As Colombia`s famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogota in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colon, he contemplates the start of his professional life, & how he set down his oils & took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now a young woman, emerges from the crowd outside & forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation & the value of his life`s work. Vasquez`s terse, poetic prose contrasts starkly with the intense & sharply focused content of this beautifully structured novel. Questioning the power of memory & the media, & their ability to distort, inform & destroy, Vasquez plays with the past & the present, challenging our perception of the truth. ...

A taut new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling
- `one of the most original voices of Latin American
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Map No. 10188, Repvåg, 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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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict & son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion & best friend Tyrone C Love, & making the most of all the hash, poppers & dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have & struggling with her own addictions
- food & diet pills. But these four will pay a terrible price for the pleasures they believe they are entitled to. A passionate, heart-breaking tale of the crushing weight of hope & expectation, ” Requiem for a Dream” is a dark modern-day fable of New York.
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The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance. Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war & several years of study in Engl&. But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents` quiet & reliable parlour-maid. A search through her belongings in search of clues leads to heartbreaking revelations about the woman`s identity, the death of Alan`s brother Bill, &, above all, the disappearance of his brother`s fiancee, Janet. Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School & Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer & published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton & they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write & settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) & On the Beach (1957). ...

No artist will ever be content to substitute the noise of war for the music of his soul, wrote the South African Can Themba, the star turn of the Sophiatown Renaissance of the 1950s. His pieces about what he defined as the shadow life of the new African led the way for a generation of writers in Drum magazine, The Classic & other outlets. Here are twenty-five short stories & sketches from the creative side of his career, including The Suit
- his classic, most anthologised & adapted work
- with several previously uncollected pieces, some in print for the first time.

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Frank & his wife set off on a summer voyage to Spain & France, but the weather made them change their plans & return to Essex via the Irish Sea, with the intention of leaving Iskra in Scotl&. When Iskra was torn from her moorings & washed up on a rocky shore, Frank believed she was lost. ...

Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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