The Fotomate VT-990-222R is an outstanding professional standard tripod for video cameras & DSLR’s, as well as for spotting scopes, small telescopes & most large observation binoculars. Features a huge maximum payload capacity of 20kg & an impressive maximum height of 200cm. This tripod does not feature a geared centre column so the tripod offers greater rigidity & stability, & lends itself to carrying heavier equipment. The superb included super heavy-duty 2-Way tripod head, is extremely robust & well-engineered. Operation is sublimely smooth & well damped, managing heavy loads with consummate ease & can be panned 360° with a wide range of tilt adjustment. Supplied with nylon carrying case. ...

Umberto Eco`s Foucault`s Pendulum tells the story of three book editors who are jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic & the occult, & are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, & they are forced into a frantic search for the truth ...

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. ...

Foul Deeds in Islington takes the reader on a sinister journey through a selection of the most shocking & revealing murders committed in this part of north London during the last two centuries. Killers of all kinds are recorded here, from the coolest & most calculating of criminals to ill-starred individuals who struck out in passion or despair or anger. John Eddleston recounts their notorious stories in forensic detail. Police-killers Thomas Cooper & Ronald Marwood feature in his book, along with the child-killer Celestika Somner, the poisoner George Chapman, the witchcraft-murderer Kayode Orishagbemi &, of course, most famous of all, Kenneth Halliwell who killed playwright Joe Orton in their flat in Noel Road. In addition to these celebrated cases, several less well-known but equally compelling murders are reconstructed. They give a shocking insight into the dark side of Islington s recent, sometimes gruesome, history. ...

Foulness & Mersea in 1904 in a series of reproductions of Ordnance Survey’s famous ” Inch to the Mile” maps published in the Alan Godfrey Editions to provide a historical record of England & Wales in the second half of 19th & early 20th century. In this title two maps, 242 & 259, are printed side by side, covering the area of eastern Essex from Clacton & Mersea Island southward to Foulness Island & Havengore Head. Beyond the coast are the Maplin Sands & other sandbanks, guarded by the Mouse & Middle lightships. Other locations covered by the map include Bradwell juxta Mare, Brightlingsea, Dengie, Little Holl&, Little Wigborough, Peldon, St Osyth, Tillingham & West Mersea. On the reverse is a detailed map of St Osyth, together with a short directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the OS Inch to the Mile Maps: the maps provide an invaluable overview of a wider area, typically 18 x 12 miles (29 x 19 kms approx.), & offer historical mapping for small towns & villages not covered by the more detailed series for which the Godfrey Editions are better known. On the reverse all the maps have historical notes & most titles also include a more detailed, large scale map of a small town or a village in the area. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life & daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a play, & an interview, here translated for the first time. In Found Life, speech, condensed to the extreme, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik`s works evoke an unconventional palette of moods & atmospheres-slight doubt, subtle sadness, vague unease-through accumulation of unexpected details & command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices, her works are marked by a distinct voice, simultaneously slightly naive & deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness & amusement. From spiritual rabbits & biblical zoos to poems about loss & comics about poetry, Goralik`s colorful language & pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of absurdity & depths of grief. ...

The first volume in Issac Asimov`s world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. Long after Earth was forgotten, a peaceful & unified galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the majestic city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, & grew, for countless generations. Everyone believed it would work forever. Everyone except Hari Seldon. As the great scienctific thinker of his age Seldon could not be ignored. Reluctantly, the Commission of Public Safety agreed to finance the Seldon Plan. The coming disaster was predicted by Seldon`s advances in psychohistory, the mathematics of very large human numbers, & it could not be averted. The Empire was doomed. Soon Trantor would lie in ruins. Chaos would overtake humanity. But the Seldon Plan was a long term strategy to minimize the worst of what was to come. Two Foundations were set up at opposite ends of the galaxy. Of the Second nothing can be told. It guards the secrets of psychohisotry. FOUNDATION is the story of the First Foundation, on the remote planet of Terminus, from which those secrets were withheld. ...

Foundation & Empire is the story of first contact between the two Foundations of Hari Seldon. The Seldon Plan guided the First Foundation safely through two centuries of chaos as the Galactic Empire disintegrated. Seldon`s recorded holographic image appeared in the Council Chamber on Terminus at moments of crisis predicted by pshychohistory, & his voice was heard. Even war between the Foundation & the remains of the Empire was foreseen
- & planned for
- by the great scientist. But Seldon had no way of predicting the birth of the Mule, a mutant of uncanny power & unlimited ambition. The Mule`s conquests are effortless & his subjects mind-controlled slaves. The Foundation is powerless against the supernormal force the Mule exerts. The Seldon Plan is in tatters. Two men & a woman from Terminus flee to the ruins of might Trantor in an effort to discover where the mysterious Second Foundation was established. Its help is needed desperately against the mental powers of the Mule. But the Mule, using those same astonishing powers, is also looking for the Second Foundation.

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Having written enthralling biographies of London & of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15, 000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic Engl&, which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses
- a stirrup found in a grave, some seeds at the bottom of a bowl
- to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles, Saxons & Jutes, to the twin glories of medieval England
- its great churches & monasteries & its common law. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time & place, he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight & some surprising details. The food we ate, the clothes we wore, the punishments we endured, even the jokes we told are all found here, too.


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Having written enthralling biographies of London & of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15, 000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic Engl&, which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses
- a stirrup found in a grave, some seeds at the bottom of a bowl
- to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles, Saxons & Jutes, to the twin glories of medieval England
- its great churches & monasteries & its common law. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time & place, he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight & some surprising details. The food we ate, the clothes we wore, the punishments we endured, even the jokes we told are all found here, too.


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