A contemporary of Picasso, Matisse & Kandinsky, Goncharova is now recognised as one of the leading Russian artists of the Twentieth Century. This book traces the development of her art from its impressionist origins, through a provocative phase of `primitive` style paintings on peasant themes to highly innovative abstract works that rivalled the most daring experiments of the Cubists & Futurists. As a woman artist she was galvanized by gender issues & addressed these directly in her work. In both her paintings & her behaviour she questioned accepted conventions & scandalised Russian society. Arrested in 1909 on the grounds of the `pornographic` content of her paintings, accused of heresy against the Orthodox Church in 1914 because of her religious work & branded a Futurist because she walked about in public with a painted face, her large-scale retrospective in Moscow in 1913, in which she exhibited over 700 works, demonstrated to public & critics alike that she was, unquestionably, one of the greatest painterly talents that Russia had ever produced. In 1914 Diaghilev, the director of the famous ` Ballets Russes` invited Goncharova to make designs for ” The Golden Cockerel” which was staged at the Paris Opera. The staggering success of this production opened up new creative horizons for her & she remained in Paris to become one of Diaghilev`s `resident` designers. Her work of this period reveals her gifts not only as a superb stage designer but also as a designer of women`s fashions for the haute-couture industry of Art Deco Paris. Her work is now in the collections of museums & galleries across the world & is so highly sought that she has achieved the highest sale price ever recorded at auction for a woman artist. ...

Gondar City Tourist Map, published by Developmap in cooperation with Spanish development agencies & Ethiopian tourist authorities, combines maps & street plans of locations within the Amhara region of Ethiopia which

Includes:: the Simien Mountain, all accompanied by notes with additional tourist information. On one side is a street plan of Gondar showing names of the town

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Of all the trademarks of Venice
- & there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs
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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Gone Fishing guide from the South African publishers Map Studio with detailed information on the best fishing locations, including advice on the type of tackle & bait, plus a special fish-identification section & a separate pocket-size Fisherman’s Logbook. Most of the sites covered in this guide are within South Africa, both along the coast & inl&, each presented with its GPS coordinates. There are also several recommendations within Mozambique, plus a few sites in Namibia. Within South Africa the sites are arranged by region: the West Coast, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Southern Kwa Zulu Natal, northern Kwa Zulu Natal, plus inland locations. Each chapter

Includes:: map extracts highlighting the recommended sites & is illustrated with colour photos. An introductory section provides general preparatory advice; a 42-page fish identification guide

Includes:: colour rawings of all the species with, where useful, enlargements of their special features. The book is printed on high quality, glossy paper. Also provided is a separate 10.5x 15cm Fisherman’s Logbook.



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` What are you thinking, Amy?` The question I`ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: ` What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?` Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy`s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn`t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren`t his. & then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick`s beautiful wife? & what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war... ...

THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT. Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy`s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn`t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren`t made by him. & then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick`s beautiful wife? ...

Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour & extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star & vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. She is forced to accept shelter wherever she can find it, & many of those she stayed with expected services in return. She stays with foreign workers, committed communists & even convinced Nazis. Any false move might lead to arrest. Always on the move, never certain who could be trusted & how far, it was her quick-witted determination & the most amazing & hair-raising strokes of luck that ensured her survival. This is Marie`s extraordinary story, told in her own voice with unflinching honesty after more than fifty years of silence. ...

Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour & extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star & vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. She is forced to accept shelter wherever she can find it, & many of those she stays with expect services in return. She stays with foreign workers, committed communists & even convinced Nazis. Any false move might lead to arrest. Always on the move, never certain who could be trusted & how far, it is her quick-witted determination & the most amazing & hair-raising strokes of luck that ensure her survival. This is Marie`s extraordinary story, told in her own voice with unflinching honesty after more than fifty years of silence. ...

In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. ” Gone to New York” is Frazier`s account of the city over the thirty years he`s lived there, a book as full of vitality & charm as the city it describes. It features street scenes from every corner of the metropolis, where every block is an event & where the denizens are larger than life. Meet the man who climbed the World Trade Center, learn the location of Manhattan`s antipodes, & follow Frazier down Canal Street in the mid 1970s, to Brooklyn in the 1980s & aboard the F train just last year. Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell & A.J. Liebling, Frazier makes us fall in love with America`s greatest city all over again
- just the way he did.
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