From one of Europe`s most revered authors, a tale of one man`s obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, & humanity`s darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Claudio Magris`s searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war & its savagery in every age & every country. His tale centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a Museum of War involves both a horrible secret & the hope of redemption. Luisa Brooks, his museum`s curator, a descendant of victims of Jewish exile & of black slavery, has a complex dilemma: will the collections she exhibits save humanity from repeating its tragic & violent past? Or might the display of articles of war actually valorize & memorialize evil atrocities? In Blameless Magris affirms his mastery of the novel form, interweaving multiple themes & traveling deftly through history. With a multitude of stories, the author investigates individual sorrow, the societal burden of justice aborted, & the ways in which memory & historical evidence are sabotaged or sometimes salvaged. ...

Blandford Forum in 1901 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 one of the finest Georgian towns in Engl&. A disastrous fire in 1731 meant that the town had to be rebuilt & because it grew only slowly in the 19th century (the population was under 4, 000 in 1901) the Georgian character survived. Features include the whole town centre, largely encircled by the River Stour, the Somerset & Dorset Railway with station, Market Place, workhouse, Blandford Bridge, Hall & Woodhouse Brewery, St Leonard`s Farm, Bryanston Park. To the west the map reaches St Martin`s old & new churches, marking the site of an old medieval village.* 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. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Against a backdrop of rural Portuguese poverty, a handful of magical characters are living out their destiny: Jose, a shepherd, who is visited by a devil whispering violent words in his ear; Moises & Elias, Siamese twins joined at the tip of their little fingers; Gabriel, a wise man, who is over one hundred years old; & an unnamed character who sits writing alone in a windowless room. The characters are universal, & they are all at the mercy of fate
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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Blaydon & Stella in 1895 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. 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. In this title: the map extends west to Bewes Hills & Liddells Fell. Features include Blaydon House, Blaydonbank Quarry, St Cuthbert's Church, Railway Line & Blaydon Station, Stella Snaith Inn, Stella Hall, The Park, Hedgefield House, Milner Coal Pit, Path Head & Towneley Main Wagonway. On the reverse is an extract from a directory of Blaydon & Stella in 1894. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Blaydon & Stella in 1895 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 extends west to Bewes Hills & Liddells Fell. Features include Blaydon House, Blaydonbank Quarry, St Cuthbert`s Church, Railway Line & Blaydon Station, Stella Snaith Inn, Stella Hall, The Park, Hedgefield House, Milner Coal Pit, Path Head & Towneley Main Wagonway. On the reverse is an extract from a directory of Blaydon & Stella in 1894. 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. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Bleak House is one of Dickens` finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious & mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, & an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city`s underworld, & of the law`s corruption & delay, draw upon the author`s personal knowledge & experience. But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, & tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, & an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements & challenges hers. ...

` Perfect` Lena Dunham ` This year`s literary sensation` Evening Standard How far would you travel to become a writer?8000 miles from home 1085 calories a day 3 months to write the novel that would make her name. At least that was the plan. But when Nell Stevens travelled to Bleaker Island in the Falklands (official population: two) she didn`t count on the isolation getting to her... Hilarious & heartbreaking, this is a book about loneliness & creativity. It is about discovering who you are when there`s no one else around. & it`s about what to do when a plan doesn`t work: ultimately Nell may have failed to write a novel, but she succeeded in becoming a writer. ...