Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy's head with stories so wild he can't concentrate to write them. Not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences... Our funniest writer at his brilliant best, Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women, love of literature, love of laughter.
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother & daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy`s peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn`t expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment & universal despair, Guy wonders if it`s time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn`t. & out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac & rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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This title features a new environment on every colourful, artistic page. ” Zoo-ology” is filled with beautifully crafted species from the Aardvark to the Zebra connected in thought provoking & unusual groupings of creatures of all shapes & sizes. Take hold of these pages & throw yourself into the natural world. Lose yourself amidst the habitats that these animals share. A teeming wildlife sanctuary where over 300 animals leap off the page, this book allows the reader to imagine a zoo without bars, where animals gather in chaotic but innovative herds, prides & rookeries. ...

Take a trip to the Zoo! Lift the giant flaps to reveal the zoo animals & touch lots of exciting textures beneath! Feel the lion`s furry mane, the panda`s soft fur & the elephant`s rough skin. Bight & friendly illustrations from Allison Black bring the animals to life & with something to spot or count on every page too, this colourful book in the My First Touch & Find series will provide lots of fun for older babies & toddlers. ...

Based on the hugely popular website Zoo Borns.com, ” Zoo Borns” combines photos of the newest & cutest exotic animal babies around the world into the perfect gift for animal lovers big & small. Authors & Zoo Borns.com original site founders Andrew Bleiman & Chris Eastland have access to over 1, 500 photos of baby animals taken at accredited zoos & aquariums from all over the world, resulting in what just might be the cutest animal book ever created. Providing interesting animal facts both generally about the species & specifically about the details of the individual birth, the book is as educational as it is entertaining. ...

Cities around the world are always on the move, & this lively book puts little ones in the driver`s seat with a cacophony of sounds right on the streets of some of the most exciting metropolises on the planet, including San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Tokyo, London, Vancouver, & more. The sturdy pages feature fire trucks, diggers, motorcycles, & boats, as well as police cars (weeeoooeee!), airplanes (swish!), & strollers in the park (whir, whir!). Zoom! Beep! Vroom! Busy Cities will surely charm any young vehicle enthusiast & the many tots that are intrigued by life in the big city. ...

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed & inspired along with the reader.
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Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed & inspired along with the reader. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis` most popular & enduring novel, has its origins in the author`s own experiences in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s. His swashbuckling hero has legions of fans across the world & his adventures are as exhilarating now as they were on first publication in the 1950s. ” There can never be any doubt that Kazantzakis was the possessor of genius.” (Sunday Telegraph).
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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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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. ...