” There has never been a writer like James Ellroy.” (Telegraph). Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever & race hate grip the city & the internment of Japanese Americans begins. When a Japanese family is found brutally murdered, three men & one woman are summoned. William H Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police force. He`s superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious & consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith
- Irish emigre, ex-IRA killer & fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist & the only Japanese on the payroll. Four driven souls
- rivals, lovers, history`s pawns
- thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its history.


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It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans
- but now, war fever & race hate grip the city & the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men & one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He`s superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up & consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith
- Irish emigre, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist & the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. The investigation throws them together & rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm centre that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls
- comrades, rivals, lovers, history`s pawns. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, & Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss & the precipice of America`s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel.


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` Crackling with zeitgeisty energy... Sam Byers`s dizzying second novel comes over like an episode of Black Mirror as scripted by a ”woke” Martin Amis.` Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in Engl&, some time in the recent future. Brexit has happened & is real. Fear & loathing are on the rise. Grass-roots right-wing political party England Always are fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. Just as the climate seems at its most pressured, masked men begin a series of `disruptions`, threatening to make internet histories public, asking the townspeople what don`t you want to share? As tensions mount, lives begin to unravel. Jess Ellis`s research into internet misogyny pushes her relationship with her over-exposed opinion columnist boyfriend Robert Townsend to breaking point. Robert`s championing of the inhabitants of the threatened estate begins to erode the edges of his fragile idealism. Local England Always politician Hugo Bennington finds his twisted loyalties catching up with him. At the nearby tech park, behind the utopian rhetoric, Trina James finds that something is dangerously amiss.A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged thinkpieces; a riot of opinions. Suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it has always imagined itself to be. Things are changing. No-one is quite who they appear. The future has arrived, & it is not what anyone imagined. ...

The new consolidated edition of Performance Standards for Shipborne Radiocommunications & Navigational Equipment incorporates all amendments adopted up to December 2015 including:
- Electronic inclinometers
- Bridge equipment & systems
- Revised performance standards for shipborne voyage data recorders (VDR)
- Revised performance standards for the long-range identification & tracking of ships
- Amendments to the performance standards for devices to measure & indicate speed & distance
- Worldwide radionavigation system.





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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human`s. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. & to get it he must kill. & kill. & kill... ...

Profound & poignant, Perfume River is an examination of relationships, personal choice, & how war resonates down the generations. It is the finest novel yet from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Quinlan & his wife Darla teach at Florida State University. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee & solitary jogging & separate offices. For Robert & Darla, the cracks remain below the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert`s own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. William Quinlan, Robert & Jimmy`s father, a veteran of World War II, is coming to the end of his life, & aftershocks of war ripple across all their lives once again when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father`s bedside. & a disturbed homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a devastating impact not just on Robert, but on his entire family. ...

For a brief, shining moment the city of Pergamum set out to rival Athens in splendour & artistic prominence; the world`s most famous architects, sculptors & intellectuals gathered there, & its library is said to have contained 20, 000 volumes. From 281 to 133 BCE, five generations of the Attalid dynasty ruled western Anatolia as far south as the Mediterranean coast from Pergamum, but when King Attalos III died it was discovered that, uniquely in history, he had willed his kingdom to Rome. The city continued to thrive as a centre of healing & became a bishopric, mentioned in the Apocalypse of John among the seven churches of Asia Minor as the place `where Satan`s throne is`
- probably a reference to the great altar, now on display in Berlin`s Pergamon Museum. Today, modern Turkish Bergama, a modest market town north of the city of Izmir, attracts thousands of visitors to the nearby ancient city of Pergamum.
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The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

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 mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...