Shtetl Love Song is a requiem for the pre-war Jewish shtetl, for a people & a way of life that was destroyed. Set in the rural Lithuanian landscape on the eve of World War II, ` Shtetl Love Song` is full of tender affection, soft irony, & sharp observations. Guided by the memory of his beloved mother, the masterful narrator takes us into the very midst of his enchanted family world, recreating the past that is irrevocably destroyed & yet fully alive in his memory. Kanovich, himself a child of a Lithuanian shtetl who survived the Holocaust almost by a miracle, made it his mission to serve, against all odds, as a custodian of the collective memory of generations of Litvaks, Lithuanian Jews.`
- Mikhail Krutikov, Professor of Slavic & Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The novel won the Liudas Dovydenas Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Writers` Union. Winner the Liudo Dovydeno Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Writers` Union
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Indexed street plan of Shumen at 1:10, 000 with maps of the Shumen Plateau Nature Park & the surrounding region, plus an extensive gazetteer of various services, including hotels, banks, restaurants, entertainment, etc. On one side is a street plan of the city showing bus routes with line numbers & stops, & annotated with symbols indicating various facilities. District names & major streets are also shown in Latin alphabet
- all the rest in Cyrillic only. On the reverse is an extensive gazetteer of various services in the city & notes on its history & landmarks. Map legend & all the text in these sections include English. Also provided is a map of the Shumen Plateau Nature Park with English language notes but all the place names & a legend in Bulgarian only, plus a road & rail map of the surrounding region. Neither map indicates its scale.
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Shut End & Tansey Green in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers an area west of Dudley & the northern fringe of Kingswinford, including St Mark`s church & St Mary`s church, but transport & industry dominate. Features include the Stourbridge Extension Canal, GWR Kingswinford Branch, numerous mineral railways, Planet Colliery, Shutend Colliery, Stourbridge Extension Colliery, Shutend Old Colliery, Himley Colliery, several disused pits, Corbyn`s Hall iron works, Oak Farm brick works, Hunt`s corn mill, several brick works, tramway, etc. Directories to Kingswinford & Pensnett are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Even by the standards of a sport that requires enormous stamina & capacity for suffering, Jens Voigt is in a class on his own. Beloved by cycling fans for his madcap one-man breakaways as much as his sense of humour "able catchphrases, Jens is one of the most popular personalities in cycling. Jens was born near Hamburg, & came up through the East German system before the Wall came down. He got into the national team through the German army, before signing for his first big team. In many ways he is cycling’s anti-star; despite arguably spending more time at the front of the Tour de France than any other rider he has only worn the yellow jersey twice as his efforts have always been in the service of others. Jens embodies the best of cycling’s qualities – loyalty to his team, sacrifice, & devotion to the sport. He says, ‘I’m not a head person, I’m more of a heart & guts guy. That’s how I race.’ Shut Up Legs is a funny, insightful & entertaining look at the tough realities of professional cycling, told in Jens’s trademark irreverent & inimitable style. ...

Even by the standards of a sport that requires enormous stamina & capacity for suffering, Jens Voigt is in a class on his own. Beloved by cycling fans for his madcap one-man breakaways as much as his sense of humour "able catchphrases, Jens is one of the most popular personalities in cycling. Jens was born near Hamburg, & came up through the East German system before the Wall came down. He got into the national team through the German army, before signing for his first big team. In many ways he is cycling`s anti-star; despite arguably spending more time at the front of the Tour de France than any other rider he has only worn the yellow jersey twice as his efforts have always been in the service of others. Jens embodies the best of cycling`s qualities
- loyalty to his team, sacrifice, & devotion to the sport. He says, `I`m not a head person, I`m more of a heart & guts guy. That`s how I race.` Shut Up Legs will be a funny, insightful & entertaining look at the tough realities of professional cycling, told in Jens`s trademark irreverent & inimitable style.
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A re-envisaging of Shakespeare`s The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner & our great chronicler of Jewish life. ` Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?` With an absent wife & a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector & philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire`s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It`s the beginning of a remarkable friendship. ...

It is winner of the Booker Prize. ” The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe.” (Mail on Sunday). As Seen on BBC Imagine. ` Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?` With an absent wife & a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector & philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire`s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It`s the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery & lavish parties. She shares prejudices & a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D` Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch`s daughter
- & put a pound of flesh on the line. Howard Jacobson`s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew & a merciful human being in the modern world. ” Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream.” (Evening Standard).
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Shymkent (Chimkent) region at 1:500, 000 in a series of detailed, contoured maps of the mountains of Central Asia derived from the Soviet era topographic survey but with transliterated place names & an English language map legend. Maps in this series provide coverage of the Tien Shan & Pamir Mountains, with the whole of Kyrgyzstan, northern Tajikistan, plus the adjoining regions of Uzbekistan (including Tashkent & Samarkand), southern Kazakhstan (with Almaty) & the Sinkiang Province of China. The maps have contours at 100m intervals, enhanced by altitude colouring & relief shading, with plenty of spot heights & names of various mountain chains, peaks, valleys, etc. Additional colouring and/or graphics indicate glaciers, cliffs, rock boulders, sands, ridges & dunes, mud & salt flats, different types of vegetation, etc. The maps show all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale, including detailed presentation of local roads & tracks, railways, aerodromes, isolated settlements, national & internal administrative borders, etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at 20’ & 30’ respectively. Map legend is in English. The series was prepared in mid-2000s when all the place names have been transliterated from the original Russian mapping & given, where possible, modern local names for larger towns. Each map provides a guide to the transliteration, as well as English & German glossary for the abbreviations. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

About the series: Maps designed specifically for the trekker, presenting the topography by line drawings of mountain ridges, with main peaks & passes shown with their height above sea level. The maps also show rivers & settlements & clearly indicate trekking routes. On the reverse are descriptions of suggested routes & other information about the area. ...

Sialkot on an indexed plan with names of districts, colonies & main streets. The plan names various public buildings, industrial & agricultural establishments, etc. & marks locations of religious buildings of various denominations, hotels & rest houses & petrol stations, etc. ...