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. ...

LEGO (R) fans, rejoice! This book contains a compendium of unique animal models to make from classic LEGO pieces, ideal for LEGO (R) lovers of all ages. From exotic birds, cute critters, creepy crawlies & much more, there are 40 original projects to build. Featuring striking design & simple visual step-by-step instructions, many projects use fewer than 100 bricks
- making them easy & accessible. For those wishing to get creative with their builds, each design is customisable. This title is 100% unofficial.
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LEGO (R) fans, rejoice! This book contains a compendium of unique transport models to make from classic LEGO pieces, ideal for LEGO (R) lovers of all ages. From sports mobiles, SUVs, monster trucks & much more, there are 40 original projects to build. Many projects use fewer than 100 bricks & each build is accompanied by simple visual step-by-step instructions, making them easy & accessible. Each striking design can be customised for those wishing to get creative with their builds. This title is 100% unofficial. ...

It`s London
- but not as you know it. This unofficial guide helps LEGO (R) fans of all ages discover the Houses of Parliament,
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Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud & heat of her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London`s East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, & is forced to depend on her husb&. But unlike him she is practical & wise, & befriends a fellow Asian girl Razia, who helps her understand the strange ways of her adopted new British home. Nazneen keeps in touch with her sister Hasina back in the village. But the rebellious Hasina has kicked against cultural tradition & run off in a `love marriage` with the man of her dreams. When he suddenly turns violent, she is forced into the degrading job of garment girl in a cloth factory. Confined in her flat by tradition & family duty, Nazneen also sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons & linings
- until the radical Karim steps unexpectedly into her life. On a background of racial conflict & tension, they embark on a love affair that forces Nazneen finally to take control of her fate. Strikingly imagined, gracious & funny, this novel is at once epic & intimate. Exploring the role of Fate in our lives
- those who accept it; those who defy it
- it traces the extraordinary transformation of an Asian girl, from cautious & shy to bold & dignified woman.


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A beautifully-produced hefty paperback of more than two hundred dramatic black & white photographs of Brick Lane in the East End of London in chronological sequence, telling the story of volatile social change on one of Britain`s most celebrated streets from 1982 until the present day. Phil Maxwell is the photographer of Brick Lane. Over the last thirty years, no-one has taken more pictures there than he & his astonishing body of work stands unparalleled in the canon of street photography, both in its range & in the quality of human observation that informs these eloquent images. ...

A young brick goes on a journey to find her place in the world by visiting ten celebrated brick structures around the globe When Brick was just a baby, tall buildings amazed her. Her mother said, ” Great things begin with small bricks. Look around & you`ll see.” Brick`s observations begin at home & then extend globally as she travels to a diverse list of brick structures
- Malbork Castle in Pol&, Mahabodhi Buddhist Temple in India, Grosvenor Estate apartments in Engl&, & more
- all the while pondering where she may end up. With a tender & timeless text by Joshua David Stein & architectural line art by Julia Rothman, this tribute to becoming part of something greater serves children & adults alike.

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BRICKS & MORTAR is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The focus is on the rise & fall of one man from football hooligan to large-scale landlord & service-provider for prostitutes to, ultimately, a man persecuted by those he once trusted. But we also hear other voices: many different women who work in prostitution, their clients, small-time gangsters, an ex-jockey searching for his drug-addict daughter, a businessman from the West, a girl forced into child prostitution, a detective, a pirate radio presenter... In his most ambitious book to date, Clemens Meyer pays homage to modernist, East German & contemporary writers like Alfred Doblin, Wolfgang Hilbig & David Peace but uses his own style & almost hallucinatory techniques. Time shifts & stretches, people die & come to life again, & Meyer takes his characters seriously & challenges his readers in this dizzying eye-opening novel that also finds inspiration in the films of Russ Meyer, Takashi Miike, Gaspar Noe & David Lynch. ...

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's classic tale of love & the loss of innocence. Charles Ryder's friendship with the charming, irrepressible Sebastian Flyte & his equally charming, eccentric family begins when they are both Oxford undergraduates in 1923. Carefree days of drinking champagne & driving in the country soon end, however, as Sebastian's health deteriorates. Questions about mortality & religion are raised, & the radiant tone gives way to a bleak atmosphere of shattered illusion... Moving from the decadence of the Roaring Twenties to the austerity of the Second World War, the novel conjures up a lost age, & is Waugh's most moving, romantic & controversial work. Jeremy Irons starred as Charles Ryder in the acclaimed television production of Brideshead Revisited, which is now a major motion picture starring Emma Thompson & Michael Gambon. Bill Amberg & Penguin Books have collaborated to produce this series of luxury leather Penguin Classics. Bill Amberg has chosen six of his favourite modern novels for their enduring & cosmopolitan style, & bound them in the softest, rich brown calves leather. It is a fresh & innovative use of leather, a traditional material associated particularly with hardback volumes, but here used as a pliable binding for paperbacks. The leather has been specially worked so that the more each book is handled the better protected & more beautiful it becomes. Having spent my teenage years with a paperback in my jacket pocket, to be asked by Penguin to work on a new leather binding is a real privilege & an exciting challenge. Reading still provides a constant fascination & source of inspiration for me. I have chosen to use vegetable tanned, buffalo calf from fallen animals, creating a leather that improves with every use, the grain & sheen brightening continually over time.
- Bill Amberg
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” Brideshead Revisited” is Evelyn Waugh`s stunning novel of duty & desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English ...