Sassari Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is still produced in the traditional cartographic style. ...

Sassnitz on a topographic map at 1:200, 000 from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany’s federal mapping agency. The map covers an area of Approx. 100 x 90km. This map is belongs to a series of 58 topographic maps from Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, the federal cartographic agency of Germany responsible for topographic mapping at 1:200, 000 & maps at smaller scales (the more detailed topographic & leisure maps are prepared & published by the survey organizations of the individual states). Cartography is from the 200K topographic survey & the maps have very elegant, modern look whilst retaining the traditional German presentation of names of smaller towns & villages in italics. Contours are at 12, 5m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, with colouring for woodlands, moors, marches, vineyards & hop plantations. Waterways & rivers are also described in detail, with currents, waterfalls, dams, & jetties clearly marked. Road network, graded into five types, highlights in colour national & regional roads; no driving distances are marked Railway network is also shown in detail, with stations, goods only lines, etc. The maps show administrative boundaries of states & counties, & have a UTM grid plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 2’ intervals. Map legend is in German only.PLEASE NOTE: maps in this series provide an excellent presentation of the areas covered by them, with plenty of place names & detailed representation of the road network, & will appeal to anyone who likes quality cartography, but they are not necessarily the best option for holiday & business travel. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The area around the Sasso San Gottardo fortifications, build to protect access to the Gotthard Pass, presented in the Swisstopo’s “ Once & Today” series on extracts from topographic survey mapping from mid-1800s to the present day & on aerial photos. Map extracts range from the 1851 survey, the oldest topographic mapping of the Gotthard region, to a special 1:10, 000 map declassified only in 2009 & the present day 1:25, 000 topographic survey mapping with the underground fortifications overprinted on it. The title also

Includes:: panels showing coverage of the area by artillery ranges & examples of how stereoscopic photographs helped in surveying the region more accurately. Map legend & the accompanying text include English. For the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Sasso Simone & Simoncello Natural Park on a contoured, GPS compatible map at 1:25, 000 from Selca highlighting local hiking, cycling or horse riding routes, various tourist facilities, etc. Also provided are route profiles for recommended trails. The map has contours at 25m intervals, enhanced by relief shading. An overprint highlights waymarked hiking trails, as well as recommended cycling, mountain biking & horse riding routes. Icons indicate locations of various facilities, including hotels, agriturismo accommodation, campsites, sport & recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. The map has a 1-km UTM grid. On the reverse are route profiles for 19 recommended itineraries, plus extensive notes about the area illustrated with photos & drawing of fauna & flora. Map legend & all the text are in Italian only. ...

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. ...

Salman Rushdie’s “ The Satanic Verses” is one of those works of arts that suffers from the paradox of being as infamous as it is famous. Yet with all it’s supposed notoriety, there is, & always has been, a fantastic novel at the centre at it’s heart. Winner of the Whitbread Prize, & a fatwa for its creator, the book is a marvelously erudite study of good & evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, & a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta (“for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies”) & Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, & proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams & revelations. Rushdie`s powers of invention are astonishing & should not be overcrowded by outside views, opinions, & accusations. Find out for yourself, you won’t regret it. ...

Set against the backdrop of Nigeria`s ongoing terrorism tensions, Satans & Shaitans tells the story of two powerful men, Chief Donald Amechi & world acclaimed televangelist, Chris Chuba, both members of an internationally renowned occult, the Sacred Order of the Universal Forces. Members of the occult from Southern Nigeria, desperate to gain control of their country, deceive an Islamic terrorist organisation into carrying out attacks in order to undermine & overrule the Nigerian President. This powerful story is one of morality, choices & consequence. ...

In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips & animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias
- long-thought dead
- returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst. Irimias will divide & rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence & greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness & futility of their existence. He soon attains a messaianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk & a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited & taken in by Irimias; as they drink & stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake & ultimate demise. In its measured prose & long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death & avarice, human fallibility & faith.

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In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips & animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias
- long-thought dead
- returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst. Irimias will divide & rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence & greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness & futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk & a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited & taken in by Irimias; as they drink & stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake & ultimate demise. In its measured prose & long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death & avarice, human fallibility & faith.

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Oslo, 1969. When a wealthy man collapses & dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a multimillionaire businessman & former resistance fighter, had contacted him only the day before, fearing for his life. It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup`s ten dinner guests is a suspect in the case. The businessman was disliked, even despised, by many of those close to him; & his recently revised Will may have set events in motion. But which of the guests
- from his current & former wives & three children to his attractive secretary & old cohorts in the resistance
- had the greatest motive for murder? With the inestimable help of Patricia
- a brilliant, acerbic young woman who lives an isolated life at home, in her wheelchair
- K2 begins to untangle the lies & deceit within each of the guests` testimonies. But as the investigators receive one mysterious letter after another warning of further deaths, K2 realises he must race to uncover the killer. Before they strike again.. .A gripping, evocative & ingenious mystery which pays homage to Agatha Christie, Satellite People is the second Norwegian mystery in Hans Olav Lahlum`s series. The third, The Catalyst Killing, will follow soon.. .



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