Mumbai in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Ten Heritage Walks in Mumbai guide introduces the visitor to lesser known & often forgotten streets, sights & sounds of the city, including many buildings from the days of the Raj: schools, churches, municipal offices, etc. Each walk is presented on a street plan annotated with the sights described in the guide & is illustrated with numerous photos. Informative text & additional “ Did you know” panels provide interesting & informative background notes & descriptions. ...

`A great writer` James Baldwin ` Part vision, part satire, part farce.. .a wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction & witchcraft` The New York Times A plague is spreading across 1920s America, racing from New Orleans to New York. It`s an epidemic of free expression, carried by black artists, & its symptoms are an uncontrollable urge to dance, sing, laugh & jive. The state will stop at nothing to suppress the outbreak, but, deep in the heart of Harlem, private eye & Vodum priest Papa La Bas has other ideas
- &, possibly, the key to everything. A freewheeling, explosive blend of jazz, ragtime, ancient myth, magic & conspiracy thriller, this anarchic postmodern classic is a satire for our times.
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In Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, a man covered from head to toe in straw
- the `straw bear`
- is paraded through the streets,

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The mummy portraits of Roman Egypt are haunting images of ancient faces: anonymous people painted by anonymous artists. & yet, they are historical & cultural documents of outstanding interest & importance, & many are of superb artistic quality. This type of portrait appeared in Egypt in the first century AD, & remained popular for around 200 years. Though the subjects believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished to be commemorated in the Roman manner. Portraits were commissioned that would serve as a realistic record of the deceased as he or she had appeared in life. These were painted on a wooden board at a roughly lifelike scale, which was then placed on the outside of the cartonnage coffin over the head of the individual or carefully placed into the mummy wrappings. The images also reveal the adoption of Roman fashions in dress & personal adornment by persons remote from the centre of the empire but likely to have been actively engaged in its local administration. By careful assessment of the hairstyles, clothes & jewelery, it is possible to date the portraits, often within a decade or so. Many of the finest & best-known examples come from the Fayum & are a dazzling testament to the Greek painting tradition, in particular the sophistication of the Alexandrian school, from which they are derived. It is not until some fifteen centuries later, in the faces painted by Titian or Rembrandts depiction of his own features as he saw them reflected in a mirror, that the same artistry that characterizes many of the anonymous painters of the Fayum is witnessed again. ...

Tiny Troll loves his mummy more than anything, even puddles & earwigs, but when Mrs Troll begins curling her bristles, ready to go out, Tiny Troll bursts into tears. He wants to go too! What will it take for Mrs Hag, the babysitter, to settle him down to sleep? Patience, cuddles & mud-milk. & a goodnight kiss from Mum when she gets home. ...

Munchberg in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Helmbrechts, Marktleugast, Stammbach, Weißenstadt, Gefrees, Zell im Fichtelgebirge. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Munchberg in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Helmbrechts, Marktleugast, Stammbach, Weißenstadt, Gefrees, Zell im Fichtelgebirge. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Join Mungo Monkey & his friends in Miss Raffy`s class at school: the second adventure in this brilliant pre-school series by Julia Donaldson`s award-winning illustrator, Lydia Monks. Today the class are learning about bugs! Lift the flaps to help everyone find some creepy-crawlies & then play hide-&-seek with Mungo`s spider. ...

Mungo Monkey has woken up very early.. .because today is his Birthday! There are so many things to do before Mungo`s birthday party starts: balloons to blow up, party hats to make & a cake to bake. Mungo needs to pick his fancy dress costume, too. What will he choose? Lift the flaps & join in the party preparations with Mungo, his friends & his favourite toy Narnie in this new pre-school series by Lydia Monks, the award-winning illustrator of Julia Donaldson`s What the Ladybird Heard. ...