Asti Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

Aston Manor in 1913 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the heart of the large Aston Manor, including parts of Aston, Handsworth & Lozells Wards, as well as the area known as Birchfield. Coverage stretches from Stamford Road eastward to Beales Street & Electric Avenue, & from Deykin Avenue southward to Clifton Road. Features include Aston Hall, Aston Park, Villa Park, LNWR line with Witton station, St Peter & St Paul`s church, Bathurst Works, Howard Chandelier Works, tramways & depot, St Paul`s church Lozells, Holy Trinity church Birchfield, St James church, Lozells Picture House, Holte Almshouses, Pavilion Electric Theatre, Grammar School, police station, etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries, including Birchfield Road, Frederick Road, Queen`s Road, Witton Lane & Witton Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly & fully for the first time. ` The hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, & goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it.` BEN OKRI. ...

Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex & sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. Donoghue describes the brutal plot hatched by a slave in conjunction with his master's wife to set them both free; she draws out the difficulties of gold mining in the Yukon, even in the supposedly plentiful early days, & she takes us to an early Puritan community in Massachusetts unsettled by an invented sex scandal. Astray also

Includes:: ' The Hunt', a shocking confession of one soldier's violent betrayal during the American Revolution, which has been shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Short Story Award. Astray is a sequence of fourteen stories by the prize-winning author of Room & The Sealed Letter. These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations, & a surprising & moving history for restless times.

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With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners & counterfeiters, attorneys & slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, & sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito. A sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about travels to, in & from North America, Astray offers a past in scattered pieces, a surprising & moving history for restless times. ...

Whether you're a beginner or an expert star gazer, this planisphere is an informative, user-friendly guide to the stars & constellations. It features a detailed star disk & an overlay horizon disk. Together these two disks can be adjusted to show the visible nightime sky for any time of night, any night of the year.

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Whether you're a beginner or an expert star gazer, this planisphere is an informative, user-friendly guide to the stars & constellations. It features a detailed star disk & an overlay horizon disk. Together these two disks can be adjusted to show the visible nightime sky for any time of night, any night of the year.

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Here, at last, is a bright modern approach to astro navigation, for those wanting a little more than just a textbook to pass an exam. First there is a brief outline of the solar system & then a step by step guide to finding your position on the ocean, both with & without a pocket calculator for working out sun & star sights. Best of all are the outstanding colour illustrations to assist novices in star recognition. This book will prove a real boon to anyone struggling with lengthy sight reduction tables, & is a welcome modern addition to the subject. ...

Bring stars, planets & spacecraft into your bedroom with this fantastic projector torch. Swap & change the projection domes easily by twisting & pulling them off the torch. Simply shine the torch around your room & turn your bedroom into a glowing galaxy. When the torch is not in use the on/off switch, the rim of the torch & the dome adaptor glow in the dark, making the torch easy to find in your dark bedroom. The Original Glowstars Company was first formed in the nineties bringing Original paper Glowstars to the nation. No home was complete without a glowing night sky on bedroom walls & ceilings! Now The Original Glowstars Company brings, not just paper glowstars, but a whole array of glow-in-the-dark items to make your home a fun, educational, glowing place to be. The Glow range

Includes:: The Original Glowstars, Glow 3D, Glow Morph & Cosmic Glow.A perfect, fun yet educational, gift for kids who are interested in the stars, constellations & the Universe. Now that kids grow out of toys earlier & earlier, glow products will appeal to kids into their tween & teen years. Ideal for pyjama parties & sleepovers. Even adults will love to decorate rooms with this beautiful home decor. Good, educational family fun.

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Meet Astro, the robot dog with a big heart, in this brand new picture book by the bestselling author of ALIENS LOVE UNDERPANTS. When Astro is sent from Planet Xog on a journey through outer-space, not only does he find out what life is like on Earth, he also discovers the true meaning of friendship. From the creators of the bestselling GEORGE`S DRAGON series comes an out-of-this-world adventure that will melt hearts across the galaxy. ...