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  Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min

  During the course of the 1950s, England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself to modernise. The bankrupt steam-powered railway, run by a retired general, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high speed electric - or even atomic - express trains.But plans for a gleaming new railway system ended in failure, and on the roads traffic ground to a halt. Along came Dr Beeching, forensically analysing the railways’ problems and delivering an expert’s diagnosis that a third of the nation’s railways must go. This was the point at which the reality of modernisation dawned and rural England fell victim to the road and car - at least that is how Dr Beeching is remembered today.Last Trains examines why and how the railway system contracted, exposing the political failures that bankrupted the railways and examining officials’ attempts to understand a transport revolution beyond their control. It is a story of the increasing alienation of bureaucrats from the public they thought they were serving, but also of a nation that thinks it lives in the countryside trying to come to terms with modernity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Fenton Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000013/bk_lbrk_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World

  Beautifully re-designed, the 15th edition of the world's most authoritative atlas has been extensively up-dated.Detailing our world as it is today, it includes more than 200,000 place names. At 45 cm high, this impressive large scale atlas will become a treasured possession.It is a benchmark of cartographic excellence, trusted by governments, media and international organisations as well as being a trusted reference source for households across the country.Updates carried out for the 2021 reprint include;- Country name changes - Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia)- Administrative structures in India and UK- Changes to capital cities in Burundi, Kazakhstan, Chile, and Chad- New motorways in Russia and Turkey, railways in Kazakhstan and roads in UK- Aral Sea outline, Everest height, sea ice extents and Antarctica research stations/bases all updatedProduced in a quality finish the world atlas comes in a protective slipcase.

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  On Agoraphobia (eBook, ePUB)

  If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover myself on the next. Reading is a game of hide-and-seek. Narrative and neurosis, uneasy bedfellows sleeping top to toe.When Graham Caveney was in his early twenties he began to suffer from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres, limited time outdoors.Graham's quest to understand his illness brought him back to his first love: books. From Harper Lee's Boo Radley, Ford Madox Ford, Emily Dickinson, and Shirley Jackson: the literary world is replete with examples of agoraphobics - once you go looking for them.On Agoraphobia is a fascinating, entertaining and sometimes painfully acute look at what it means to go through life with an anxiety disorder that evades easy definition.

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  Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 741min

  Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Long Road from Jarrow by Stuart Maconie. In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie walks from north to south, retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Following history's footsteps, Maconie is in search of what modern Britain is really like today. Travelling down the country's spine, Maconie moves through a land that is, in some ways, very much the same as the England of the '30s, with its political turbulence, austerity, north/south divide, food banks and, of course, football mania. Yet in other ways, it is completely unrecognisable: highstreets peppered with pound shops and e-cigarette vendors, smoothie bars and Costas on every corner. Maconie visits the great, established and yet evolving cities of Leeds, Sheffield and London as well as the sleepy hamlets, quiet lanes and roaring motorways. He meets those with stories to tell and whose voices build a funny, complex and entertaining tale of Britain, then and now. Written in Maconie's signature style, this is a fascinating exploration of a modern nation that, though it looks and sounds strangely familiar, has been completely transformed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stuart Maconie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002870/bk_rhuk_002870_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Concrete Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min

  A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash. An architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control. Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself, dazed and disorientated, on a traffic island below three converging motorways. But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible - and he finds himself marooned on the concrete island. In this twisted version of Robinson Crusoe, our hero must learn to survive - using only what he can find in his crashed car. Concrete Island provides an unnerving study of our modern lives and world. With his alienating, ‘Ballardian’ view of normal events, this is a unique novel from one of our finest writers. J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 best seller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J.G. Ballard died in 2009. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Gaminara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018384/bk_adbl_018384_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sue Barr, The Architecture of Transit

  For english version please scroll down:Auf der Suche nach dem Erhabenen in der Autobahnarchitektur zwischen den Alpen und NeapelAutobahnen sind die größten von Menschen gebauten architektonischen Strukturen. Sie verbinden Länder, Kontinente und überwinden natürliche und politische Grenzen, erschließen abgelegene Gebiete für Handel, Wirtschaft und Tourismus. Zwischen den Alpen und Neapel verbinden Autobahnen hochkomplexe topographische Gegebenheiten mit urbanen Ballungsräumen. Sie folgen dabei antiken Handelswegen oder den Straßen der Grand Tour der Romantiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, die auf der Suche nach arkadischen, erhabenen Landschaften waren, wie sie von de Loutherbourg, Claude und Turner gemalt worden waren.Die Erfahrung des Erhabenen in unberührter Natur war einer der Höhepunkte der Grand Tour. Heute rasen wir auf Autobahnen, über Brücken und Auffahrten, durch Galerien und Tunnel - die mühsame, mehrtägige Reise früherer Zeiten schrumpft auf wenige Stunden. Diese Reiseform zeitigt eine neue Form des Sublimen, die der gleichförmigen sich vor dem Auge des Fahrers entfaltenden betonierten Struktur der Autobahn in der Landschaft. Sue Barr (Professorin für Fotografie, Architectural Association, London) ist eine von brutalistischer Architektur und Beton besessene Fotografin. Mit Ihrer Großformatkamera folgte Sie von den Alpen bis nach Neapel und fotografierte die bislang zumeist ignorierte Architektur der Autobahn.--Searching for the sublime in motorway architecture between the Alps and NaplesMotorways are architectural megastructures in the landscape, crossing nations, natural or political borders making previously remote places accessible to development, tourism and trade. Between the Alps and Naples motorways connect highly complex topographies and urban conditions, often retracing antique trade paths and routes taken by northern Romantics on the Grand Tour, searching for arcadian and sublime landscapes as painted by de Loutherbourg, Claude and Turner.The experience of the sublime in untamed nature became a highlight on the Grand Tour. Landscapes that once took days to cross, today we speed through via motorways over concrete bridges, ramps, through galleries and tunnels. But with this speed comes a new accelerated and simultaneously calm sublime of concrete motorway megastructures.Sue Barr (Head of Photography, Architectural Association, London) is a photographer obsessed by concrete and Brutalist architecture. Following historical 18th-century routes from the Swiss Alps to Naples, she used a large format camera to photograph these extraordinary and ignored architectural megastructures. The pictures in her first monographic publication, document the ominous beauty of motorway architecture, within landscapes and urban spaces through carefully constructed photographs

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  St. Tropez, Frejus, St. Raphael & the Western Cote d'Azur , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 357min

  Starting just east of la Ciotat, the great sweep of Mediterranean coast, all the way to the Italian border, is referred to as the Côte d'Azur or the Riviera. It is a large area with dozens of beaches and, despite the coast's reputation for toney glamor alternating with brash vulgarity, it's a great location for watersports, boating, parascending, climbing, hiking, and gliding. The Western Côte d'Azur is a deeply indented coast, characterized by many small towns, miles of sandy beaches, and three great mountainous headlands, called massifs. The Massif des Maures, Massif de l'Estérel, and Massif de Tanneron foreshadow the march of the Alps to the sea farther east along the Riviera. They offer stunning long distance views and provide miles of good walking. For years, French vacationers kept the region their secret, staying in their holiday homes or with friends and family. As a result, the massifs remain largely undiscovered territory for foreign visitors, who usually race around and between them on motorways for the coast. If you stop to enjoy this region, you'll find it has its own personality and surprises. Covered in depth are the Mauresque Coast, including St. Tropez, Le Lavandou, Grimaud, Ste Maxime, then on to Fréjus, Saint Raphael, the Massif du Tanneron, and the Esterel. All the places to stay are described, as well as the places to eat, the history, sights to see, plus adventures on foot, on horseback, and on water. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sally Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021895/bk_acx0_021895_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Roads in Sweden

  Roads in Sweden ab 29.49 € als Taschenbuch: Motorways in Sweden Streets in Stockholm Streets in Sweden European route E4 Österlånggatan Västerlånggatan Road signs in Sweden European route E45 Slottsbacken Swedish national road European route E20 Kindstugatan Lejonbacken. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,

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  Asia road Introduction

  Asia road Introduction ab 20.99 € als Taschenbuch: Gyeongbu Expressway Central Expressway Singapore N-5 National Highway Charbagh Isfahan Motorways of Pakistan National Highways of Pakistan Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road Yeongdong Expressway M1 motorway Seoul-Chuncheon Expressway. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,

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  Roads in Poland

  Roads in Poland ab 15.99 € als Taschenbuch: Expressways in Poland Motorways in Poland Proposed roads in Poland Streets in Poland Voivodeship road National roads in Poland A2 autostrada Roads and expressways in Poland A4 autostrada A1 autostrada Expressways of Poland. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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