Transporting us from Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, Vowell has crafted a narrative that is much more than a historical travelogue
- it is the disturbing & mesmerising story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including film, literature, &
- the author`s favourite
- historical tourism. Skilfully belying the undercurrents of loss & violence that course through her journey, Vowell injects a range of lighter detours along the way, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult
- & exactly how Lincoln`s Republican Party became Bush`s Republican Party. Assassination Vacation is a fascinating, informative, & richly entertaining look at the myriad ways in which political assassinations have altered & shaped our nation`s history.



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In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther & godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI`s most wanted terrorist list. Assata Shakur`s trial & conviction for the murder of a white state trooper in the spring of 1973 divided America. Her case quickly became emblematic of race relations & police brutality in the USA. While Assata`s detractors continue to label her a ruthless killer, her defenders cite her as the victim of a systematic, racist campaign to criminalize & suppress black nationalist organizations. This intensely personal & political autobiography reveals a sensitive & gifted woman, far from the fearsome image of her that is projected by the powers that be. With wit & candour Assata recounts the formative experiences that led her to embrace a life of activism. With pained awareness she portrays the strengths, weaknesses & eventual demise of black & white revolutionary groups at the hands of the state. A major contribution to the history of black liberation, destined to take its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X & the works of Maya Angelou. ...

Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


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Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


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Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras & a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees & prostitutes, soldiers & beggars, street executions & urban protests photographed in difficult & often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, & chaos of an expanding civil war. By then the ruling Nationalist Party had been battling the Communist threat for more than two decades, & Birns focused his camera on the human drama unfolding as war pressed ever closer to the country`s financial, cultural, & commercial capital. His effort to show China`s misery up close ran afoul of Time-Life publisher Henry R. Luce`s fervent anti-communism, & for half a century many of these historic photographs lay unpublished in Time-Life`s archives. Printed here for the first time, they offer a graphic vision of a great city, Shanghai, poised on the precipice of political revolution. Seen through the lens of hindsight, Birns`s photographs give us a sense not only of what China was like more than fifty years ago, but also of why the warfare, weariness, & desperation of the time proved such fertile soil for communist revolution. Today these everyday scenes of ordinary people--pedicab drivers, street vendors, bar girls, police, politicians, prisoners--tell a story of national resilience & dignity in the midst of enveloping poverty, repression, & fear. Birns`s stark black & white photographs capture the dramatic end of an era, but they also look forward, letting us glimpse how Shanghai`s past prefigures the city`s commercial & cultural revival in the 1990s. ...

Map No. 665, Assisi
- Camerino
- Foligno
- M. Pennino, from Kompass in a series of walking maps of selected areas of Italy


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Foligno
- Spoleto
- Terni – Valnerina area in Umbria, the Marches & Lazio on a double-sided, GPS compatible hiking & recreational

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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. ...