** In Ruth Davidson`s YES SHE CAN the author interviews Martha Lane Fox, Rola Hallam, Frances O` Grady, Laura Kuenssberg, Lorna Hood, Maria Bello, Melinda Gates, Tina Brown, Seema Rao, Theresa May, Sheila Marcelo, Ruth Ibegbuna, Katherine Grainger, Gemma Fay, Sue Black, Sandi Toksvig & Kerry Kennedy.**` This book is for every daughter, every mother, every aunt & every niece... here are the life lessons learned by 17 of the world`s mould-breaking women. Every single one of them showed that yes, she can.` In this book we meet world-beating women from fields as diverse as science, politics, the military, business & sport. They share their own journeys to the top
- whether that`s becoming Prime Minister, winning an Olympic gold medal or teaching male special forces how to fight. They share the bad times too, the challenges faced & difficulties to hurdle, explaining what they`ve learned along the way. We also see the author`s own path as she tracks the changes in society that have seen women advance
- & discuss how far we`ve still got to go. Revealing, inspiring, informing, YES SHE CAN takes personal stories & deftly weaves them into an equalities manifesto for the modern age, a timely rallying call to make the life lessons of this book a reality for generations to come.

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Barack Obama was the breath of fresh air the Democrats didn`t even realise they needed. Running on a platform of hope, change & progress, he won his first term with a decisive landslide, completely rewriting the rules of politics. So how did we go from Obama to Trump
- & how can the Democrats turn the tide? Once his communications director, & now co-host of Pod Save America, Dan Pfeiffer was at Obama`s side through two presidential elections & six years in the White House. Offering up surreal stories from behind the scenes, Pfeiffer explains how Obama navigated the forces that propelled Trump to power, & metes out critical wisdom on how the Democrats can reverse the country`s fate.A funny, thoughtful & humble account of Pfeiffer`s time on the front line of politics, Yes We (Still) Can is not just a memoir but an action plan for those who still dare to hope for change
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The laugh-out-loud Tom Gates is back in another brilliant instalment of Liz Pichon`s bestselling illustrated series. Sometimes making up my mind isn`t easy to do. Especially when my grumpy sister Delia is LOOMING over me. Mum`s on a mission to TIDY UP the whole house. She says if I can`t decide what to get rid of, she`ll do it for me. Which would be a DISASTER! Lucky for me, The FOSSILS come to my rescue (more than once!) ...

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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In England today we enjoy a rich diversity of folk traditions, many of which can trace their beginnings back hundreds of years. They stem from every phase of our antiquity & embody all the peoples who have traditionally enriched our culture. In this book we visit some of the best known examples, including mumming, cheese rolling, tree dressing, rushbearing, beating the bounds, flitch trials & Wassailing, among many other customs, festivals & traditions. Covering all aspects of English folklore & tradition, including myths, legends, traditional song & dance, games, seasonal events & calendar customs, this volume encompasses the history of many of England`s best-loved folk traditions. ...

What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares? Tales of the yeti, the ` Abominable Snowman` of the Himalayas, have been recorded for centuries. This huge, ape-like, hairy creature has tantalised explorers, mountaineers & locals with curious footprints & elusive appearances. But until recently, no one has been able to identify what this mythical creature might be, or even determine if it is real. On an expedition to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, Graham Hoyland found & filmed footprints of the mythical yeti in a part of the country that has never before been visited by Western explorers. In a lost valley near the unclimbed mountain Gangkar Punsum, Hoyland believes he was stalked by the mysterious yeti, a beast so unspeakably powerful that locals say it can kill a yak with one savage blow of its fist. As he delves into the fascinating history of this ancient legend, Hoyland hears tales of the yeti from Sherpas who have tried & failed to track it. He explores the literary hinterland behind the legend & searches for the yeti`s American cousin Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster & her African relative Mokele-Mbembe. From the dubious, mystical pseudo-science of the Nazis in the 1930s to our current era of `post-truth` & `fake news`, Hoyland examines the age-old cultural phenomena that have shaped our collective consciousness & fuelled a belief in the existence of these monstrous creatures. ...

Yevreyska Autonomous Oblast Road Atlas in a series of detailed atlases of the administrative provinces of the Russian Federation from Roskartografia, with road information shown on a topographic base. The atlas

Includes:: a basic street plan of Birobidzhan. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet & the text, including map legend, is in Russian only. Atlases in this series present the road network with minor local roads, service stations, & driving distances. Colour coding distinguishes between federal roads & those which are the responsibility of local government. In many areas tracks & footpaths are included. The atlases also show railway lines, as well as inland waterways with locations of locks & the direction of the current. Cities & towns are marked according to the size of their population. Symbols indicate natural landmarks, post offices, hospitals & other facilities, museums, monuments, etc. Topography is shown by contours at 100m intervals & spot heights. Each atlas has an index &

Includes:: an administrative map of the region & a key to Russian road signs. In some atlases coverage is provided only for the areas with roads & not for the whole province
- please see individual descriptions or images of the area coverage supplied with each title. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet & the text, including map legends, is in Russian only. To see other atlases still available in this series please click on the series link.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: Supplies are very erratic & no delivery date can be guaranteed for titles currently not in stock. Also, we occasionally receive copies with different covers or in different sizes to those indicated on our website, but the cartography & basic information remains as described above.





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This is the Yiddish they didn't teach at Temple. This book gives readers the lowdown on how to really spit the Hebrew alphabet. With plenty of slang, curses, & idiomatic expressions, this book gives readers' Yiddish vocabulary a real kick in the toches. ...

In the 13th century Yiddish language & culture began to spread from the Rhineland & Bavaria slowly east into Austria, Bohemia & Moravia, then to Poland & Lithuania & finally to western Russia & the Ukraine, becoming steadily less German & more Slav in the process. In its late-medieval heyday the culturally vibrant, economically successful, intellectually adventurous & largely self-ruling Yiddish society stretched from Riga on the Baltic down to Odessa on the Black Sea. In the 1650s the Chmielnicki Massacres in the Ukraine by the Cossacks killed 100, 000 Jews, forcing those that were left to spread out into the small towns (shtetls) & villages. The break-up of Pol&-Lithuania
- a safe haven for Jews in previous centuries
- in the late 18th century further disrupted Yiddish society, as did the Russian anti-Jewish pogroms from the 1880s onwards, at the very time when Yiddish was producing a rich stream of plays, poems & novels. Paul Kriwaczek describes the development, over the centuries, of Yiddish language, religion, occupations & social life, art, music & literature. The book ends by describing how the Yiddish way of life became one of the foundation stones of modern American, & therefore of world, culture.

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Just like religious festivals, songs, or humor, cuisine is a constitutive part of the Jewish tradition. In this book, Parisian delicatessen-owner Florence Kahn shares with us century-old Yiddish recipes that not only feed the hungry, but also delight the soul. Classics of Jewish cuisine, including meals for religious holidays, are explained step-by-step & illustrated by mouth-watering photographs. Florence Kahn`s easy-to-follow recipes unite the best of Yiddish traditions with a contemporary approach & show the diversity of Jewish cooking. The author`s tips on recipes variations & her explanations about the origins of dishes are a great addition to the contents. ...