Berlitz Pocket Guide Nice, Cannes & Monte Carlo is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the very best of these three glamorous cities, from Nice`s fascinating Old Town & the seafront promenade of Cannes to the casino & Cafe de Paris of Monte-Carlo in Monaco, Europe`s second-smallest state. Handy maps on the cover flaps help you get around. To inspire you, the book offers a rundown of the Cote d` Azur`s Top 10 Attractions, followed by an itinerary for a Perfect Day in Cannes. The What to Do chapter is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from nightlife & people-watching to opera & sports. The book provides all the essential background information, including a brief history of the Riviera & an Eating Out chapter covering the area`s cuisine. There are carefully chosen listings of the best hotels & restaurants & an A-Z of all the practical information you`ll need. ...

Nicholas & the Gang contains 16 stories about Nicholas, the French schoolboy, & his friends, many of whom are familiar from the other books in the series: there`s Alec, who`s always eating; Cuthbert, who`s always top of the class; Matthew, who`s always bottom of the class; & Mary Jane, the little girl with blonde pigtails who lives next door. As usual, the children get into all kinds of trouble, even though they have the very best intentions. In this book, they try to make friends with the owner of a new bookshop near their school, take part in a chaotic radio interview, & play an unusually messy game of chess. ...

The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in his devotion to his country, he was weak, sentimental, dogmatic & indecisive. Ironically he could have made an effective constitutional monarch, but these flaws rendered him fatally unsuited to be the sole ruler of a nation that was in the throes of painful modernisation. That he failed is not surprising, for many abler monarchs could not have succeeded. Rather to be wondered at is that he managed, for 23 years, to hold on to power despite the overwhelming force of circumstances. Though Nicholas was exasperating, he had many endearing qualities. A modern audience, aware
- as contemporaries were not
- of the private pressures under which he lived, can empathise with him & forgive some of his errors of judgement. To some readers he seems a fool, to others a monster, but many are touched by the story of a well-meaning man doing his best under impossible conditions. He is, in other words, a biographical subject that engages readers whatever their viewpoint. His family was of great importance to Nicholas. He & his wife, Alexandra, married for love & retained this affection to the end of their lives. His four daughters, all different & intriguing personalities, were beautiful & charming. His son, the family`s
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- hope for the future, was disabled by an illness that had to be concealed from Russia & from the world. It was this circumstance that made possible the nefarious influence of Rasputin, which in turn hastened the end of the dynasty. This story has everything: romance & tragedy, grandeur & misery, human frailty & an international catastrophe that would not only bring down the Tsar but put an end to the glittering era of European monarchies.



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A reformatted, redesigned edition of this popular title. We are all fascinated by, & often wary of, the tiny creatures that creep & crawl in our gardens or lurk in the dark corners of our homes, but how much do we really know about insects & their relatives? For instance, could you identify the larvae of a ladybird, which each eat 50 aphids a day? & did you know that some species of snail are hairy? This book aims to encourage our understanding of all types of bugs that can be found in our back gardens & beyond
- worms, snails, ants, woodlice, centipedes, flies, grasshoppers, beetles, bees, wasps, spiders & butterflies (to name but a few)
- by offering practical information & fun activities for the whole family. Learn how to determine the sex of a spider, how to look after ants in a home-made formicarium & even how to rear your own dragonflies! Packed with details on essential equipment for bug watching & collecting, clear annotated diagrams on bug anatomy & amazing full-colour close-up photographs, as well as astonishing facts on insect behaviour & identification, this book is essential reading for budding entomologists of all ages.

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Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged L&, Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent`s natural world. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt records the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erects a life size panel of one of his animal portrait photographs, setting the panels within a world of explosive urban development, factories, wasteland & quarries. The people within the photographs are oblivious to the presence of the panels & the animals featured in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Some of the animals in the panels appear to be looking out at these destroyed landscapes with sadness, as if lamenting the loss of the world they once inhabited. By the end, we see that it is not just the animals who are the victims in this out of control world, but also the humans. Inherit the Dust also

Includes:: plates of the original portraits of the animals that are featured in the life-size panels, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, & behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt`s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs.

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Nickel-plated brass, rosewood finished handle. Magnification 3x. For proverbial fine print & thumbnail-sized road maps. Classic accessory for any coffee table or end table. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Nicosia (Lefkosia) street plan at 1:11, 000 from the locally based Selas Publications, with an extensive index plus lists of various government offices, public building & services, cultural & educational institutions, selected hotels, youth hostels, embassies, etc. (with their names in English). Main traffic arteries are highlighted; one way streets & locations of petrol stations are marked. Various places of interest, services & institutions are indicated. All place names are in the Latin alphabet only. No street names are given in the Turkish zone, including its part of the Old Town. Map legend

Includes:: English. Street index is on the reverse; the lists of institutions, etc. are next to the map. Also provided is a road map of the Nicosia district, including access to the Troodos Mountains.

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Handy pocket street plan of Nicosia at 1:8, 000 from Selas; one way streets are marked, with points of interests such as the Cyprus Archaeological Museum & markets are displayed as well as local facilities including hotels & petrol stations. Areas under Turkish occupation are indicated. The map is fully indexed with an added index detailing archaeological sites, museums, churches, hotels & more. Map text & index is in Roman alphabet only. The map legend is in both English & Cyrillic. ...

Nicosia Street Atlas from Selas in an A5 paperback format with an extensive index listing all streets with names of their municipalities & full postal codes, plus listings of various useful addresses: ministries & other governmental & municipal offices, banks, embassies & consulates, schools & academic institutions, churches, sport & recreational facilities, etc. An enlargement shows the Greek part of the Old Town in greater detail & a separate map highlight eight nature trails in the Athalassa Park. All place names are shown in Latin alphabet only. The areas under Turkish administration, including the northern part of the Old Town, are shown without street names. Map legend & all the text is in English. ...

From the much acclaimed author of MISLAID & THE WALLCREEPER, a fierce & audaciously funny novel of families-both the ones we`re born into & the ones we create-a story of obsession, idealism, & ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father`s childhood home. ” She wills her body to be equally wraithlike. Not sodden, not heavy, not dead, but filled with crackling, electric life, like a stale Marlboro on fire.” Unemployed business major, Penny, has rebelled against her family her whole life
- by being the conventional one. Her mother was a member of a South American tribe; her father was a Jewish Shamanist with a psychedelic `healing centre`. But everything changes when her father dies & Penny inherits his childhood home. Left weightless & unmoored after being the only member of her family with time for her dying father, Penny then finds his property occupied by a group of squatters, united in defence of smokers` rights
- & herself unexpectedly besotted with them, particularly Rob, the hot bicycle-&-tobacco activist. Totally addictive & dangerously good, ` Nicotine` is a fiercely funny novel in which passion is politics & nonviolence is the opposite of surrender.

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