Caerphilly West in 1937 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 western fringe of Caerphilly, stretching from Nantgarw Road & Caenant Road westward. Features include stretches of the GWR railway, including Aber Junction, Aber Junction Halt, Penyrheol Halt, Beddau Sidings, part of the Senghenydd Branch, etc. The former Barry Railway route is shown being dismantled. Other features include Old Furnace, Pen-yr-Heol, cemetery, Pandy, Omnibus Depot, Trecenydd area, etc. On the reverse is the 1929 Cardiff-Caerphilly-Rhymney timetable. 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. ...

Ludwig Unter's life held such promise. His parents were artists &, from an early age, his own musical genius had marked him out for a stellar career in the world's concert halls. In his mother's imagination, Ludwig is already on the way to surpassing her most ambitious dreams for him. But in reality, & for now, he's playing in local cocktail bars & the two of them are living alone in a storm-lashed clifftop cottage in East Anglia. As the forceful winter seas bash away at the coastline, & Ludwig plunks away at the piano, he begins to tell a woman his story: a story of beauty & decay, of a child's faith & parental betrayal, & of the importance, in the end, of self-sacrifice. ...

In the 50s BC, Julius Caesar conducted a brutal war against the tribes of ancient Gaul. On the pretext of curbing an imminent barbarian threat to the Roman Republic, he first defeated & decimated the Helvetii tribe, before subjugating the other Celtic peoples who occupied the territory of what is now France. Caesar laid Gallic civilization to waste, but the cultural revolution the Romans brought in their wake transformed the Celtic culture of that country, as the Gauls exchanged their tribal quarrels for togas & acquired the paraphernalia of civilized urban life. The Romans also left behind a legacy of language, literature, law, government, religion, architecture & industry. From Marseille to Mulhouse, & from Orleans to Autun, Bijan Omrani journeys across Gaul in the footsteps of its Roman conquerors. He tells the story of Caesar`s Gallic Wars & traces the indelible imprint on modern Europe of the Gallo-Roman civilization that emerged in their wake. ...

** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **` Popular science at its best` Mail on Sunday` Eminently accessible & enjoyable` Observer With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you`re probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might also bear traces of Cleopatra`s perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe`s creation. In Caesar`s Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe & across time to tell the epic story of the air we breathe. ...

Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East & the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the understanding of the past, or a different concept of time, is not enough. But a visitor to this part of the world will soon discover that we, the Eastern Europeans, live in another time zone. We live in the twentieth century, but at the same time we inhabit a past full of myths & fairy tales, of blood & national belonging, & the fact that most people are lying & cheating or that they have the habit of blaming others for every failure...` An intimate tour of life on the streets of Budapest, Tirana, Warsaw & Zagreb, as those cities continue to acclimatise to the post-Communist thaw, Cafe Europa does not provide easy solutions or furnish political pallatives. Rather as a Croatian with a viewpoint of ever-widening relevance, the value of Slavenka Drakulic`s wry & humane observations lie in the emotional force of their honesty & the clarity of their insight... ...

Cafe London takes locals & tourists beyond the obvious guidebook destinations. It highlights the best places to go for a trendy brunch, simple lunch & decadent afternoon tea, as well as the best places for a real coffee & a perfect cup of tea. Covering more than 100 destinations, it`s an essential guide for visitors looking for an authentic London experience, & Londoners looking to discover new cafe favourites. ...

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Cagliari on an indexed street plan at 1:12, 000 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Global Map edition. 53 monuments including historic buildings & churches, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. The city’s historic centre is shown in greater detail on an enlargement at 1:6, 000. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. ...

Cagliari & Golfo degli Angeli area in a series of contoured, GPS compatible maps at 1:60, 000 from Ed. Abies, with extensive tourist information including special recreational routes plus additional coverage at more detailed scales of selected popular areas.* Main series at 1:60, 000 (Nos. 1 to 12)* The maps have contours at 100m intervals & colouring for woodlands & maquis shrubl&. Local trails are highlighted, with additional overprint for selected hiking, mountain bike & kayaking routes listed on the reverse of the maps with brief notes & grading for the degree of difficulty. All the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. Very extensive range of symbols highlight numerous places of interest & tourist facilities, including campsites & caravan parks, beaches, sport & recreational sites, archaeological remains & nuraghi, etc. The maps also indicate places where typical local products can be purchased. On the reverse each title has descriptions of its main places of interest, beaches, etc.* More detailed maps at 1:25, 000/1:30, 000 (Nos. 3A to 12A)* Contour interval is 25m, plus colouring for vegetation. Local trails are marked but unless indicated in the individual description, special routes are not included. Tourist overprint is also less extensive than on the 1:60, 000 maps. Most titles have GPS coordinates. On the reverse are extensive notes describing the area. For more details see individual descriptions. * Map legend & additional text on all the maps

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Cagliari Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The 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. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...