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
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Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically
- from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. But throughout
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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 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. ...

Map No. 267, Capitol Reef National Park in Utah at 1:75, 000 in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national & state parks or forests & other popular recreational areas. Cartography based on the national topographic survey, with additional tourist information. The maps, with most titles now printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, highlight walking trails along with campsites & other accommodation, picnic sites, areas for various recreational pursuits such as horse riding or skiing, drinking water sources, & many other facilities of interest to the outdoor enthusiast. Cartography is based on information from the USGS (United States Geological Survey
- the country’s national survey organization), revised by the National Geographic Maps in cooperation with the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, etc. Topography is excellently presented by contours (interval varies according to scale), enhanced by relief shading & colouring/graphics for wood cover, glaciers, etc. All heights are given in feet. The maps have a UTM grid plus latitude & longitude margin ticks & GPS waypoints for selected important locations. Each map is double-sided to give either maximum coverage of the chosen area or additional enlargements of its important sections. Accompanying notes provide useful information on relevant regulations, safety precautions, contact addresses, etc.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: the series is very extensive, ranging in scale from 1:400, 000 for the vast national parks of Alaska to 1:25, 000 for local map in several states. We recommend, therefore, viewing the series by state rather than the whole list.

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Capo San Lorenzo to Capitana 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

Includes:: English.*

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Cappadocia (Kapadokya) at 1:250, 000 from Mepmedya is a tourist map covering the famous region, showing transport routes & annotated with many natural & historic sites. Legend & text in English, Turkish & German. Major, secondary & many minor roads are shown, as are railway lines & the local airport at Kayseri. Mountain passes are displayed alongside an indication of their altitude. Provinces & districts are delineated, & provincial capitals, major towns, & many smaller towns & villages are marked, with an indication of their administrative importance. Relief shading defines the terrain, mountain ranges are named & spot heights are shown for major peaks. The main lakes, rivers & dams are marked & named, & caves & springs are also displayed. The mapping is annotated with numerous places of interest. These range from churches, monasteries, mosques, castles & historic sites, to museums & the ski centre at Erciyes. The most important sites are numbered, with descriptions appearing on the reverse of the map. These include: a concentration of sites in the Goreme National Park area, the underground cities of Kaymakli & Derinkuyu, many museums, churches, mosques & monasteries, & areas of natural beauty where `fairy chimney` rock formations can be found. The map covers an area from the town of Aksaray in the west to Kayseri in the east, & from Kirsehir in the north to the town of Nigde in the south. This roughly corresponds to Nevsehir Province & some parts of neighbouring provinces.* Legend & descriptions in Turkish, English & German.* ...