Cape York Atlas & Guide from Hema in an A4 spiral-bound format, covering the northernmost part of Queensland including Cairns & the coast of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Mapping of the whole region is combined with description of interesting sights, recommendations for 15 best 4WD trips, & general tourist advice. The opening two chapters provide information on planning the trip, advice on recreational activities, entry permits to national parks, etc. The following chapters which describe different parts of the region include popular routes, e.g. Cairns to Cooktown by either the coastal or the inland route. The descriptions are illustrated with numerous colour photos & map extracts. Cape York’s 15 top 4WD trips are graded according to the necessary vehicle specifications & presented with map extracts, lists of facilities available along the route, descriptions & photos. The road atlas covers the whole region north of the Savannah Way at 1:1, 000, 000, with more detailed mapping for the very north of the peninsula. Road network distinguishes between sealed & unsealed roads & indicates which roads & tracks have been specially plotted by the publishers during their field research. Driving distances are shown on main roads & selected tracks; where useful the maps also show GPS waypoints. An extensive range of symbols indicate availability of different facilities (accommodation, food, fuel, car repairs, etc), some annotated with opening times. Topography is presented by relief shading with colouring and/or graphics for national parks & other protected areas, swamps, salt lakes & saline coastal flats, etc. In the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park numerous reef are named. All pages have a latitude & longitude grid. The index refers both to the atlas pages & to the guide section. To see the full range of Hema’s road atlases & guides to Australia & its states 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. ...

The residents of Pepys Road, London
- a banker & his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumour, a family of Pakistani
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From the bestselling author of Whoops! & The Debt to Pleasure comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour & unflinching truth. Featuring a contemporary cast of characters that crosses race, class & religion, Capital is the moving & hugely topical story of one street caught on the brink of the crash. Capital: the City of London. Capital: money, currency, finance. Both are central to the multicultural micro-society living & working on Pepys Road-an ordinary street in the Capital. Formerly working class, the simple houses have seen a wave of gentrification & expensive renovations that have rendered them highly desirable, valuable real estate. Here lives Roger Yount, powerful investment banker daily trading risk against profit on the Foreign Exchange. An annual bonus of a million might seem excessive, but with second homes & nannies to maintain, he`s not sure he can get by without it. Elsewhere on Pepys Road is the Muslim Pakistani family living above their convenience store, & a senior widow who entertains visits from her graffiti artist grandson. Recently arrived is Freddy Kano, teenage football celebrity, recruited from Senegal to join the Premier League, who left a two-room shack to follow his dream. Their stories intertwine with the immigrant workers who service the wealthy residents of the City: Zbigniew, the builder from Warsaw, catering to the super-rich in their interior decoration whims; the nanny who looks after Roger`s two small boys while his well-groomed wife indulges her shopaholic tendencies; & traffic warden Quentina, who has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged upper middle classes. For them all, this city offers the chance of a different kind of life. Each house has its own story & its own secrets, having seen its fair share of first steps & last breaths, & plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Readers who enjoy Dickens & Trollope & such contemporary books as Sebastian Faulks` A Week in December, will not want to miss out on this fast-paced, cosmopolitan social saga. ...

” Capital Crimes” tells the shifting story of crime & punishment in London through vivid re-creations of a series of murders that stretches from the killing of Roger Legett, a notorious `questmonger`, during the Peasants` Revolt in 1381, through to the hanging of Styllou Christofi in 1954. Some of the murderers, such as the political assassin John Bellingham, are still remembered. Others, including the eighteenth-century highwayman John Davis, are largely forgotten. But all their lives & fates have much to tell us
- about London`s changing underworld, about the slow evolution of policing in the capital, & about the sometimes strange workings of the law. Above all, they provide a fascinating sideways view of London over the centuries
- from the crime-ridden alleyways of the Georgian capital to the supposedly respectable suburbs of Finchley, where the notorious `baby-farmers` Amelia Sach & Annie Walters operated at the beginning of the twentieth century. Illustrated throughout with contemporary engravings & photographs, this is an essential read for all devotees of London
- & of crime.


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With its fascinating mix of people
- rich & poor, British & foreign, worthy & suspicious
- London is a city where anything

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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation & distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, & the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data & clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, ” Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic & social patterns. His findings will transform debate & set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth & inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth & the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital & inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent & undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, & may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, & rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century ”reorients our understanding of economic history & confronts us with sobering lessons for today. ...

A collection of more than 100 recipes from the very best London-based Indian restaurant chefs. Many are familiar from their headline-grabbing Michelin stars, & appearances on television shows such as BBC`s Saturday Kitchen; others are perhaps less well-known, but all share a passion to push the wonders of Indian food, either via twists to tradition & the addition of exciting Western inflections to their dishes, or by offering the most wonderfully authentic tastes of the many regional cuisines now available over here. Whilst these have spread to every corner of the country, the heartbeat for diversity & quality is centred very much around the country`s capital. Household names such as Atul Kochhar & Vivek Singh, & greats such as Alfred Prasad, Cyrus Todiwala & Reza Mahammed feature here; as do many of the best-known & best-loved restaurants around, such as The Star of India, The Cinnamon Club, Benares & Bombay Brasserie. All of the chef-come-authors within this book have helped to sculpt London into the spice capital of the world with their brilliant culinary skills. Capital Spice is a collection of richly delicious recipes which allow you to recreate the style of this select group of chefs. ...

”A terrific portrait of Delhi right now.” (Salman Rushdie). ” An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers.” (William Dalrymple). When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him
- he `fell in love & in hate with it`
- & fifteen years later, Delhi is still his home. Over these fifteen years, he has watched as the tumult of destruction & creation which accompanies India`s economic boom transformed the face of the city. In Capital, he explores the life-changing consequences for Delhi`s people, meeting with billionaires & bureaucrats, drug dealers & metal traders, slum dwellers & psychoanalysts. These encounters, interwoven with over a century of history, plunge us into Delhi`s intoxicating, sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation
- one that has repercussions not only for India, but for everybody`s future.


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A double-sided trekking map of the whole of the Capitol Reef National Park, contoured at 40 feet intervals / Series: Contoured trekking maps detailing maintained & unmaintained trails. Visitor centres & campgrounds are marked with symbols. Advice for hikers & information about the park is printed around the edge of the map. Advice for hikers & information about the park is printed around the edge of the map. ...