As Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, so too it entered the bleakest period in the history of its motor car. The 1940s was a time of war, deprivation & austerity, &, for almost a decade, car development stood still. Wartime motorists faced petrol & tyre rationing, the hazards of the blackout & restricted areas, but they provided invaluable service to the community. Peace in 1945 brought further austerity measures & restrictions as the British economy was dominated by the need to export. Most new cars were sent abroad, petrol rationing continued & the black market thrived. The British public was eager for new cars, however, & the 1948 Motor Show marked a turning point; twenty-one new models were exhibited, including the Jaguar XK120 & the Morris Minor. ...

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. How do we choose between what is fair & just, & what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately outspoken & tuned to the voices of the oppressed, Varoufakis presents a guide to modern economics, & its threat to democracy, like no other. Selected from the books & the Weak Suffer What They Must? & Adults in the Room ...

” Austerlitz” is W. G. Sebald`s classic novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport & placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity & he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, ” Austerlitz”
- having avoided all clues that might point to his origin
- finds the past returning to haunt him & he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. ” Austerlitz” is W.G. Sebald`s melancholic masterpiece. ” Mesmeric, haunting & heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald”. (Eileen Battersby, ” Irish Times”). ” Greatness in literature is still possible”. (John Banville, ” Irish Times”, Books of the Year). ”A work of obvious genius”. (” Literary Review”). ”A fusion of the mystical & the solid... His art is a form of justice
- there can be, I think, no higher aim”. (” Evening Standard”). ” Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art”. (” The Times Literary Supplement”).”I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague & their treatment by the Nazis”. (” Observer”). ”A great book by a great writer”. (Boyd Tonkin, ” Independent”). W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944 & died in December 2001. He studied German language & literature in Freiburg, Switzerland & Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester & settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia & is the author of ” The Emigrants”, ” The Rings of Saturn”, ” Vertigo”, ” Austerlitz”, ” After Nature”, ” On the Natural History of Destruction”, ” Campo Santo”, ” Unrecounted”, ”A Place in the Country”. His selected poetry is published in a volume called ” Across the Land & the Water”.


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Map No. 10029, Austevoll, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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One of the titles in the topographic survey of the Svalbard group still published only in a black & white version, without geographical names. These maps cover parts of the northern & north-eastern Spitzbergen, Nordaustlandet, Edgeøya & some of the small islands. The western coast, central & southern part of Spitzbergen, plus two small islands of Svenskøya & Kongsøyaare are now available in colour versions, with contours at 25-metre intervals, bold relief shading & spot heights. The maps settlements, roads & tracks, working & disused mines, airfields, lighthouses & radio beacons, etc. A grid gives UTM co-ordinates plus latitude in steps of 10` & longitude in 20’. ...

Austin in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Austin in Texas, with Georgetown & Round Rock
- Cedar Park area, on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive
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Austin in Texas on a laminated, waterproof & tear-resistant street plan at 1:100, 000 from Mapsco, with an enlargement showing the downtown area in greater detail. The index

Includes:: separate lists of various places of interest highlighted on the map, including parks, municipal buildings, schools & academic institutions, etc. The plan indicates controlled access highways & toll roads, showing interchange numbers. Also marked are municipal & zip code boundaries & symbols indicate locations of various facilities & places of interest. Downtown Austin is shown in greater detail on an enlargement with streets annotated with block numbers.

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Born in 1952, the Austin-Healey 100 soon took the UK & US markets by storm. A beautiful, brutish car, it was what many sporting motorists had been waiting for, & at a relatively affordable price. Following the 100, was the 3000
- a car as successful on the rally stage as it was loved on the open road, & the Sprite
- which recreated the market for the cheap `everyman`s` sports car. Graham Robson, an authority on the British motor industry, presents a concise history of Austin-Healey, & the marque`s success on road & track. Illustrated throughout, it is an ideal introduction for all lovers of this quintessentially British sports car.

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