The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

The Republic of Irel&, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society & education system. Investment by American & European companies, & a welcoming tax regime, created the ' Celtic Tiger' of the 1990s. That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a corrupt political class which encouraged a wild property boom, leaving the country almost bankrupt. What Ireland needs now is a programme of real change. It needs to become a fully modern republic in fact as well as name. This disastrous economic collapse also allows us to think through the kind of multiculturalism that Ireland needs, & to build institutions that can accommodate the sudden influx of migrants who have come to Ireland in the past 15 years. The State should take over the entire education system, for which it pays already, & make it fit for the 21st century. The political system is dysfunctional & is one of the main causes of the debacle we have just experienced. Ireland needs constitutional reform. Politicians have been let get away with murder, & there is a fatalistic sense that nothing can change. The country needs to encourage participation in, & oversight & knowledge of politics, to make people feel that they have a right to challenge the old party machines & to make a difference. It is their country, after all. ...

The Republic of Irel&, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society & education system. Investment by American & European companies, & a welcoming tax regime, created the ` Celtic Tiger` of the 1990s. That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a corrupt political class which encouraged a wild property boom, leaving the country almost bankrupt. What Ireland needs now is a programme of real change. It needs to become a fully modern republic in fact as well as name. Politicians have been let get away with murder, & there is a fatalistic sense that nothing can change. The country needs to encourage participation in, & oversight & knowledge of politics, to make people feel that they have a right to challenge the old party machines & to make a difference. It is their country, after all. ...

We’ve never had more information or more opportunity to debate the issues of the day. Yet the relationship between politicians, the media & the public is characterised by suspicion, mistrust & apathy. What has gone wrong? Enough Said reveals how political, social & technological change has transformed our political landscape – & how we talk about the issues that affect us all. Political rhetoric has become stale & the mistrust of politicians has made voters flock to populists who promise authenticity, honesty & truth instead of spin, evasiveness & lies. Featuring Ronald Reagan & Sarah Palin, Tony Blair & George Osborne, Silvio Berlusconi & many more star performers, Enough Said shows how public language is losing its power, & how an ominous gap is opening between the governed & those who govern. The result of decades of first-hand experience of politics & media, this is an essential, brilliant diagnosis of what we should stop doing & what we should start doing in order to reinvigorate Western democracy. ...

Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

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- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


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Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Ensenada & Northern Baja in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

As mankind faces its deadliest battle, two young women must unite to prevent the forces of evil destroying the world as we know it. But theirs is no ordinary alliance, for these two women live at opposite ends of history, until fate brings them together & their destinies are inextricably intertwined. Leoni, a troubled teen from 21st Century Los Angeles, finds everything she`s ever known thrown into disarray when a drug overdose catapults her into a parallel dimension. There she meets Ria, who is also suspended on the edge of time. Ria`s world is violent & desolate in a way Leoni has never experienced
- but only together can they stop the powerful demon Sulpa, the Eater of Souls. The embodiment of pure evil, Sulpa is preparing to perpetrate one final, horrific act of unspeakable wickedness, after which nothing will be able to stand in the way of his ultimate goal: the annihilation of mankind. Only Leoni & Ria can stop him...
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The morning after a gruelling psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henryk Telak is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in one eye. The case lands on the desk of State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki. World-weary, suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion & marital ennui, Szacki feels that life has passed him by, but this case changes everything. He must steer his way among a gallery of colourful characters: a flirtatious young journalist, an eccentric psychiatrist, a lecherous police colleague & a paranoid historian. Szacki`s search for the killer unearths another murder that took place twenty years earlier, before the fall of Communism. The trail leads to facts that, for his own safety, he`d be better off not knowing. ...

Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past & present, Emma Tarlo unravels the intriguing story of human hair & what it tells us about ourselves & society. When it`s not attached to your head, your very own hair takes on a disconcerting quality. Suddenly, it is strange. & yet hair finds its way into all manner of unexpected places, far from our heads, including cosmetics, clothes, ropes, personal & public collections, & even food. Whether treated as waste or as gift, relic, sacred offering or product in a billion-dollar industry for wigs & hair extensions, hair has many stories to tell. Collected from Hindu temples & Buddhist nunneries & salvaged by the strand from waste heaps & the combs of long-haired women, hair flows into the industry from many sources. Entering this strange world, Emma Tarlo tracks hair`s movement across India, Myanmar, China, Africa, the United States, Britain & Europe, meeting people whose livelihoods depend on this singular commodity. Whether its journey ends in an Afro hair fair, a Jewish wig parlour, fashion salon or hair loss clinic, hair is oddly revealing of the lives it touches. ...