In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals the remarkable story behind its origin... Imprisoned at Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp, Daniel feels his humanity slipping away. Treasured memories of the young woman he loved & the prayers that once lingered on his lips become hazier with each passing day. Then a visit from a mysterious stranger changes everything, as Daniel`s former identity as a crafter of fine violins is revealed to all. The camp`s two most dangerous men use this information to make a cruel wager: If Daniel can build a successful violin within a certain number of days, the Kommandant wins a case of the finest burgundy. If not, the camp doctor, a torturer, gets hold of Daniel. & so, battling exhaustion, Daniel tries to recapture his lost art, knowing all too well the likely cost of failure. Written with lyrical simplicity & haunting beauty-and interspersed with chilling, actual Nazi documentation
- ” The Auschwitz Violin” is more than just a novel: it is a testament to the strength of the human spirit & the power of beauty, art, & hope to triumph over the darkest adversity.
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At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science & technology to improve, extend & protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher`s terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew & mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it & those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, & how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to underst&. ...

Map No. 68, Ausseerland
- Ennstal, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany
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For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices
- vivid, unselfconscious, & unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone`s troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is, with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their `betters`. Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes, jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast, still in police uniform), Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) & Doris Lessing, newly arrived from Africa, struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic & social landscape for the next three decades. Deeply researched, often amusing & always intensely entertaining & readable, the first volume of David Kynaston`s ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years.
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David Kynaston`s ” Austerity Britain 1945-51”, the first book in his series ” Tales of a New Jerusalem”, was a major ” Sunday Times” bestseller in 2007. Here is the first volume from this landmark book covering 1945-48. Beginning his groundbreaking series about post-war Britain, Kynaston presents our nation through the eyes of those who lived there. Meet Judy Haines, a Chingford housewife, struggling daily with food rationing; Henry St. John, a self-serving civil servant in Bristol; &, the young Glenda Jackson, taking her 11-plus. Using mass observation, diaries, letters, newspapers & magazines from the time, ”A World to Build” is an unsurpassed social history: intensely evocative to those who were there & eye-opening for their children & grandchildren. ...

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. How do we choose between what is fair & just, & what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately outspoken & tuned to the voices of the oppressed, Varoufakis presents a guide to modern economics, & its threat to democracy, like no other. Selected from the books & the Weak Suffer What They Must? & Adults in the Room ...

” Austerlitz” is W. G. Sebald`s classic novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport & placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity & he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, ” Austerlitz”
- having avoided all clues that might point to his origin
- finds the past returning to haunt him & he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. ” Austerlitz” is W.G. Sebald`s melancholic masterpiece. ” Mesmeric, haunting & heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald”. (Eileen Battersby, ” Irish Times”). ” Greatness in literature is still possible”. (John Banville, ” Irish Times”, Books of the Year). ”A work of obvious genius”. (” Literary Review”). ”A fusion of the mystical & the solid... His art is a form of justice
- there can be, I think, no higher aim”. (” Evening Standard”). ” Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art”. (” The Times Literary Supplement”).”I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague & their treatment by the Nazis”. (” Observer”). ”A great book by a great writer”. (Boyd Tonkin, ” Independent”). W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944 & died in December 2001. He studied German language & literature in Freiburg, Switzerland & Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester & settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia & is the author of ” The Emigrants”, ” The Rings of Saturn”, ” Vertigo”, ” Austerlitz”, ” After Nature”, ” On the Natural History of Destruction”, ” Campo Santo”, ” Unrecounted”, ”A Place in the Country”. His selected poetry is published in a volume called ” Across the Land & the Water”.


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Map No. 10029, Austevoll, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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One of the titles in the topographic survey of the Svalbard group still published only in a black & white version, without geographical names. These maps cover parts of the northern & north-eastern Spitzbergen, Nordaustlandet, Edgeøya & some of the small islands. The western coast, central & southern part of Spitzbergen, plus two small islands of Svenskøya & Kongsøyaare are now available in colour versions, with contours at 25-metre intervals, bold relief shading & spot heights. The maps settlements, roads & tracks, working & disused mines, airfields, lighthouses & radio beacons, etc. A grid gives UTM co-ordinates plus latitude in steps of 10` & longitude in 20’. ...

Austin in Texas, with Georgetown & Round Rock, on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Insets provide a more detailed street plan of downtown Austin. Communities covered by this map include Cedar park, Leander, Pflugerville, Rollingwood, San Leanna, Sunset Valley, Village of Volente & West Lake Hills.NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked. ...