Bolzano Province at 1:200, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is published with the traditional style LAC cartography.LAC’s provincial 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. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The authentic Models` Bombay Box Side Table has beautiful character & will improve with age. Looks great as a feature piece ...

The authentic Models` Bombay Box Side Table has beautiful character & will improve with age. Looks great as a feature piece ...

` Ketaki Sheth`s photographs, so formally interesting, so sharply seen, so deeply felt.`
- Salman Rushdie. ` Sheth`s Bombay
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This book comes with an introduction by Mohammed Hanif. Bombay in the 1930s & 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent
- an exhilarating hub of license & liberty, & a city bursting with both creative energy & helpless despondency. It was to be the favourite city & muse of the most celebrated short story writer of India & Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto. His hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling & provocative. In searching out those forgotten by humanity
- prostitutes, pimps, intellectuals, aspiring film actors, conmen & crooks
- Manto wrote about what it means to be human. Matt Reeck & Aftab Ahmad`s translations reach into the streets & capture Manto`s world in contemporary, idiomatic English.


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Bombay is a city always on the move. Driven by multiple impulses, it has been the site for a Buddhist ethos, a safe haven for refugees from Persia, a hub of maritime trade & a melting pot of European & Eastern influences. Enriched with in-depth historical research & exclusive photographs, ` Bombay: Then` documents the transformation of the once `insignificant cluster of islets` into one of the most exciting spots for cultural exchange in South Asia. Among other views, the book illustrates the Mankeshwar temple & the Rajabai Clock Tower wrapped in scaffolding; the construction of Victoria Dock & the opening of its massive underwater gates; a lush & sparsely populated Malabar Hill; a rare view of the interior of a Parsi fire temple; factory scenes inside the Royal Mint & the Times of India units; what the stock exchange looked like nearly a century ago; & many breathtaking aerial shots of this beautiful isl&-city. A sheer visual treat through extraordinary historical photographs, ` Bombay: Then` is for keeps. Mumbai has always been a city of dreams
- shiny, colourful, nebulous dreams that melt away the moment you try to grasp them. Yet it beckons & the charm of the mirage is too seductive to let pass. Mumbai has moved from being Bombay to Bambai to Mumbai in four centuries & yet it is all three: encompassing all manner of paradoxical realities within its moist borders. Mumbai is restless, transient but the pulse of its past still runs through its streets. The fifteen million souls that inhabit this great isl&-city belong to all walks of life, numerous ethnic & religious backgrounds, & manage to communicate through the Babel-like confusion of different tongues & diverse histories. ` Mumbai: Now` brings this shape-shifting, elusive city to you
- from the stories of the first Goan migrants to the lives of native Koli fishermen; from the tradition of dabbawalas to that of `cutting` chai; & from the potters in Dharavi to the pink flamingos in Sewri
- in a series of beautiful, moving pictures that capture the many moods & faces of Mumbai.


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Patrick Bishop looks at the lives & the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan Mc Gregor. They came from every corner of Britain & its Empire. They were the best of their generation...heading for one of the worst tasks of WWII. Like RAF pilots, the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the air to help Britain triumph in World War Two. But in the glow of victory, the fighter pilots were lauded for their efforts while the Bomber Boys faded in national memory. Crucial in the heat of combat, they were politically awkward afterwards. Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI, these men faced death, injury & capture time & again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. ` Bomber Boys` is a tribute to their strength, courage & heroism
- filling in the historical blanks & immortalising their memory.
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