Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

Amur Oblast Road Atlas in a series of detailed atlases of the administrative provinces of the Russian Federation from Roskartografia, with road information shown on a topographic base. Road network

Includes:: minor local roads, service stations, & distances between junctions. Colour coding distinguishes between federal roads & those which are the responsibility of local government. In many areas tracks & footpaths are included. The atlases also show railway lines, as well as inland waterways with locations of locks & the direction of the current. Cities & towns are marked according to the size of their population. Symbols indicate natural landmarks, post offices, hospitals & other facilities, museums, monuments, etc. Topography is shown by contours at 100m intervals & spot heights. Each atlas has an index &

Includes:: an administrative map of the region & a key to Russian road signs. In some atlases coverage is provided only for the areas with roads & not for the whole province. Please see individual descriptions or images of the area coverage supplied with each title. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet & the text, including map legends, is in Russian only. In this title: basic street plan of Blagoveshchensk at 1:50, 000.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: Supplies are very erratic & no delivery date can be guaranteed for titles currently not in stock. Also, we occasionally receive copies with different covers or in different sizes to those indicated on our website. But the cartography & basic information remains as described above.




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Traveller, archaeologist, mountaineer & diplomat, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) poured her extraordinary talents into a series of adventures through Europe & the Middle East. Addressing her experiences in Persia & Syria respectively, Safar Nameh (1894) & The Desert & the Sown (1907) are both reissued in this series. The present work, first published in 1911 & among Bell`s most acclaimed, describes her recent expedition to Mesopotamia. She recounts her outward journey to the Abbasid palace of Ukhaidir & her return via Baghdad & Asia Minor. Notably discussing changes in the region after the rise of the Young Turks, including their easing of restrictions throughout the declining Ottoman Empire, Bell also saw this book as `the attempt to record the daily life, the speech of those who had inherited the empty ground where empires had risen & expired`. Replete with photographs, it vividly opens up Middle Eastern history & archaeology. ...

Amusement machines were all built for the exact same purpose: parting customers from their hard-earned money. Yet the ways in which these machines have done this is as varied as the glorious designs that have adorned them. Machines range from the mutoscopes that showed ` What the Butler Saw`, through to pinball machines, fruit machines, the classic one-armed bandit, & the penny slot machines that are so evocative of seaside holidays & Edwardian amusements. They continue up to more modern versions of the amusement machine, like table football & golf machines. ” Amusement Machines” charts this stunning range, & investigates the changes in their design & evolution over time. ...

The rollercoaster is usually the main attraction of any amusement or theme park, & this book outlines the history of these fascinating structures. From the first mass-produced rollercoaster, the Switchback Railway, through to the giant wooden coasters of the inter-war period, the author uses historic postcards & photographs to chart their development & that of other amusement rides including revolving towers, aerial rides, Ferris wheels & water chutes, all of which were produced from the late Victorian era in myriad forms. Essential to the very existence of such amusement venues as Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Southend Kursaal & Margate Dreaml&, these much-loved rides are not so far removed from their modern-day equivalents as they might at first appear. ...

This guide to common courtesy, acceptable behavior, & manners is essential for any visitor to Japan. Japanese are unfailingly polite & will never tell you if you`ve crossed the line. But by knowing how to act in every situation you`ll gain the respect of your hosts & in the end get even better service & enjoyment during your travels. Covered here are all the essentials--like travel, greetings, dining--plus subtle niceties like tone of voice, body language, cell phone usage, city vs. country styles, & attire (and what to do about your tattoos!). The author, a 25-year resident of Japan & tourist adviser who lives on the fabled Inland Sea, knows just what foreign visitors need & delivers it in a smart, compact, & delightfully illustrated package for quick use & reference. ...

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton`s type is girls named Katherine. & when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, & an overweight Judge Judy
- loving best friend riding shotgun
- but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, & finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, & a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising & heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself. From the ” New York Times” bestselling author of ” The Fault in Our Stars” & ” Looking for Alaska”, John Green. John has a huge online presence through his 1.1 million Twitter followers & You Tube channel Vlogbrothers, which has been viewed over 200 million times & has 660, 000 subscribers, making it one of the most successful online channels in history.

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Known by fans as ” The Penguin” for his back-of-the-pack speed, John Bingham is the unlikely hero of the modern running boom. In his book ” An Accidental Athlete: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Middle Age”, the best-selling author & magazine columnist recalls his childhood dreams of athletic glory, sedentary years of unhealthy excess, & a life-changing transformation from couch potato to ”adult-onset athlete.” Overweight, uninspired, & saddled with a pack-&-a-half-a-day smoking habit, Bingham found himself firmly wedged into a middle-age slump. Then two frightening trips to the emergency department & a conversation with a happy piano tuner led him to discover running
- & changed his life for the better. In turns inspiring, poignant, hilarious, & heartbreaking, ” An Accidental Athlete” is a warm & engaging book for the everyday athlete. Bingham tells stories of the joys of running
- the pride of the finisher`s medal, a bureau-busting t-shirt collection, & intense back-of-the-pack strategising. ” An Accidental Athlete” is about one man`s discovery that middle age was not the finish line after all, but only the beginning.

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WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 ` Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new & assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky & heartfelt` A. L. Kennedy The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries & across the world. There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal & metaphorical; & acts of cruelty & neglect but also of penance. Some stories concern themselves with the present, & the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs
- as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic. Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist & doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people`s dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself. Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account
- violent, occasionally funny & certainly tragic
- of the decline of the Great Auk.


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London's East End has always been a social & racial melting pot & never more so than today. PI Lee Arnold & his assistant Mumtaz Hakim don't mind
- it keeps them on their toes. It is November. The days are getting darker & they have a new case on their hands. A young Asian couple moves into a dilapidated house in Upton Park. The woman, Nasreen, spends much of her time working alone on the house, her husband Abdullah preoccupied with his job. John Sawyer is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Since his discharge, he has been volatile & is now homeless. An unlikely friendship develops between Nasreen & John, one that her husband would frown upon. When John's body is discovered, Nasreen's suspicions light upon Abdullah. Did he know they were friends? Reluctant to go to the police, Nasreen reaches out to the Arnold Detective Agency. Mumtaz Hakim begins to dig into Abdullah's past & into the house itself which, she finds, holds its own grim secrets.
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