Offering a unique insight into the very essence of graffiti & its creative explosion over the past 35 years, Graffiti World takes us on a whirlwind adventure throughout the Americas & Europe to almost every corner of the globe. With over 180 artists featured, author Nicholas Ganz gives us an unparalleled overview of the key trends & style developments that have made graffiti what it is today, & his individual artists' profiles
- offering a true insider's perspective, with"es from the artists themselves
- are unrivalled in their breadth & detail. Renowned figures such as England's Banksy & Brazil's Os Gemeos stand alongside emerging writers to form the most comprehensive presentation ever published of the most influential & interesting graffiti artists. An appendix
- including artists' biographies, a glossary & a list of websites
- provides extensive additional resources.



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In the famous Brown v Board of Education of Topeka case of 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools violated the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. This decision marked a critical turning point in the American judicial system, which, since the Jim Crow Laws of the 1880s, had previously upheld the practice of segregation. The outcome of the Supreme Court case encouraged a growing challenge to segregation on all levels, thus creating a momentum that would, within a decade, lead to the Civil Rights & Voting Acts that definitively guaranteed African Americans equal protection under the law. The Civil Rights Movement itself, from 1954 to 1968, marked a climactic era in the struggle for political equal rights for African Americans. After World War II, the economic boom & America`s advocacy of individual self-determination on the international scene made segregation in the United States more obsolete & even more unjustifiable. Through a combination of charismatic leadership & grass-root support, the period saw the revocation of the segregationist laws that had pervaded American society for two hundred years. However, this famous era marks neither the beginning nor the end of the African-American fight for equality, & this book tells, through photographs, the story of the struggle in its widest scope for the first time. From the bonds of slavery to Civil Rights, from the Deep South to the northern metropolis, from the Harlem Renaissance to the riots in South Central LA, this book reveals the African-American struggle for equality from the first photographic records in the 19th century all the way to the present. The photographs reveal the journey in all its complexity & nuance. They cover the struggle in its many different aspects: political, social, economic, & cultural, showing the incredible courage & determination of people fighting for a common goal, as well as the internal conflicts & contradictions. It is a story that has sometimes been in the front lights, but more often in the shadows, & which has changed American society & touched the lives of millions. The selection of photographs presents milestone events, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott & the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, through famous as well as rarely-seen images; it shows iconic figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois & Malcolm X in an unusual light; but it also

Includes:: a wide range of images of the everyday struggle & lives of the people, from the rural Deep South to the urban agglomerations of Chicago & Detroit, & to the very heart of modern African-American culture, Harlem. Renowned experts on the subject of African-American history Manning Marable & Leith Mullings give this book & its still highly controversial subject matter thoughtful scholarship & authority.

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Double-sided map from the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust ideal for the increasing number of visitors approaching Antarctica by sea across the Drake Passage: on one side is an overview map extending north to include from the southern tip of South America, Falkland Islands & South Georgia, on the reverse the northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula is shown in greater detail. On one side a map of the Scotia Sea at 1:4, 000, 000 sets in the Antarctic Peninsula in a wider context. Coverage extends from the southern part of South America, Falkland Islands & South Georgia almost to the base of the Antarctic Peninsula (just beyond the Alexander Island). On the reverse is a map of the Graham L&, the northern part of the peninsula, & South Shetland Islands at 1:1, 000, 000. Coverage extends southwards to 68° 30’, so

Includes:: the Adelaide Island with the UK Rothera research station. Land above sea is attractively presented with LANDSAT satellite imagery as its base & contour lines at 250m intervals. The map, published by BAS jointly with the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust, shows permanent & seasonal scientific stations. Historic Sites & Monuments (HSMs) are marked & annotated with their Antarctic Treaty numbers. Also shown are visitor sites with Antarctic Treaty guidelines. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 30’ & 2° respectively. Accompanying panels provide a list of HSM sites on the 1M map, plus information on data sources & references used in preparation of both sides of this title. Full BAS ref. number of this title is: BAS (UKAHT) sheets 1A & 1B, edition 4, 2013.

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A section of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula on topographic map at 1:250, 000 from the British Antarctic Survey. BAS ref. for this title is SQ19-20/4.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of other detailed topographic & specialist maps from BAS please click on the series link. BAS maps of wider general interest are listed on our website in a separate series. ...

Graham Land & South Shetland Islands at 1:1, 000, 000 from British Atlantic Survey & on the reverse the Scotia Sea at 1:4, 000, 000 with coverage from the Falkland Islands & South Georgia to the Antarctic Peninsula. On one side is a map of the Graham Land & South Shetland Islands at 1:1, 000, 000 with coverage extending southwards to approx. 68 ...

It is spring 2009, & prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw
- he has said goodbye to his family & to his career in the
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Originally published in 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong`o`s third novel is his best known & arguably most ambitious work. “A Grain of Wheat” portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the novel follows the village`s arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a story of stories within stories, a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta. At the centre of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village`s chosen hero & a man haunted by a terrible secret. As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed & loves are tested. It’s easy to see once read why this is still a great work over a half a century later. ...

Driven by a desire to explore the most remote, barren yet romantic places on earth, Martin Buckley set off on a two-year journey through the world`s deserts. In the Sahara he was threatened with murder. In the Gobi, he hijacked a cycle-rickshaw. Dehydrating in the Sonora, he hallucinated fruit cocktails. Encountering the desert at its most extreme, he learned how to find water
- & how to spit tobacco into a camel`s nostril. Images of the desert exert a powerful grip on the human imagination, from ” Lawrence of Arabia” to ” Star Wars”. Deserts feel familiar, yet mysterious. The truth is that they are even stranger than we imagine. ” Grains Of Sand” is a passionate, profound & frequently funny evocation of the world`s deserts & the people who live in them; an extraordinary global adventure, & a personal voyage of discovery.
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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. ...

A handy little book that explains all the basic rules of grammar & punctuation. It shows you the difference between subjects, objects, verbs, nouns & adjectives, where to use an apostrophe or a semi colon, how to use capital letters & lots of other rules & helpful hints. ...