Thelwall in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Thelwall on the south side of the Mersey, just east of Warrington. Coverage stretches from Morrisbrook Farm eastward to Thelwall Bridge, & from the Mersey southward to Massey Hall. Features include Thelwall station on the LNWR, Thelwall Hall, a stretch of the Manchester Ship Canal, Mostyn Tube Works, All Saints church, Greenfield House, Old Hall Farm, Massey Hall, Dog & Dart Inn, Thelwall Ferry, etc. On the reverse is a directory of Thelwall plus a railway timetable for the Manchester-Arpley-Liverpool line in 1929. Please note that due to an error this map bears the sheet number 27.05.* About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Theme parks are a uniquely interactive & enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology & culture in surprising ways for more than a century, as Scott Lukas now reveals in his compelling book. ” Theme Park” takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point & launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa & Australia & how themed fairs & parks developed through diverse means & in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous & lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Isl&, a series of World Fairs & their luxurious exhibition halls, Six Flags parks & virtual theme parks today, &, of course, Disneyland & Walt Disney World. Lukas analyses the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships & the world around them. Ultimately, ” Theme Park” reveals, the wider influence of theme parks can be found in the shopping malls, branded stores & casinos that employ the techniques of amusement parks to dominate our current entertainment world. Packed with captivating illustrations, ” Theme Park” takes us on a historical roller-coaster ride that both reanimates the places that shaped our childhoods & anticipates the future of escapism & fantasy fun. ...

It was 9.22, the moment when everything stopped. First there was the burning air, then came the darkness, the fire, & finally the frost. Now, in a frozen, wasted London, a woman
- uncertain even of her own name
- is fighting to stay alive. Along with a small group of fellow survivors, she takes refuge in an abandoned skyscraper in what was once the financial centre. But spectres stalk the empty offices & endless corridors, & soon visions of a forgotten world emerge, a world of broken love & betrayal, & horrific, shocking mercies
- a world more traumatic even than the desolate present. Then is a novel of singular invention & bravery. With it, Julie Myerson has created an echo chamber of the heartbreaking & the terrifying, & an enduring apocalyptic vision.


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For fans of Lorna Sage & Paula Fox, a unique memoir from Irma Kurtz, the acclaimed author of ` The Great American Bus Ride` & internationally renowned agony aunt. ”A girl of indisputable gifts, she should of course use them someday to make a beautiful home & raise a family in elegant surroundings...” School psychologist`s report on Irma Kurtz, 1950. In 1954 eighteen-year-old Irma Kurtz left New Jersey to travel across Europe, intent on transforming herself & changing the world. She looked to the Old World for an alternative destiny to that mapped out by the traditional expectations at home. On her post-war Grand Tour she found what she believed in: Art & Culture & Beauty & Love, & some horror as a Jewish girl encountering the seat of much of her family`s destruction. Years later, sifting through a cardboard box filled with memories at her mother`s house, she rediscovered the journal of her first journey, the one that marked the beginning of a life of writing & living abroad. Gripped by intense recollections of sailing across the Atlantic, & intrigued by the exuberant remarks of her adventurous younger self, she decided to leave her London home & retrace her footsteps, this time with herself as a guide. Testing her theory that older women are invisible, Kurtz`s journey is peppered with acute observations of human behaviour, not to mention some sharp advice for her ghostly travel companion, a teenager who thinks she knows it all, yet is blind to what lies ahead of her. Part-memoir, part-travelogue, this unique book contrasts the experience of two very different travellers, offering an insight into what has endured, & what has been lost, in the life of one woman & the altered environment of Europe at the dawn of a new millennium. Beautifully written, moving & funny, Then Again is time-travel at its best, revealing the pains & pleasures of growing older & wiser. ...

This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation ...

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. ...

Justinian took a wife: & the manner she was born & bred, & wedded to this man, tore up the Roman Empire by the very roots` Procopius Charming, charismatic, heroic
- Theodora of Constantinople rose from nothing to become the most powerful woman in the history of Byzantine Rome. In Stella Duffy`s breathtaking new novel, she comes to life again
- a fascinating, controversial & seductive woman. Some called her a saint. Others were not so kind... When her father is killed, the young Theodora is forced into near slavery to survive. But just as she learns to control her body as a dancer, & for the men who can afford her, so she is determined to shape a very different fate for herself. From the vibrant streets & erotic stage shows of sixth century Constantinople to the holy desert retreats of Alexandria, Theodora is an extraordinary imaginative achievement from one of our finest writers.

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Map No. 259, Theodore Roosevelt National Park/ Maah Daah Hey Trail in North Dakota, at 1:40, 000 in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national & state parks or forests & other popular recreational areas. Cartography based on the national topographic survey, with additional tourist information. The maps, with most titles now printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, highlight walking trails along with campsites & other accommodation, picnic sites, areas for various recreational pursuits such as horse riding or skiing, drinking water sources, & many other facilities of interest to the outdoor enthusiast. Cartography is based on information from the USGS (United States Geological Survey
- the country’s national survey organization), revised by the National Geographic Maps in cooperation with the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, etc. Topography is excellently presented by contours (interval varies according to scale), enhanced by relief shading & colouring/graphics for wood cover, glaciers, etc. All heights are given in feet. The maps have a UTM grid plus latitude & longitude margin ticks & GPS waypoints for selected important locations. Each map is double-sided to give either maximum coverage of the chosen area or additional enlargements of its important sections. Accompanying notes provide useful information on relevant regulations, safety precautions, contact addresses, etc.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: the series is very extensive, ranging in scale from 1:400, 000 for the vast national parks of Alaska to 1:25, 000 for local map in several states. We recommend, therefore, viewing the series by state rather than the whole list.

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Physicist Frank Close takes the reader to the frontiers of science in a vividly told investigation of revolutionary science & enterprise from the seventeenth century to the present. He looks at what has been meant by theories of everything, explores the scientific breakthroughs they have allowed, & shows the far-reaching effects they have had on crucial aspects of life & belief. Theories of everything, he argues, can be described as those which draw on all relevant branches of knowledge to explain everything known about the universe. Such accounts may reign supreme for centuries. Then, often as a result of the advances they themselves have enabled, a new discovery is made which the current theory cannot explain. A new theory is needed which inspiration, sometimes, supplies. Moving from Isaac Newton`s work on gravity & motion in the seventeenth century to thermodynamics & James Clerk Maxwell`s laws of electromagnetism in the nineteenth to Max Planck`s & Paul Dirac`s quantum physics in the twentieth, Professor Close turns finally to contemporary physics & the power & limitations of the current theory of everything. The cycle in which one theory of everything is first challenged & then replaced by another is continuing right now. ...

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