This is the classic collection of Chinua Achebe`s short fiction, written over twenty years & drawn from literary journals & magazines, to be made available to the wider public. The earliest, ” Marriage is a Private Affair” (1952), dates back to his student days at Ibadan, Nigeria, while the latest, ” Vengeful Creditor” & ” Civil Peace” (1971), are stories of the Nigerian civil war. ” Girls at War”, the title story, is about the tragic effects of war on the civilian population, in particular on one girl, who sets out with high ideals which vanish as the war drags on & the need for food replaces the need for ideals. This collection provides an interesting cross-section of Achebe`s work & the development of his key themes & distinctive style against the significant historical & political backdrop of Africa in the decades between 1952 & 1972. ...

From sports to innovation, art to politics
- meet the incredible women who got there first. Ever heard the saying ” It`s a man`s
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School`s out & glamping is go! The Girls Can Vlog gang is going on tour once more in Girls Can Vlog: Festival Frenzy, a summer special from author Emma Moss. When Lucy`s parents plan a camping trip, Lucy manages to convince them to let her bring the rest of the gang along to attend Chesterbury Music Festival. It looks set to be a summer they will never forget! Discover more of the Girls Can Vlog adventures in Lucy Locket: Online Disaster, Amazing Abby: Drama Queen, Hashtag Hermione: Wipeout, & Jazzy Jessie: Going for Gold ...

Rajaa Alsanea’s novel Girls of Riyadh looks at whether you can be both a twenty-first century girl & a Saudi girl… The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive & living by Saudi Arabia’s strict cultural traditions. Well, not entirely. Is it possible to be what your respected Muslim culture expects of you & sneak out behind your parents’ backs to date, shop & gorge on American TV? Gamrah’s faith in her new husband is not reciprocated… Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiancé… Michelle is half-American & the wrong class for her boyfriend’s family… Lamees has to work hard
- which leaves little time to love… How can you please your family, your man & your self?
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Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d` Italia helped unite a nation. Since then it has reflected it too; the race`s capricious & unpredictable nature matching the passions & extremes of Italy itself. A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters & stories that dramatise the shifting culture & society of its home: Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair & raced against the men in 1924. Ottavio Bottecchia, expected to challenge for the winner`s Maglia Rosa in 1928, until killed on a training ride, probably by Mussolini`s Black Shirts. Fausto Coppi, the metropolitan playboy with amphetamines in his veins, guided by a mystic blind masseur; & his arch rival Gino Bartali; humble, pious & countrified (and brave: recently it emerged he smuggled papers for persecuted Jewish Italians). The Giro`s most tragic hero
- Marco Pantani, born to climb but fated to lose. Halted only by World Wars, the Giro has been contested since 1909. The 2017 edition will be its one hundredth. This book celebrates it in all its kaleidoscopic glory.
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Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:25, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, an attractive alternative to Spain’s national topographic survey at this scale, offering a much larger area per sheet with extensive tourist information & vivid presentation of vegetation & land use. These large, detailed maps have contours at 10m intervals enhanced by hill shading & fine colouring and/or graphics to portray of vegetation or land use (different types of woodlands, marshl&, vineyards, crops, etc). An overprint highlights waymarked local & long-distance GR footpaths plus CT cycling routes. Also highlighted are picturesque locations such as villages, isolated buildings or natural features. A very wide range of symbols indicate various facilities, places of interest & recreational sites: tourist information centres, campsites & other rural accommodation, cultural heritage, vineries, wildlife observation areas, viewpoints & beauty spots, sites for recreational pursuits including horse riding, water sports, paragliding, etc The maps are divided by the publishers into three types: Administrative Units, Natural Protected Areas, & Geographical Areas, as shown on our grid for this series. Coverage by each sheet varies; most maps present an area of 30 x 23km (19 x 14km approx). The maps have a 1km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Excellently presented topographic map legend is in Catalan only but the legend for the tourist information & the road network

Includes:: English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Contoured, GPS-compatible, indexed road map at 1:200, 000 from CNIG
- Spain’s civilian survey organization, with exceptionally
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Michelin’s street plan of Girona at 1:9, 000 is primarily designed to be used for access to & travel across the city by car, given its wide coverage of the outer suburbs & detailed presentation of the surrounding motorway network. Main traffic routes across the city are highlighted, with motorway junctions clearly laid out. One way streets & locations of car parks are indicated. For exploring the city’s main tourist sights its historic heart is shown on a very clear, detailed enlargement at 1:3, 000, indicating streets or areas with access by steps. Both plans highlight & name public buildings & various facilities. Street index is on the same side as the plan. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:50, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, with vivid presentation of the terrain & an overprint for long-distance GR hiking trails. The series provides an excellent alternative to the much smaller sheets in the civilian or military surveys produced for the whole of Spain. The Catalan 50K series has not only a much larger area per sheet (each map covers one comarca, an administrative division of a province) than the maps from the national surveys, but also has more colourful, elegant & clear cartography with contours at 20m intervals, hill shading & fine graphics to portray the relief, vegetation types & landmarks. Most maps also have more tourist-related information, with an overprint highlighting long-distance GR trails & the Via Verde routes. Mountain refuges are marked & a range symbols indicate various places of interest including historical monuments, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Four different types of interesting locations are highlighted: picturesque towns or villages, individual isolated building or monuments, natural sites, & hydrographic features such as waterfalls. The maps have a 5km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Map legend is in Catalan only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...