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. ...

” Decision Points” is the extraordinary memoir of America`s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor`s Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America`s most devastating attack since Pearl Harbour; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; &, behind the Oval Office desk for his historic & controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, & other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century. President Bush writes honestly & directly about his flaws & mistakes, as well as his accomplishments reforming education, treating HIV/AIDS in Africa, & safeguarding the country amid chilling warnings of additional terrorist attacks. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, & relationship with his family.A groundbreaking new brand of memoir, ” Decision Points” will captivate supporters, surprise critics, & change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history
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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
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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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A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death.

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With his distinctive dark wit, Evelyn Waugh`s Decline & Fall is a masterful social satire sending up the social mores of 1920s Engl&. Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) & captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, & with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds & the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon`s Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh`s first, funniest novel immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingenu abroad in the decadent confusion of 1920s high society. ” The funniest book I have ever read.” (Julian Symons, The Times). ” His first, most perfect novel...a ruthlessly comic plot.” (John Mortimer, Guardian).” Concocted of cruelty, bigotry, pederasty, white slavery, violence, madness & murder, Decline & Fall is fundamentally playful & side-splittingly funny.” (David Bradshaw). ...

A tie-in edition of Waugh`s first & funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school & end in one of Her Majesty`s prisons. In this, his first & funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh brilliantly satirised the roaring twenties with his story of an innocent abroad in high society. ...

In these timeless & witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the `perfect` murder involving class, sex & poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys` weeklies to naughty seaside postcards. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war & revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked & comforted. They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are.

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