25 October 2015 is the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt
- a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history.
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With an introduction by Samantha Ellis. When Agnes`s father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living
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Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored & unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor & brutality, & repeatedly humiliated for his weakness & ignorance when it comes to women & sex, the boy is increasingly, masochistically drawn to the gang & its rough games. He finds himself unable to make sense of his troubled feelings. Hoping to be full of manly calm, he is instead beset by guilty curiosity & an urgent desire to sever, at any cost, the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother. Alberto Moravia`s classic, startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1942 but rejected by Fascist censors & not published until 1944, when it became a best seller & secured the author the first literary prize of his career. Revived here in a new translation by Michael F. Moore, Agostino is poised to captivate a twenty-first-century audience. ...

Agra on an indexed street plan at 1:17, 850 approx. from Eicher with plans of the Taj Mahal & the Agra Fort, a road map of the Uttar Pradesh state, plus a 16-page guide to the city & its sights with hotel recommendations, etc. On one side is a street plan showing Agra at 1:17, 850 approx, with a 1km grid to make distances easier to judge. An inset extends the coverage to Fatehpur Sikri. The plan gives names of main streets & colonies, & highlights various facilities & places of interest. Also provided here are enlargements showing in greater detail the Taj Mahal area & the Agra Fort. The index, listing streets, colonies, institutions, hotels, railway stations, etc. is on the reverse, together with a road map of Uttar Pradesh. The accompanying booklet provides notes on the city & its sights, plus useful contact details including several hotels. ...

Agrigento, including Villaseta, on an indexed street plan at 1:6, 000 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Globalmap imprint. An inset at 1:9.000 extends the coverage south to include the archaeological site of the Valle dei Templi. 59 temples & other buildings or monuments within the city itself are prominently highlighted. Coverage also

Includes:: insets for Fontanelle (1:10, 000) & a separately indexed plan of San Leone with Villagio Mosé at 1:9, 000. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse.

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Agrigento Province at 1:150, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is now available in a digitally produced edition.LAC’s provincial series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Agrigento Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is still produced in the traditional cartographic style. ...

Touring Club Italiano's Agriturismo e Vacanze in Campagna 2012 Guide, (all the text is in Italian only), with over 2000 farms, country-houses & rural retreats offering holiday accommodation & B&B facilities by the sea, hills & mountains. The guide is divided into 20 regional sections listing all entries alphabetically. Each establishment has a brief description & information such as number of rooms & apartments, price guide, services & leisure activities, contact information & website addresses. Additional symbols indicate wheelchair accessibility, camping sites, house produces & discounts to members of TCI. Each regional section also

Includes:: photographs & a selection of recommended rural restaurants, with contact details, etc. A map at the beginning of each region helps locate the places listed in the guide.A perfect guide to the charm of Italian countryside.ALL THE TEXT IS IN ITALIAN ONLY.

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Touring Club's guide is the ultimate reference to agriturismo retreats, country-houses & farms, run usually on a family basis, offering welcoming high-quality service, home-made food & a quiet & relaxing atmosphere. The guide is divided in 20 regional sections listing all entries alphabetically. Each establishment is shown in a colour photo with a brief description, plus information & details of the rooms, prices & facilities offered. Most agriturismi will also sell their produce, so details on produce & harvests including organic farming are indicated.A map at the beginning of each region helps locate the establishments. Please note: the English edition of this guide was last published in 2003. A more recent version is offered on our website in its original Italian edition, as shown below. ...

Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...