Only the toughest creatures can survive in these most arid, inhospitable areas of the world & the people in this collection of amazing stories are no exception. Contains the true-life stories of danger, survival & cunning including explorers in the Gobi Desert & the exciting story of Lawrence of Arabia. ...

As the world`s tallest mountain, Everest has held a special fascination for climbers. This collection of real life stories tells of the lengths to which people have gone to get to its summit, & the dangers they`ve experienced, in some cases ending in tragedy. ...

A collection of true stories of piracy, from the first pirates of the Ancient World to the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries. Contains true life stories of hardship & brutality, bringing to life the flamboyant characters of the most famous captains & the men who set out to capture them. ...

A collection of true stories of exploration over the icy wastelands of the North & South Poles, including the fated expedition of Captain Scott of the Antartic & Ernest Shackleton`s epic trek across the snow to save his crew. Stories are illustrated with maps & drawings, & readers can find out more online via Usborne Quicklinks. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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** From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now a gripping HBO series, comes Liane Moriarty`s new novel Truly Madly Guilty. Voted by Amazon reviewers as a 4 STAR read ** Six responsible adults, two best friends & one day that changes everything. Truly, Madly, Guilty is a cocktail of friendship & modern love spiked with a little deception.` This is a story which begins with a barbecue in the suburbs... ` By the end of it a lifelong friendship will be in tatters, a marriage on the rocks & an innocent bystander dead. In just one evening six lives will change for ever... If you aren`t already a Moriarty addict, you will be after this utterly obsessive read.` If you liked The Husband`s Secret, or Big Little Lies, you will love Truly Madly Guilty. Filled with so many twists & turns. Keeps you guessing until the very end. Perfect summer read` Reese Witherspoon` If, like us, you`ve been obsessively enjoying Big Little Lies, then you must clear a reading slot for this novel by the same author... Truly Madly Guilty is as brilliantly accomplished as it is dark, twisty & compulsive. No wonder Reese Witherspoon is such a huge Moriarty fan` Heat` Straight-from-life characters, knife-sharp insight & almost unbearable suspense will have you racing through it` Good Housekeeping`A riveting drama packed with suspense & secrets` Woman & Home ...

In 1996, New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump, at a time when the Republican frontrunner was just a Manhattan-centric megalomaniac & failing casino operator mired in his second divorce. After spending months with Trump in his office towers, penthouse apartment, & private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man ”who had aspired to & achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.” Since then, Trump has become a serious candidate in the US presidential race, an unlikely tribune of populist rage that has resulted in a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality. Yet Singer`s droll & precise profile has lodged inside Trump`s head as a continuing irritant
- & it`s not hard to see why. In TRUMP & ME, Singer revisits his former subject & outlines his evolution from swaggering buffoon to Republican nominee in one of the most bizarre & alarming elections in American history.
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With celebrity feuds, odes to the haters & losers, & crisis-provoking tweets on every page, the TRUMPisms 2019 Day-to-Day Calendar puts Donald Trump`s ”very stable genius” on full display. It leaves no doubt that the man now in charge of the world`s mightiest nuclear arsenal is ”like, a really smart person.” Prescient observations such as, ” Some of our presidents have been incredible jerk-offs” & thoughtful queries like, ” Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?” will further assure readers of his brilliance. ...

A New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, & Atlantic columnist & media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful & hard-hitting book that is a warning for democracy & America`s future.” From Russia to South Africa, from Turkey to the Philippines, from Venezuela to Hungary, authoritarian leaders have smashed restraints on their power. Media freedom & judicial independence have eroded. The right to vote remains, but the right to have one`s vote counted fairly may not. Until the US presidential election of 2016, the global decline of democracy seemed a concern for other peoples in other lands.... That complacent optimism has been upended by the political rise of Donald Trump. The crisis is upon Americans, here & now.” Quietly, steadily, Trump & his administration are damaging the tenets & accepted practices of American democracy, perhaps irrevocably. As he & his family enrich themselves, the presidency itself falls into the hands of the generals & financiers who surround him. While much of the country has been focused on Russia, David Frum has been collecting the lies, obfuscations, & flagrant disregard for the traditional limits placed on the office of the presidency. In Trumpocracy, he documents how Trump & his administration are steadily damaging the tenets & accepted practices of American democracy. During his own White House tenure as George W. Bush`s speechwriter, Frum witnessed the ways the presidency is limited not by law but by tradition, propriety, & public outcry, all now weakened. Whether the Trump presidency lasts two, four, or eight more years, he has changed the nature of the office for the worse, & likely for decades. In this powerful & eye-opening book, Frum makes clear that the hard work of recovery starts at home. Trumpocracy outlines how Trump could push America toward illiberalism, what the consequences could be for our nation & our everyday lives, & what we can do to prevent it. ...

`I have the best ghosts, everyone says so` President Ebenezer Trump is a rich old fool, whose heart is as small as his hands & whose words are as false as his hair. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by three spirits, all intent on changing his evil ways: Bill Clinton, the jovial Ghost of Christmas Past; Barack Obama, the big-eared Ghost of Christmas Present; & the terrifying Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who shows him how abolishing Obamacare will finish off Tiny Tim...` This Scrooge is gonna be yooooge...` ...