Pocket-size paperback street atlas of Falkirk, Stirling & district at 1:14, 000 from Nicolson, including coverage surrounding towns. The road network is represented in different colours to indicate motorways, primary routes, plus A & B roads. Pedestrianised streets, bus stations & railway stations are shown. Symbols and/or colouring indicate different types of public buildings or business use, including retail & industrial, leisure & educational, emergency services, places of worship, post offices, car parks etc. Tourist information points are highlighted as well as Museums, Historic places, Castles, tourist attractions, viewpoints etc. Each town map has its own index. ...

Falkland Islands at 1:365, 000 on a tourist map showing the islands’ topography, with a street plan of Stanley, descriptions of places of interest, plus extensive text on its history & wildlife, biographies of main explorers, a time line from 1502 to 1999, etc. On one side is a map of the islands at 1:365, 000, naming numerous hills, rivers, bays, surrounding small islands, etc. Settlements, roads & tracks, & airfields are marked, with 21 places of special interest prominently highlighted & accompanied by descriptions. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 30’ intervals. The reverse side has a street plan of Stanley showing locations of various services & government buildings, plus provides an introduction to the isl&, notes on its history & wildlife, a time line from the first possible sighting of Falkland Islands by Amerigo Vespucci in 1502 to 1999, & biographies of seven notable explorers connected with the islands. ...

Sverigeserien is an outdoor map series consisting of 116 sheets with coverage of southern & central Sweden & the northern coastline. The map is suitable for outdoor activities such as hiking, excursions, trail running, hunting, fishing, riding, cycling, mountain biking, paddling, skating & much more. Every sheet covers an area of 45x 68km. These topographical maps in scale 1:50 000 contain all the information needed for outdoor activities: Terrain information, hiking trails, illuminated tracks, camping, shelters, golf courses, leisure baths, historical remains, roads in different categories, railway lines & much more. Easy to read topography with contour lines, vertical interval 5 m. Sverigeserien is a high-quality map series & is durable for frequent use! Updated content with map data from Lantmäteriet (National Land Survey of Sweden) & printed on Polyart which is water & tear resistant. This means that the map can be folded repeatedly without breaking & can withstand the challenging weather in Sweden during both winter & summer. Legend is in Swedish, English & German. ...

Naoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Now he offers an equally illuminating insight into autism from his perspective as a young adult. In concise, engaging pieces, he shares his thoughts & feelings on a broad menu of topics ranging from school experiences to family relationships, the exhilaration of travel to the difficulties of speech. Aware of how mystifying his behaviour can appear to others, Higashida describes the effect on him of such commonplace things as a sudden change of plan, or the mental steps he has to take simply to register that it`s raining. Throughout, his aim is to foster a better understanding of autism & to encourage those with disabilities to be seen as people, not as problems. With an introduction by David Mitchell, Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight

Includes:: a dreamlike short story Higashida wrote for this edition. Both moving & of practical use, the book opens a window into the mind of an inspiring young man who meets the challenges of autism with tenacity & good humour. However often he falls down, he always gets back up.

...

This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, & the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance & enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson & to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription & revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama & intriguing complexity, ” Fall of Giants” moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt & danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. ...

The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history & Theresa May`s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017. This is the unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history & Theresa May`s battle for a Brexit deal
- the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. Fall Out tells of how a leader famed for her caution battled her bitterly divided cabinet at home while facing duplicitous Brussels bureaucrats abroad. Of how she then took the biggest gamble of her career to strengthen her position
- & promptly blew it. It is also a tale of treachery where
- in the hour of her greatest weakness
- one by one, May`s colleagues began to plot against her. Inside this book you will find all the strategy, comedy, tragedy & farce of modern politics
- where principle, passion & vaulting ambition collide in the corridors of power. It chronicles a civil war at the heart of the Conservative Party & a Labour Party back from the dead, led by Jeremy Corbyn, who defied the experts & the critics on his own side to mount an unlikely tilt at the top job. With access to all the key players, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how & why the EU referendum result pitched Britain into a year of political mayhem.




...

Map No. 10150, Fallecearru, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
...

Fallen by Lia Mills
- a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War & the Easter Rising. SELECTED AS THE 2016
...

The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary & his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills & courage against the world`s highest & most dangerous mountains. In this lively & generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman & Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years. They offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, & they compellingly evoke the social & cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions. The book recounts the adventures of such figures as Martin Conway, who led the first authentic Himalayan climbing expedition in 1892; Fanny Bullock Workman, the pioneer explorer of the Karakoram range; George Mallory, the romantic martyr of Mount Everest fame; Charlie Houston, who led American expeditions to K2 in the 1930s & 1950s; Ang Tharkay, the legendary Sherpa, & many others. Throughout, the authors discuss the effects of political & social change on the world of mountaineering, & they offer a penetrating analysis of a culture that once emphasized teamwork & fellowship among climbers, but now has been eclipsed by a scramble for individual fame & glory. ...

Moving from the very beginnings of civilisation, right up to the digital horizons of cyberspace, Jamie Crawford pieces together the biographies of twenty of the world’s most fascinating lost & ruined structures. The lives of these buildings are packed with drama & intrigue combining war & religion, politics & art, love & betrayal, catastrophe & hope. They are also the stage for a startling array of characters including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler & even Bruce Springsteen. Travelling from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile, the grasslands of the Mongolian steppes & the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London & New York, Fallen Glory is a unique, globetrotting guide to a world of vanished architecture. &, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future. ...