Category Archives: Maps
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
This book is the winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the `Wastepaper Queen`. Age of Ambition describes
Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories
Cursed Victory tells the story of Israel`s troubled presence in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula since its sweeping victory in the 1967 Six Day War. Drawing on countless high-level interviews, never-before-seen letters and top secret memos, distinguished Israeli historian Ahron Bregman traces the evolution of the military occupation
The Ballad of a Small Player
`I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.` His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game: baccarat punto blanco – `that
New York Mapguide
Handy little New York mapguide with Maps and Information to enjoy Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.The mapping and guide includes basic details on: Museums, Places of Interest, Art Galleries, Theatres, Cinemas, Jazz Clubs, Cabarets, Discos, Subway Map, Bus Routes, A Selection of Shops and Hotels, Markets, Selected Restaurants, Cafes and Bars.
The Penguin Book of Haiku
The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern.Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running over three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973 c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between
Monkey
Monkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures accompanied by his three unruly disciples: the greedy pig creature Pipsy, the river monster Sandy and Monkey. Hatched from a stone egg and given the secrets of heaven and earth, the irrepressible trickster Monkey
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
The “Queen of Spades and Other Stories” is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin`s application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. This “Penguin Classics” edition is translated with an introduction by Rosemary Edwards. “The Queen of Spades”, one of Pushkin`s most popular and chilling short stories, tells of an inveterate
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring
The Cossacks and Other Stories: Stories of Sevastopol, the Cossacks, Hadji Murat
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, “The Cossacks” describes the experiences of Olenin,
A New Book of Middle Eastern Food
Discover Claudia Roden`s classic recipes in A New Book of Middle Eastern Food.In 1968, Claudia Roden wrote A Book of Middle Eastern Food for readers who had never eaten an aubergine, let alone cooked one. Her expanded edition, A New Book of Middle Eastern Food, quickly followed and became a perennial bestseller. Today, Middle Eastern
For Whom the Bell Tolls
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome is fully illustrated and features more than sixty full-colour maps; the atlas traces the rise and fall of the first great multinational state. It looks at its provinces and cities, its trade and economy, its armies and frontier defences; follows its foreign ward and internecine struggles; and charts
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece charts topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, The Persian Wars, the Athenian Golden Age and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the book traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes
The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History has long been one of the clearest and most comprehensive guides to the evolution of ancient cultures. In a chronological series of maps and accompanying text it traces the movements of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area and the Near East from 50,000 BC to the fourth century AD,
Without Warning
On the surface Joseph Pullman seems to have left his unhappy childhood far behind: as the town undertaker and a council member, he is now a respected citizen of Henderson, Maryland. But Joe`s father is in jail for the brutal murder of a young boy and despite his wife`s questions, Joe can`t – or won`t
Bombay Stories
This book comes with an introduction by Mohammed Hanif. Bombay in the 1930s and 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent – an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, and a city bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. It was to be the favourite city and muse of the most
Shipton and Tilman
Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle, explored China with
Parade
Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can`t have. Mirai spends her days drawing and her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki
