Augsburg & Environs on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club
- the official German cycling federation), in a series of maps with extensive overprint for long-distance & local cycling routes. GPS waypoints, route profiles, details of online links for information about accommodation etc. are also provided. Maps included in this series are contoured & the interval varies according to the type of the terrain. Steep sections are annotated with gradient markings. Colouring and/or graphics show various types of landscape: woods, vineyards, etc. An overprint highlights both the national long-distance cycling routes & the shorter local cycling trails, each clearly identified by a symbol and/or an abbreviation of its name. Sections with heavy traffic and/or poor road surface are clearly marked. Symbols indicate various facilities, such as railway stations with cycle hire, cycle repair shops, campsites, youth hostels, shelters, country restaurants/bars, sport & leisure facilities. Maps have a UTM grid for measuring distances & for determining location using GPS device & they are printed on weather resistant & tear-resistant paper. Each map covers an area of Approx. 87 x 130 km & the map legend is in German only. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Map No. 162, Augsburg & its Western Environs, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage. Kompass are Europe ...

About Falk City Pocket Plans: Street maps covering a slightly smaller area than that represented on the Falk Extra edition, thus folding down to a more handy size (10 x 17cm). Some of them are drawn with a varying scale which, for clarity, presents the city centre at a slightly larger scale than the outer districts. Main landmarks & public buildings are indicated, also one-way streets, car parks & all the public transport facilities eg. tram & bus routes, U-bahns. These plans of larger cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the U-Bahn & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index on the reverse side which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Also included is a smaller scale map of the city & its immediate environs, showing main roads & railways. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Falk, one of Germany`s leading publishers of street plans, produce their town plans in two different formats. Falk Extra plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. For larger cities, the same mapping is also published with a special folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps. The plans, which cover towns with their outer suburbs, indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of lager cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the underground & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Map legend

Includes:: English. Falk Extra plans also include on the reverse a road map of the surrounding area.

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Street plan of the Augsburg conurbation in Falk’s Special Fold format, designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps, others simply hate them!* About Falk street plans:* The plans indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of larger cities include a separate diagram of the public transport network & an enlargement of the town centre at a more detailed scale. The plans also show postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. * Map legend

Includes:: English.* Falk street plans are published in three different map formats, plus in a series of regional street atlases.* Falk Extra* plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. In most plans on the reverse is a road map of the surrounding area. Latest editions have a UTM grid.* Falk Special Fold* plans, published only for larger cities, have a folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps, others simply hate them!* Falk City Plans*, published only for main cities, use the same mapping but cover a smaller area then the Extra plans & have a larger map of the city centre.

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A gripping literary novel from a striking new voice in American fiction. New York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of beers by the river, of working in his friend`s father`s garage, of studying to go to college. Then, one night, everything changed. ` August & then some` is a taut & gripping family drama, in which horrifying secrets kept between father & daughter, & mother & son, explode during one tragic night. Set over the course of two summers, it is a novel of revenge & the difficulty of repentance & forgiveness. Jaggedly beautiful & intensely realised, tightly plotted yet expansive, this debut novel is the coming-of-age of a striking new voice in American fiction. ...

The lazy, slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is, Montalbano assures his girlfriend Livia as they prepare for a relaxing holiday in a villa he has found for them, far too hot for any murders to be committed. But when Livia`s friends` young son goes missing, a chain of events is sparked which will certainly ruin the Chief Inspector`s pleasant interlude. A secret apartment & a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning, as Montalbano navigates his way though the case, as well as coping with the sweltering heat, the suspicious death of an Arab labourer & the tempting lure of a beautiful girl. ...

August Heat by Andrea Camilleri, is the tenth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series, adapted as a major BBC4 television series. This edition featuring a stunning redesigned cover. Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut & sat down on top of it. When the beam from Livia`s torch shone on his face, he automatically smiled. ` What`s in the trunk?` Livia asked. ` Nothing. It`s empty.` How could he possibly have told her there was a corpse inside? The lazy, slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is, Inspector Montalbano assures his girlfriend Livia as they prepare for a relaxing holiday in a villa he has found for them, far too hot for any murders to be committed. But when Livia`s friends` young son goes missing, a chain of events is sparked which will certainly ruin the Chief Inspector`s pleasant interlude. A secret apartment & a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning, as Montalbano navigates his way though the case, as well as coping with the sweltering heat, the suspicious death of an Arab labourer & the tempting lure of a beautiful girl... August Heat is followed by the eleventh book in the series, The Wings of the Sphinx. ...

Augustów Lake District (Pojezierze Augustowskie) at 1:50, 000 in a series of recreational maps from Poland’s Army Cartographic Service. The maps use as their base the military topographic survey, with contours at intervals varying from 5m to 20m according to the terrain & contoured depths shown on lakes. An overprint highlights waymarked hiking, cycling & canoeing routes. A wide range of symbols indicate various sport & recreational facilities, places of interest, special natural features, etc. The maps have latitude & longitude grid at 1’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. On the reverse there are useful addresses & description, in Polish only.

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A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy & his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins (` Give me chastity, but not yet, ` he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heretical sect, his worldly career & friendships & his gradual return to God. His account of his own eventual conversion is a classic study of anguish, hesitation & what he believes to be God`s intervention. It has inspired philosophers, Christian thinkers & monastic followers, but it still leaves readers wondering why exactly Augustine chose to compose a work like none before it. Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine on a brilliantly described journey, combining the latest scholarship with recently found letters & sermons by Augustine himself to give a portrait of his subject which is subtly different from older biographies. Augustine`s heretical years as a Manichaean, his relation to non-Christian philosophy, his mystical aspirations & the nature of his conversion are among the aspects of his life which stand out in a sharper light. For the first time Lane Fox compares him with two contemporaries, an older pagan & a younger Christian, each of whom also wrote about themselves & who illumine Augustine`s life & writings by their different choices. More than a decade passed between Augustine`s conversion & his beginning the Confessions. Lane Fox argues that the Confessions & their thinking were the results of a long gestation over these years, not a sudden change of perspective, but that they were then written as a single swift composition & that its final books are a coherent consummation of its scriptural meditation & personal biography. This exceptional study reminds us why we are so excited & so moved by Augustine`s story. ...