Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year old Lore Segal. For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people`s houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly working class Hoopers in Kent, to the genteel Miss Douglas & her sister in Guildford. Few understood the terrors she had fled, or the crushing responsibility of trying to help her parents gain a visa. Amazingly she succeeds & two years later her parents arrive; their visa allows them to work as domestic servants
- a humiliation for which they must be grateful. In Other People`s Houses Segal evokes with deep compassion, clarity & calm the experience of a child uprooted from a loving home to become stranded among strangers.
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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016 We all depend on the finance sector. We need it to store our money, manage our payments, finance housing stock, restore infrastructure, fund retirement & support new business. But these roles comprise only a tiny sliver of the sector`s activity: the vast majority of lending is within the finance sector. So what is it all for? What is the purpose of this activity? & why is it so profitable? John Kay, a distinguished economist with wide experience of the financial sector, argues that the industry`s perceived profitability is partly illusory, & partly an appropriation of wealth created elsewhere
- of other people`s money. The financial sector, he shows, has grown too large, detached itself from ordinary business & everyday life, & has become an industry that mostly trades with itself, talks to itself, & judges itself by reference to standards which it has itself generated. & the outside world has itself adopted those standards, bailing out financial institutions that have failed all of us through greed & mismanagement. We need finance, but today we have far too much of a good thing. In Other People`s Money John Kay shows in his inimitable style what has gone wrong in the dark heart of finance.
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Travel writing is a genre monopolised by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the ”exotic”, it sought to make sense of other landscapes & cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references. This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing
- the work of travellers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia & Africa in English translation. Encompassing spiritual journeys, the personal, ethnography, natural history, geography, cartography, navigation, politics, history, religion & diplomacy, it shows that Africans & Asians also travelled the world & left travel writing worth reading. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel & writing about travel as a European privilege, & the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time & culture. Selections include The Travels of a Japanese Monk (c. 838), Al-Abdari, The Disgruntled Traveller (c.1290), A Korean Official`s Account of China (1488), The Poetry of Basho`s Road (1689), Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British (1890).
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From a renowned graphic artist & activist, an incredible portrait of life in Russia today ` Victoria Lomasko`s gritty, street-level view of the great Russian people masterfully intertwines quiet desperation with open defiance. Her drawings have an on-the-spot immediacy that I envy. She is one of the brave ones`
- Joe Sacco, author of Palestine What does it mean to live in Russia today? What is it like to grow up in a forgotten city, to be a migrant worker or to grow old & seek solace in the Orthodox church? For the past eight years, graphic artist & activist Victoria Lomasko has been travelling around Russia & talking to people as she draws their stories. She spent time in dying villages where schoolteachers outnumber students; she stayed with sex workers in the city of Nizhny Novgorod; she went to juvenile prisons & spoke to kids who have no contact with the outside world; & she attended every major political rally in Moscow. The result is an extraordinary portrait of Russia in the Putin years -- a country full of people who have been left behind, many of whom are determined to fight for their rights & for progress against impossible odds. Empathetic, honest, funny, & often devastating, Lomasko`s portraits show us a side of Russia that is hardly ever seen.
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Discover words to surprise, delight & enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, & for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible gift for lovers of words & those lost for words alike. ...

Otley in 1906 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 most of the town & extends east to Russell Farm & Midgley Farm. Features include the NER Otley Branch with station, All Saints church, Bondgate, Kirkgate, Boroughgate, Walkergate, Cross Green, Market Place, Gay Lane, Bridge Street, Cattle Market, Manor House, Chevin Leather Works, Otley Bridge, Newall Hall (top left corner), Wharfeside, paper mill, Ashfield Foundry, Wharfedale Iron Works, cemetery, etc. On the reverse is a commercial directory of Otley in 1889. 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. ...

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- Mariazell
- Erlauftal
- Lunzer See – Scheibbs area of eastern Austria presented at 1:50, 000 in a series of


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Map No. 10065, Otta, 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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Ottawa with Gatineau on an indexed, double-sided, waterproof & tear-resistant street plan. On one side are the central districts of Ottawa, presented at 1:26, 500, with coverage extending to show road access to the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. On the reverse coverage of the main map is extended across the river to include Hull & Gatineau. Also included here is an enlargement showing downtown Ottawa & Hull in greater detail at 1:15, 000. Street plans from the Map Art / Canadian Cartographics Corporation / JDM Géo publishing group are usually produced at scales around 1:25, 000 to 1:35, 000 with smaller towns often shown at more detailed scales. All plans have street indexes. Plans of larges cities usually include an enlargement for the downtown area. Plans grouping together several smaller towns often have an overview map showing the whole of the relevant region. The plans have colouring to indicate commercial, institutional or industrial use, etc. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & one way streets are marked. A range of symbols shows, as appropriate, parking facilities, bus terminals, metro and/or railway stations, various public facilities & services, places of interest, recreational centres, etc. Map legends for cities & towns in the French speaking part of the country are sometimes in French only. To see the list of currently available Canadian street plans & pocket atlases form the Map Art / Canadian Cartographics Corporation / JDM Géo publishing group, including waterproof & tear-resistant Fast Track titles, please click on the series link. ...

Pocket size street atlas of Ottawa & Gatineau at 1:30, 000 with an enlargement showing the downtown area in greater detail at 1:20, 000. The index

Includes:: a list of places of interest. Street plans & pocket atlases from the Map Art / Canadian Cartographics Corporation / JDM Géo publishing group are usually produced at scales around 1:25, 000 to 1:35, 000 with smaller towns often shown at more detailed scales. All plans have street indexes. Plans of larges cities usually include an enlargement for the downtown area. Plans grouping together several smaller towns often have an overview map showing the whole of the relevant region. The plans have colouring to indicate commercial, institutional or industrial use, etc. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & one way streets are marked. A range of symbols shows, as appropriate, parking facilities, bus terminals, metro and/or railway stations, various public facilities & services, places of interest, recreational centres, etc. Map legends for cities & towns in the French speaking part of the country are sometimes in French only. To see the list of currently available Canadian street plans & pocket atlases form the Map Art / Canadian Cartographics Corporation / JDM Géo publishing group, including waterproof & tear-resistant Fast Track titles, please click on the series link.

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