dinners, from global environmental concerns to the plight of UK farmers, food is constantly in our headlines, politics and entertainment. But behind the celebrities, the hype, the catch words and the packaging, how much do we really know about the food we eat, where it comes from and what impact it has on the environment?

From horse racing in Guatemala to the magnificent Mayan ruins in Honduras via volcano hopping in Costa Rica, The Rough Guide to Central America on a Budget is packed with ideas for anyone planning a trip to the region - all in the name of experiencing more for less. So, hop on a 'Chicken Bus' and work your way through the widely divergent cultures, festivals and landscapes of some of the most beautiful countries in the world.

What is happiness? And how can we achieve it? The Rough Guide to Happiness by Dr Nick Baylis is a deeply refreshing, irreverent and really useful take on the whole happiness question.

Make the most of the noughties with Rough Guides - on your bookshelf, in your backpack, online and on TV. We’re looking forward to a year brimming with new and updated guides, maps and travel specials, plus we’re already traversing the globe to bring you the best travel experiences in the second series of Rough Guide to… on Five.

The baby has landed. You're home. Now what? Kaz Cooke, author of the bestselling and much-loved Rough Guide to Pregnancy & Birth, returns to offer her famous blend of funny, reassuring and practical advice in The Rough Guide to Babies and Toddlers, published in March.

The Rough Guide to Men's Health provides the ultimate lowdown on how men can make the most of life with the body they have. Avoiding flabby waffle and well-being Puritanism, author Lloyd Bradley and his team present the facts, give their expert advice and suggest realistic practical steps to take.

From a singing Orangutan to Chopin here’s a creative guess at what Darwin might have had on his iPod, with a couple of Evolution-influenced tunes that he may, or may not, have been proud to be associated with, from The Rough Guide to Evolution.

Had enough of Christmas repeats and turkey sandwiches? Dreading the post Christmas slump? Get off the sofa and experience some of England’s most beautiful countryside with The Rough Guide to Walks in London & Southeast England.

Fresh from the beaches of the successful first series of Rough Guide To…, Five’s intrepid presenters continue to scour the globe exposing destinations that fail to live up to their hype and sharing discoveries of hidden gems around the world.

The perfect primer to all things evolutionary, The Rough Guide to Evolution is published on 2 January providing an accessible introduction to an idea that changed the way we think of life on Earth, including a pithy one-page summary of The Origin of Species.

From skateboarding dogs to preposterous eBay auctions, 'cheddarvision TV' to famous faces from cyberspace, a highly addictive new Rough Guide >>FWD this link brings together some of the most popular, notable and ludicrous Internet distractions that have conspired to stop us doing things we should really be doing.

The Antipodes (coming from the Latin antipous meaning – with feet opposite) really do give an opposing slice of life to that of the UK - months of blissful sunshine, acres of deserted beaches and a laid back lifestyle. New this month, The Rough Guide to East Coast Australia, The Rough Guide to Tasmania and The Rough Guide to Fiji explore the best of three rather amazing destinations.

The second edition of The Rough Guide to the iPhone is the comprehensive one-stop guide to the new 3G iPhone. From setting the device up out-of-the-box to maintenance and advanced functions, whether a novice or an advanced user, the The Rough Guide to the iPhone can help you get the most out of your iPhone.

Check out the new and updated guides available this season. Including the brand new Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget, The Rough Guide to East Coast Australia, The Rough Guide to Tasmania, The Rough Guide to Fiji and The Rough Guide to Puerto Rico.

With its tempting mix of volcanoes, rainforests, ricefields, beaches and coral reefs, The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget is the perfect companion for anyone looking to make the most of their time in this exotic region, without breaking the bank.

A new title from Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Korea opens up this fascinating yet relatively unexplored corner of Asia. Korea is a rapidly emerging destination, and its rich history, diverse culture and complex social and political situation makes it a unique and engaging place to travel.

"Think of this book as a field guide for living. Its purpose: to expand your world, rattle your cage, enlarge your soul, and inspire you to undertake some of the greatest outdoor experiences on earth" author Greg Witt.

This fully revised and updated edition sorts the myths from the realities, the allegations from the explanations and the paranoid from the probable.

Find out about all the new and updated titles available from Rough Guides from July to September. Including Ultimate Adventures: The Rough Guide to Adventure Travel and new guides to Korea and Los Angeles and Southern California.

Emerging in the seventies as a niche form of entertainment, Videogames have edged their way further and further into mainstream culture. At a time when gaming has never been more popular, videogames fanatics Kate Beren and Geoff Howard felt there was no better time for The Rough Guide to Videogames.

One of the fastest-growing areas in publishing, the world of Graphic Novels can confuse even the most informed comics aficionado, let alone comics newbies. From Sin City to Persepolis, Raymond Briggs to Harvey Pekar, the new Rough Guide to Graphic Novels is the ultimate companion to this diverse medium.

In one of the first deals of its kind, Rough Guides have announced a new partnership to bring custom Spanish-language destination guides and image slideshows to MSN Latino’s portal.

Rough Guide authors Richard Trillo and Jim Hudgens bring the fifteen most accessible countries closer to us with this 2008 edition. More detailed than the leading competitor, this Rough Guide covers thousands of ways to experience the region from seeing salt water hippos in Guinea-Bissau, enjoying the pan-African film festival in Burkina Faso, meeting a Yoruba priestess in Nigeria or staying in an eco-lodge in southern Gambia.

Building on the success of The Rough Guide to... series on Five, four new hour-long programmes will see four celebrities push themselves to the extreme in Rough Guide to Ultimate Escapes. From African deserts to the dense Philippines jungle, the celebrities will scour the globe in pursuit of the ultimate travel experience...

Of the two hundred-plus destinations across the world that Rough Guides covers, there is none so fascinating, beautiful and culturally diverse, yet as insular, self-important and irritating, as England.

Rough Guides have today announced a partnership with Zinio, the world’s biggest provider of magazines online, offering the ability to download a range of the most popular Rough Guide city-break guides from Zinio’s extensive ‘global newsstand’.

Overwhelmed by all the great books out there, befuddled by bestsellers and booksellers’ choice, the ‘must reads’ and prizewinners? If you need help separating the literary gems from all the rest then let the new Rough Guide to Classic Novels point you to your next read and spend this summer acquainting yourself with some of the world’s best loved heroes and heroines, rogues and villains, tragedies, mysteries and love stories.

With customers already able to put down deposits for their trips to space and cargo ships docking at International Space Station this week, it might not be so long before your holidays really are out of this world. But do you know whether there could really be life on Mars or what’s beyond the Milky Way - how clued up are you about your universe? The Rough Guide to the Universe separates fact from (science) fiction in a concise and straight-forward manner - a perfect introduction to all things galactic.

Economic slow down, credit squeeze... The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget shows how a big trip doesn’t need to break the bank, from fishing for your supper in Istanbul to finding a cheap pint in London.

According to a new survey carried out to mark the publication of The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children by Fawzia Rasheed de Francisco.

A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about what could be the most important economic, social and political issue of the 21st Century. A new edition of The Rough Guide to Climate Change publishes with up-to-the-minute information such as highlights from the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Dr Fawzia Rasheed de Francisco provides inspiration and advice in The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children.

Please find a list of new and updated Rough Guides for January - March 2008.

David Lean, director of Lawrence of Arabia and Brief Encounter has been voted our favourite British Film Director, beating Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh.

With the exhibition on its way to London The Rough Guide to Tutankhamun lets you examine the mystery of Tut's treasures ahead of the crowd.

With 59 of the 1000 ultimate travel experiences located in Britain and Ireland, Make the Most of your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide to the World proves you don’t need to jet away to experience some of the quirkiest days out on earth.

The brand new Rough Guide to Running promises to propel you ahead of the pack with a power brew of reliable guidance and inspirational tips.

Rough Guides celebrates the success of Rough Guide Mobile, providing travel info on the move on over 5 million phones throughout Europe.

Rough Guides team up with Cobra Beer to launch an innovative competition to get your 'mug' on a beer mat to celebrate the publication of Make The Most of Your Time on Earth.

Kick back, relax and seek out some winter sun with new and updated Rough Guides this autumn!

Rough Guides are sad to announce that, after 25 years, Mark Ellingham is to leave the company. Mark will join Profile Books as Associate Editor, but will retain close links with Rough Guides, as an author of several travel guides, and as co-editor of The Rough Guide to World Music.

Following its successful series of film genre books, Rough Guides presents a bold new guide to cinema through the lens of its leading directors. Covering the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region The Rough Guide to Film is sure to inspire a lifetime of DVD viewing.

Rough Guides has been nominated a CoolBrand for the second time, proving that the British publisher is still one of the coolest brands in the country. The CoolBrands council said: ‘Trading on wit, up-to-date information and an engaging chatty style it does what few other guides have succeeded in doing: demystifies travel and popular culture in an informative and entertaining way'....

Whether you’re an armchair traveller or looking to plan your next adventure, ‘Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: The Rough Guide to the World’ is a book to inspire. Discover the world’s best travel experiences from extraordinary landscapes and jaw-dropping architecture, to white knuckle adventures and the world’s best beaches

Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman may have been the talk of the town at the premiere of The Golden Compass but who are the people that really influenced Philip Pullmans’ dark and controversial trilogy? From Milton to the Magnificent Seven, The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials has it all.

With the much anticipated film out later this year, now is the time to brush up on Pullman’s alternate worlds and to distinguish your Daemons from your dust with The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

Taking the stress out of crafting the ultimate music collection The Rough Guide Book of Playlists has over 700 perfect playlists for every taste and occasion.

Celebrating 60 years of independence, India has never left the travel map. Rediscover India’s most colourful region; with the bazaars of Jaipur’s Pink City, the blue streets of Jodhpur, the honey-coloured desert city of Jaisalmer and the white fairytale palaces of the romantic lakeside city of Udaipur.

The Rough Guide to the iPhone is the ultimate guide to Apple’s latest ‘must-have’. Published before the iPhone even hits the shelves in the UK, it covers the basics of this impressive device and unlocks its myriad secrets and hidden extras. From conference calling to loading DVDs, this is the essential guide to the greatest gadget ever created. Forget crackberry, we’ll soon all be iPhoned.

What will you listen to on your next road trip, as you embark on your next adventure, or while you're chilling on the beach this summer? Rough Guides have the answer with the ultimate travel playlist.

The Rough Guide to Velvet Underground and The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin chart the success and excess, the magic and the mayhem of an era that brought musical revolution and innovation. Discover the personalities, the songs, and the stories behind them, in these essential companions to two of modern music's greatest bands.

Stigmata, poltergeists and ‘Bigfoot’ all conjure images of a distant past governed by superstition and supposition. But the Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena could prove you wrong. From UFO sightings to raining fish in Great Yarmouth, it explores our unexplained phenomena at home and abroad.

Whether you’re new to opera, or are already familiar with many of its masterpieces, The Rough Guide to Opera is the essential guide through this mass of music, providing concise information to the composers, the operas and the recordings.

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world's most popular literary genre. With a foreword by Ian Rankin, this is the ultimate crime buyer's shopping list, recommending over 200 classic crime novels and mystery authors. You can even find out how the Bible could be considered a crime novel.

Within each of our skulls resides an organ more powerful than the fastest supercomputer, the ultimate multi-tasker controlling everything from the retrieval of memories to complex reasoning. The Rough Guide to the Brian provides an absorbing introduction to the science of the mind. Illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams, this Rough Guide is guaranteed to get you thinking.

Summer is here and Rough Guides have published three exciting new travel titles with Rough Guides to Taiwan, Denmark, and Yellowstone & The Grand Tetons, ‘mother nature’s theme park’. There is also a range of fully updated and revised Rough Guides including popular new editions of France, Croatia and Italy.

You probably couldn’t get two more diverse film genres than the bright and breezy Hollywood musical and the shadowy film noir. The Rough Guide to Film Noir shines a searchlight into cinema's darkest and most dangerous corners and The Rough Guide to Film Musicals is the perfect companion to cinema's most spectacular genre.

The top 25 travel experiences in Britain & Ireland are being revealed by Rough Guides as part of their 25th birthday year! From walking on Dartmoor, to soaking up the Edinburgh Festival, the list of 25 must-dos feature in the new Rough Guides 25s: Britain & Ireland, with a fantastic range of reasons why we should explore more.

Rough Guides celebrate 25 years of great travel and reference writing this year with a fantastic new range of books featuring ultimate experiences from across the world. From Italy to India, and Wonders of the World to Ethical Travel, Rough Guides 25s are full of experiences, ideas and enthusiasms to whet the travelling appetite!

From the opening and closing of oceans over million of years, to the overnight reshaping of landscapes by volcanoes, the Earth beneath our feet is constantly on the move. The Rough Guide to the Earth explores our planet’s past, present and future. Come and take a tour around the third rock from the sun and find out how urban living can be more eco-friendly than living in the country.

The Royal Society Prize for Science Books is the world’s top award for science writing. Of The Rough Guide to Climate Change, the judges said: “This clearly illustrated book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the ‘hot topic’ of the day in an accessible way.”

Rough Guide DIRECTIONS are smaller than your average guide but still packed with the type of writing you'd expect from a Rough Guide. Packed with highlights, handy tips and detailed maps, from restaurants and hotels to museums and nightlife, DIRECTIONS have all you need for holidays and short breaks.

Applying the characteristic Rough Guides approach to unravelling the mysteries of the mind, our planet and genetic research, The Rough Guide to the Brain, The Rough Guide to the Earth and The Rough Guide to Genes & Cloning are sure to enlighten, entertain and challenge.

“Where did the blues begin?... the truth is surely that the blues began several million times over. It was born again and again, every time another African gazed for the last time at the land of his or her birth.” muses author Nigel Williamson. The Rough Guide to The Blues is the essential blues companion, telling its fascinating story and giving the lowdown on all the grittiest singers, bottleneck guitarists, belt-it-out divas and wailing harmonica players. It covers the whole journey from its roots in Africa, to how the blues crawled from the Mississippi Delta, went electric in the cities, and spread across the world.

Alongside the publication of World Party: The Rough Guide to the World's Best Festivals, readers of the Rough Guides website have voted for their favourite parties, and it's official; Rio is the world's best festival!

World Party: The Rough Guide to the World's Best Festivals is the ultimate guide to the most spectacular events on earth. Published in January, and celebrating 25 years since the publication of the first ever Rough Guide, the new book contains over 200 events, from the carnival in Rio to a stumbled-upon fiesta in a dusty Spanish town, and proves there's nothing like the life-affirming buzz of a good festival!

The new Rough Guide to MySpace and online communities by Peter Buckley goes beneath the hype to show how to make the most of MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and other online communities. For confused beginners and safety-conscious parents through to Internet-savvy regulars and bands looking to be signed, the Rough Guide is packed with information to help you choose the right community for you, customise your profile, master basic Web design, edit and post images, upload music and video clips, and more.

"Ethical living doesn't have to mean installing a £20,000 solar roof," says Duncan Clark, author of the new Rough Guide to Ethical Living, "it's about taking the time to understand how your lifestyle affects the world." The ultimate handbook for responsible consumers, the Rough Guide cuts through the greenwash with information on everything from low-carbon living to responsible shopping, for everything you need to know about going green without the tree hugging.

"From the saloon to the cattle trail, gunslinging outlaws to the ferocious Indians - Westerns move us in mysterious ways," says Paul Simpson, author of the new Rough Guide to Westerns. With profiles of the legendary actors, directors and 50 essential must-sees, the new Rough Guide is the ultimate companion to a genre that has, since the birth of cinema, fed our fascination with the Wild West.

"This book will help more comedy virgins lose their innocence," says Julian Hall author of the new Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy. From the rise of alternative comedy to surrealist sketches and the triumph of reality comedies such as The Office, the new Rough Guide covers the gamut of UK comedy talent, showcasing the cultiest comedians and the most side-splitting shows.

"Indie films can be unconventional, controversial and often downright disturbing, but they've given us some of cinema's most innovative and influential moments." So says Jessica Winter, author of the new Rough Guide to American Independent Film. With 50 essential must-sees, and details of the most underrated and overrated American Indie Film's of all time, the guide charts the rise of America's more maverick directors and the considerable artistic influence of their movies.

Year-round balmy weather, beaches and nightlife have made Gran Canaria a hugely popular winter-sun destination, but beyond the resorts there are plenty of secluded coves, colonial towns, volcanic landscapes and beautiful forests to contrast with the urban hedonism. The new Rough Guide covers everything from the Canarian countryside to gay resorts, together with all the best nightspots, beaches and places to stay.

A new initiative designed to boost sales of Rough Guides in the youth and student markets has been implemented at Rough Guides, with the appointment of six UK Student Brand Managers. Attending a workshop at Rough Guides' main offices in London, the new managers received training that will enable Rough Guides to get to the heart of each university campus and engage with the student market directly.

The new Rough Guide to Chick Flicks by Samantha Cook rates Thelma & Louise as the best chick flick ever and slams Notting Hill as an overrated bore. A lively guide to the movies that women love, from melodramas to biopics, thrillers to rom-coms, it celebrates women's films of every kind. The Chick Flicks podcast is available to download free at Rough Guides Podcasts.

The new Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing our planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, it lays out the facts and assesses the options - global and personal - for dealing with the threat of a warming world. For further information about Robert Henson, the author of the Rough Guide to Climate Change, please click HERE.

Punk is 30 years old. 1976 saw the release of the Ramones' debut album, the launch of Punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue and the signing to EMI of the Sex Pistols. The new Rough Guide to Punk by Al Spicer takes a complete look at the history of punk music and the lifestyle it promoted, from new art, theatre, comedy, poetry, dance and graphics, covering the complete story of the filth, the fury and the fashion. To read Al Spicer's suitably punky Q&A session click HERE.

"One in five UK households possesses a copy of Dark Side of the Moon" and yet Pink Floyd remain as elusive as they always were. Until now. The new Rough Guide to Pink Floyd by Toby Manning provides an in-depth and fully comprehensive account of the band that changed the sound and scale of music forever, from the early days in the psychedelic 60s through to their shock reunion at Live 8. And how much do you really know about Rock's most mysterious legends? Click HERE to test your Pink Floyd knowledge.

In barely two years MySpace.com has emerged as an online mega-phenomenon. The new Rough Guide to MySpace is an ideal gift for any internet-savvy youth, music fan, or anyone who wants to know more. Published 2nd November 2006, the book covers everything from the basics of getting started and safety issues through to uploading music, blogging, customising and making it your own.

From help navigating the blogosphere in The Rough Guide to Blogging, to tips about trading online with The Rough Guide to eBay, the new Rough Guide computing titles help to guide technological beginners and experts alike through everything they need to know. From the 12th annual edition of the best-selling Rough Guide to The Internet and the new Rough Guide Website Directory for help shopping online, through to the Rough Guide to iPods, iTunes and Music Online and the Rough Guide to The PlayStation Portable, each guide comes complete with handy hints on how to get started and top tips on getting the most out of your technology and it's capabilities.

The all new Rough Guide Phrasebooks come complete with FREE audio downloads recorded by native speakers, making it easier to practice your pronunciation and polish your accent before travelling or whilst on the road. Covering over twenty languages from French and Spanish through to Swahili and Thai, the new guides are perfectly pocket sized and stuffed full with food and drink vocabulary, grammar tips and local colloquialisms, making it easier to relax into the local language and fully immerse yourself in foreign life.

The new Rough Guide to The Rolling Stones gives a fresh airing to the myths and the music to provide an entertaining depiction of the Stones' exploits, history and musical influences, while the Rough Guide to Punk provides a funny, insightful and amazingly detailed exploration of a genre that changed the face of pop culture. With 18 music titles published in the Rough Guide music series, the new line up of titles also includes Pink Floyd, Soul and R&B, and updated editions of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, providing the complete low-down of the music and bands that changed the scale of pop forever.

Friendly, funny and utterly informative, The Rough Guide to Babies and The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth can help navigate anyone through a brand new world of babies. From being pregnant and giving birth through to those first few days, from health and harmony, eating and sleeping, to the new you and the new people in your life.

Rough Guides is pleased to announce the following updated and revised travel titles and editions, publishing this summer in our exciting new look.

Overcharging visitors for its heritage sites, confusing them with its public transport and disappointing them with its hotels and inedible food, the new Rough Guide to Britain brands Buckingham Palace a "graceless colossus" and puts a night on the "toon" in Newcastle as the country's top attraction. A disunited kingdom, the guide comments "If you were planning a country from scratch, you would never force England, Scotland and Wales together into a single United Kingdom". The new Rough Guide to Wales goes on to claim "The worst thing you can possibly do is call a Welsh person English" and lists The Valleys as number 1 on its list of things to do.

Summer is here and Rough Guides has published 15 new titles in the DIRECTIONS series. Focusing on cities, islands and resort regions, DIRECTIONS offer a unique combination of style and substance whilst retaining the distinctive, irreverent Rough Guide tone throughout. Whether you fancy a long weekend in Bruges or you're planning two weeks in the Algarve, DIRECTIONS are guranteed to get you going.

Imagine if you could download the world's best travel-guide content onto your iPod. Imagine if you could view it in full colour, complete with pictures and page numbers to help you navigate. Well, now you can. Rough Guides PodScrolls put our award-winning content onto your iPod.

25 million people worldwide claim Scottish ancestry proving the enduring popularity of Scotland's rich history and culture. The updated seventh edition of The Rough Guide to Scotland explores and illuminates the best – and worst – features of the country. From the Hebrides, where "the locals are more likely to be building websites than shearing sheep", to the 31,460 lochs and the "cobbled Edinburgh streets", the book goes beyond clichéd images of Scotland to reveal a country where oil and microprocessors now matter more than tweed, and where surfing, mountain-biking and whale-watching outshine the traditional Highland pursuits of hunting and fishing.

The first in a monthly podcast to be released for free download by travel and reference publisher Rough Guides is an interview with the co-author of the Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code, James McConnachie. From May 2006, Rough Guides will release a monthly podcast. Every month, the publisher will make available the latest author interviews, travel information and ideas to inspire travel and exploration. The podcasts, ranging from fifteen to thirty minutes in length, are available for free subscription and download at Rough Guides Podcasts and at Apple's iTunes Music Store, the world's biggest podcast library.

With over 18 million copies sold and a movie of the book due for release on 19th May, Dan Brown's thriller has created unprecedented controversy with its plots of conspiracy and revelation over the bloodline of Christ and the legend of the Holy Grail. It rewrites the story of Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci and some of the most fascinating buildings in France and the UK. The preface says that "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate", but from the start, Dan Brown makes basic errors of fact.

He is the most discussed, written-about and quoted writer in the language – and Shakespeare keeps on mutating and evolving. Close to four centuries after his death, his plays continue to be seen by millions of people in thousands of locations across the globe. His words enrich the English language, rippling through casual, day-to-day speech and at the same time propping up the very notion of "high" culture. His image decorates banknotes, tea towels, police badges. His name has become iconic in countries that didn't even exist when he was alive.

A nation of "overweight, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed TV addicts", is theverdict of the new Rough Guide to England. In comments that some tourists may find unsettling, the new guide goes on to say that attempting a conversation with a stranger "can be seen as tantamount to physical assault". "Commuters suffer overpriced, under-funded public transport" says the guide, and it goes on to complain that "many towns consist of identikit retailzones".

Rough Guides is pleased to announce the following fully updated and revised new editions for April 2006, all of which are publishing in the UK on the 27th April 2006.

Also out on 25 May is the 2 edition of the best-selling Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth by Kaz Cook (Rough Guides, £9.99). Giving you the up-to-date lowdown on pregnancy, birth and coping when you first get home, the Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth contains no bossy-boot rules, just the sanest, wittiest advice you'll ever get (and lots of cartoons).

Rough Guides is delighted to announce a new arrival to our publishing list: the brand-new Rough Guide to Babies by Miranda Levy (Rough Guides, £9.99) publishing 25th May 2006. Practical, witty and real, The Rough Guide to Babies navigates you through a brand new world: Planet Baby. Life is different here – and this book will help you find your way.

Rough Guides is delighted to announce it has won First Prize for Best Folded Map 2005 from the International Map Trade Association for its map of Costa Rica & Panama, part of Rough Guides' Country and Regional Map series.

Rough Guides announced today the launch of a new feature on its website at Rough Guides Climate Change to encourage responsibility in air travel by offsetting the carbon emissions caused by flying. Climate change is a serious threat to the ecosystems that all life relies upon, and air travel is the fastest-growing contributor to the problem.

From March 2006, all new Rough Guides will be publishing in our exciting new look.

Rough Guides is pleased to announce the following new travel titles and editions, publishing in the UK on the 23rd March 2006 in our new-look. For more information on Rough Guides' new-look please see our 'Welcome to the new-look Rough Guides' press release.

Rough Guide travel guides offer a window on some of the world's most exciting cultural festivals. From Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, to fire festivals in Japan and desert poetry in Tunisia, the latest editions from Rough Guides will open your mind and expand your horizons.

With the publication of 19 new DIRECTIONS titles, 3 new travel titles, 11 new maps, 12 new reference titles and 45 revised and updated new editions of our current travel and reference lists, 2005 is shaping up to be another great year for Rough Guides.

Rough Guides is delighted to announce the launch today of a major new website worldparty.roughguides.com. This is the ultimate global party guide, offering information on festivals and events worldwide, throughout the year, and designed to help travellers prepare for fun, whether their trip coincides with a major event and they want to know more, or they are travelling specifically for a festival such as the Rio Carnival or Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Rough Guides know you like to keep up to date with new travel guides so please find below our complete travel output from recent months, including Rough Guides that will be published in mid-February.

Travel publisher Rough Guides has announced an initiative to help booksellers become more familiar with Rough Guide titles. It will now supply them with free personal copies of Rough Guides for their own holidays.

We're all natural survivalists, hard-wired with basic survival abilities we rarely test. But a few simple guidelines will help you greatly increase the odds of making the right decision at the right time. This new Rough Guide gives you that guidance, and a mass of useful advice about keeping safe when travelling.

Would you bluff against Three Wise Men? Or know the difference between Forth and Sixth Street? With the brand-new Rough Guide to Poker now anyone can don a Poker face and draw a River with confidence.

The album is dead. Long live the playlist! iPods and MP3 Players have changed the way we listen to music. It's all about songs now, and making your own compilations. The brand-new ROUGH GUIDE BOOK OF PLAYLISTS is the fi rst book to really understand the playlist phenomenon. With over 500 playlists, it has brought together some of the best-known names in music to produce a pocket-sized power house of recommendations that is guaranteed to surprise and inform.

Following publication of several new reference titles (Rough Guides to Playlists, Conspiracy Theories, Macs & OSX and four film guides, Comedy, Gangster, Horror and Sci-Fi Movies), Rough Guides has today been nominated as a CoolBrand by the Superbrands organisation, an independent arbiter and authority on branding operating under the stewardship of the Brand Council.

Some people thought the Internet wouldn't catch on… that iPods wouldn't change the way we listen to music. Some think that the new popularity of Macs is just a flash in the pan. Rough Guides think different…

A NEW 420-page book from travel publishers Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories, asks "Is everything you think you know a lie? Can you ever be sure of anything again?" The book, by James McConnachie and Robin Tudge, published this month, examines the most disturbing explanations for the state of the world today – and the great controversies of the past – including conspiracy theories involving Prince Philip in an alleged plot to reduce the world's population to one billion, Saddam Hussein as a close ally of the USA, and the Pope in ignoring sex-abuse allegations against senior Catholics.

Rough Guides launches the series under the guidance of former British Film Institute Publishing Director Andrew Lockett, now Rough Guides' Reference Publishing Director. The chosen movies, representing a canon for each genre, range from The Odd Couple (Rough Guide to Comedy Movies) and Reservoir Dogs (Rough Guide to Gangster Movies) to The Evil Dead (Rough Guide to Horror Movies) and Solaris (Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies).

Here's the definitive guide to every dark star and bright supernova of the Heavy Metal universe, from Death Metal to Classic Rock.

Informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, with incisive reviews of the best recordings on CD, selecting the very best of the latest recordings and the pick of the reissues.

A new addition to Rough Guides' critically acclaimed music reference series, the pocket-size Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra covers every aspect of the life, legend and music of the singing waiter from New Jersey who became the most famous entertainer of his time. This essential companion reveals everything you'll ever need to know about the songs, the films and the style of one of the 20th century's greatest performers.

Every true fan likes to be the font of all knowledge. Now, in Schott's Miscellany style, Rough Guide 11s make that possible for fans of the greatest English and Scottish clubs. The new Rough Guide 11s series mixes hardcore historical and contemporary insider information with a wonderful mix of trivia and titbits. The authors, all expert pundits and obsessive fans, include Jim White of the Guardian and Andy Mitten, editor of the Man Utd fanzine, United We Stand. They put their memories, prejudices and side-interests on gaudy display in a collection of lists of 11 that will tickle every fan of the beautiful game and amaze and exhaust all pubquiz diehards. For more information visit www.roughguides.com/11s

Summer is here and Rough Guides has published 15 new titles in the DIRECTIONS series. Focusing on cities, islands and resort regions, DIRECTIONS offer a unique combination of style and substance whilst retaining the distinctive, irreverent Rough Guide tone throughout. Whether you fancy a long weekend in Bruges or you're planning two weeks in the Algarve, DIRECTIONS are guaranteed to get you going.

Hip-Hop maybe all about lyrical flow, but it has never been about simplistic narratives or smooth, progressions. Like the music itself, Hip-Hop's history has been characterized by ludicrous leaps of imagination, flights of fancy and derring-do.

Google the words "cult fiction" and you will unearth: a story about a religious sect suspected of coercion in Oxford and a compilation album on Virgin called This Is The Return Of Cult Fiction; while one online forum kicks off with the plaintive cry: "Who has a definition of cult fiction for me? Is it a genre?"