Rebecca Solnit`s essay ` Men Explain Things to Me` has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term `mansplaining`, & established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time
- one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles. Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself, along with the best of Solnit`s feminist writings. From rape culture to mansplaining, from French sex scandals to marriage & the nuclear family, from Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce & incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as `issues` at all. With grace & energy, & in the most exquisite & inviting of prose, Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement & a radical, humane thinker.
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Between 1900 & 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments & historic sites & opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures, & books had been made by governments, but the British created an outdoor museum of national history. This book explains why the extraordinary collecting frenzy took place. It locates it in the fragile & nostalgic atmosphere of the interwar years, dominated by neo-romanticism & cultural protectionism. It dissects a government programme that established a modern state on deep historical & rural roots; in the words of the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, heritage was the rock out of which the nation`s children would be hewn. The government`s activities were mirrored by the establishment of dozens of voluntary bodies, including the Council for the Protection of Rural Engl&, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, & the National Trust. It was during the Second World War when the government realized that its collecting activities could not be sustained but that the National Trust could provide a vehicle for the continued collection of the nation`s heritage. It was the war too that extended for the first time protection to buildings that were occupied & not just ruins. The book sets all this activity, for the first time, in its political, economic & cultural contexts, painting a picture of a country traumatized by war, fearful of losing what was left of its history, & a government that actively set out to protect them. In the last chapter it brings the story up to date. ...

From five distinct cities around the world
- Sydney, Tokyo, Milan, London & New York
- photographer, art director & blogger

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Tom Connolly`s dazzling second novel is a funny, turbulent, & heartfelt study of male relationships, & a glorious love letter to the city of New York. It is April in Manhattan & the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible & volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him in the UK in the aftermath of their parents` deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by the contrast between his life & that of his brother-in-law & oldest friend William, who is enviably contented in his faith & his marriage. When Finn wanders into Leo`s gallery, a series of unexpected & interconnected events unfold, changing the lives of all four men, for better or worse. Leo & William`s settled existences are overturned by events outside of their control, while Jack & Finn`s complex relationship reaches its long overdue showdown. Beautifully orchestrated & richly comic, Men Like Air explores the romance & solitude of cosmopolitan life, the transformative power of art, & the impact we have on one another`s lives
- & what happens when the ties that bind us are tested or broken. It is an intense & uplifting story of growth & renewal, mapping the complex workings of the human heart across the streets of New York City.
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When the First World War broke out, the Post Office was the biggest employer in the world, with its own company of volunteer part-time soldiers, The Post Office Rifles. Suddenly catapulted into conflict, ordinary postmen & messenger boys found themselves in the trenches of the Western Front, hoping that their own letters would reach home
- & relying on the letters & parcels they received for comfort & much-needed boosts to morale. By the war`s end, 1, 500 of them had been killed. Using the personal stories, letters & diary entries of the men who joined the Post Office Riffles, this is a moving account of how the war touched the lives of ordinary people
- how it changed communities, how women took up men`s work, &, of course, the vital role the mail played in winning the war.

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Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats & smoky bars, lonely hearts & mysterious women, baseball & the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic ...

”I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.” Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats & smoky bars, lonely hearts & mysterious women, baseball & the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic. ...

Menagerie Manor is the hugely entertaining account of how the well known & much-loved conservationist & author, Gerald Durrell, fulfilled a lifelong ambition by founding his very own private zoo in Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff & a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows. The reader is introduced to the village idiocy of Trumpy, the grey-winged trumpeter, who wakes the zoo every morning; the riotous antics of Claudius the tapir; the moving romance of N ...

Menaggio, map No. 287, in the standard topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, i.e. without the special overprint highlighting walking trails, local bus stops, etc, presented in Swisstopo’s hiking editions of the 50K survey. The map covers mainly the Italian side of the border, with only a small part of Switzerland shown on it. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. All the maps have a 1-km grid with the Swiss national coordinates. This standard version of the 50K survey covers the whole country on 78 small format sheets, with special larger format maps published for several popular tourist destinations. Small format sheets cover an area of 35 x 24 km (21 x 15 miles approx) & have map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. The special larger sheets cover 50 x 35 km (31 x 22 miles approx) & have no map legend, but a separate leaflet can be provided instead.PLEASE NOTE: the hiking editions of the 1:50, 000 Swisstopo survey are listed on our website in a separate series. ...

Menai Bridge / Porth-aethwy in 1913 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 town of Menai Bridge, plus the western part of Bangor on the Caernarvonshire shore in a section of Caernarvonshire sheet 6.11. Features include Menai Bridge town centre, Menai Suspension Bridge (at foot of map), Anglesey Arms Hotel, Uxbridge Square, Church Isl&, St Tysilio`s church, chapels, Mount Pleasant area, St George`s Pier, Halfway House, Pont Cadnant (at top of map), Ynys Gaint, Ynys Castell, Ynys Faelog, Ynys Tobig, Victoria Hotel, old causeway, Ynys Benlas, Ynys Welltog, Swelly Rock, Pentraeth Road area, Coed Colonel, Aution Mart, etc. The small Caernarvonshire area

Includes:: Gorphwysfa & George Hotel. On the reverse is a 1910 business directory of Menai Bridge. 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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