Wroclaw & its immediate environs at 1:20, 000 from Michal Kasprowski providing an excellent illustration how to present history & development of a city by overprinting an old (here a per-1945) map with current information. The base is a pre-1945 German map at 1:20, 000 of Breslau, as the city was then called, with showing the street network, railways, parks & woodlands, etc, & even the flight paths from the city’s airport, with street, district & other place names as they were at the time of publication. Added to it is finely presented overprint showing streets built in the suburbs in the post-war years with their current names. All suburb names are given in the pre-1945 & current versions plus, where appropriate, their old pre-1900 names. The map retains its old, simple & self-explanatory German legend. On the reverse are three index lists: German pre-1945 names with their current Polish equivalents, current Polish names with their old German versions, plus names of streets added since 1945. ...

Wroclaw (Wroclaw) is a slim guidebook to the Polish city, generously illustrated with over 900 pictures. The aim when compiling the guide was for it to be an interesting & practical aid in moving about Wroclaw both in space & time. The guide contains many descriptions of sites accompanied by both contemporary & historic images in a generous attempt to present the city ...

Wroclaw on an indexed, double-sided street plan at 1:22, 500 from Express Map with enlargement showing the town centre in greater detail, a diagram of the city’s night bus lines, plus a road map of Wroclaw’s environs. Express Map street plans provide coverage of cities within their administrative boundary, spread across the two sides of the map. Bus & tram routes are shown with stops & line numbers. For drivers, main traffic arteries are highlighted, one way streets are marked & the plans also show traffic lights, petrol stations, car parks & restricted entry streets or zones. Streets are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Names of suburbs & of larger housing estates are clearly marked. Symbols highlight various facilities & places of interest, including museums & other cultural institutions & historical sites, 24-hrs pharmacies, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Where more than one town is covered, each has a separate index. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Wroclaw Top 20 Map from Daunpol, laminated & waterproof, & presenting an indexed street plan of the city with an enlargement of its historic centre, both annotated with 20 top sights, plus lists of 20 best hotels, clubs, restaurants & shops. The plan shows Wroclaw including its more interesting outer districts of Sepolno & Krzyki, at 1:18, 000, with a detailed enlargement covering the city ...

Wroclaw on a street plan showing both current & old, pre-WWII German street & district names & no longer existing streets, with an enlargement for the town centre. Coverage extends from Muchobór & Krzyki to Sepolno & Psie Pole. Tram routes are shown with stops & line numbers. Main public buildings are identified & symbols mark locations of post offices, police stations, campsites, etc. An enlargement shows the town centre in greater detail. Both plans show current & old pre-WWII German names of streets, districts, etc., & indicate no longer existing streets. Map legend

Includes:: English. On the reverse the index has two lists: current & old names, cross-referenced. Also included are extensive notes on the city’s main sites, in German only.

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In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey & his own re-evaluation of Japan through his attempt to ...

In 2002, twice Booker-winning author Peter Carey travelled to Japan, accompanied by his twelve-year old son Charley, on a special kind of pilgrimage. In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley`s passion for Japanese Manga & anime, & explores his own resulting re-evaluation of Japan. Although graphically violent & disturbing, the two mediums are both inherently concerned with Japan`s rich history & heritage, & hold a huge popular appeal that crosses the generations. Led by their adolescent guide Takashi, an uncanny mix of generosity & derision, father & son look for the hidden puzzles & meanings, searching, often with comic results, for a greater understanding of these art forms, & for what they come to refer to as their own `real Japan`. From Manhattan to Tokyo, Commodore Perry to Godzilla, kabuki theatre to the post-war robot craze, Wrong about Japan is a fascinatingly personal, witty & moving exploration of two very different cultures. ...

Imagine you`ve just managed to catch your train & you realise its the wrong one, you`d be annoyed of course, but not scared... yet. Imagine you get off the wrong train at the next station hoping to catch a train going back the way you came, but the station is empty. Again youd be annoyed, but not scared... yet. Imagine someone comes to the station, someone who starts to tell you stories to help you pass the time, but these arent any old stories... Scared yet? You will be. ...

There has been a people`s revolt against the way the West has been run. Brexit, Trump, the recent British & French elections saw millions of people shouting that they were sick to death of things never getting better. In WTF Robert Peston gives us his highly personal account of what those who have ruled us for years got so badly wrong, & what we need to do to mend the terrible fractures in our society. Peston wrote WTF because the elections of Trump, the Corbyn surge, the vote for Brexit all challenged how he thought the world could & should be run. With characteristic passion & clarity he looks at how & whether it is possible to make a success of leaving the EU, what the lessons should be of the appalling Grenfell Tower tragedy, whether robots can be stopped from taking our work, what can be done to staunch the widening gap between rich & poor, how to raise living standards for all, & what must happen to prevent democracy being subverted by technocratic geniuses with the ability to manipulate social media. These are the challenges of our age, because the combination of economic stagnation & a technological revolution is killing jobs, enriching the few & undermining the institutions we used to trust as the foundations of the state. What & who can we believe when it is almost impossible to know whether posts on Facebook & Twitter are hard news or the fabrication of a Russian agent? As in his bestsellers, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? & HOW DO WE FIX THIS MESS?, Robert Peston draws on his years of experience as a political, economics & business journalist, to show us what has gone bad, & gives us a manifesto to put at least some of it right. WTF is a trenchant, often entertaining account of the recent past. It is also a call to action, giving hope to all of us who believe that taking back control is not only vital, but possible. ...

Morrigan Crow`s adventures in the magical world of Nevermoor continue... The most anticipated sequel of the year
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