Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan is a novel about the seductions of Shangri-La, about being lost & being found, about losing your guide & carrying on regardless, & awaiting a saviour. All of this is woven into a backdrop of vibrant colours, smells, tastes & landscapes. Businesswoman, patron of the arts & socialite Bibi Chen has been killed in mysterious circumstances. Her death may or may not be linked to the disappearance of eleven American tourists in southern Burma who are ‘following Buddha’s footprints’ on a trip dreamt up by Bibi. The group decide that the death of their guide should not stop them setting forth…but it isn’t long before they stumble into difficulty with wary tribes & the military junta, all with Bibi watching. ...

On the eve of the 1943 invasion of Italy, just weeks before Allied bombs nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci`s Last Supper in Milan, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect mankind`s greatest cultural treasures. In May 1944, two unlikely American heroes
- an artist & a scholar
- embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of stolen art, including works by Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio & Botticelli. As the Germans blew up the historic bridges of Florence & Allied air raids threatened Michelangelo`s David, a heretofore-unknown SS general held the art hostage while negotiating a secret Nazi surrender with American spies. A gripping narrative that will appeal to fans of history, art, travel & adventure, Saving Italy takes us from the battlefields of Monte Cassino to the Vatican & behind closed doors with the great Allied & Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower & Churchill; Hitler, Goring & Himmler.

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Frost can be fatal to a fledgling wine business.. .gorgeous glitter with a high price tag. On a winter`s day it is beautiful, but on a spring day after bud burst it spells devastation. For Sean & Caro Feely, a couple whose love affair with wine & France has taken them through financial & physical struggle to create their organic vineyard, it could spell the end. Until they receive an unexpected call that could save their skins... This book is about life, love & taking risks, while transforming a piece of land into a flourishing vineyard & making a new life in France. ...

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson & Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it. Every spring, the clocks go forward, & every autumn they go back. ” Saving the Daylight” explores for the first time the contentious, & often entertaining, story of this deceptively simple attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. Throughout its surprisingly controversial history, DST has been claimed to impact a wide variety of diverse & often unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, the reporting of sports scores, street crime, voter turnout & many other, sometime unexpected aspects of daily life. The book brings together the historical, political, & technical aspects of the fascinating story behind the movement for DST, with many lighter & offbeat anecdotes. ...

The WWF was established in 1961 spurred by the efforts of Max Nicholson, head of Britain's Nature Conservancy Council, naturalist Peter Scott, & a series of articles written in the Observer by Julian Huxley, former head of UNESCO. This book tells the story of the WWF's battle to save the world's wildlife, the work it has done to protect everything from tigers to marine life &, of course, pandas, as well as its campaigns to promote sustainable development & combat climate change. The author has access to the private papers of Prince Philip & Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, each of whom served as WWF president for 15 years & the book is lavishly illustrated throughout with exceptional photographs by world-famous wildlife & nature photographers. Also included are the earliest photographs taken of pandas in the wild & works produced for the WWF by such artists as Peter Blake & Tracy Emin. This richly illustrated book encapsulates all the magnificence of the world's wildlife
- & why it must be treasured & preserved.
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Map No. 1236, Savognin, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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Add hundreds of foreign phrases to your daily lexicon & learn about their quirky, fascinating origins! Some foreign phrases are so good they become a sort of lingua franca. They capture the true zeitgeist, where the English translation is just comme ci, comme ca. If you`re a linguistics geek or language lover with a curiosity about the origins of the foreign phrases, you need this book on your shelf. Savoir Faire is a beautifully designed reference book that

Includes:: Approx. 1, 000 foreign phrases in languages that run the gamut from French to German to Japanese & more. Entries for each phrase offer precise translations, the surprising origins of expressions, & commonly used terms you didn`t even know were foreign. It`s possible you`ll find a phrase or two that you`ve been using incorrectly! Savoir Faire will save you from the embarrassment of misusing a foreign phrase & promises to up the ante on your everyday lexicon with hundreds of new phrases. This book also

Includes:: phonetic pronunciations for each phrase (you`ll be surprised what you`ve been mispronouncing!) & sidebars that explore the quirks of some favorite expressions. Don`t suffer one more trip to the museum asking yourself, ” What the heck is trompe l`oeil?” Don`t put down yet another Umberto Eco novel out of sheer confusion. & avoid tumbling into the camp of declasse--instead become one of the intelligentsia! This handy pocket guide will make you a true cognoscente of culture.



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Savona Province at 1:125, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is published with the traditional style LAC cartography.LAC’s provincial 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. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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. ...

Karttakeskus’ Water touring maps are a completely new type of map series. The pre-folded maps made from waterproof & rip-proof material can fit into a small space on the boat, but when opened, they cover a wide area. In this way, the water touring map is e.g. an excellent planning tool alongside electronic navigation solutions, offering a wide overview for e.g. route planning. On the other h&, the waterproof material makes the map easy to handle in e.g. an open boat or sailing boat. Water touring maps: In land areas, the maps have been supplemented with the National Land Survey of Finland’s Topographic Database material. New map sheet division. Size 70 × 100 cm, folded 23.3 × 11.3 cm. Additional themes incl. slipways & camp fire sites & landfalls. Scale in maritime areas 1:60 000, inland waterways 1:50 000 Base map source: Finnish Transport Agency. Not for navigation use. Does not meet the requirements of an official nautical chart. ...