For all of India`s myths, its sea of stories & moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. Sunil Khilnani`s Incarnations fills that space: recapturing the human dimension of how the world`s largest democracy came to be. In this stunning & deeply researched book, accompanying his major BBC Radio 4 series, Khilnani explores the lives of 50 Indians, from the spiritualist Buddha to the capitalist Dhirubhai Ambani
- lives that light up India`s rich, varied past & its continuous ferment of ideas. Khilnani`s trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, poets, stars, & corporate titans
- some famous, some unjustly forgotten-bring feeling, wry humour, & uncommon insight to social dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own. As he journeys across the country, & through its past, Khilnani uncovers more than just history. In rocket launches & ayurvedic call centres, in slum temples & Bollywood studios, in California communes & grimy ports, he examines the continued, & often surprising, relevance of the men & women who have made India
- & the world
- what it is. Their stories will inform, move & entertain this book`s many readers.



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Ince in Makerfield in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: two versions have been published for this area, stretching from Ince station southward to Moss Pits, & from Pearson's Flash eastward to Fir Tree Colliery. Features include Christ Church, St Mary's church, stretch of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway with Ince station, GCR railway with Lower Ince station, LNWR Springs Branch, LYR Pemberton Loop, LNWR main line with engine shed, Moss Pits, short stretches of canal, tramways, Wigan Wagon Works, Ince & Wigan cemeteries, Hall of Ince, Westwood Hall, old shafts, several mineral railways, Old Hall, Ince UDC Council Offices etc. Various directory extracts are included on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Ince in Makerfield in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions have been published for this area, stretching from Ince station southward to Moss Pits, & from Pearson`s Flash eastward to Fir Tree Colliery. Features include Christ Church, St Mary`s church, stretch of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway with Ince station, GCR railway with Lower Ince station, LNWR Springs Branch, LYR Pemberton Loop, LNWR main line with engine shed, Moss Pits, short stretches of canal, tramways, Wigan Wagon Works, Ince & Wigan cemeteries, Hall of Ince, Westwood Hall, old shafts, several mineral railways, Old Hall, Ince UDC Council Offices, etc. Various directory extracts are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

IInce in Makerfield in 1927 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions have been published for this area, stretching from Ince station southward to Moss Pits, & from Pearson`s Flash eastward to Fir Tree Colliery. Features include Christ Church, St Mary`s church, stretch of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway with Ince station, GCR railway with Lower Ince station, LNWR Springs Branch, LYR Pemberton Loop, LNWR main line with engine shed, Moss Pits, short stretches of canal, tramways, Wigan Wagon Works, Ince & Wigan cemeteries, Hall of Ince, Westwood Hall, old shafts, several mineral railways, Old Hall, Ince UDC Council Offices, etc. Various directory extracts are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Ince Moss in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the southern part of Wigan around Ince Moss. Although the map

Includes:: a few Hindley terraces near the eastern margin (around Neville Street) its main interest is in the network of railways; these include a stretch of the main LNWR line, a stretch of the LNWR Lancashire Union Line, Bamfurlong Loop, Ince Moss Junction, Platt Bridge Junction, Platt Bridge Junction Line, Fir Tree House Junction, Bamfurlong Junction & the mineral line to Bryn Hall Sidings. Other features include Bamfurlong Colliery, part of Bryn Hall Collieries, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Leigh Branch, Bryn Moss, Fogg`s Fold, etc. On the reverse is a section of the 1929 edition showing the eastern half of the map with the Bamfurlong Colliery & the main railway. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Taipei, Taiwan: A young man who runs a dumpling stand in a bustling night market crosses paths with some very dangerous gangsters including his own uncle. In Taiwan, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for prioritising family. When 25-year-old Jing-nan`s gangster uncle, Big Eye, asks a favor, Jing-nan can`t exactly say no, especially because two goons are going to follow him around to make sure he gets it done right. The favour is this: Big Eye s 16-year-old daughter, Mei-ling, has a biker boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks in Big Eye`s gangster opinion & Big Eye wants Jing-nan to bring her to Taipei, away from the bad influences, & straighten her out. It doesn`t take Jing-nan long to discover Mei-ling is even more trouble than the average bratty, rebellious teenager. She`s been spoiled rotten & doesn`t know how to take no for an answer. She has her father`s thugs wrapped around her finger & quickly becomes the miniature dictator of Jing-nan`s life. But Mei-ling is also hiding a secret one that puts her in harm`s way. If Jing-nan wants to save his cousin from her own demons, he has to figure out the truth, even if it tears his family apart again. ...

The narrator is falling out from a torrential relationship with another woman. Delirious with love & yearning, her thoughts grow increasingly cyclical & wild, until exposing the trauma lying behind her pain. With the intimacy offered by a confession, the narrator embarks on a psychoanalysis of herself, giving the reader entry into her tangled experiences with homosexuality, paranoia, &, at the core of it all, incest. In a masterful translation from the French by Tess Lewis, Christine Angot`s Incest audaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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With fold out poster & exclusive collector cards! Long ago, the world was full of dragons. But what happened to them? Where are they now? These pages are taken from the notebooks of Viking Hero Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third when he was just a boy. A keen dragonwatcher, Hiccup paints a picture of the brilliance & fire & spirit of that lost dragon world. Featuring dragon profiles, dragon anatomy, dragon riding tips & lots more must know info e.g. how to spot the difference between an arsenic adderwing & a glow worm (you don`t want to mix those two up) & what to do when confronted with a Hellsteether. This is a must for all keen dragonwatchers out there... How to Train Your Dragon is now a major Dream Works franchise starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett & Jonah Hill & the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies & Cartoon Network. Read all of Hiccup`s exploits in the series: How to Train Your Dragon, How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon`s Curse, How to Twist a Dragon`s Tale, A Hero`s Guide to Deadly Dragons, How to Ride a Dragon`s Storm, How to Break a Dragon`s Heart, How to Steal a Dragon`s Sword, How to Seize a Dragon`s Jewel & How to Betray a Dragon`s Hero. Check out the brilliant website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It`s the place to go for games, downloads, activities & sneak peeks! ...

Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men & women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love. The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the 'mad-doctor' profession, English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate difficult family members in return for the high fees paid by an unscrupulous spouse or friend. & contrary to popular modern belief, the madwoman in the attic was at least as likely to have been a madman. Among the victims were the beautiful & charismatic Rosina, wife of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Edward Davies, victim of a mother's greed; Louisa Lowe, who paid for her religious fervour; & John Perceval, who, despite the best efforts of the abusive asylum attendants, cured himself. Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century, which reveal the darker side of the Victorian upper & middle classes
- their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed & fraudulence
- & chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the 'inconvenient person'.

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