Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:50, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National. Contour interval varies according to the terrain, from 2.5 metres in the coastal areas to 10 metres in the Ardennes. The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). Each standard sheet covers Approx. 32 x 20 km / 20 x 12 miles, with larger maps published for the border or coastal areas. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 is overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 topographic survey, showing the exact coverage of each sheet. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 50K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. Maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders – to see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, & her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband`s first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of his character Tony Hastings, a maths professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. & as we read with her, so are we. As the Hastings` ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, & driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future & will change her life. Tony & Susan is a dazzling achievement: simultaneously a riveting portrayal of the experience of reading & a page-turning thriller, written in startlingly arresting prose. It is also a novel about fear & regret, revenge & aging, marriage & creativity. It is simply unique. ...

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly & disgusting bits about World War II! It`s history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you need to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book, including:
- just how useful mashed potato is
- how the Battle of Britain was won
- what it takes to be a spy
- how D-Day was kept a surprise



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Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet, travelled through some of the world’s most repressive & dangerous regimes. Wheeler says, “ When Mr Bush produced his ‘ Axis of Evil’ list, my first thought was ‘I’ve got to go there.’ I’d visited Iran several times & found it to be a beautiful & welcoming country but I’d never managed to make it to North Korea or Iraq. North Korea’s utterly reclusive nature has always fascinated me & I’d had a long interest in the tourist potential of Iraq. So the Evil Axis trio formed the core of my Bad Lands & it was no trouble to come up with a half dozen other contenders.” As he travels to Afghanistan, Albania, Burma (Myanmar), Cuba, Libya, Iran, Iraq, North Korea & Saudi Arabia, Wheeler considers each country’s attitude to human rights & terrorism, to ask ‘what makes a country truly evil?’ & ‘how bad is bad?’. It’s a timely comment, written in his usual no-nonsense style, making for an absorbing & frank look at life in these countries. ...

Following up on his travels detailed in Bad Lands, this time Tony Wheeler, the Lonely Planet founder, sets off to visit Dark Lands: Colombia, Haiti, Congo, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea & Nauru. These places aren’t bad but in some ways conceal a shady story & could be thought of as ‘ Troubled States’, somewhat ‘ Failed States’, & sometimes ‘ Weird Lands’. In his interesting & educational journeys to understand how they got such reputations he sums up their stories with fairytales & legends. He finds examples of the birthday-suited king in Colombia as the war on drugs wages on, Rumpelstiltskin & King Midas in Papua New Guinea where gold brought unhappiness, Cinderella in Haiti though the prince has yet to turn up & Hydra whose severed heads either grow back or doubles, in the hills of Pakistan … He concludes that fairytales, though colourful stories, usually conceal a rather dark meaning to warn children of life’s dangers, the same way that history should teach adults about past’s mistakes. Yet, it seems, we let history repeat itself, as if we had forgotten both, the night time fairy tales & the history lessons! This is a very interesting & engaging account of travels in the Dark Lands, from an unusual perspective. Buy it now! ...

Tonypandy & Trealaw in 1915 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers most of Tynopandy & Trealaw, & the southern part of Llwyn-y-pia. Features include a stretch of Taff Vale Rhondda-Faw Branch with stations & sidings, Nantgwyn Coal Pit, football ground, Pandy Coal Pit, Anthony Coal Pit, Brith-weunydd, All Saints church, Mynydd Brith-weunydd, GWR Ely Valley Branch, Rhondda River, cinemas, St Andrew's church, tramways, etc. On the reverse is a commercial directory of Tonypandy. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2010 Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment, account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, Russia & the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men & women in finance & politics grappling with success & failure, ego, greed, &, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy. ' We've got to get some foam down on the runway' a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve of New York would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury Secretary about the catastrophic crash of the world's financial system would experience. Through unprecendented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail recreates all the drama & turmoil, revealing never-disclosed details & elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were 'too big to fail', it is a real-life thriller about a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were 'too big to fail'. ...