The Black Sea coast of Russia & the Ukraine at 1:700, 000 on a double-sided road map from Merkury in a series covering the central part of European Russia & the adjoining regions of its western neighbours. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet only; map legend

Includes:: English. On one side is the Ukrainian coast with Crimea, extending west to the Romanian border & inland to Krivoy Rog & Zaporozhye. The reverse side also

Includes:: the Crimean Peninsula, extending along the coast to Sochi & the border with Georgia, plus north-east across the Azov Sea beyond Rostov-na-Donu. Roads are graded into 13 different types according to their width & official administrative status. Fuel or car repairs stations as well as weight/dimension checkpoints are clearly marked. Driving distances are shown on most small local roads. The map also

Includes:: the railway network, shows locations of regional airports & sea ports, & indicates administrative boundaries. Picturesque towns are highlighted & other places of interest are marked. The terrain is indicated only by colouring for forested areas & graphics for swamps
- no relief information or geographical coordinates are provided. The map has no geographical coordinates & is not indexed. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.IMPORTANT
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Beautifully illustrated & far-reaching in scope, this guide is destined to be a standard reference for years to come. Alongside the work of author Michael Freeman, you`ll find the classic photography of renowned black & white photographers such as Ansel Adams, Ian Berry, Bill Brandt, Edward Curtis, Brett Weston & Edward Weston. Freeman covers all aspects of black-&-white digital photography: the fine art tradition as well as the techniques. Learn how to see & expose in black & white, digitally convert colour to monochrome & develop a black & white digital workflow using the latest software. ...

Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize A Waterstones.com History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize In Black & British, award-winning historian & broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich & revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles & the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic & genealogical research, original records, expert testimony & contemporary interviews, Black & British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination & Shakespeare`s Othello. It reveals that behind the South Sea Bubble was Britain`s global slave-trading empire & that much of the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery. It shows that Black Britons fought at Trafalgar & in the trenches of the First World War. Black British history can be read in stately homes, street names, statues & memorials across Britain & is woven into the cultural & economic histories of the nation. Unflinching, confronting taboos & revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black & white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries. Black & British is a vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. ...

Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees` Award A Waterstones.com History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian & broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich & revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles & the people of Africa & the Caribbean. Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, & expert testimony, Black & British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan `blackamoors` & the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, & that black Britons fought at Trafalgar & in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural & economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. Unflinching, confronting taboos & revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black & white Britons have been entwined for centuries. ...

It`s night-time in the woods & there are eyes peeping out from the darkness
- but who do they belong to? Each character is revealed
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` Milo the cat goes for a walk… through the woodland full of trees… past the flowers, the birds & bees.` Milo the cat explores the world around him in this sturdy & stylish board book to stimulate a baby`s developing sense of sight. This book has been created using dynamic black & white visuals, as studies have shown that babies react best to high-contrast patterns over colour. The perfect size for little hands, the rhymes flow easily & the black & white images will capture their curiosity & fascination from birth. Milo`s Black & White World provides the ideal visual stimulation for newborns upwards. ...

Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the eighteenth century
- chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilisation was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers--or Aryans--from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this ” Aryan model.” They did not see their political institutions, science, philosophy, or religion as original, but rather as derived from the East in general, & Egypt in particular. Black Athena is a three-volume work. Volume 1 concentrates on the crucial period between 1785 & 1850, which saw the Romantic & racist reaction to the Enlightenment & the French Revolution, & the consolidation of Northern expansion into other continents. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal makes meaningful links between a wide range of areas & disciplines--drama poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, & the emergence of ”modern scholarship.”
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” Whilst others scarcely put a toe in the water, in The Black Atlantic Gilroy goes in deep & returns with riches.” Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps, this bold book sounds like a liberating call. There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once; a black Atlantic culture whose themes & techniques transcend ethnicity & nationality to produce something new &, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices & assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also enriches our understanding of modernism. ...

This is a riotous account of a Black dandy trying to cut it in Paris today. Buttocks Man is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio & run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She`s taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing him of `digging a hole in the Dole`. & his drinking buddies at Jips, the Afro-Cuban bar in Les Halles, pour scorn on Black Bazaar, the journal he keeps to log his sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner shop has a kind word; while at night his dreams are stalked by the cannibal pygmies of Gabon. Then again, Buttocks Man wears no ordinary uppers. He has style, bags of it (suitcases of crocodile & anaconda Westons, to be precise). He`s a dandy from the Bacongo district of Brazzaville
- AKA a sapeur or member of the Society of Ambience-makers & People of Elegance. But is flaunting sartorial chic against tough times enough for Buttocks Man to cut it in the City of Light?
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Black Beauty is a Puffin Classic by Anna Sewell. Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess, & their kind master. But when his owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty goes from a life of comfort & kindness to one of hard labour & cruelty. Bravely he works as hard as he can, suffering at the hands of men who treat animals badly. But Black Beauty has an unbreakable spirit & will, & is determined to survive... With a wonderful introduction by award-winning author Meg Rosoff, Black Beauty is one of the twelve best-loved classic stories being launched in the newly branded Puffin Classics series in March 2008. Anna Sewell (1820-78) was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Black Beauty, her only book, was completed & published in 1877, just a few months before she died, so she did not live to know of the book`s huge success. Apart from being a good story, Black Beauty was instrumental in changing people`s attitudes towards horses, & domestic animals in general. The Puffin Classics: Red Badge of Courage; Anne of the Island; Wuthering Heights; Anne of Avonlea; Kidnapped; What Katy Did; The Happy Prince; David Copperfield; Robin Hood; Peter Pan; The Secret Garden; Black Beauty; The Call of the Wild; Huckleberry Finn; Sherlock Holmes; Little Lord Fauntleroy; The Wizard of Oz; Just So Stories; Treasure Island; Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland; Little Women; Oliver Twist; The Wind in the Willows; The Secret Garden; &, the Princess & the Goblin. ...