The name Lancelot Capability Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: between 1751 & 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions. Ruthlessly efficient he could stake out the capabilities of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the position of Master Gardener to George III his trademark features included bald lawns clumped trees lakes & enclosing belts of woodland on the estates perimeter. With this standard park formula Brown & his followers held the commercial monopoly on garden design well into the following century resisting the more rugged topography advocated by Richard Payne Knights new generation of Romantics. ...

Jose Raul Capablanca was a chess legend world champion & quite simply one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His achievements & seemingly effortless style of play won many admirers & his legacy

Includes:: a treasure of instructive games. Studying Capablancas play is a must for any aspiring chess player. For Cyrus Lakdawala it was a key factor in his chess development & improvement & in this book he revisits many of his favourite Capablanca games. Lakdawala examines Capablancas skills in the key areas of attack defence counter-attack exploiting imbalances accumulating advantages & of course his legendary endgame play. Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning & practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions & answers are designed to keep you actively involved & allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills & knowledge. * Learn from the games of a chess legend * Important ideas absorbed by continued practice * Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

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Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin was supposed to be enjoying a romantic honeymoon with her new husband the Djinn David
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The Mother City home to soaring Table Mountain golden beaches & bountiful vineyards is an old pro at capturing people s hearts. Simon Richmond Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is. Inside This Book 200+ wineries within a day s drive 42 detailed maps 164 mouth-watering restaurants 1 iconic table-shaped mountain Comprehensive map section Feature coverage of top sights Range of planning tools In-depth background on Cape Town s history culture & more. ...

Baedeker is proud to welcome this brand new guide to Cape Town & the Garden Route. At the heart of this full-colour & visually inspiring guide is a wealth of well-researched information & over 200 detailed recommendations written by experts. From the seemingly endless stretches of beautiful coastline & famous vineyards to exciting safari treks & colourful carnivals you will find all the sights & top attractions explored in an easy-to-read A-Z format. superb 3D laminated illustrations display the key sights in perspective & include the Castle of Good Hope & Table Mountain brought to life at the turn of a page. Clear & concise background texts explore Cape Town's fascinating history from its beginnings & British Colonial rule through Apartheid & Resistance to Mandela & the New Beginning not to mention up-to-date political developments. Special feature pages cover topics of particular interest that give a rare glimpse into everyday life in ' South Africa's Mother City' & throughout the guide you will also find answers to Cape Town's more intriguing questions such as ' What is a bobotie braai or bredie?' & ' Where is champagne uncorked with a sabre?'. A comprehensive ' Practicalities' chapter covers all the essential travel advice you need including accommodation transport food & drink shopping nature reserves & more not to mention useful insider tips for travellers with disabilities & those travelling with children. It reveals where & when you can catch festivals holidays & other cultural events throughout the year & also highlights where the loveliest beaches can be found. There are plenty of ' Baedeker tips' alongside the relevant places & sights information making this guide ideal for on-the-spot reference. The guide features 27 detailed maps & plans within the text that clearly pin-point the best places to stay & top venues to eat & drink en route around Cape Town. There are 4 recommended tours specially designed to ensure you see the very best of the region's many highlights taking in everything from the traditional craftwork of Greenmarket Square to the diverse wildlife & stunning views on offer along the coast also the infamous wineries not to be missed. All the top attractions are clearly plotted along the way & journey lengths range from a few hours to a couple of days so you can choose the route to suit you & the time you have to spare. There are also suggestions for excursions around Cape Town including the Garden Route one of South Africa's most beautiful coastlines for which there is a large fully indexed pull-out map to accompany the guide. All of this invaluable information is contained within a handy plastic wallet ensuring both the guide & map will survive in all weather. Baedeker
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps & last breaths & plenty of laughter in between. Today through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife two small sons & a powerful job in the City. An annual bonus of a million might seem excessive but with second homes & nannies to maintain hes not sure he can get by without it. Elsewhere in the Capital Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. Freddy Kano teenage football sensation has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. For them all this city offers the chance of a different kind of life. Capital" is a post-crash state-of-the nation novel told with compassion & humour featuring a cast of characters that you will be sad to leave behind." ...

A classic of early modernism Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself. No mere work of dry economics Marxs great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama
- with a message which has lost none of its relevance today. This is the only abridged edition to take account of the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1 which Marx himself published in 1867 excerpts from a new translation of The Result of the Immediate Process of Production & a selection of key chapters from Volume 3 which Engels published in 1895. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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The residents of Pepys Road London
- a banker & his shopaholic wife an old woman dying of a brain tumour a family of Pakistani
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Meet Charles Boxer
- ex-army ex-police & now a high-stakes kidnap recovery specialist he knows only too well how the dark forces
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