'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said!' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or hours wasted flying over a virtual Earth, navigating a way around a shopping centre, watching the weather forecast, planning a walk or a trip, catching up on the news, booking a holiday or hotel. Maps pepper logos, advertisements, illustrations, books, web pages and newspaper and magazine articles: they are a cipher for every area of human existence. At a stroke, they convey precise information about topography, layout, history, politics and power. They are the unsung heroes of life: Map Addict sings their song. There are some fine, dry tomes out there about the history and development of cartography: this is not one of them. Map Addict mixes wry observation with hard fact and considerable research, unearthing the offbeat, the unusual and the downright pedantic in a celebration of all things maps.In Map Addict, we learn the location of what has officially been named by the OS as the most boring square kilometre in the land; we visit the town fractured into dozens of little parcels of land split between two different countries and trek around many other weird borders of Britain and Europe; we test the theories that the new city of Milton Keynes was built to a pagan alignment and that women can't read maps. Combining history, travel, politics, memoir and oblique observation in a highly readable, and often very funny, style, Mike Parker confesses how his own impressive map collection was founded on a virulent teenage shoplifting habit, ponders how a good leftie can be so gung-ho about British cartographic imperialism and wages a one-man war against the moronic blandishments of the Sat Nav age.

Map Addict: A Tale of Obsession, Fudge & the Ordnance Survey

Mike Parker

Travel

Collins

Describes the unfortunate individuals who have been labelled freaks, like the Elephant Man, Siamese twins, and others who have been born with a grotesque physical disadvantage. The book discusses the lives these individuals led, and the way they were treated by their contemporaries.

The World's Most Fantastic Freaks (World's Greatest)

Biographies & Memoirs

Bounty Books

World's Most Fantastic Freaks

Octopus Bks.

Describes the unfortunate individuals who have been labelled freaks, like the Elephant Man, Siamese twins, and others who have been born with a grotesque physical disadvantage. The book discusses the lives these individuals led, and the way they were treated by their contemporaries.

The world's most fantastic freaks

Octopus

Working Smart: A Union Guide to Participation Programs and Reengineering/With Union Strategy Guide

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Labor Notes

Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up

Politics & Social Sciences

Martha Gruelle

Politics & Government

the Labor Education and Research Project

Mike Parker is a poet and ths book is a collection of his poems.

Don't Fall Off the Mountain (Collected Poems 1968-1998)

D'spare Press

This is the first comprehensive guide to the Hit type novelty camera - a popular niche collectible for many years. Hit cameras (and other similar novelty cameras) were produced in Japan before, during and following the Occupation Era - and were produced in stunning quantity and variation. This book attempts to categorize and classify these types for the collector, and contains a pricing guide, as well. Book contains many checklists and photos to help collectors identify specific models. Wonderful reference!

The Hit Project: A Reference to the Classic Japanese Novelty Camera

Running the Gauntlet : An Oral History of Canadian Merchant Seamen in World War Two

History

Americas

Nimbus Publishing, Limited

The allure of the Valley is its diversity- seacoast and agricultural land; ocean basins and fresh water lakes; tidal rivers and mountain streams; marshlands and meadows, fishing ports and farming hamlets, urban towns and country villages. Historically, the Valley's heritage is as rich as its soil, with roots reaching back four hundred years. Historic Annapolis Valley is first and foremost about a region, not individual communities, although many are included as part of the overall story. The book covers the Annapolis Valley from Digby to Windsor, with an emphasis on the mid-valley, from Bridgetown to Berwick, beginning with the French in the 1600s and discussing topics relevant to the present day.

Historic Annapolis Valley : Rural Life Remembered

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