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Culture Smart, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Elizabeth Hammond
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN JULY
A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice
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Balkan Ghosts, A Journey through History
Robert D. Kaplan
HISTORY
Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with his travels in this portrait of the region.
(BLK02, $16.00) |
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
Rebecca West
Christopher Hitchens
HISTORY
First published in 1941, this monumental work explores the complex history of Yugoslavia, its heroes, politics and culture. It's a big, challenging book -- some call it the best ever written on the Balkans.
(BLK04, $25.00) |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Tradition Betrayed
Robert J. Donia
John V. Fine
HISTORY
Written by two American historians who knew the region well during the course of the war, this book covers the complex history of religion and identity in Bosnia in light of the 1992 war.
(BLK01, $30.00) |
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Bosnia, A Cultural History
Ivan Lovrenovic
HISTORY
Prominent Bosnian writer and editor Lovrenovic offers an illuminating, important portrait of his country's geography, politics, history and culture from the palaeolithic to the 1992-95 war.
(BOS33, $50.00) |
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Bosnia, A Short History
Malcolm Noel
HISTORY
A well-researched and elegantly written history of Bosnia from its origins to the 1990s by a British journalist and political columnist.
(BLK54, $25.00) |
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Kosovo, War and Revenge
Tim Judah
HISTORY
A superbly reported and dramatic political history of origins, conflagration and aftermath of the Serb-Albanian conflict. In this second edition Judah updates the story to the fall of Milosevic.
(BLK104, $21.00) |
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Like Eating a Stone, Surviving the Past in Bosnia
Wojciech Tochman
HISTORY
A portrait of devastation in the wake of the Bosnian Wars, told through stories of survivors searching for family members and their remains.
(BLK132, $20.00) |
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Love Thy Neighbor, A Story of War
Peter Maass
HISTORY
A gripping, personal account of the war, its causes and consequences by a Washington Post reporter.
(BLK10, $14.95) |
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Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans
Dennis Hupchick
HISTORY
The changing borders and complex history of the Balkans, clearly and concisely shown through 50 double-page maps, accompanied by essays and organized chronologically.
(BLK41, $19.95) |
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Sarajevo, A Biography
Robert J. Donia
HISTORY
Donia captures the sprit of Sarajevo and its role as cosmopolitan center, in this lively, personal cultural, social, and political history of the city.
(BLK99, $35.00) |
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Rough Guide Music Balkan Gypsies
Rough Guide World Music
MUSIC
Roots music journalist and record collector Dan Rosenberg delivers a rollicking introduction to some of the most prominent bands and singers from all over the region. This is authentic Gypsy music at its, with captivating brass bands, violin and dulcimer virtuosos.
(BLK93, $14.95) |
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Fools Rush In
Bill Carter
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The inspiring story of one man's experiences in war-torn Bosnia -- and the events that led to involving U2 in a project that would allow the citizens of Sarajevo to speak to the world.
(BOS34, $14.95) |
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The Fracture Zone, My Return to the Balkans
Simon Winchester
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Winchester, who first encountered the Balkans on a road trip in the 1970s, returns to the region on a heart-wrenching, dramatic tour of the country in the midst of the 1999 Kosovo crisis. In his familiar and engaging style, he combines reflection, travel and interview in this portrait of a troubled place.
(BLK64, $13.00) |
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The Suitcase, Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia
Julie Mertus
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An anthology of refugee accounts, mainly the stories of Bosnian Mulsims and women who fled from civil wars between spring 1992 and late 1995. The mosaic of voices gives a stark and personal force to descriptions of the devastation in the region.
(BLK126, $21.95) |
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Death and the Dervish
Mesa Selimovic
LITERATURE
The tale of Sheikh Nuruddin, the self-serving dervish of the title, set during Ottoman rule in 18th-century Bosnia. Selimovic (1910-1982) was a well-known Bosnian Muslim author.
(BLK69, $24.00) |
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Sasa Stanisic
LITERATURE
NEW
Stanisic's powerful, vivid novel shows the calamity of war in the Balkans through the eyes of a young Bosnian refugee from Visegrad.
(BOS32, $14.00) |
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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
LITERATURE
NEW
March turns the tale of a real book, the Sarajevo Haggadah, hidden from the Nazi's and safely ensconced in a bank vault as the national library burned in 1992, into a exhilarating modern novel, with an Australian conservator -- and mystery -- at its center.
(EUR284, $15.00) |
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Pretty Birds, A Novel
Scott Simon
LITERATURE
In this bold first novel Simon turns his experiences as a journalist in war-torn Bosnia into a powerful tale of family, ethnicity and survival.
(BLK63, $13.95) |
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Sarajevo Marlboro
Miljenko Jergovic
Stela Tomasevic
LITERATURE
Journalist Jergovic presents brief, affecting snapshots and impressions of war-torn Sarajevo in this stunning debut collection of his stories.
(BLK91, $14.00) |
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven Galloway
LITERATURE
A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war.
(BOS35, $2008.00) |
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The Lazarus Project
Aleksandar Hemon
LITERATURE
NEW
A tale historical sweep, contemporary insight and dazzling originality, cuting between events in Chicago in 1908 and the Balkans of today.
(BLK128, $16.00) |
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The Question of Bruno
Aleksandar Hemon
LITERATURE
(BLK81, $13.00) |
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Birds of Europe
Lars Svensson
Dan Zetterstrom
Killian Mullarney
FIELD GUIDE
FAVORITE
COMING IN OCTOBER
A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95) |
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