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These 4 items are available for $78, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRUS116)

Bradt Guide Ukraine  •  Andrew Evans GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES This guide in the popular British series features comprehensive practical information and provides a short section on the country's history and culture. With over 30 maps. (UKR12, $24.99)
Borderland, A Journey Through the History of Ukraine  •  Anna Reid HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES A lively survey of the traditions and history of Ukraine, organized geographically. Reid, who was for three years the Kiev correspondent for the Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this insightful portrait of the region. (RUS84, $17.00)
Return to Ukraine  •  Ania Savage BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2000 •  HARD COVER  • 272 PAGES An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote. (RUS126, $29.95)
Ukraine Map  •  ITMB MAP A map of Ukraine, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Two Sides. 27 X 39 inches. (RUS86, $11.95)

Kiev Map  •  Freytag & Berndt    •  A detailed street map (1:15,000). (UKR17, $11.95)
Culture Smart! Ukraine  •  Anna Shevchenko   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (UKR14, $13.35)
Lonely Planet Ukrainian Phrasebook  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handy pocket phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (UKR19, $8.99)
Black Sea  •  Neal Ascherson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the history of the region in this skillful portrait. (RUS46, $18.00)
Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917  •  Michael F. Hamm   • HISTORY  •  From medieval center to important city in Imperial Russia, this scholarly book is a wonderfully informative cultural history of the city and especially its 19th-century legacy. (RUS56, $42.00)
Odessa, A History, 1794-1914  •  Patricia Herlihy   • HISTORY  •  Herlihy contrasts Odessa's rapid development as a cosmopolitan, polyglot port city, with the growing tension within its society in the years leading up to WWI in this lively scholarly history. (UKR18, $29.95)
The Cossacks, An Illustrated History  •  John Ure   • HISTORY  •  In this lively, beautifully illustrated overview, a career diplomat (and frequent visitor to the region) explores the history of the Cossacks in Southern Russia and Central Asia and their role in world affairs. (RUS135, $24.95)
The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation  •  Andrew Wilson   • HISTORY  •  An outstanding guide to modern identity, politics and history in Ukraine, highly recommended for an understanding of the geopolitics of the region and, especially, uneasy relations with mother Russia. (RUS125, $19.00)
Everything is Illuminated  •  Jonathan Safran Foer   • LITERATURE  •  The very modern (and very funny) tale of a young man and the search for his Ukrainian heritage. Foer plumbs the humor and tragedy of the American protagonist on a journey back to Ukraine. (RUS168, $13.95)
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel  •  Isaac Babel   • LITERATURE  •  An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales. (RUS171, $17.95)
The Cossacks  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Peter Constantine  •  Cynthia Ozick   • LITERATURE  •  A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough and ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $11.95)
The Fixer  •  Bernard Malamud   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Tsarist Russia, this well-known novel by Malamud tells the story of a young Jewish boy from Kiev wrongly accused of murder. (RUS271, $15.00)
The Twelve Chairs  •  Ilia Arnoldovich Ilf  •  Yevgeny Petrov   • LITERATURE  •  In this classic satiric novel, an unemployed con artist and a former nobleman in post-revolution Soviet Russia travel from Moscow to Georgia in search of chairs containing hidden jewels. (RUS356, $22.00)
The White Guard  •  Mikhail Bulgakov  •  Marian Schwartz   • LITERATURE  •  Set on the eve of war in Kiev in 1918, the royalist Turbin family is at the center of Bulgakov's first novel, newly translated. (RUS58, $18.00)