I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my foster father who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who also died of hunger, for the system that caused their death, & perhaps for myself for writing this book. The most powerful & important Chinese work of recent years, Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is a passionate, moving & angry account of one of the 20th century's most nightmarish events: the killing of an estimated 36 million Chinese in 1958-1961 by starvation or physical abuse. More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War & yet their story remains substantially untold. Now, at last, they can be heard. Based on survivors' testimonies, this book was greeted with huge acclaim when published in Hong Kong as an essential work of reckoning. The man who exposed Mao's secret famine. (Financial Times). ...

Yang Jisheng`s Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history`s most terrible crimes. More people died in Mao`s Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, Tombstone draws on the author`s privileged access to official & unofficial sources to uncover the full human cost of the tragedy, & create an unprecedented work of historical reckoning. ”A book of great importance”. (Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans). ” The first proper history of China`s great famine... So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang ” China`s Solzhenitsyn”. (Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History). ...

Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Pictura is a stunning range of black-&-white artworks to collect & colour, for ages 9 to 90. In this title from the urban ...

” Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me” is a gripping & moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel ” The Infatuations” is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when
- in the bedroom, half-undressed
- she drops dead in his arms. He panics & slips away. But Marta`s family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, & Dean, the widowed husb&, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Victor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever.

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From the winner of the Grand Prix de la Litterature
- Mabanckou`s trademark humour & surrealism combine in an autobiographical
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Berlin. A city where nightclubs stay open from Friday night till Monday morning. A city with an underbelly as dark & addictive as the 24-hour drugs, drinking, dancing & sex in filthy toilets that it serves up. Three young men, from different backgrounds, meet here by chance, struggling to find a future & to escape from the past. Tobias was violated as a child & tossed from one city to another by separated parents. Now he`s got AIDS & can find only fleeting happiness with a new lover. Armand fled from his middle-class family home to live as a painter & set up house with a high-school sweetheart. Tugged between expectations, desire & responsibilities, he flees to give release his artistic soul. But at what cost? Franz was raised in a good, wealthy German family & believed he was capable of achieving anything he wanted. A job in a nightclub leads him into the Berlin underworld, where his life takes an unexpected turn & he is threatened with ruin. Berlin promises both escape & salvation for these three young men, in a stunning coming-of-age story by award-winning author Oscar Coop-Phane. With grace & affection, he depicts a cast of flawed characters whose lives spiral downwards, their lifestyles drawing them into a grimy abyss that threatens to eclipse them. A literary masterpiece, Tomorrow, Berlin is a compelling ode to youth & desire, & a stark reminder that escape can only ever be an illusion. ...

” Tomorrow we ride.” That`s what jean Bobet’s brother Louison & he used to say as they arranged to meet: every day while they were racing cyclists, & then just on Sundays when they were no longer competing. Jean Bobet`s book is not so much a biography of his superstar brother Louison, nor his own autobiography, but rather an account of the intermingling of their two lives. & what lives
- Louison, triple Tour de France winner & World Champion & Jean (no mean rider himself) who gave up an academic career to ride in the service of his brother in pursuit of sporting glory. Set in the period after the war, this story brings alive the romance of the great races & the star riders of the day whose exploits lifted the public spirit after years of conflict & economic hardship.
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A magical, captivating picture book about the power of love between a son & his father Tom & his dad are good at making things. Their inventions start out simple, but they quickly become bigger, faster, crazier
- & they almost always involve wheels. But then Dad loses his job, & everything changes. Sadness clouds the house like a winter sky. That is, until Tom comes up with a brilliant plan that takes their amazing vehicle inventions & creates something astounding
- something the world has never seen before... An emotionally charged & highly imaginative book that explores themes of love & support between children & their parents but is also great fun, with incredible inventions, crazy contraptions & a wonderfully inspiring pioneering spirit at its heart.

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