Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi.. . Argentina is responsible for some of the greatest footballers on the planet. Their rich, volatile history is made up of both the sublime & the ruthlessly pragmatic. Argentina is a nation obsessed with football, & Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on & off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the five phases of Argentinian football: the appropriation of the British game; the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Peron led the country into isolation; a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-futbol; the fusing of beauty & efficacy under Cesar Luis Menotti; & the ludicrous (albeit underachieving) creative talent of recent times. More than any other nation Argentina lives & breathes football, its theories & myths. The subject is fiercely debated on street corners & in cafes. It has even preoccupied the country`s greatest writers & philosophers. ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is the definitive history of a great footballing nation & its paradoxes. ...

Fat people, Footballers, Flip-flops, Formula One, Wheelie luggage Cycle helmets, Processed ham, Skiing, Dogs, , , Are you all wound up? Boiling & ready to blow? Breathe deeply. Relax. Master of spleen Giles Coren, author of what The Guardian called ` The Maddest Email Ever`, has an unbeatable technique for working through the anger: He does it for you. ...

Street plan of Angers, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

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Angers & its Environs in a series of detailed road maps at 1:80, 000 from the IGN, designed to highlight places of interest & recreational possibilities, with a city centre street plan & an enlargement of a selected hiking area. Cartography is an enlargement from 1:100, 000 to 1:80, 000 of the publisher’s highly popular TOP100 series, with very detailed presentation of the road network, including classification of local roads according to lanes, rest areas, access restrictions, etc. Railway lines are shown with stations. Topography is shown by relief shading, with spot heights & colouring for woodlands, vineyards, orchards, etc. Cycle tracks & long-distance GR routes are marked. A wide range of symbols indicate various places of interest & recreational facilities, historical & cultural sites, golf courses, rock climbing, nature reserves, etc. Refuges & gîtes d’etape are marked, but no campsites. The maps have no geographical coordinates for GPS. Each title has an index of communes. Map legend

Includes:: English.A special feature of this series is the inclusion of a large city centre street plan & an enlargement of a particularly interesting recreational area. Presentation of these features varies, so please check the individual descriptions for more information.* IN THIS TITLE: a large street plan of Angers’ city centre highlighting main traffic arteries & indicating one way streets. An additional panel presents an extract from IGN’s topographic coverage of the area around St-Saturnin-sur-Loire in their TOP25 series but shown here at 1:30, 000. The extract highlights local hiking routes. The map also indicates how its whole area is covered by IGN’s topographic survey at 1:25, 000.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Angkor in the Odyssey Guides series; aimed at travellers particularly interested in the culture & history of their destination; the guides focus on the atmosphere, customs, & distinctive character of a country, region or city. As the only English language publisher based in China, Odyssey Guides specialize in Asian destinations, relying on the expertise of local writers. This gives readers more of an insider’s perspective, in companion with the practicalities of navigating through remote Asian landscapes. Each title is heavily dedicated to the culture of the destination, all with accompanying colour photography. The guides also showcase a range of literary excerpts which are taken from travel writers together with translations from the work of indigenous writers & poets, creating a distinctive tone unique to the publisher. There are also basic overview location maps & concise practical advice for visitors, including information on getting there & around, itineraries, climate, health, clothing & equipment, money, photography, communications, security, shopping, media, food & drink, holidays & behavior, customs & etiquette. ...

The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia has fascinated scholars & visitors alike since its rediscovery in the mid-19th century. All are wonderstruck by the beauty & multiplicity of the sculptures that adorn its temples & structures & are overwhelmed by the sheer size of Angkor. There is nothing to equal it in the archaeological world. A great deal was already known about the history of Angkor & the brilliant Khmer civilization that built it thanks to pioneering work by archaeologists & scholars, but our knowledge has now been completely revolutionized by cutting-edge technology. Airborne laser scanning (Li DAR) has revealed entire cities that were previously unknown & a complex urban landscape with highways & waterways, profoundly transforming our interpretations of the development & supposed decline of Angkor. In this comprehensively updated edition of Angkor & the Khmer Civilization, respected archaeologist Michael Coe is joined by Damian Evans, who led this remarkable programme of scientific exploration, to present for the first time in book form the results & implications of these ground-breaking discoveries that are rewriting history. ...

Beautiful map of Siem Reap & the entire Angkor complex of temples presented as a 3-D panorama drawing, with every temple & building drawn with full architectural details. The map offers a bird’s-eye view of the whole area from the Western Baray Lake to Wat Bakong, Lolei & Phnum Bok. The main map, centred on Siem Reap, with the Phnom Krom in the foreground & looking north toward the Angkor temples, shows all the roads & tracks in the area & can be used for exploring its famous monuments. An enlargement shows Siem Reap, indicating various hotels & public buildings. Twelve more panels surrounding the main map provide more detailed drawings of various temples & monuments, including Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom with a separate excellent drawing of Bayon, Phnom Bakheng, Ta Prohm, Banteay Kdei, etc. Drawn by Ruben Atayan, the creator of several maps listed on our website under the Terra Nostra imprint, the map provides both an excellent introduction to this wonderful area & a splendid souvenir of an interesting holiday. ...

A World Heritage Site since 1992, this ruined city s beautiful buildings, constructed by generations of slaves & artisans so many centuries ago, lie in a confused tangle among the ancient trees. Everywhere you look you can see the serene faces of ancient kings & venerated saints peering out at you through the dense foliage, their gaze seeming to take in this vast & ruined world. Some structures inspire by their sheer size, yet Angkor s intricacy of construction, genius of workmanship, & serenity of setting are what sets it apart. Beautiful & all as these buildings are, it is in the ethereal glow of a sunset or under the white brilliance of the tropical moon that they are touched by magic for it is then that the stately towers appear to float over the jungle, & it is then that Angkor becomes, quite simply, one of the most breathtaking places in the world. ...

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