` You can`t get around Kate Battista as easily as all that`. Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house & home for her eccentric scientist father & uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she`s always in trouble at work
- her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don`t always appreciate her unusual opinions & forthright manner. Dr Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There`s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. & without Pyotr... When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he`s relying
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- on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he`s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men`s touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? Anne Tyler`s retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. The answer is as individual, off-beat & funny as Kate herself.”I loved Kate & Pyotr & the way they discover the oversized, tender, irreverent relationship that fits them... It is joyful”. (Rachel Joyce). ” Read her books & she can actually change your view, change how you see the world”. (Judy Finigan, Mail on Sunday). ” Tyler writes with an apparent effortlessness which conceals great art”. (Helen Dunmore, Stylist). ” Tyler`s sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable & impossible to duplicate”. (Hanya Yanigihara, Observer). ”A new novel from Tyler is always a treat”. (Daily Mail).


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Vinel&, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, & the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler & his daughter Prairie search for Prairie`s long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs (” Floozy with an Uzi”), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), & illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.). ...

For generations, Argentine wine was famously bad
- oxidised, unpalatable & often mixed with a low-class French grape called Malbec.
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This lovely reusable gift wrapping cloth by Ever Green Wraps is a new & fun idea to wrap presents. This is a unique wrapping featuring a big orange sun with the names of wine varieties & indigo striped rolling hills. No need for sticky tape or scissors, all you have to do is make a bow to fit the present & it will not end in the bin. It can be reused, transformed into a bag, a scarf or anything the imagination suggests! made from 100% cotton & machine washable, it comes in one size measuring Approx. 71x 72cm. This wrap is practical & a present on its own! ...

A detailed, colour survey map from the Portuguese Military Survey's M782 series. Each map in this series has contours at 20m intervals with supplementary contours at 10m intervals. One major advantage the military mapping has over the civilian equivalent is that the legend is in English as well as Portuguese. This legend

Includes:: roads, railways, buildings, spot heights, vegetation type, fluvial information, scree, dunes, churches, ruins, etc. Latitude & longitude ticks are show at 10' intervals. Recently revised sheets also have a UTM grid at 100m intervals. Vertical Datum: Mean Sea Level at Cascais Harbour Projection: Transverse Mercator

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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:100, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 50m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 64 x 40km (40 x 25 miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals, plus show UTM coordinates for the map corners. Map legend is in Portuguese only.PLEASE NOTE
- EDITION DATES: some sheets at this scale date back to the 1950s or 1960s. For more recent editions please see IGP’s 1:25, 000 series where each 50K map is divided into four quarters. To see all the titles in the 1:100, 000 series please click on the series link.
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This book takes the reader on a journey from Orkney, over to Norway, into Iceland & Irel&, recreating with historical accuracy the customs & landscapes of the time while bringing the age to life through a large cast of engaging characters. Through the telling of Ranald`s story, Mackay Brown displays abundant knowledge about many facets of early Orkney life, of seamanship, marriage customs, beliefs & traditions & his portrayal of this age extends to the routine of the Norwegian Royal court. Traditional poetry is scattered throughout Mackay Brown`s prose adding a richness & depth to the tale he tells. Lore & legend, the elemental pull of the sea & the l&, the sweetness of the early religion & the darker, more ancient rites, weave through this exquisite celebration of Orcadian history & the inexorable seasons of life. ...

Administrative provinces of the Ukraine on indexed road maps at 1:250, 000, each with a town centre street plan of its capital city. All place names are in Cyrillic only, but the map legend

Includes:: English. Coverage of the larger provinces is divided between the two sides of the map. Road network is presented in great detail, from international roads, shown with their E numbers, to dirt roads & country paths. Driving distances are marked on main, secondary & selected local roads; the maps also show border crossings, fuel stations, car service stations, & traffic patrol service points. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. The maps also show boundaries of districts into which each region (oblast) is subdivided, & indicate their administrative headquarters. Topography is indicated by spot height, plus boundaries of national parks & other protected areas, & colouring and/or graphics for forests, orchards, vineyards, swamps & salt marshes. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ & 15’ respectively, & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a local table of driving distances & a street plan of the region’s administrative capital annotated with locations of selected hotels, car parks & petrol stations, museums & monuments, etc. In some titles more street plans are included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: supplies of all maps published by the Kartografija in Kiev are irregular & we cannot guarantee a definite delivery time for titles currently not in stock. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link.






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” For centuries a bastion of tradition & the jewel in the crown of French viticulture, Bordeaux has in recent years become dogged by controversy, particularly regarding the 2012 classification of the wines of St.-Emilion, the most prestigious appellation of Bordeaux`s right bank. St.-Emilion is an area increasingly dominated by big international investors, especially from China, who are keen to speculate on the area`s wines & l&, some of whose value has increased tenfold in the last decade alone. In the controversial 2012 classification, certain chateaux were promoted to a more prestigious class because of insider deals that altered the scoring system for the classification of wines into premier crus & grand crus. This system now takes into account the facilities of each chateau`s tasting room, the size of its warehouse, & even the extent of its parking lot. The quality of the wine counts for just 30% of the total score for the wines of the top ranking, those deemed premier grand cru classe A. In Vino Business, Saporta shows how back-room deals with wine distributors, multinational investors like the luxury company LVMH, & even wine critics, have fundamentally changed this ancient business. Saporta also investigates issues of wine labelling & the use of pesticides, & draws comparisons to Champagne, Burgundy & the rest of the wine world. Based on two years of research & reporting, Vino Business draws back the curtain on the secret world of Bordeaux, a land ever more in thrall to the grapes of wealth.” ...