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Krakow Map
ITMB
A folded city map of Krakow with an inset map of the city center at 1:10,000, along with a metropolitan area and regional map.
(PLD42, $10.95) |
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Berlitz Polish Phrase Book & CD
Berlitz Multimedia
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A 224-page phrase book and audio CD, this handy language primer focuses on food, people, fun and the basic phrases for getting around in another language. Compatible with iPod and MPS devices, this bestselling series is geared for travelers.
(PLD69, $14.95) |
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Culture Smart! Poland, A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Greg Allen
GUIDEBOOK
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.
(PLD68, $9.95) |
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Frommer's Krakow Day by Day
Peterjon Cresswell
GUIDEBOOK
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center.
(PLD78, $12.99) |
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Insight Pocket Guide Warsaw
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
With a pull-out map, practical information and ten suggested itineraries, this slim, shirt-pocket guide is perfect for a brief visit to Warsaw.
(PLD51, $13.95) |
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Rough Guide Poland
Mark Salter
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive travel guide, including an excellent historical and cultural overview of Poland.
(PLD09, $22.99) |
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A Traveller's History of Poland
John Radzilowski
HISTORY
A wide-ranging, accessible and effectively condensed brief history of Poland through the 1990s. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries.
(PLD53, $14.95) |
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Bury Me Standing
Isabel Fonseca
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions and folk traditions and examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe.
(EUR09, $14.95) |
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Cracow, An Illustrated History
Zdzislaw Zygulski
HISTORY
A slender history of the Polish city, from its founding to the present day, with 50 black-and-white illustrations. The author is a curator at the National Museum of Cracow.
(PLD33, $12.95) |
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Hitler and the Holocaust
Robert S. Wistrich
HISTORY
A short history of the cultural and political circumstances surrounding the genocide of the Jews. Wistrich looks closely at Anti-Semitism in Germany, Europe and abroad in an attempt to understand the evil unleashed during World War II.
(EUR114, $15.00) |
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Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore
Sophie Hodorowitz Knab
Mary Anne Knab
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Organized by months and holidays, this book surveys traditions and customs of the past and present. While many of the celebrations have been lost over the years, Knab rejuvenates interest in these unique, oft-forgotten ways.
(PLD19, $22.50) |
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Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Israel Gutman
HISTORY
An account of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi control, gleaned from the author's first-hand experience. He also places the ghetto experience in the context of Jewish history in general.
(PLD17, $16.95) |
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The Grooves of Change, Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium
J.F. Brown
HISTORY
A survey of the events from the fall of communism to 2000 by a leading scholar. Brown discusses social and political change in the region, prospects for the future -- and the growing economic rift between East Central and South Eastern Europe.
(EUR90, $23.95) |
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The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Tina Rosenberg
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
In this groundbreaking book, a journalist reports on how the newly democratized people of East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have confronted the horrors of their former governments.
(EUR54, $16.95) |
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The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918
Piotr S. Wandyc
HISTORY
A scholarly history of Poland during the period when it was divided between Prussia, Austria and Russia. Originally published in 1975, this volume in the "History of East Central Europe" series is the most comprehensive book on the subject.
(PLD35, $35.00) |
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The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Timothy Garton Ash
HISTORY
With a chapter each on Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, this eyewitness account by an astute journalist and historian shows these vibrant cities during a time of great change.
(GER36, $13.95) |
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The Polish Revolution, Solidarity
Timothy Garton Ash
HISTORY
The definitive account of the rise -- and fall -- of the Solidarity movement in Poland by an astute observer. Garton Ash combines research, interview and analysis in weaving his vivid tale. Third edition.
(PLD50, $25.00) |
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The Polish Way, A Thousand Year History of the Poles and Their Culture
Adam Zamoyski
HISTORY
An excellent overview of Polish culture and history, comprehensive, engaging and balanced. Zamoyski focuses especially on the period 1400-1800, writing with flair and authority about the origins of Polish nationhood. With maps and illustrations throughout.
(PLD03, $19.95) |
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Another Beauty
Adam Zagajewski
Clare Cavanagh
Susan Sontag
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A quirky, lyrical memoir of coming of age in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s by the influential poet of the Polish New Wave.
(PLD37, $19.95) |
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The Struggle and the Triumph, An Autobiography
Lech Walesa
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The inside story of the Solidarity movement by the man who made it happen. Walesa draws a detailed portrait of his rise from the Gdansk shipyards to become the first freely elected president of Poland.
(PLD05, $20.99) |
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The Zookeeper's Wife, A War Story
Diane Ackerman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A marvelous storyteller, Ackerman recalls madcap, bohemian Warsaw before WWII, the devastation of the city by Nazi bombs in 1939, the horrors of the holocaust and heroic efforts in the resistance in this moving tale of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, directors of Warsaw Zoo.
(PLD70, $24.95) |
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski
Barbara Vedder
Jan Kott
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A series of uninflected, austere stories, published in Polish after WWII -- and drawn from the author's experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau from 1943 to 1945.
(GER95, $14.00) |
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Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories
Hanna Krall
Madeline G. Levine
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Krall reveals the lives and strange trajectories of her compatriots in these poignant stories, profiles and interviews of survivors of WWII.
(PLD49, $14.95) |
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Polish Writers on Writing
Adam (EDT Zagajewski
ANTHOLOGY
Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a literary culture considered one of the most important and influential of our time.
(PLD63, $24.95) |
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Cosmos and Pornografia, Two Novels
Witold Gombrowicz
Eric Mosbacher
Alastair Hamilton
LITERATURE
Two absurd, unconventional novels, both set in Poland, by a modern master of Polish literature. Grombrowicz toys with Polish national traditions and social conventions in these blackly humorous works.
(PLD16, $14.00) |
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale I & II
Art Spiegelman
LITERATURE
The Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of Spiegelman's father and family in Poland as World War II erupts. He renders the story of his father's early life, Nazi occupation of Poland, survival in a concentration camp and other events as a stark graphic novel.
(PLD22, $29.90) |
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Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
LITERATURE
A landmark in literature about the Holocaust, this is the compelling story of the transformation of a Nazi tycoon and his rescue of 1,300 Jews from the concentration camps near Plaszow.
(GER51, $15.00) |
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Shosha
Isaac Bashevis Singer
LITERATURE
A powerful novel of love set in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw as World War II erupts around the protagonists.
(PLD18, $15.00) |
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The Doll
Boleslaw Prus
David Welsh
Darius Tolczyk
Anna Zaranko
LITERATURE
An 1890 landmark of Polish realist fiction, set among the middle classes in Warsaw in the late 19th century. Richly plotted, the book is wonderfully evocative of old Warsaw, and also a consideration of the value of revolution.
(PLD32, $19.95) |
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The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
LITERATURE
The acclaimed novel based on the author's own experiences in World War II Poland. The often disturbing account of a young Jewish boy's journey through rural Poland as he tries to evade everyone from SS officers to anti-Semitic Polish peasants will leave an indelible impression.
(PLD07, $14.00) |
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The Polish Officer, A Novel
Alan Furst
LITERATURE
Rich in historical detail, this novel is a tale of espionage and bravery in WWII-era Poland.
(PLD62, $13.95) |
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The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz
LITERATURE
These remarkable stories draw on Schulz's childhood and the people, places and events of provincial Poland in the early 20th century.
(PLD24, $15.00) |
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To Begin Where I Am, The Selected Prose of Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz
Madeline G. Levine
Bogdana Carpenter
LITERATURE
Culled from a lifetime's worth of publications, these essays by the Lithuanian-born Polish poet and Nobel laureate Milosz address the Polish experience at home and abroad in the 20th century.
(PLD25, $16.00) |
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Bradt Guide Central and Eastern European Wildlife
Gerard Gorman
FIELD GUIDE
An illustrated guide to the plants, mammals, birds and other wildlife of the region.
(CEU36, $25.99) |
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