During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Serialized in twenty-two issues, collected in two volumes, with a third to be released at the same time as this omnibus, Berlin has more than 100, 000 copies in print & is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, & as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens? Marthe Muller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism & extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty & politics. Lutes weaves these characters lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, & train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes masterful h&. Weimar Berlin was the world s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, & sensuous liberal values thrived, & Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant & beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. ...

Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe`s youth capital, & its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site, built on the ruins of regimes. Today`s diversity
- refugees, immigrants, arty expats, East & West
- emerges from a history of violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge & contemporary as it is wary of its extreme past. Berlin is a comprehensive short history & portrait of the German capital today. The story of Berlin`s vagaries over nine centuries
- from a dry place in a bog to the control centre of modern Europe
- is expertly portrayed by historian Joseph Pearson. The dynamic present is a palimpsest on this unsettling past. A long-time flaneur of Berlin`s streets, Pearson explores how the city`s history is visible today in bombsites, museums & industrial club spaces (and a lake hosting a man-nibbling monster). In this book, we find that elements of the city that for some can be unnerving
- its emptiness, its provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past
- are precisely what give the city its charge. Pearson poses provocative questions as he reveals the city`s many layers & varied neighbourhoods. He argues, ultimately, that Berlin`s centrality in European & cultural affairs is only just beginning to be felt.





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” Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, & so it lives more powerfully in the imagination.” Rory Maclean, ` Berlin
- Imagine a City`. Located at the epicentre of some of modern Europe`s most significant & turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From 19th century authors recording the city`s dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 & the modernist intellectuals of the Weimar period, to the resistance writers brave enough to write during the dark years of the Nazi era & those who captured life on both sides of the divided city, a body of literature has emerged that reveals Berlin`s ever-shifting identity. Since 1989, Berlin has yet again become a crucible of creativity, serving as both muse & sanctuary for a new generation of writers who regularly claim it as one of the most exciting cities in the world. This unique & engaging book functions as an introduction to some of the finest writing in & about the city, as well as a guide to some of its best sights & vibrant neighbourhoods. Spanning more than 200 years of local life & literature, it features German authors as diverse as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph Roth, Jorg Fauser, & Christa Wolf, as well as a slew of famous international names such as Mark Twain, Philip Hensher & Chloe Aridjis.
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Berlin on a pocket-size street plan from Marco Polo Travel Publishing printed on sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper, with tram & bus routes shown with stops & line numbers, U- & S-Bahn stations clearly marked & the lines shown on a separate diagram, lists of useful addresses, etc The plan is at 1:15, 000 & covers the city with its suburbs, extending north-west to include the Tegel airport, south to the grounds of the old Tempelhof airport, west to include the Messe grounds, & east to the Frankfurter Tor station. The plan shows tram & bus routes with stops & line numbers, U/S-Bahn stations, one way streets, car parks & pedestrianized areas. Important buildings & places of interest are marked. Cartography is from the renowned German publishers Mair Dumont. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English. The index is on the reverse side &

Includes:: extensive lists of useful contact details for tourist information offices, hotel reservation, campsites & youth hostels, car hire, museums, emergency services, etc. Also provided is a very clear diagram of the U/S-Bahn & rail network, plus a road map of the city’s environs.



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Berlin on a topographic map at 1:200, 000 from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany’s federal mapping agency. The map covers an area of Approx. 100 x 90km. This map is belongs to a series of 58 topographic maps from Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, the federal cartographic agency of Germany responsible for topographic mapping at 1:200, 000 & maps at smaller scales (the more detailed topographic & leisure maps are prepared & published by the survey organizations of the individual states). Cartography is from the 200K topographic survey & the maps have very elegant, modern look whilst retaining the traditional German presentation of names of smaller towns & villages in italics. Contours are at 12, 5m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, with colouring for woodlands, moors, marches, vineyards & hop plantations. Waterways & rivers are also described in detail, with currents, waterfalls, dams, & jetties clearly marked. Road network, graded into five types, highlights in colour national & regional roads; no driving distances are marked Railway network is also shown in detail, with stations, goods only lines, etc. The maps show administrative boundaries of states & counties, & have a UTM grid plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 2’ intervals. Map legend is in German only.PLEASE NOTE: maps in this series provide an excellent presentation of the areas covered by them, with plenty of place names & detailed representation of the road network, & will appeal to anyone who likes quality cartography, but they are not necessarily the best option for holiday & business travel. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Te Neues Art, Architecture & Design guide to Berlin. About this series: Te Neues` line of pocket guides on Art, Architecture, & Design (AAD for short) give an unparalleled insider overview of major sights as well as highlighting lesser-known gems. A handy reference, these slim volumes are chock-full of museums, galleries, as well as favorite hipster hangouts from hotels & restaurants to bars & shops. Entries include the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Helmut Newton Foundation, & many more. The directory listings are filled with detailed information & a city plan for each title. ...

Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Saxony-Anhalt region at 1:275, 000 in a series of eight regional road maps from Kümmerly + Frey printed

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German state of Brandenburg with Berlin on an indexed road map at 1:200, 000 in the Mair Dumont’s Marco Polo series, prominently highlighting interesting locations & protected areas. A 95-page index booklet

Includes:: for the Berlin/ Postdam area street plans of central & west Berlin & Potsdam, plus enlargements of the environs at 1:100, 000 showing in greater detail road access. Similar plans & enlargements cover Brandenburg, Cottbus & Frankfurt an der Oder. Maps in this Mair Dumont Marco Polo series indicate topography by light relief shading & the series is particularly good for identifying geographical

Features: mountain & hill chains, valleys, national/natural parks, etc. The maps boldly stress main roads & motorways in strong colours & selected towns in large letters, but also show minor roads & villages in considerable detail. Road information

Includes:: toll roads, traffic restrictions & seasonal closures, gradient marking for steep roads, etc. Motorway services clearly indicate types of facilities available there, & driving distances are marked on many small local roads. Scenic roads & special tourist routes are highlighted. Railway network

Includes:: narrow gauge & tourist lines, cable car lines, & chair lifts. Where appropriate, ferry connections are shown. Locations worth visiting, both town/villages & natural sites, are highlighted & graded; 15 best sites are prominently marked & cross-referenced to their descriptions in the accompanying booklet. Other tourist information

Includes:: campsites & youth hostels, landmarks, recreational facilities etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at intervals of 10`. Each title comes with a booklet attached to the map cover containing street plans & maps at 1:100, 000 showing in greater detail road access to main cities. The booklet also provides an index listing towns/villages with their postcodes as well as rivers & landscape features, plus a table with distances/travelling times, & for route planning an overview of the whole area covered by the main map indicating the 15 special places of interest. Map legend & the descriptions include English. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.









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A 628km cycle route from Berlin to Copenhagen via the Rostok to Gedser ferry. Detailed maps show the route & its variants & extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH, please see our sample image, & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of a similar product in English from other publishers. There is currently no English edition this title available in this series. About the series: All the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans.




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Berlin
- Copenhagen Cycle Route, a 650-km long cycle route linking the two capitals via the Rostok to Gedser ferry, presented
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