Pretoria conurbation on detailed street plans at 1:20, 000 combined into an A4 size paperback atlas from Map Studio, South Africa’s leading cartographic publishers. The plans are annotated with symbols showing locations of various facilities & places of interest, including cultural institutions, municipal services, shopping centres, medical & academic establishments, sport & recreational centres, etc. Where appropriate one way streets & traffic light junctions are indicated. Each set of plans is indexed separately. Also included is a diagram of the Johannesburg Clock ring road & an enlargement showing access to various terminals at the Johannesburg international airport. Coverage
Includes:: Akasia, Brits, Centurion, Hartbeespoort, Schoemansville, Kosmos, Broederstroom, Polokwane & Rustenburg.
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There`s a witch with a date, & she wants to look her best. The woodland creatures have lots of ideas on how she can improve... but will she still be the same witch at the end of it? This picture book explores the pressure to be perfect & how easy it can be to lose yourself in the process. A hilarious, yet thought-provoking picture book from Canizales. ...

In April 1871, a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a girl dying in the mud
- her face cruelly slashed & her brains
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This beautiful collection of images will take you past London`s famous landmarks, & into the pretty hidden gems beyond. From secluded mews to undiscovered cafes, flower markets & tree-lined streets, prettycitylondon champions the quiet, gentle moments that allow you to escape in a huge capital city like London. If you know where to look, you will find that traditional shop fronts, vintage transport, artisan bakeries, florists & bookstores are but a hop skip & a jump from the centre, & some right bang in the middle. Curated by founder & editor of Instagram`s @prettycitylondon, this stunning guide also

Includes:: tips on how to photograph & plan your own prettycitylondon experience, whether on foot or from afar.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

An account providing a human face to the realities of life in Palestine. The Palestinian– Israeli conflict is one of the most widely reported & long standing struggles in the world, yet for many, misunderstanding is rife about its most basic issues. Hilda Reilly volunteered to work at An-Najah University in Nablus in order to spend time among many ordinary people, living under extraordinary circumstances. She lives among students, & relates the many conversations she has with a wide range of Palestinians about their thoughts on Hamas & Fatah, Yasser Arafat, bin Laden & Hussein, Blair & Bush, bringing readers an insight to the people behind the politics. ...

Pride & Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous & empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim
- that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical & indolent husb&. With its wit, its social precision &, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride & Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.
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” Really, Mr. Collins, ” cried Elizabeth with some warmth, ”you puzzle me exceedingly...”- Pride & Prejudice Enter the world of Pride & Prejudice & Puzzles, a beautifully realized puzzle collection that transports you to Jane Austen`s England
- a land of polite intrigue & conjugal contrivance. Permit yourself the indulgence of an interval of recreation & amusement to make your acquaintance with the riddles & conundrums contained within; for you are sure to receive no inconsiderable pleasure from the puzzling over & resolving of them. Your quest for an amiable distraction will be over, leaving your curiosity entirely satisfied. Puzzles there are plenty, clues there are many, & the pages are handsomely decorated with fine engravings entirely suited to the subject matter.
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JANUARY 2013: CELEBRATE THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRIDE & PREJUDICE. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, & prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy`s friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry & love
- Jane Austen`s classic romance novel. * Voted the nation`s favourite book by the British public. * Now a major film starring Keira Knightly. * Adapted for TV in the well-loved 1995 BBC drama starring Colin Firth. * If you like this you might like: Sense & Sensibility.
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The Penguin Classics edition of Pride & Prejudice is the definitive version of Jane Austen`s timeless novel of love`s triumph over adversity, celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2013. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant & conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks & lively mind. When she later discovers that Mr Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Mr Bingley & her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. Jane Austen`s Pride & Prejudice is a sparkling comedy of manners which explores the folly of judging by first impressions, & superbly evokes the friendships, gossip & snobberies of provincial middle-class life in early nineteenth-century Engl&. Edited with notes & an introduction by Vivien Jones, this edition also

Includes:: a new chronology, additional suggestions for further reading, & the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature`s most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, Pride & Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was the author of Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey. If you liked Pride & Prejudice, you may enjoy Charlotte Bronte`s Jane Eyre, also available in Penguin Classics. ” The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal”. (Virginia Woolf). ” As nearly flawless as any fiction could be”. (Eudora Welty). ” Pride & Prejudice has always been the most popular of Jane Austen`s books.. .with its good humoured comedy, its sunny heroine, its dream denouement”. (Claire Tomalin).

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