` Never have we all, child & grown-up child, needed this more, the words & the song in our hearts, lifting our spirits, giving us hope, & determination too to find the road to understanding, conciliation & peace.`
- Michael Morpurgo `lovely to read to your child during these troubled times`
- Children`s Book of the Week, the Sun Join one little pigeon on her mission to spread the word of peace around the world. Set to the lyrics the iconic song Imagine, this book brings John Lennon`s enduring message of peace & tolerance to a new generation. A royalty from every copy sold will go to charity Amnesty International.

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A unique portrait of Turkey`s legendary city, through the eyes of world-renowned photographers (Ara Guler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Henri Cartier-Bresson), & their young colleagues (Ali Taptik, Ahmet Polat, Bieke Depoorter) & a strong group of visual artists. Imagine Instanbul shows the artistic fascination for Turkey`s most legendary city. Throughout the book, the photographs of Istanbul will take your breath away, & the key figure is the great Ara Guler, ` The Eye of Istanbul`. He is joined by other contemporary photographers, but also actors, film directors, musicians & visual artists, with both existing & new work. ...

Poetry was Louis de Bernieres` first literary love & Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli`s Mandolin returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. De Bernieres was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, & since then he has always travelled with a book of Cavafy`s poetry in his pocket. Not surprisingly, his own poems about the distant past, the erotic & the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Donald Sammut, this is a collection rich in sensuality, nostalgia, & music. ...

In ” Imagining India” we see a fascinating new perspective for the twenty-first century, Nandan Nilekani
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Imagining the Arctic explores the culture & politics of polar exploration & the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention & persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, & manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts & striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes & the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written & richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration & its pull on the public imagination. ...

The IMDG Code has undergone many changes over the years, in both format & content, in order to keep up with the rapid expansion of the shipping industry. Amendment 38-16

Includes:: revisions to various sections of the Code & to transport requirements for specific substances. It was adopted by IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) at its ninety-ninth session in May 2018. Amendment 38-16 of the Code is mandatory as from 1 January 2020 but may be applied by Administrations in whole or in part on a voluntary basis from 1 January 2019.

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Imilchil region in a series of GPS compatible maps at 1:160, 000 published by EWP & West Col Productions & covering Morocco’s Atlas Mountains with its neighbouring deserts & coastal areas. The maps use the cartography of the Russian military survey of the area, providing a very detailed representation of the terrain, with contours at 40m intervals plus graphics and/or colouring to show features such as cliffs, ravines, sand ridges & dunes, various types of vegetation, etc. All place names are given in the Latin alphabet. Road information

Includes:: unsurfaced roads & tracks. Where main roads meet the edge of the map, the distance to the next large town is stated. Selected high passes are annotated to show months when passable. Railways & local airports are marked & a range of symbols indicate various landmarks & places of interest, including mountain refuges & forestry buildings, oasis, caves, etc. Interesting locations are highlighted. Each sheet covers 40’ of latitude & 1° of longitude & has a grid based on the Kronstadt system which, according to the publishers’ notes, is related closely to the UTM system & is suitable for a GPS set to UTM or MGRS. The maps also have either additional margin ticks or a grid for latitude & longitude. On the reverse are illustrated notes about the area, plus a glossary of Berber terms & notes on transliteration of local names. Map legend & all the texts are in English & French.

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Imingen Uvdal area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:50, 000 with cartography from Norway’s topographic survey & additional tourist information. Contours lines are drawn at 20m intervals. The overprint varies from title to title, but

Includes:: local footpaths, in some cases distinguishing between easy & more difficult trails, as well as mountain huts & campsites. Many titles also indicate cycle or ski routes, other accommodation possibilities, sport & recreational facilities, including alpine skiing slopes, places of interest, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks giving latitude & longitude. Map legend

Includes:: English. Several titles have on the reverse additional tourist information, although in most cases in Norwegian only. To see the list of Turkart maps at 1:50, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 100K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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