Following a sheltered childhood & education in Cambridge, & having missed out on the Swinging Sixties, Alec Forshaw was ready for a dose of the wider world. London in the early 1970s was where the lights seemed to shine the brightest. In reality London was still a city struggling to find its post-war identity, full of declining industries & derelict docklands, a townscape blighted by undeveloped bomb sites, demonic motorway proposals & slum clearance schemes. The streets were lined with work-a-day local shops & greasy-spoon cafes, but enlivened by ghettos of immigrants & student culture. Ideas for traffic constraint, recycling rubbish or conserving historic buildings were still in their infancy. It was the decade which saw the three-day week, the Notting Hill riots & the last of the anti-Vietnam war protests. This sequel to ” Growing Up in Cambridge” portrays the London of over thirty years ago as it appeared to a young man in his twenties, finding his feet, coming of age, & stumbling across the sights, sounds & sensations of an extraordinary city. ...

Official charts for the coast of Denmark produced by the Danish Hydrographic Office. The charts are ordered upon customer dem&, therefore please contact us if you require the charts urgently. For any further information, you can contact maritime@stanfords.co.uk. ...

From shoulder pads to spandex, New Romantics to ravers, experience (or re-experience) the Eighties with this humorous sticker book. There are fashions from throughout the decade
- from power dressing, leg warmers & blazers to big hair & prom dresses. Notes, photographs & links to video clips explain each `look` & add historical context.
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` Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!` This declamation by president Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The West had won, so this version of events goes, because the West had stood firm. American & Western European resoluteness had brought an evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, in this extraordinarily compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989, begs to differ. Drawing together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Pol&, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, & the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin, Meyer shows that western intransigence was only one of the many factors that provoked such world-shaking change. More important, Meyer contends, were the stands taken by individuals in the thick of the struggle, leaders such as poet & playwright Vaclav Havel in Prague; Lech Walesa; the quiet & determined reform prime minister in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; & the man who realized his empire was already lost & decided, with courage & intelligence, to let it go in peace, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael Meyer captures these heady days in all their rich drama & unpredictability, providing a thrilling chronicle of perhaps the most important year of the 20th century. ...

A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world`s most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography & their unique histories & residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris`s Pere Lachaise cemetery each year. They are lured there, & to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones & crypts, notable residents, vivid history, & even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10, 000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah`s Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city.199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history & features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, & unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania. ...

This picture reference book contains exactly 199 images of amazing things found in nature from familiar garden butterflies & bugs to elusive jungle animals & extraordinary undersea creatures. Categories include: ` Ice & snow`, ` By the coast`, ` Plants & flowers` & ` Rocks & gems`. ...

This gorgeously illustrated picture word book contains exactly 199 things found in a garden or park. Children will love recognizing familiar flowers, trees & birds, as well as being introduced to more unusual things to spot such as pond creatures, log pile creepy-crawlies & amazing nocturnal animals. ...

Discover & name all the amazing animals you might spot at a wildlife park or zoo, from cheetahs & chimpanzees to lemurs, flamingos & bush babies. Each beautifully illustrated page features a different group of animals, including monkeys & apes, nocturnal animals & birds. ...

Although 1989 & 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, & with it the Party`s monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the aspirations of the Russian people in the days before Communism finally fell. It charts
- among many other social developments
- the appearance of new political parties & independent trade unions, the rapid evolution of mass media, the emergence of a new class of entrepreneurs, a new openness about sex & pornography & a sudden craze for hot-air ballooning, banned under the Communist regime. 1990 is a reminder of the confusion & aspirations of the year before Communism finally collapsed in Russia, & a tantalising glimpse of the paths that may have been taken if Yeltsin`s coup had not forced the issue in 1991.

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Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack, Blair posing with Noel Gallagher at No. 10, & a nation united in mourning for Diana. These are the images that have come to define Britain in 1997. From Britpop to the Young British Artists, that year is now remembered by many as a time of lost optimism & vibrancy. A time when it seemed like Britain was becoming a more tolerant, cosmopolitan, freer & fairer society. This book provides an evocative portrait of that era. Cutting through the nostalgia which has come to cloud our memories of the 1990s, Sayeed shows that many of the crises afflicting Britain today had their roots in that crucial year. The rise of New Labour masked the steady creep of British politics towards the right, while the Stephen Lawrence inquest exposed the tenacity of racism in both British society & the state, foreshadowing the widespread hate crime of today. Far from being the crowning height of ` Cool Britannia`, Sayeed instead sees 1997 as a missed opportunity, a turning point when there was a chance to genuinely transform British culture & society, but which instead set us on the path to our current malaise. ...