LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION ` Extraordinary... A devastating but essential read.` Kevin Powers, bestselling author & National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds` Gripping, darkly humorous...profound.` Phil Klay, bestselling author & National Book Award winner for Redeployment From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts & stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people & give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, & reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive
- first from the guilty, & then from anyone who crosses its path. An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror & black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.
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A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley`s ” Frankenstein” leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This ” Penguin Classics” edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Maurice Hindle. Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator & denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein & all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley`s chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Lord Byron`s villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world`s most famous work of Gothic horror, & Frankenstein`s monster an instantly-recognisable symbol of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction & Percy Shelley`s preface to the first edition. This revised edition

Includes:: as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 & 1831 together with ”A Fragment” by Lord Byron & Dr John Polidori`s ” The Vampyre: A Tale”. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of the author & political philosopher William Godwin, & Mary Wollstonecraft, author of ”A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. In 1814 she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she married when his first wife died in 1816. She is best remembered as the author of ” Frankenstein”, but she wrote several other works, including ” Valperga” & ” The Last Man”. If you liked ” Frankenstein”, you might enjoy Bram Stoker`s ” Dracula”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”.

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Map No. 2728, Frankfort, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...

Detailed street map at 1:15, 000 extending from Offenbach in the south-east to Eschersheim in the north & Messeparkplatz in the west. An inset showing the city centre at 1:9, 000 obscures the Bergen-Enkheim region in the north-east of the city. Colours distinguish built-up areas, industrial areas, public buildings & parks. Tram, U-Bahn & railway lines are marked. Pedestrian zones are indicated & a range of symbols denotes many specific features eg. churches, monuments, car parks, taxi ranks, museums, post offices, police stations, hospitals. Index on reverse for streets, museums & other sites of interest. Legend

Includes:: English.

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A beautiful 40cm (16) illuminated globe constructed from a glass-like material, held in a gold-coloured steel half meridian & base. The sturdy globe shows political detail, & when illuminated the hill shading showing the relief is revealed. Warm & cool ocean currents are marked. ...

Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size--it has fewer than a million inhabitants--it is a financial centre of global importance, named alongside metropolises & capitals such as Tokyo, London, & New York. Yet Frankfurt is a city that is also continually underestimated: many of the millions who visit it on business--both German & from other countries--see little more of it than its airport & its skyscrapers. The city`s role in the global financial markets often obscures its importance as a historical & cultural centre, not just for Germany, but for Europe & the West as a whole. In the Middle Ages, Frankfurt was the city in which the Holy Roman Emperors were crowned & in which, at the dawn of the Renaissance, a tradition of printing & publishing was established which lives on in today`s Frankfurt Book Fair. The German language`s most enduring author, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was born in the city, & the university named for him gave birth to one of the twentieth century`s most revolutionary academic developments, the Frankfurt School. Architecturally, too, the city has always been a pioneer: its famous skyline is only the latest & most visible in a series of bold experiments. Frankfurt has always been a capital without a country: the capital of the book trade, the capital of modern social studies, the capital of the Eurozone. Today, it rivals Brussels, Berlin, Paris, & London, & yet retains a deeply provincial, down-to-earth identity interwoven with the thick forests & farming country of its Hessian hinterl&. While its population is one of the world`s most international, its dialect is one of Germany`s most impenetrable. For those looking to do more than just change flights or sign a contract, this cultural guide takes a closer look at Frankfurt, exploring & explaining these dichotomies. ...

Map No. 828, Frankfurt & Environs (2-map set) with a nature guide to local wild flowers, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of walking maps, with extensive coverage of hiking areas in other countries, all listed on our website. * Cartography:* all the maps are contoured with additional shading & graphic relief to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10 metres in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous parts of the two countries. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. New editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.* Geographical coordinates:* unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. * Map legend:* most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.* Other
Features:* some titles now include on the reverse panorama drawings of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have booklets with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names.*PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING!* * Booklets:* many titles come with booklets describing the area and/or various hiking routes. These booklets are in * German only*, apart from a handful of titles where an English language booklet is specifically indicated in the individual description. So, unless English language booklet is actually mentioned, the map can only be supplied with a German booklet. These booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, most titles now include * full English language map legend.*
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Frankfurt a.M.
- Wiesbaden – Darmstadt on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC
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ADAC, Germany`s equivalent of the British Automobile Association publishes an extensive series of street plans which provide detailed high-quality mapping of all the major towns & cities, including their outer suburbs. The plans name all the individual streets & indicate all the main landmarks & public buildings. All public transport facilities are shown: buses, trams, underground & overland rail lines. One way streets & car parks are indicated. Plans of larger cities include an enlargement for the city centre. The plans also show the administrative & postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. On the reverse, each plan has a road map at 1:100, 000, covering a very wide area around the city. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Falk, one of Germany`s leading publishers of street plans, produce their town plans in two different formats. Falk Extra plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. For larger cities, the same mapping is also published with a special folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps. The plans, which cover towns with their outer suburbs, indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of lager cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the underground & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Map legend

Includes:: English. Falk Extra plans also include on the reverse a road map of the surrounding area.

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