Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity & wisdom. A crisis in ideological values, a crisis in politics, unbridled individualism – the familiar backdrop to our lives: a ‘liquid society’ where it’s not easy to find a polestar, though stars & starlets are not lacking. In these pieces, written by Eco as articles for his regular column in l’ Espresso magazine, he brings his dazzling erudition & keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture & politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old & the young, mobile phones, mass media, racism, good manners & the crisis in ideological values. It is a final gift to his readers – astute, witty & illuminating. ...

Discover one of the world`s most fascinating & historic cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of London. Author Kevin Jackson takes readers through more than 2, 000 years of British history with exciting essays on topics such as London`s origins, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry V, Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, Jack the Ripper, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, The Beatles & more. In addition, guided walking tours of London`s historic neighborhoods, illustrated with color photographs & period maps, take readers to the places where history really happened. ...

The history of New York City is written in its streets; uncover it with Chronicles of Old New York from Museyon Guides. Discover four hundred years of innovation through the true stories of the visionaries, risk takers, dreamers, & schemers who built Manhattan. Witness life during the city`s earliest days, when Greenwich Village was a bucolic suburb & disease was a fact of daily life. Explore the city`s dark side, from the slums of Five Points to Harlem`s Prohibition-era speakeasies, & find out which park covers a sea of unmarked graves. Then see it all for yourself with guided walking tours of each of Manhattan`s historic neighborhoods, illustrated with color photographs & period maps. ...

The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire With the same powerful evidence, & range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- & in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages
- Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty`s analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since & where we should go from here. Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty`s reputation as the world`s leading thinker today.

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Before Darwin, before Audubon, before Gilbert White, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist, known for her botanical illustrations, Maria Sybilla Merian was born in Germany just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis
- an unheard-of journey for any naturalist at that time, much less an unaccompanied woman. When she returned she produced a book that secured her reputation, only to have it savaged in the nineteenth century by scientists who disdained the work of `amateurs`. Exquisitely written & illustrated, ” Chrysalis” takes us from golden-age Amsterdam to the Surinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merian`s insights fuel a new branch of biology. Kim Todd brilliantly brings to life a seventeenth-century woman whose boldness & vision would still be exceptional today & restores her to her rightful position amongst those scientists who have changed the way we view the world.
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The official Canadian charts provide an excellent range of scales for the whole length of Canada`s coastline as well as the Grat Lakes & comply with Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations. PLEASE NOTE: Canadian Hydrographic Service charts are ordered on dem&, please allow 1-2 weeks for the order to arrive at Stanfords. ...

The official Canadian charts provide an excellent range of scales for the whole length of Canada`s coastline as well as the Grat Lakes & comply with Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations. PLEASE NOTE: Canadian Hydrographic Service charts are ordered on dem&, please allow 1-2 weeks for the order to arrive at Stanfords. ...

The official Canadian charts provide an excellent range of scales for the whole length of Canada`s coastline as well as the Grat Lakes & comply with Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations. PLEASE NOTE: Canadian Hydrographic Service charts are ordered on dem&, please allow 1-2 weeks for the order to arrive at Stanfords. ...

This is a small craft chart, folded to a compact size & convenient to use. The official Canadian charts provide an excellent range of scales for the whole length of Canada`s coastline as well as the Grat Lakes & comply with Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations. PLEASE NOTE: Canadian Hydrographic Service charts are ordered on dem&, please allow 1-2 weeks for the order to arrive at Stanfords. ...

This is a spiral bound chart book with 24 pages of nautical charts & 14 informational pages.

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