Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Simple street plan with no index. Symbols depict a variety of features eg. hospitals, shopping centres, hotels, places of interest. Inset maps show the international airport to the east of the main map, & the Pie de la Cuesta area to the west. Legend in Spanish only. On the reverse is a general road map at 1:1000, 000 of southern Mexico, Approx. centred on Mexico City & reaching outwards to Guadalahara in the north-west corner, Veracruz in the east & to the southern coast. The legend for this map

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Formerly beautiful & at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering & sometimes ending it, she is revered & feared in equal measure as the village`s Accabadora. When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, & in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her & flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love & acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid, of a duty & destiny that must one day be hers. Accabadora has been awarded seven major literary prizes, including Italy`s prestigious Premio Campiello. An exceptional English-language debut, it weaves a narrative of rare grace & subtlety into a sensual tapestry of local nuance, atmosphere & dialect. ...

When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old & childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed
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Published to coincide with Sara Wheeler`s 50th birthday, Access All Areas gathers together a selection of her shorter travel pieces; both journalism & introductions to other books. As one would expect, the frozen poles of the earth feature regularly, whether she is spending the night in Captain Scott`s hut or reliving the adventures of Shackleton & Nansen. But hot places feature too
- Malawi, Kerala, Cuba & Bangladesh. Wheeler writes brilliantly of her heroes
- Mary Kingsley, Fanny Trollope, Norman Lewis, Martha Gellhorn & Sybille Bedford
- & about the pains & pleasures of writing biography. Worried that having children would end her roaming, she took her infants with her, to the Arctic, & on a brilliantly depicted cruise on the QE2. She learns to belly-dance, to strip, & to walk on the wing of a biplane at 3000 feet. This is an immensely varied & satisfying collection of Wheeler`s works, following her series of remarkable books
- Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry
- A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Too Close to the Sun & the Magnetic North.




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The Rough Guide to Accessible Britain explores over 180 ideas of days out in Britain for disabled visitors, incorporating a range of destinations & covering places to visit & things to do. Each of the attractions in the guide has been recommended, visited & reviewed by writers with disabilities & include detailed information & practical tips on disabled access to each destination & transport options. A series of symbols, identified by a key in the introductory chapter, also provides important guidance for a range of different disabilities, with relevant information on parking, getting around & places to eat. ...

Moleskine's Accessories Set comprise a slip-on rubber grip to make writing more comfortable & a pen holder which carries up to three pens or pencils on the cover of any Moleskine notebook. The grip has a flexible, silicone rubber sleeve with a soft, warm finish, while the pen-holder fits most Moleskine notebook covers & has a rubberised, black & stainless steel clip. ...

Are standards of English alright
- or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? & what about ending
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Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous & Oh Dear Silvia, returns with her joyously funny new novel, According To Yes. The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy
- otherwise known as Manhattan`s Upper East Side
- has its own rigid code of behaviour. It`s a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family. Emotional displays
- unacceptable. Unruly behaviour
- definitely not welcome. Fun
- no thanks. This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham`s kingdom. A beautifully displayed impeccably edited fortress of restraint. So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from Engl&, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow & a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn`t read the rule book. For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone decides to start saying.. .yes? I adored According to YES. It`s so different to anything I`ve read in forever, so charming, wise, brilliantly written. I loved it all` Marian Keyes ` There is lots of fun to be had reading this book. It`s impossible not to warm to Rosie, a funny & open-hearted woman who acts as a salve & comfort blanket for this unhappy, inhibited family. There`s something quite joyous about the way she unashamedly romps her way through the novel, changing the lives of those around her for the better` Express ` French can spin a yarn.. .which sets According to YES apart from the usual chick-lit template. Think the vicar of Dibley, without the dog collar. YES YES YES indeed` Independent Further praise for Dawn French: `A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching.. .page after page I laughed out loud` Mail on Sunday `A hilarious snapshot of family life in the twenty-first century` Sunday Express ` Extremely funny` Sunday Times ` Dawn tackles the big ones
- love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood
- head on` Guardian ` Makes you laugh on every page` The Times `A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life` Woman & Home ` Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer
- witty, wise, poignant` Daily Mail







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The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ` The Shipping News`, ` Accordion Crimes spans generations, continents & a century & confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx`s writing. Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century & a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker & his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling & intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots & Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows & exuberance. ...