` These are the sort of recipes that I can`t wait to cook: honest, rugged & colourful, you know everything is going to taste deeply Spanish.` Rick Stein Nieves Barragan Mohacho has a Michelin star & is best known as the former head chef at Barrafina, the world famous tapas restaurant. But Sabor: My Spanish Cooking is the food that the Basque-born chef likes to cook when she`s off duty; the food that she grew up eating & the food that she still makes for friends & family. The recipes range from hearty dishes such as braised Iberian pork ribs & chorizo & potato stew, to lighter fare such as seafood skewers, clams in salsa verde & stuffed piquillo peppers, & a wealth of other recipes, from grilled hispi cabbage to baked cauliflower with salted almonds, chilli & shallots. ...

It is the summer of 1982 & Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents have just been evacuated from the city with other cadres of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Ivan stays on, interpreting for international medical volunteers in Sabra refugee camp by day, getting stoned with them at night, & working undercover for the PLO. Hoping to get closer to Eli, a Norwegian physiotherapist, he helps her treat the belligerent Youssef, a camp orphan disabled by a cluster bomb. But events take a nasty turn when the president-elect is assassinated. The Israeli army enters Beirut & surrounds the camp, with Eli & Youssef trapped inside. Can Ivan, unable to enter the camp, salvage anything from the chaos? ...

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. ...

Back in the day when men were men & Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head over control of central Asia
- from the Caucasus to Kabul. This was the stage of open warfare but also espionage, subterfuge & reckless adventure. Following on from the derring do of ” Shooting Leave”, John Ure tells the story of British soldiers, missionaries & mercenaries, horse traders & opportunists who travelled to make their name in the Great Game. Praise for ” Shooting Leave”: ” Extremely entertaining.. .deserves to be a surprise Christmas bestseller”. (Robert Harris). ” Gripping stuff”. (Peter Hopkirk). ” Anyone with red blood in his or her veins will be stirred by these stories.. . The perfect read”. (” Country Life”).
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` The best book
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- I have read about our current moment.. . A MASTERPIECE` Zadie Smith`A masterpiece for our

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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m 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 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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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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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One of the titles in a series of large, indexed regional maps with fine, clear cartography. General relief is portrayed by hill-shading with selected spot heights without distracting from the other detail. The motorway network & recommended scenic routes stand out well from the background, but some may find minor local roads a little too faint. In some places exits from motorways are also rather lightly coloured. Intermediate driving distances are indicated throughout & special tourist routes are marked. The maps highlight picturesque towns & national parks, with a range of symbols marking campsites, youth hostels, museums, spas, various landmarks & places of interest, etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. A separate index attached to the cover gives the postcode for each locality, including those beyond the German territory on sheets covering border regions.

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Sacramento in California on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States, with an enlargement showing in greater detail downtown Sacramento plus a road map of the surrounding region showing the road links with San Francisco, Napa & Sonoma Valleys, etc. Communities covered by this map include Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, , Rancho Cordova & West Sacramento.NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked. ...