` Leon serves food that is fresh, seasonal, locally sources & really good. The twist is that your food is served really fast. The double twist is how delicious it is.`
- Vogue The first Leon restaurant, in London`s Carnaby Street, opened its doors in July 2004. For its founders
- henry Dimbleby, John Vincent & Allegra Mc Evedy
- the aim was to change the face of fast food, by bringing fresh, wholesome cooking to the high street. Six months later, Leon was named the Best New Restaurant in Great Britain at the Observer Food Monthly Awards. The menu is based around bold flavours, using simply-cooked fresh, local, natural ingredients with an emphasis on seasonal dishes; it also reflects how our eating habits change as the daylight house get longer & shorter. This is a book of two halves. The Ingredients Book arms you with everything you need to know about the basic building blocks of any recipe. LEON chooses its ingredients above all for their flavour & healthiness but also with a view to the world we live in, so that such shark-infested waters as sustainable fish are tackled & easy to navigate.LEON`s top 250 fruits, vegetables, fish, meats, dairy & store cupboard ingredients are all given their own entries. Nutrition, a bit of history, flavour & the best way to get the most out of them are all covered, seasoned with a fair amount of random miscellany. The second half is The Recipe Book, where you can put your newly found knowledge of ingredients to great use with over 140 recipes: some are familiar favourites taken from LEON`s menus such as the Original Superfood Salad, Moroccan Meatballs or Magic Mackerel Couscous &, for LEON Lovers everywhere, at last a recipe for the coveted LEON Better Brownie. Plus there are some recipes from the founders, their friends & those who helped make LEON what it is today, like Fred`s Millennium Octopus & David Dimbleby`s Spanish Omelette. LEON`s food message is a simple & honest one
- cook & eat with the best ingredients available & don`t forget the naughty bits that are so necessary for a fully-rounded life.



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This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as ” Suzanne”, ” Sisters of Mercy”, ” Bird on the Wire”, ” Famous Blue Raincoat” & ”I`m Your Man” & searingly memorable poems from many collections including ” Flowers for Hitler”, ” Beautiful Losers” & ” Death of a Lady`s Man”. Encompassing the erotic & the melancholy, the mystical & the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence & live-wire emotional immediacy. ...

` To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life & works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, & insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar & a spellbinding writer. & what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages.` David Mc Cullough Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo`s astonishing notebooks & new discoveries about his life & work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo`s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, & an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper & the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science & technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, & weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities & the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history`s most creative genius. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, & then painted history`s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, & produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo`s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings & inventions. Leonardo`s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a mis
Fit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, & at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves & our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it-to be imaginative &, like talented misfits & rebels in any era, to think different.
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The 1 New York Times Bestseller ` Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he`s simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man` Books of the Year
- The Times ` Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist & natural scientist. Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend. Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardo`s fallibility
- so many projects started, so few completed
- as well as his extraordinary curiosity & his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation.` Michael Prodger, Books of the Year
- The Sunday Times` Infinitely curious, easily distracted, vain & vegetarian, Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography.`
- The Sunday Times. `an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium`s greatest minds.`
- The Observer ` Isaacson doesn`t claim to make any fresh discoveries, but his book is intelligently organised, simply written & beautifully illustrated.` Book of the Day, The Guardian. ` Isaacson`s scholarship is impressive-he cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, & da Vinci`s other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.`
- Publisher`s Weekly”A powerful story of an exhilarating mind & life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.”-The New Yorker” Vigorous, insightful.”-The Washington Post”A masterpiece.”-San Francisco Chronicle” Luminous.”-The Daily Beast ` To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life & works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, & insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar & a spellbinding writer. & what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages.` David Mc Cullough The creator of Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) officially sold at auction in New York in November 2017 for the record-breaking sum of GBP341 million. He was history`s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo`s astonishing notebooks & new discoveries about his life & work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo`s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, & an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper & the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science & technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, & weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities & the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history`s most creative genius. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, & then painted history`s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, & produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo`s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings & inventions. Leonardo`s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a mis
Fit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, & at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves & our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to qu







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Da Vinci was a man ahead of his time. Delve into the mind of this great man in Leonardo da Vinci`s Inventive Puzzles
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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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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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Leros at 1:25, 000 on a contoured, GPS compatible hiking map published by Terrain Cartography group together with Skai Maps, & printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant Polyart plastic paper, with extensive tourist information. Topography is very well presented by contours, enhanced by spot heights, subtle relief shading & additional altitude colouring. Contour interval, unless indicated below to the contrary, is 20m. National parks & other protected areas are marked. All place names are shown in both Greek & Latin alphabet. The maps have a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks. Hiking trails are graded between main routes & narrow trails. A wide range of symbols indicate various places of interest & recreational facilities, with main sights clearly highlighted. Most titles distinguish between sandy & pebble beaches; some also indicate beaches with natural shade and/or the type of sea bed. Road network is very clearly graded according to width & the type of surface, distinguishing between good & rough dirt roads. Distances are marked on most small local roads, as well as locations of petrol stations and/or tyre repair workshops. Scenic routes are highlighted. Each map also shows which ports are served by ferry services. Many titles include a street plan of the island’s main town, with colouring clearly showing various tourist facilities. The reverse side of each title is covered by general information about the isl&, illustrated with colour photos. Many titles also include brief descriptions of recommended hiking trails.* Map legend & all the text include English.* ...

Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Sverigeserien is an outdoor map series consisting of 116 sheets with coverage of southern & central Sweden & the northern coastline. The map is suitable for outdoor activities such as hiking, excursions, trail running, hunting, fishing, riding, cycling, mountain biking, paddling, skating & much more. Every sheet covers an area of 45x 68km. These topographical maps in scale 1:50 000 contain all the information needed for outdoor activities: Terrain information, hiking trails, illuminated tracks, camping, shelters, golf courses, leisure baths, historical remains, roads in different categories, railway lines & much more. Easy to read topography with contour lines, vertical interval 5 m. Sverigeserien is a high-quality map series & is durable for frequent use! Updated content with map data from Lantmäteriet (National Land Survey of Sweden) & printed on Polyart which is water & tear resistant. This means that the map can be folded repeatedly without breaking & can withstand the challenging weather in Sweden during both winter & summer. Legend is in Swedish, English & German. ...