Architectural Guide Yangon presents around one hundred memorable buildings from Myanmar`s historical capital. Following decades of international isolation, the city`s vast heritage remains largely, surprisingly & spectacularly intact. Rangoon_- as it was known under the British
- was a melting pot of British India. Vivid traces of this legacy are everywhere, especially in the city`s Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish & Muslim houses of worship that often stand side by side, down town, in Yangon`s tightly-gridded streets. Since the country`s independence from the British in 1948, successive authoritarian regimes have also stamped the cityscape with their legacies. Today Yangon is a bustling & busy city in flux, at the frontier of Myanmar`s rapid opening to the wider world. Yangon`s urban fabric deserves a systematic guide that nourishes every visitor & resident`s shared fascination for the city & its history, offering countless anecdotes & notes on architectural detail.
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Historical Walks in Yangon (Rangoon), a waterproof & tear-resistant folded map from the Myanmar Heritage Trust published by Silkworm Books, with street plans & detailed descriptions of three walks around the city’s best preserved districts. On one side is a generalized street plan of Yangon naming main streets & districts. Three areas of particular historical & architectural interest are highlighted on the plan & shown in greater detail on separate insets, each with a route for a recommended walk & important buildings cross-referenced to the accompanying list. On the reverse each walk is given a very detailed description illustrated by old photos from late 19th & early 20th century. Further notes provide more information about the city in its colonial days. Also provided is a Heritage Building List of the city’s 187 buildings identified by the Yangon City Development Committee as the first step towards promoting heritage awareness. ...

Flowing over 6275 km (3900 miles) from one end of China to the other, the Yangtze is vast, varied, & mysterious, like China itself. It rises in the highlands of Tibet, where glaciers drip & ooze to create a network of icy channels that join to form what the Chinese call simply Chang Jiang, the Long River. From here it snakes & cascades its way through some of the worlds most spectacular scenery precipitous mountains, narrow gorges, & lush lowlands of eastern China, made fertile by the mud spread by the rivers frequent flooding. Yangtze follows the river on this fascinating & varied course. As it does so it explores many aspects of the river that have intrigued Chinese & westerners alike. It looks at the rivers unique wildlife, from the dazzling colours of rhododendrons & camellias on its banks to the endangered creatures, such as the baiji river dolphin, that dwell in or on the banks of its waters. It describes the teeming human activity along the river the fishing, farming, & trade that make it a lifeline & a livelihood for millions. And it looks at the rivers role in some of the turning points in Chinese history, such as the wars of the Three Kingdoms Period, the culture of the Tang dynasty, the Taiping Rebellion, & the Long March of Mao & his communist allies. Finally, Yangtze looks at the changes & challenges affecting the river today. For the Yangtze stands at a turning point. The worlds biggest civil engineering project, the construction of the Three Gorges dam across the river, is nearing completion. Chinas government hopes that the enormous dam will control the rivers floods, open up further reaches to big ships, & generate hydro-electricity. Opponents of the scheme point to the damage to the environment, the human costs, & the enormous risks involved. Beautifully illustrated with outstanding photographs & specially created maps, Yangtze pictures the river at a crucial time in its long & absorbing history. ...

The Yangzi River, including its Three Gorges region, on a new updated 2014 map from Odyssey Books, presenting the river & the surrounding area in a series of panels with maps at various scales, street plans & satellite images annotated with notes for visitors & spread across both sides of this title. An overview map of the whole of China with main cities & roads indicates coverage by three special panels: the upper Yangzi from its source to Luzhou, the lower Yangzi between Luzhou & Shanghai, plus within the river’s lower section two more detailed panels covering the most visited stretch between Chongqing & Yichang & a more detailed still close-up of just the Three Gorges. All the panels show road & rail networks & are annotated with numerous boxes with historical comments, notes on places of interest etc. Also provided are three city maps showing main streets & sights in Chongqing, Wuhan & Shanghai. Additional satellite maps explain problems connected with The Gorges Dam Project. ...

An unflinching & heartfelt story about racism & finding the strength to stand up for what`s right. Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, Yankee Girl still has strong resonances today. Synopsis It`s 1964 & Alice Anne Moxley has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. The ` Yankee Girl` is taunted by the other girls at school, although she soon discovers the other new girl
- the school`s first black student
- suffers much worse. Alice is disturbed by what goes on, but knows she will remain an outsider if she defends Valerie. It takes a tragedy for her to realise what is really important & find the courage to act.

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Yaraana is an exploration of the gay identity in South Asia. From Ashok Row Kavi's autobiographical piece on growing up gay in Bombay to Vikram Seth's brilliantly etched account of a homosexual relationship in The Golden Gate, the stories, poems, plays & prose extracts in this collection cover a range of literary styles, themes & sensibilities. Mahesh Dattani's play Night Queen is significant as one of the first serious attempts at dramatizing homosexuality on the Indian stage; the poems by R. Raj Rao included here are part of a series that formed the basis for the Bollywood film Bomgay; &, the poetry of Dinyar Godrej, Adil Jussawalla & Sultan Padamsee is searing in its intensity. All the pieces speak of the agony & the joy of being a man in love with other men. Extracts from the work of well-known writers including Bhupen Khakkar, Kamleshwar & Vishnu Khandekar provide a rare insight into the lives of homosexual men in India's small towns & villages. An extract from Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy details an account of growing up gay in war-torn Sri Lanka, while K.C. Ajay, an illiterate taxi driver, gives us an alternate glimpse of love & friendship in Nepal. Pieces such as these along with the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali & Iftikhar Naseem expand the scope of this collection to include writers from South Asia. With wit, passion & courage, these writings bring to the fore the true meaning of yaraana or male friendship & bonding, an often ignored facet of South Asian life & sexuality. ...

The first cookbook from cult yakitori restaurant Yardbird puts the spotlight on chicken
- taking grilling to a whole new level
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Now a major film directed by Idris Elba, Yardie by Victor Headley shines a light on the brutal underworld of 90s London gang culture. At Heathrow Airport`s busy immigration desk, a newly arrived Jamaican strolls through with a kilo of top-grade cocaine strapped to his body. & keeps on walking... By the time the syndicate get to hear about the missing consignment, D is in business
- for himself
- as the Front Line`s newest don. But D`s treachery will never be forgotten
- or forgiven. The message filters down from the Yardie crime lords to their soldiers on the streets: Find D. Find the merchandise. & make him pay for his sins...


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Yardley Wood & Shirley in 1914 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 a semi-rural area south of Birmingham, including the hamlet of Solihull Lodge, Warstock, & parts of Yardley Wood & Shirley. Christ Church Yardley Wood is at the top of the map & coverage extends south to Peterbrook Road. The Stratford on Avon Canal & the GWR North Warwickshire line, with Shirley, runs through the map. Other features include Hazeluck`s Green, Hazeloak Farm and Colebrook Priory. A directory of Shirley in 1921 is on the reverse. 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. ...

Yarmouth South & Gorleston North 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. Yarmouth & Gorleston area is covered by four maps. GREAT YARMOUTH NORTH map covers the northern part of Yarmouth from St Nicholas church northward. Features include Vauxhall station, Runham Vauxhall, Workhouse, Old & New Cemeteries, Beach station, Breydon Viaduct, St Nicholas church, Old Recreation Ground, Falcon Brewery, tramways, railway approaches, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Vauxhall Bridge, etc. On the reverse are extracts from a directory re councillors & public establishments. GREAT YARMOUTH map covers the centre of Yarmouth, stretching from St Nicholas Road & Priory Plain southward to the Royal Naval Hospital, & from the coast inland to the Midland & Gt Northern railway (but note that the main station is north of this map). Features include the River Yare, East Suffolk line with station, Southtown, Cobholm Isl&, Market Place, King Street, St Georges Park, Britannia Pier, The Jetty, Wellington Pier, Winter Gardens, tramways, Town Hall, South Quay, railway lines along quay. A major feature is the extraordinary range of narrow yards, streets & rows in what was the medieval centre
- many of these disappeared during bombing in World War II. On the reverse directory extracts lists the private residents A to H. This YARMOUTH SOUTH & GORLESTON NORTH map continues coverage southward to Gorleston Priory. Features here include the Royal Artillery Barracks, Nelson`s Monument, South Beach, Fish Wharf, Southtown Common, Gorleston North station, Malthouse Quay, Otter`s Farm, northern part of Gorleston High Street, etc. Coverage extends west into countryside & Bradwell House & Gapton Hall. Yarmouth directory entries H to Z are on the reverse. GORLESTON map shows the centre of Gorleston, with coverage continuing south to Gorleston-on-Sea station. Features include St Andrew`s church, South Pier, lighthouses at harbour entrance, Cliff Hotel, Brush Quay, West Quay, Ballast Quay, High St, Pier Plain, Lowestoft Road, cemetery, Shrubland Farm, isolation hospital. A directory of Gorleston on the reverse. 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.
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