Delvina Prefecture at 1:75, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:100, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 50m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 64 x 40km (40 x 25 miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals, plus show UTM coordinates for the map corners. Map legend is in Portuguese only.PLEASE NOTE
- EDITION DATES: some sheets at this scale date back to the 1950s or 1960s. For more recent editions please see IGP’s 1:25, 000 series where each 50K map is divided into four quarters. To see all the titles in the 1:100, 000 series please click on the series link.
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A bold debut novel reminiscent of Emma Cline`s The Girls; a story of love, lust & the spaces in between, from a `captivating` (New York Times) new voice in fiction It is 1950, & Willa`s mother has a new beau. The arrival of his blue-eyed, sun-kissed sons at Willa`s summer home signals the end of her safe childhood. As her entrancing older sister Joan pairs off with Kenneth, nine-year-old Willa is drawn to his strange & solitary younger brother, Patrick. Left to their own devices, Willa is swept up in Patrick`s wicked games. As they grow up, their encounters become increasingly charged with sexuality & degradation. But when Willa finally tries to reverse the trajectory of their relationship, an act of desperation has devastating results. Unfolding between the wild freedoms of British Columbia & the glittering beaches of California, Demi-Gods explores a girl`s attempt to forge a path of her own choosing in a world where female independence is suspect. Sensitive, playful & entirely original, Eliza Robertson is one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary literature. ...

Join Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase & Carter & Sadie Kane as they do battle with an ancient Egyptian magician determined to become a god. Against impossible odds, the four demigods & magicians team up to prevent the apocalypse. This book contains the short stories The Son of Sobek, The Staff of Serapis & The Crown of Ptolemy, together in one volume for the first time. &, read an exciting extract from The Sword of Summer, the first book in Rick Riordan`s latest series, Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard. ...

Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK & the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, & why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history
- Periclean Athens, the English Civil War, the American & French Revolutions, among them
- in which the challenges we face today were first encountered & what solutions, however imperfect, were found. Then he lays bare the specific problems of democracy in the twenty-first century & maps out a set of urgently needed reforms. With the advent of authoritarian leaders & the simultaneous rise of populism, representative democracy appears to be caught between a rock & a hard place, yet it is this space that it must occupy, says Grayling, if a civilized society, that looks after all its people, is to flourish.

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The EU referendum in the UK & Trump`s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy & Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, & why it matters. First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered & what solutions were found. Then he lays bare the specific threats facing democracy today. The paperback edition

Includes:: new material on the reforms that are needed to make our system truly democratic.

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In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months & cover 7, 000 miles. The result was ” Democracy in America”: a subtle & prescient analysis of the life & institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville`s study of the strengths & weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been"ed by every American president since Eisenhower. It remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. ...

An explosive expose of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy
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The new jaw-achingly funny novel from David Walliams, the number one bestselling author! Make your appointment if you dare... Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find...a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping & crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it...? Read this book & find out! ...