The Owl Foldable Shopping Bag, comes as a compact & colourful pouch in the shape of an owl & unfolds into a tote bag featuring a delicate decorative print. Very lightweight, the little owl can fit any handbag & be ready to use as an alternative to a plastic bag. The Owl Foldable Shopping Bag is ideal for when you pop out to get your lunch or a few items from the shops. ...

Tropoja
- B. Curri
- Valbona area of northern Albania at 1:50, 000 in a series of GPS compatible contoured maps from Huber

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Tropoja Prefecture at 1:120, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:100, 000, the Vägkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 79 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:100, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 75 x 80km. The maps have contours at 10 metre intervals, plus relief shading & colouring for different types of landscape: open l&, forests, alvar, marshes, etc. Boundaries of national parks & nature reserves, areas prohibited to cross-country vehicles, & restricted entry military zones are marked. The maps indicate privately maintained local roads, cycle paths with wind shelters, footpaths, etc, & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 10’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Trostberg in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Altenmarkt a.d. Alz, Obing, Garching a.d. Alz, Schnaitsee, Tacherting, Traunreut. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting novellas from Raymond Chandler. In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who`s `got her hooks into a rich man`s pup`. Before too long Marlowe`s up to his neck in corpses & cops & he`s taken pity on the girl. There`s nothing like making trouble of your business... The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick, crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat & won`t let go until the last page is turned. Praise for Raymond Chandler:` Chandler`s prose flies off the pages like a burst from a Tommy gun. Chandler was perhaps the finest exponent of the fledgling genre now known as pulp fiction` Scottish Field` One of the greatest crime writers, who set the standards others still try to attain` Sunday Times ` Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner... An original... A great artist` Boston Review` Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, & America has never looked the same to us since` Paul Auster Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & moved to England with his family when he was twelve. He attended Dulwich College, Alma Mater to some of the twentieth century`s most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, & later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing & his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled private investigator. It is in Marlowe`s long shadow that every fictional detective must stand
- & under the influence of Raymond Chandler`s addictive prose that every crime author must write.
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Inspired by the Indian Mutiny of 1857, ” The Siege of Krishnapur” is set in the fictional town of that name where a British garrison withstands a four-month siege by mutineers. Eventually rescued after undergoing terrible privations, the leading characters all find their ideals tested & their smug assumptions of military & moral superiority severely shaken. In ” Troubles”, Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland in the aftermath of World War I in order to meet his fiancee Angela in a remote seaside hotel owned by her father. Angela dies unexpectedly, but Archer remains in Kilnalough, captivated by the Majestic & its inhabitants, & seemingly unaware of the approaching political storm as Ireland dissolves into revolt & civil war. Both novels combine high comedy with vivid realism & reveal Farrell as ”one of the finest post-colonial novelists”. (John Sutherland). ...

This publication provides in-depth practical knowledge of electrical appliances associated with modern marine starter safety & control circuits. It explains & illustrates the elements of marine switchgear starters, how to take electrical measurements, & the principles of direct on line (DOL) & Star-Delta (Wye-Delta) motor starters. As ships become increasingly automated, problems encountered with the application of automated systems, & the failures of automation & associated processor-based motor starters, may contribute to marine accidents. Marine engineers & ETOs must have a good understanding of automated systems in order to maintain them in an efficient & safe operational condition. This training package should be used to enhance & supplement your knowledge & skills. It will provide familiarisation with a variety of electrical appliances that are part of, or associated with, modern marine starter safety & control circuits. ...

What is the difference between mean & median, blatant & flagrant, flout & flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With ” Troublesome Words”, journalist & bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise & entertaining guide to the problems of English usage & spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say `an historic day`, this superb book is the place to find out. ...

The pseudonymous Italian author of Days of Abandonment returns with a daughter`s attempt to unlock the mystery of her mother`s death by drowning following years of domestic abuse. Days before her body washed ashore near her hometown of Naples, Amalia called her oldest daughter, Delia, now 45, with shocking news that she was with a man—not her estranged husb&, a two-bit painter—then hung up, laughing. After the funeral (Amalia`s husband doesn`t show), Delia goes in search of the story behind the expensive new brassiere Amalia was found wearing at her death, incongruous for a poor seamstress who deliberately downplayed her good looks to avoid arousing her husband`s savage jealousy. Caserta, a man who acted as Delia`s father`s agent as well as rival for Amalia`s attention, plays a role here—and in Delia`s past. In tactile, beautifully restrained prose, Ferrante makes the domestic violence that tore the household apart evident, including the child Delia`s attempts to guard her mother from the beatings of her father. By the time of the denouement, Ferrante has forcefully delineated how the complicity in violence against women perpetuates a brutal cycle of repetition & silence. ...