Bee Wilson is the beloved food writer & historian who writes as the Kitchen Thinker in the Sunday Telegraph, & is the author of Swindled!. Her charming & original new book, Consider the Fork, explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook & live. A wooden spoon
- most trusty & loveable of kitchen implements
- looks like the opposite of 'technology', as the word is normally understood. But look closer. Is it oval or round? Does it have an extra-long handle to give your hand a place of greater safety from a hot skillet? Or a pointy bit at one side to get the lumpy bits in the corner of the pan? It took countless inventions to get to the well-equipped kitchens we have now, where our old low-tech spoon is joined by mixers, freezers & microwaves, but the story of human invention in the kitchen is largely unseen. Discovering the histories of our knives, ovens & kitchens themselves, Bee Wilson explores, among many other things, why the French & Chinese have such different cultures of the knife; & why Roman kitchens contain so many implements we recognize. Encompassing inventors, scientists, cooks & chefs, this is the previously unsung history of our kitchens.

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Now considered a modern classic, CONSIDER THE LILIES focuses on the eviction of an old woman from her croft. The Highland Clearances, the eviction of crofters from their homes between 1792 & the 1850s, was one of the cruellest episodes in Scotland`s history. In CONSIDER THE LILIES Iain Crichton Smith captures its impact through the thoughts & memories of an old woman who has lived all her life within the narrow confines of her community. Alone & bewildered by the demands of the factor, Patrick Sellar, she approaches the minister for help, only to have her faith shattered by his hypocrisy. She finds comfort, however, from a surprising source: Donald Macleod, an imaginative & self-educated man who has been ostracised by his neighbours, not least by Mrs Scott herself, on account of his atheism. Through him & through the circumstances forced upon her, the old woman achieves new strength. Written with compassion, in spare, simple prose, Consider the Lilies is a moving testament to the enduring qualities which enable the oppressed to triumph in defeat. ...

In Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson explains how he found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. From February to July 2010, he lived in silence, solitude, & cold. His cabin, built by Soviet geologists in the Brezhnev years, is a cube of logs three meters by three meters, heated by a cast iron skillet, six-day walk from the nearest village & hundreds of miles of track. To live isolated from the world while retaining one's sanity requires a routine, Tesson discovered. In the morning, he would read, write, smoke, or draw, & then devoted hours to cutting the wood, shoveling snow, & fishing. Emotionally, these months proved a challenge, & the loneliness was crippling. Tesson found in paper a valuable confidant, the notebook, a polite companion. Noting carefully, almost daily, his impressions of the silence, his struggles to survive in a hostile nature, his despair, his doubts, but also its moments of ecstasy, inner peace & harmony with nature, Sylvain Tesson shares with us an extraordinary experience. Writer, journalist & traveler, Sylvain Tesson was born in 1972. After a world tour by bicycle, he developed a passion for Central Asia, & has travelled tirelessly since 1997. He came to prominence in 2004 with a remarkable travelogue, Axis of Wolf (Robert Laffont). Editions Gallimard have already published his A Life of a Mouthful (2009) &, with Thomas Goisque & Bertrand de Miollis, High Voltage (2009). In 2009 he won the Prix Goncourt for A Life of a Mouthful, & in 2011 won the Prix Medicis for non-fiction for Consolations of the Forest: Alone in Siberia. ...

Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a cabin in the middle taiga, on the shores of Baikal, for six months. Noting carefully his impressions of the silence, Sylvain Tesson shares with us an extraordinary experience. ...

The No. 1 bestseller
- perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom
- & the fifth historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, heretic,

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Sam Toop lives in a funeral parlour, blessed (or cursed) with an unusual gift. While his father buries the dead, Sam is haunted by their constant demands for attention. Trouble is afoot on the `other side`
- there is a horrible disease that is mysteriously imprisoning ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living. & Sam is caught in the middle
- will he be able to bring himself to help? Blue Peter Award winner Gareth P. Jones has woven a darkly comic story, a wonderfully funny adventure that roams the grimy streets of Victorian London.

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One forgotten street, 12 unforgettable women. ” Ang on boy, Joan`s got sumfink to show yer.` She rummaged in a drawer for a moment, pulled out a piece of paper & handed it to me. ` Constance Street, ` she said. ` As I remember it.` Through the story of one street
- Constance Street
- we hear the true life tales of a tight knit group of working class women in the East End of London set against a backdrop of war, hardship & struggle. It`s a story of matriarchy & deep family ties, of a generation that was scattered away from the street during the blitz bombings, but which maintained the ties of that street for decades afterwards. Set in an area of East London called Silvertown, a once thriving docking community that at the turn of the 20th century was the industrial heartland of the south of England; the story focuses on the lives of 12 incredible women & their struggle to survive amidst the chaos of the war years. We have Nellie Greenwood, the author`s great grandmother who runs a laundry in Silvertown which becomes the focal point of the community. In 1917 a munitions factory in Silvertown explodes flattening much of the surrounding area & causing extensive damage to Constance Street
- Nellie`s daughter is blown from her crib but miraculously survives. Deciding to open the laundry as a field hospital for the injured, Nellie & the women on the street come together to tend the wounded, the sick & the emotionally shattered as they cope with the aftermath of not just one but two world wars. Through the Great War, the roaring Twenties, the Depression & then the unimaginable
- the outbreak of a second world war
- Nellie & the street survive with love, laughter & friendships that bind the community together. But just as this incredible group of women live through the worst, the unthinkable happens. On 7 September 1940, Constance Street is no more. Following in the footsteps of Farewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth & The Sugar Girls, Constance Street is a life-affirming, heart-warming read that reminds us of a time when people pulled together.




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Constanta on a street plan at 1:15, 000 from the Budapest-based Cartographia, with enlargements showing in greater detail the centre & the Mamaia tourist resort north of Constanta. Main traffic arteries are highlighted; tram routes are shown with line numbers. Important buildings & facilities are highlighted, including selected hotels, campsites, beaches, car parks & petrol stations, etc. Street index is on the reverse. On the plan of the Mamaia individual hotels & villas are named & the plan also shows restaurants & car parks. Map legend

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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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An invaluable record of the metropolis as it used to be
- a fascinating crossroads between Eastern & Western civilization & one
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