When a mysterious runaway van crashes into St Smithen`s on the first day of the new school year, Poppy knows it`s going to be an action-packed term! But when accidents continue to happen at St Smithen`s, Poppy can`t shake the feeling that her every move is being watched. With the Christmas holidays looming, secrets lurking in every corner & rumours of a dangerous beast on the loose, Poppy must unravel her biggest mystery yet. Can Poppy unmask the hidden spy before someone gets hurt? ...

Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children`s Writing = Poppy Pym has grown up in the circus, taming lions before lunch & learning acrobatics in the afternoon. But when she turns eleven, her circus family decides she needs a more traditional education, & she is sent to boarding school. At first Poppy doesn`t fit in at St Smithen`s, a school that is very different from the circus. Then, an ancient Egyptian ruby arrives at school & dangerous accidents start occurring. Suddenly it`s up to Poppy to save her new school & solve the mystery of the Pharaoh`s curse! ...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Poppy is very excited to be going on holiday, especially when she is given a skull & crossbones scarf to wear. But life as a pirate dog at the seaside is trickier than she realises... ...

It`s a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism & karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown. In Murakami`s inimitably brutal & brilliant style, Popular Hits dissects the gender & generational conflicts of contemporary society in a hilarious satire. ...

Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, & then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, & by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What`s more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it? Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much & that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later & will reach 8 billion by 2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow & become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion. ” Population 10 Billion” is a major work by one of the world`s leading geographers & will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas & observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future & to help us ask the right questions. ...

This series of Odos cycling maps are at a scale of 1:35, 000 & have prominently marked out cycling routes that are differentiated into different types of cycle situation & terrain. Ideal for planning suitable routes & knowing which routes to avoid whether you are on a mountain bike or road bike. These maps are also suitable for walking & horseback riding. Routes marked include: cycle path, cycle route with low motor traffic, cycle route with moderate motor traffic, cycle route on unpaved country road, motorway, district road, secondary paved road, unsurfaced road & footpath. Campsites & other useful details are also marked. With elevation markings, UTM coordinate references, longitude & latitude lines at 3’ intervals. Accompanied by a colour booklet with around 40 pages with places of interest & suggested routes with symbols to indicate difficulty, distances there & back. Please note that the booklet is in Italian but map legend

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Pordenone Province at 1:100, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is now available in a digitally produced edition.LAC’s provincial series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

This series of Odos cycling maps are at a scale of 1:35, 000 & have prominently marked out cycling routes that are differentiated into different types of cycle situation & terrain. Ideal for planning suitable routes & knowing which routes to avoid whether you are on a mountain bike or road bike. These maps are also suitable for walking & horseback riding. Routes marked include: cycle path, cycle route with low motor traffic, cycle route with moderate motor traffic, cycle route on unpaved country road, motorway, district road, secondary paved road, unsurfaced road & footpath. Campsites & other useful details are also marked. With elevation markings, UTM coordinate references, longitude & latitude lines at 3’ intervals. Accompanied by a colour booklet with around 40 pages with places of interest & suggested routes with symbols to indicate difficulty, distances there & back. Please note that the booklet is in Italian but map legend

Includes:: an English translation.

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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. ...

Porirua & Kapiti Coast in a series of maps covering various districts of New Zeal&, with each title combining a detailed road map with street plans of local towns, all with road & street indexes. The maps are published in two formats: handy Pocket Maps or Pathfinders with, as the publishers put it “ Larger print so you don’t squint”. The road maps, typically around 1:175, 000
- 1:275, 000, show local roads & 4WD tracks. Main sightseeing routes across the country, such as the Pacific Road Highway or Thermal Explorer Highway, are identified by small icons. Railways, local airports & where appropriate, ferry routes are shown. The maps also include selected local hiking tracks. A range of symbols highlight various places of interest & sport or recreational facilities. Topography is indicated by names of mountain ranges & selected peaks. Colouring shows forested areas, with national parks & reserves highlighted. The maps have no geographical coordinates but each one has an index listing names of local roads. Each title also

Includes:: numerous street plans of the main centres of population in the area covered by the road map. The plans are usually at 1:25, 000 to 1:35, 000, & for larger towns an enlargement of the town centre is also provided. The plans shows one way streets, public buildings & various facilities, including sport & recreational centres &, almost invariably, public toilets. Each plan has a separate street index.


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