The third in a series of highly practical, hands on, step-by-step photographic manuals, Replacing Your Boat`s Electrical System fills a gap in the market for the DIY boat builder & repairer. It is a subject covered only in piecemeal fashion by the yachting press, which, like general boat repair manuals, can`t go into the level of detail Mike Westin does in this superlative volume. This is a visual, h&-holding guide, dwelling on the details as it explains each procedure rather than focusing on the theory (which is relegated to an appendix, for those who wish to go further). ...

Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a `settler revolution` that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West & its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zeal&, & South Africa. Between 1780 & 1930 the number of English-speakers rocketed from 12 million in 1780 to 200 million, & their wealth & power grew to match. Their secret was not racial, or cultural, or institutional superiority but a resonant intersection of historical changes, including the sudden rise of mass transfer across oceans & mountains, a revolutionary upward shift in attitudes to emigration, the emergence of a settler `boom mentality`, & a late flowering of non-industrial technologies -wind, water, wood, & work animals
- especially on settler frontiers. This revolution combined with the Industrial Revolution to transform settlement into something explosive
- capable of creating great cities like Chicago & Melbourne & large socio-economies in a single generation. When the great settler booms busted, as they always did, a second pattern set in. Links between the Anglo-wests & their metropolises, London & New York, actually tightened as rising tides of staple products flowed one way & ideas the other. This `re-colonization` re-integrated Greater America & Greater Britain, bulking them out to become the superpowers of their day. The ` Settler Revolution` was not exclusive to the Anglophone countries
- Argentina, Siberia, & Manchuria also experienced it. But it was the Anglophone settlers who managed to integrate frontier & metropolis most successfully, & it was this that gave them the impetus & the material power to provide the world`s leading super-powers for the last 200 years. This book will reshape understandings of American, British, & British dominion histories in the long 19th century. It is a story that has such crucial implications for the histories of settler societies, the homelands that spawned them, & the indigenous peoples who resisted them, that their full histories cannot be written without it.


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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. ...

Moleskine's unisex shoulder bag, the Reporter Bag, is the smallest in the Moleskine ' Travelling' collection & is very flexible for every-day use. External features include: an elastic closure mechanism, a rigid base for standing the bag vertically, an adjustable strap with concealed sliding buckle & a single flap, as well as being water repellant. Internal features include: a lightly padded black lining, the ability to fit any laptop with a screen size up to 13 & 1 pocket with a zipper. The Reporter Bag is made from matte black polyurethance on a woven support & has a molded base made from soft-touch polyurethane. ...

` Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, & what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning & tireless legwork, is Hersh`s warmth & humanity. Essential reading for every journalist & aspiring journalist the world over` John le Carre In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school & university
- while running the family`s struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America`s premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of awards, & no small amount of controversy. Reporter is the story of how he did it. It is a story of slog, ingenuity & defiance, following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, through his Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance investigative exposes, to the heights of his reporting for The New York Times & the New Yorker. It is a tale of night-time encounters with great Civil Rights leaders, unauthorised meetings with Pentagon officials, raucous dinners with Canadian soldiers in Hanoi, tense phone calls with Secretaries of State, desperate to save face; of exposing myriad military & political wrongdoing, from My Lai to Watergate to Abu Ghraib, & the cynical cover-ups that followed in Washington & New York. Here too are unforgettable encounters with some of the most formidable figures from recent decades, from Saul Bellow to Martin Luther King Jr., from Henry Kissinger to Bashar al-Assad. Ultimately, in unfurling Seymour Hersh`s life & career, Reporter tells a story of twentieth-century America, in all its excitement & darkness.
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Repovesi area of Finland at 1:25, 000/50, 000 in a series of beautiful & informative maps of popular outdoor leisure areas with cartography of the country’s topographic survey. Excellent use of colours, shading & symbols provides a very detailed picture of the terrain & vegetation. Extensive overprint highlights routes for hiking, and/or other outdoor pursuits, a wide variety of accommodation, from hotels & holiday villages to Lapland tepees, food & fuel supplies, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude. Map legends include English. ...

Map No. 10181, Repparfjorddalen, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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This work provides an account of the mapping of the United States from its colonial origins to 1900. Many of the significant maps & mapmakers are discussed in a chronological narrative that begins with the first European mappings of the New Netherlands (New York State, Massachusetts & Connecticut) in the early 17th century & concludes with the Rand Mc Nally atlases of the 1890s. Maps tell us a great deal about the transformation of America`s national identity. Having undertaken extensive research in map collections & with rare archival material in the US & overseas, geographer John Rennie Short provides a description of how maps have both embodied & reflected power, conflict & territorial expansion throughout American history. His illustrated text focuses on maps of colonial claims, surveys of the American West, & national atlases, paying particular attention to how & why certain groups
- Native Americans, for example
- were included on or excluded from maps.

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A unique view of some of the world`s most curious living creatures, their intriguing characteristics, & unusual behavior with DK Eyewitness Reptiles. Learn how crocodiles look after their young, how lizards store fat in their tails, & how chameleons swivel their eyes. Find out how snakes are charmed, how geckos walk upside down, why crocodiles swallow stones, & how a snake is milked of venom. DK Eyewitness Reptiles also

Includes:: a giant fold-out wall chart full of facts, perfect for bedrooms or classrooms. With stunning close-up photographs of snakes, crocodiles, lizards, & turtles, Eyewitness Reptiles offers a unique eyewitness view of these amazing creatures. See how an anole lizard frightens its enemies by displaying its bright red beard & watch a boa constrictor swallowing its prey whole.

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Everyone has heard of the tuatara, New Zealand's unique 'living dinosaur'; but equally fascinating, if less well known, are the country's other reptiles. There are more than 65 species of lizards (including skinks & geckos), frogs & other reptiles & amphibians native to New Zeal&, & scientists such as author Tony Jewell are still discovering new species & subspecies today. In this new addition to a popular New Holland series, Tony covers all the known species from Northland to the far south; his text is backed up by outstanding photographs of their many geographic colour variants, so that readers will be equipped to identify almost any specimen encountered in the wild. This is a groundbreaking handbook & a superb aid for natural history enthusiasts, trampers & educationalists. ...