A successor to Phaidon`s award-winning ” Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Suffering, Regression & Hope” (1999), ” Decade” provides a comprehensive visual overview of the last 10 years in world history. Adhering to the same standards of historical accuracy & scholarship as its predecessor, this book offers a sensitive anthology of 10 years in photography that will appeal to readers of all ages & interests. ” Decade” presents 500 engaging photographic images, both iconic & idiosyncratic, selected by acclaimed photo editor Eamonn Mc Cabe & arranged in chronological order to tell the story of the first decade in our new millennium. The shorter historical span of this book, compared to ” Century”, allows this sequence to explore more deeply developments in art, architecture, sport & technology, alongside key moments in international political affairs, so that the reader encounters surprising moments from our history alongside those familiar from coverage in the mass media. Global in scope, these photographs tackle subjects ranging from the World Trade Center attacks of `9/11` to the AIDS epidemic in Africa, from the first tests of the Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, to the death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Award-winning documentary photography sits alongside the new `citizen journalism`, which has seen ordinary bystanders capture historic events equipped with nothing more sophisticated than a mobile phone camera. Each image is accompanied by both a short descriptive & an extended, historical caption, to provide a wider context within which to understand these often beautiful, always surprising, photographs. 15 historical & thematic essays are also included, exploring the events, trends & social phenomena that have characterized the decade. Engaging with debates in photography, while providing a visual record of world events both regional & international, this book provides an extraordinary insight into our recent history
- dramatic, nostalgic, intimate & educational by turns.
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The author recreates the artistic & social milieu of the turbulent period around the end of the 19th century. He provides concise biographical material on its central characters such as Wilde, Symons, Beardsley, Whistler, Dowson, Frank Harris & other less well-known people such as Count Stenbock & John Gray. Clayton surveys the arts produced, the favourite dining places, the public reaction & also the decadent life of London outside this artistic arena at a time, before the cataclysm of the Great War, when Victorian values were crumbling. ...

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. ...

From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the ` Ace of Spies`, by Lenin`s Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the ` Redhead under the Bed`, in 2010, Kremlin & Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman & her colleagues in Britain & America, unveiling their clandestine missions & the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs & disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold War, providing the background to the new world of industrial & political espionage. To tell the story of post-Soviet espionage, Lucas draws on exclusive interviews with Russia`s top NATO spy, Herman Simm, & unveils the horrific treatment of a Moscow lawyer who dared to challenge the ruling criminal syndicate there. Once the threat from Moscow was international communism; now it comes from the siloviki, Russia`s ruthless `men of power`. ...

How did prehistoric peoples those living before written records think? Were their modes of thought fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors, & were viewed either as irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s, a new wave of research among the San & their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams & his colleague William Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings & engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs & ways of thought. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naive narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power & religious depth. As this elegantly written, enlightening book so ably demonstrates, the prehistoric mind was in fact as complex & sophisticated as that of contemporary humans. ...

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. ...

3 month edition. With an updated layout for 2014, Brown`s Deck Log Book allows the modern navigator to record in one place all the routine navigational readings required as part of the Officer of the Watch duties such as; ships course, compass errors & weather conditions. It also allows for the recording of daily Bilge & Ballast soundings as well other deck activities such as say cargo ventilation, which will help prove & keep a record of the crews actions with regard to care of cargo should proof of same ever be required. There is also a section for recording drills & training, which will prove compliance with the various regulations required by Port State & Flag State authorities. Recording daily voyage calculations will assist in keeping a track on the vessels progress & performance throughout the voyage. It should also be noted that in this modern world of electronic recording the written logbook still contains evidence that can be referred to in order to support the vessel in the case of a cargo claim or other such incident. This log book`s pages are numbered. ...

Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 400mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 300mm x 800mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Map No. 135, Deckers
- Rampart Range in Colorado, at 1:50, 000/1:25, 000 in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured
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