Like Geography & love Monty Python silliness? Then this is for you!“ Atlas, Schmatlas” is an absolutely silly, satirical, yet oddly informative & comprehensive atlas of the world. Written & illustrated by Craig Robinson, who got a D in his O level geography exams, “ Atlas, Schmatlas” has over 250 entries covering the globe; filled with colourful maps, graphs, illustrations of notable figures & famous residents, even a quiz to test your knowledge of the nations of West Africa. Chock full of historical, geographical, & also totally untrue information, this book will teach you a thing or two about the world around you through it’s satirical tone & illustrations, taking stereotypes & using them to make hilarious, yet starkingly realised observations. You’ll learn that: Chad is the place you should go if you want to take photographs of sand; Central America is the region of the world where your dreams might be realised if you want a career as a CIA-backed military dictator; & Saint Peter & Paul Rocks are the 12 little volcanic islands located between Africa & Brazil where the Brazilians dump all that waxed-off hair. Isn’t learning fun? ...

The British Library`s map collection is the national cartographic collection of Britain & numbers around four million maps dating from 15 CE to 2017 CE. These include road maps drawn for 13th century pilgrims & sea charts for 17th-century pirates. They include the first printed map to show the Americas & the last to show English-controlled Calais. They include the world`s biggest & smallest atlases. They include maps for kings & queens, popes, ministers, schoolchildren, soldiers, tourists. There are maps which changed the world. As well as comprehensively showcasing the varied & surprising treasures of the British Library`s ”banquet of maps” for the first time, this book will examine the evolution of humanity`s perceptions of the world through maps. By looking at how this map collection was assembled principally over two & a half centuries but in reality over a millennium, the book comprises a cartographic history of the world, as well as vivid celebration of the world`s best map collection`s best maps. ...

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. ...

Classic 30cm (12) illuminated antique style globe has the superb additional feature of displaying the great voyages of discovery ...

Map No. 10066, Atndalen, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Half-brothers Michel & Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker & idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of & little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow `new age` philosophies & love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised (Les Particules elementaires) tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society & its assumptions, its political incorrectness, & its caustic & penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls` magazines. A dissection of modern lives & loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching & visceral. ...

Ian Mc Ewan`s haunting tale unfolds on the hottest day of the English summer of 1934. Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes & plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie & Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, & will have become victims of the younger girl`s imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, & committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. Shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize, Mc Ewan has produced a landmark work in his oeuvre that also shows, quite literally as the crux of the books story, the power of just one word & the dangers of miscommunication. ...

In Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly looks at the Shipping Forecast, which, regularly broadcast on BBC radio, is for many a familiar & reassuring element of the British cultural landscape. Its content could spell the difference between life & death for seafarers, but arguably less so for audiences in the garden shed or suburban living room. Here the author wittily sheds some light on the places behind the names, & their historical & odd cultural associations. The weather gets a mention here & there too. ...

Rising star Joshua Cohen`s first collection of essays, a fully realized work created from a selection of previously published & new nonfiction
- essays, memoir, criticism, letters, diaries
- covering an extraordinary array of topics: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, & psychology, on subjects ranging from Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, animals in literature, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, Edward Snowden, Gordon Lish, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, Google, Thomas Pynchon, & Azerbaijan. In thirty essays & forty short `interludes`, Cohen directs his sharp gaze out upon the world, exhibiting his deep erudition & ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things, showing us how to look at a world overflowing with information without becoming daunted. In each piece, Cohen projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his, & a voice as witty, powerful, funny, & distinct as any in American letters.

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Attercliffe in 1903 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 Attercliffe area on the north-eastern side of Sheffield, including parts of Brightside, Carbrook & Greenl&. Coverage stretches from Stevenson Road eastward to Tinsley Park Cemetery & from Attercliffe GCR station northward to Upwell Street & Brightside Weir. The Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation & Sheffield & Tinsley Canal run through the map, as does the River Don. The GCR railway runs through, with Attercliffe & Broughton Lane stations, plus sidings. A short stretch of the Midland Railway cuts across the north-western corner with Brightside Sidings. Other features include Brown Bayleys Steel Works, Hecla Works, Greenland Branch Steel Works, part of Tinsley Park Collieries, St Bartholomew`s church, Carbrook Saw Mills, Carbrook Park, South Yorkshire Iron Works, Carbrook Forge, Attercliffe Cemetery, Attercliffe Hill, Cyclops Works, Attercliffe Steel Works, Christ Church, Pagoda Works, St Thomas church, plus many streets of terraces close to the industrial premises. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries, including Attercklioffe Common, Attrercliffe Road & Brightside Lane. 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. ...