Solar System Skyline Wooden Jigsaw has been handcrafted & cut, then primed & painted in bright child safe non toxic, bright colours. A small work of art in its own right, the jigsaw both entertains & educates, allowing children to appreciate geography by piecing it together with their own hands. The item is presented in an attractive box & supplied with its own natural cotton drawstring bag for transporting the pieces around. Suitable for ages 6 & up. Products meet & exceed required European Toy Safety Standard. ...

Ideal for children & adults alike, Solar System: The Print Collection reveals the most interesting & mysterious parts of the planets closest to us. The unique features of every planet
- including Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot, the Sun's burning surface
- are vividly illustrated in large, detailed posters, accompanied by accessible information on the planet, its climate, orbit & position in space. Easy to pull out & keep, each individual poster is stunning, educational & ready to put on your wall.

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When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others suffer from the same affliction & speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories, but its purpose in doing so remains a mystery... Solaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience & literature for centuries: can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within? ...

The SOLAS Consolidated Edition 2014 is an essential reference for maritime administrations, ship manufacturers, owners & operators, shipping companies, education institutes & all others concerned with requirements of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea. In order to provide an easy reference to all SOLAS requirements applicable from 1 July 2014, this edition presents a consolidated text of the SOLAS Convention, its Protocols of 1978 & 1988 & all amendments in effect from that date. ...

Map No. 10043, Solør, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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This is a powerful novel written in vignettes about a a nepalese girl who risks everything for a chance to reclaim her life. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though they are desperately poor, Lakshmi`s life is full of simple pleasures: playing hopscotch with her best friend, looking after her black-&-white speckled goat, having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when Lakshmi`s family lose all that remains of their crops in a monsoon, her stepfather says she must leave home & take a job in the city. Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India full of hope for her new life, proud to be able to earn, daring to hope that she will make enough money to make her mother proud too. Then she learns the unthinkable truth: for 10, 000 rupees she has been sold into prostitution. ...

Sold as a Slave is the story of Olaudah Equiano, who was kidnapped as a child from a small African Village before he had ever heard of white men, Europe or the sea, & sold into slavery. In an adventurous & extraordinary life, Equiano criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but also a startling, moving story of danger & betrayal. This pocket paperback edition collects extracts from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano About this series: Penguin's Great Journeys series presents extracts from some of the most important classic travelogues in a compact paperback format. The series allows readers to travel both around the planet & back through the centuries
- but also back into ideas & worlds frightening, ruthless & cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent & implacable jungles, deserts & mountains, multitudes of birds & flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends & stories were treated as facts & in which so much was still to be discovered.
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The best rides in the freeride hot spots of the Alps – this is the simple formula of the Freeride Maps. The first map available to freeriders is making the locals freeride knowledge available to a broad public. All ridable slopes, drops & couloirs are marked as freeride corridors in different colours for three difficulty ratings: blue for technically easy terrain, yellow requires advanced to very advanced ability & red is extremely difficult terrain that is partially exposed & therefore reserved to crack riders. Short ascents are marked with red lines. The Freeride Maps are based on topographic maps 1:25, 000. They contain all essential information about the terrain that is necessary for planning & going freeriding. The maps are printed on water resistant & indestructible paper. On the back side, the maps include all relevant planning, safety & rescue information. ...

SOLDIER SAHIBS is the astonishing story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to the most notorious frontier in the world, the North-West Frontier, which today forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan & Afghanistan. Known collectively as ' Henry Lawrence's young men', each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab before going on to make his name as a 'political' on the Frontier
- Herbert Edwardes, who 'pacified' Bannu; John Nicholson, a forebear of the author who became the terror of the Sikhs as ' Nikkal Seyn'; ' Uncle' James Abbot of Hazara, & many others. Drawing extensively on their journals, diaries & letters, as well as his own recent travels in their footsteps, Charles Allen, acknowledged master story-teller of imperial history, weaves the individual stories of these soldier sahibs into an extraordinary tale that climaxes on Delhi Ridge in 1857, when the brotherhood came together to 'save' India.
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Soldier, Spy is the astonishing memoir of one ordinary man & soldier, Victor Gregg, as he resumes civilian life after the Second World War. As for so many others, picking up where he had left off proved far from simple for Gregg; he had fought many battles, lost many friends & been deeply damaged psychologically by his experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. To escape the memories & the emotional trauma, he moved from one job & distraction to the next: from immersing himself in the adrenaline-fuelled competitive cycling to working as a long distance lorry driver, from becoming a Communist Party member to becoming a spy &, by his seventieth birthday, helping bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall. This honest & gritty account is the third book in a remarkable trilogy that both explores the permanent & damaging consequences of a life at war & tells the story of one ordinary man who went on to lead the most extraordinary life. ...