Rio de Janeiro has a reputation as a blessed beach & party paradise. But there`s more to Brazil`s second largest city than samba & carnival. Explore a truly massive metropolis with a vibrant urban cultural scene & then break free into rainforests, sailing, or even hang-gliding. This guide will ensure that you can lose yourself in Rio without getting lost. The Monocle team will show you around their favourite haunts, from incredible urban vistas to boutiques & fine dining. Experience that Brazilian beat in hidden clubs & the open-air street parties that enliven the spirit of this diverse & cosmopolitan city. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:100, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 50m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 64 x 40km (40 x 25 miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals, plus show UTM coordinates for the map corners. Map legend is in Portuguese only.PLEASE NOTE
- EDITION DATES: some sheets at this scale date back to the 1950s or 1960s. For more recent editions please see IGP’s 1:25, 000 series where each 50K map is divided into four quarters. To see all the titles in the 1:100, 000 series please click on the series link.
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The regions on both sides of Rio San Juan which for a large part of its course forms the border between Nicaragua & Costa Rica between Lake Nicaragua & the Atlantic. Plus street plans of San Carlos, Boca de Sabalos, El Castillo & San Juan del Norte. The map is double-sided & covers at 1:150, 000 the border regions from the Archipalgo de Solentiname in Lago de Nicaragua to the Atlantic showing local towns & settlements with the network of connecting roads, tracks & footpaths. Locations of petrol stations & border crossings are marked. The map also shows local airfields, ports & ferry routes. Symbols indicate various places of interest, including locations with tourist accommodation. Topography is indicated by relief shading, with graphics for swamps & symbols indicating plantations of cacao, oranges, bananas or pineapples & palm groves. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted & numerous tributaries of the San Juan River are named. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at intervals of 5’. Map legend

Includes:: English. Also provided are insets with street plans of of San Carlos, Boca de Sabalos, El Castillo & San Juan del Norte, indicating various facilities & places of interest.

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Rio Verde
- Laguna Blanca area of the Chilean Patagonia on a double-sided, contoured & GPS-compatible map from SIG Patagon. One
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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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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From activist, Pussy Riot member & freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial & imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.` One of the most brilliant & inspiring things I`ve read in years. Couldn`t put it down. This book is freedom` Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick`A women`s prison memoir like no other! One tough cookie!` @ Margaret Atwood` Once you begin reading, you are completely disarmed, unable to put it down until the last page` Marina Abramovic People who believe in freedom & democracy think it will exist forever. That is a mistake. What happened in Russia
- what happened to me
- could happen anywhere. When I was jailed for political protest, I learned that prison doesn`t just teach you to follow the rules. It teaches you to think that you can never break them. It`s inevitable that the prison gates will open at some point. But this doesn`t mean that you leave the `prisoner` category & go straight into the category of `the free`. Freedom does not exist unless you fight for it every day. This is the story about how I made a choice.

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From activist, Pussy Riot member & freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial & imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.” Freedom doesn`t exist unless you fight for it every day. Revolution is history. If we decided to fall out of it, to disappear, that would mean it would not be our history, but theirs. Not our country, but theirs. In this sense, we didn`t take off our masks. We never left the church. On a T-shirt, I had written ` To Back Down an Inch is to Give Up a Mile`. I felt there was no sense in wearing a T-shirt with those words if you didn`t hold yourself to them. We have the right to refuse. This is our right, yours & mine. You can`t know all the laws by heart; you don`t know what will happen if you refuse. But you have to try.” ...

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. ...

When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast & one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London`s Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how & why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham & end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov. After an undercover operative connected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service`s problems. Liz & her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece & Somalia, relying on their wits
- & the judicious use of force
- to get to the truth. & they don`t have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without.. . Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5, returns with a tense & heart-stopping spy thriller where the secrets are deep, the stakes are high & the enemy is always just out of sight.

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