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Smithereens: Aquitaine, Scotland and Other Meanderings.
The title of the book Smithereens captures the grief caused by the death of Sharon, my best friend. However, this is no misery memoir. In essence, it's about wringing the most out of our short lives!
A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet
In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather's collaboration with the Nazis; a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery. Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past: prior to immigration he had fought the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler's army swept in. Five years ago, Gabis discovered an unthinkable dimension to her family story: from 1941 to 1943, her grandfather had been Chief of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencio...
The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1945
Presents lists of names of Holocaust victims, including names of parents, place and date of birth and death, place of residence, and occupation, culled from lists found in various institutions and from private sources. Vol. I includes an introduction on the Holocaust in Lithuania, a list of cities and towns where Jews were massacred, a reference list, Web sites relating to Holocaust localities, maps, variant place names, and testimonies (pp. 120-129). The names are not listed alphabetically, but rather according to the source, which is then divided by the running number of the entry in the source database.
From the River to the Sea: Aquitaine, A Place for Me
Ostensibly about a Scottish couple renovating a crumbling farmhouse in Aquitaine that's been in the family for generations on a shoestring budget, this book is really a quirky memoir covering far more than just the renovation. From considering mud, Brexit, ducks, football, political activism, local history, hunters, wine, food, riot police, etc.
The Ecologist
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Гетто Ошмянского Свирского Швянченского уездов
The districts of Ashmyany, Svir, and Švenčionys were formed by the German occupation authorities as part of the Generalkommissariat Lithuania in 1941-43 (today these districts are divided between Lithuania and Belarus). In May 1942, the German authorities conducted a census of the population of the Generalkommissariat Lithuania, including the Jewish inmates of the ghettos who had survived the mass murders of July 1941-April 1942. Pp. 13-118 contain an article by Arūnas Bubnys in Lithuanian, with translations in Russian and English: "Švenčionių, Ašmenos ir Svierių apskričių žydų likimas (1941-1943)" = "Sudba yevreyev Shvyanchyonskovo, Oshmyanskovo i Svirskovo uyezdov (1941-1943)" = "The Fate of the Jews of Švenčionys, Oshmyany and Svir Regions (1941-1943)". Pp. 119-155 present a selection of historical documents and postcards sent from the ghettos, as well as photographs of the sites of mass murder. Pp. 176-633 contain lists of prisoners in the ghettos of the three districts (ghettos of Halshany, Ashmyany, Kreva, Smarhon, Svir, Švenčionis, Vidzy, etc.). Pp. 658-707 contain an index of names.
Вильнюсское гетто
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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden
Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.
ASBO nation
Anti-social behaviour (ASB) has been a major preoccupation of New Labour's project of social and political renewal, with ASBOs a controversial addition to crime and disorder management powers. Thought by some to be a dangerous extension of the power to criminalise, by others as a vital dimension of local governance, there remains a concerning lack of evidence as to whether or not they compound social exclusion. This collection, from an impressive panel of contributors, brings together opinion, commentary, research evidence, professional guidance, debate and critique in order to understand the phenomenon of anti-social behaviour. It considers the earliest available evidence in order to evaluate the Government's ASB strategy, debates contrasting definitions of anti-social behaviour and examines policy and practice issues affected by it. Contributors ask what the recent history of ASB governance tells us about how the issue will develop to shape public and social policies in the years to come. Reflecting the perspectives of practitioners, victims and perpetrators, the book should become the standard text in the field.
