` Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads. It was necessary for this dark hour to fall, perhaps the darkest in history, to make us realize that freedom is as vital to our soul as breathing to our body.` As Europe faced its darkest days, Stefan Zweig was a passionate voice for tolerance, peace & a world without borders. In these moving, ardent essays, speeches & articles, composed before & during the Second World War, one of the twentieth century`s greatest writers mounts a defence of European unity against terror & brutality. From the dreamlike ` The Sleepless World`, written in 1914, through the poignant ` The Vienna of Yesterday`, to the impassioned ` In This Dark Hour`, one of his final addresses, given in 1941, Zweig envisages a Europe free of nationalism & pledged to pluralism, culture & brotherhood. These haunting lost messages, all appearing in English for the first time & some newly discovered, distil Zweig`s courage, belief & richness of learning to give the essence of a writer; a spiritual will & testament to stand alongside his memoir, The World of Yesterday. Brief & yet intense, they are a tragic reminder of a world lost to the `bloody vortex of history`, but also a powerful statement of one man`s belief in the creative imagination & the potential of humanity, with a resounding relevance today. Translated by Will Stone, with an introduction by philosopher & historian of ideas John Gray. ...

As Europe faced its darkest days, Stefan Zweig was a passionate voice for tolerance, peace & a world without borders. In these moving, ardent essays, speeches & articles, composed before & during the Second World War, one of the twentieth century`s greatest writers mounts a defence of European unity against terror & brutality. These haunting lost messages, all appearing in English for the first time & some newly discovered, distil Zweig`s courage, belief & richness of learning to give the essence of a writer; a spiritual will & testament to stand alongside his memoir, The World of Yesterday. Brief & yet intense, they are a tragic reminder of a world lost to the `bloody vortex of history`, but also a powerful statement of one man`s belief in the creative imagination & the potential of humanity, with a resounding relevance today.” At a time of monetary crisis & political disorder, of mounting border controls & barbed-wire fences... Zweig`s celebration of the brotherhood of peoples reminds us that there is another way” The Nation ” One of liberalism`s greatest defenders” New Republic ” Zweig`s impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever” Newsweek ” These essays, few in number but rich in content, reveal the essence of Zweig`s thought... Messages from a Lost World is ably translated from German into English for an American readership by Will Stone, making it an extraordinary & highly recommended addition to community & academic library collections” Midwest Book Review ” In pieces from the 1920s & early 30s, Zweig takes it as a moral imperative to champion the cause of peace by reminding his readers & listeners that humanity could no longer afford the sort of belligerent nationalism that had led them into the Great War” Inside Higher Ed ” While it is disheartening to read these pieces today, knowing how Zweig`s life ended, it is inspiring to see that they have been published. However defeated Zweig might appear to contemporary readers, however aloof or naive, his idea of the European soul is still worth defending” Northwest Review of Books Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin & Vienna & was first known as a translator & later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, & enjoying literary fame. His stories & novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil. It was here that he completed his acclaimed memoir The World of Yesterday, a lament for the golden age of a Europe destroyed by two world wars. The articles & speeches in Messages from a Lost World were written as Zweig, a pacifist & internationalist, witnessed this destruction & warned of the threat to his beloved Europe. On 23 February 1942, Zweig & his second wife Lotte were found dead, following an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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The first book in the thrilling, chilling new series from no. 1 bestselling author of Gone, Michael Grant. I remembered my name
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Messengers sees Julian Sayarer return to work as a London bicycle courier, after six months cycling around the world. From saddle & kerbside, his stories of delivering flowers to politicians, & administration notices to banks toppled by the financial crisis, make for a social history of a less seen city, written from the perspective of someone stuck in one of London`s most insecure & poorly paid jobs. Underneath the deliveries, we meet London`s bicycle messengers, a family drawn from jaded graduates, jailbirds & recovering drug addicts. The riders all share their brushes with the law, struggles on the breadline & compete together in alleycat races, forming an unlikely but tender community upon the streets. With a bicycle the one constant that seems to make sense of everything else, Messengers is a two-wheeled portrait of everyday life in a modern city at the start of the twenty-first century. ...

Fresh from a world of deserts, oceans & human kindness Julian Sayarer goes about adjusting back to the hard indifference of a city amongst ever-rising skyscrapers & the turning waters of the Thames. From a bicycle view of the streets, Messengers watches a merry-go-round of media sensation, consumerism & crony politics. Against this background Julian returns to the courier community, so telling the stories of both the jailbirds, drug addicts & alcoholics who can`t hold down any other job, & the fashionable graduates living the bohemian dream in a world of courier races & squat parties. From the saddle & ever-turning pedals, Messengers shows a hidden version of London`s underbelly & those living in the margins of the metropolis. ...

Messina on an indexed street plan at 1:8, 500 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Globalmap imprint. 36 monuments including historic buildings & churches, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Car parks in & around the city’s historic centre are prominently marked. The city’s metro line & its stations, as well as car parks in the centre prominently marked. Insets cover Tremestieri (1:15, 000) & Ganzirri (1:25, 000) showing principal traffic routes & naming main streets. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. ...

Map No. 2230, Messina, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...