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Balkan Tragedy, Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War
• Susan Woodward
• HISTORY
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A scholarly, detailed analysis of Yugoslavia's collapse, published by the Brookings Institution, where the author is a senior policy fellow.
(BLK18, $24.95)
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Baroque and Rococo Art
• Germain Bazin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An excellent illustrated survey of Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, this volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series is a good companion to the golden age of Middle Europe.
(EUR53, $16.95)
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The Black Sea, A History
• Charles King
• HISTORY
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A brisk narrative history of the region showing the Black Sea as uniting diverse cultures in the Balkans, Central Asia and Middle East.
(EUR173, $29.95)
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Bradt Guide Transylvania
• Lucinda Mallows
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN OCTOBER
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This comprehensive guide focuses on culture, nature and responsible travel. Mallows includes sights and activities throughout the region.
(EUR311, $24.99)
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Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays
• Stanislaw Baranczak
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Essays on writers and writing from an Eastern European intellectual and poet.
(EUR139, $12.50)
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Byzantium After Byzantium
• Nicolae Iorga
• HISTORY
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Originally published in 1935, this book details the political, cultural, and intellectual impact of the Byzantine Empire on Romania and Europe.
(EUR266, $39.95)
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Central Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful physical relief map of Central Europe at a scale of 1:2,000,000.
(EUR12, $11.95)
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Central Europe, Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
• Lonnie Johnson
• HISTORY
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An academic survey of the social, political, and economic past of Central Europe, and the conflicts that stir modern-day European politics.
(EUR69, $39.95)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After
• R. J. Crampton
• HISTORY
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A well-written, insightful scholarly country-by-county history of modern Eastern Europe.
(EUR273, $42.95)
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The Gates of the Forest, A Novel
• Elie Wiesel
• LITERATURE
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Young Gregor flees from Nazis in Wiesel's philosophical novel.
(EUR269, $14.00)
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The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube)
• Peter Esterhazy
• LITERATURE
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A confounding, postmodern novel, this meditation on travel, the Danube, and its history is great fun for those with an appreciation for wordplay and intellectual games.
(HGR11, $19.00)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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The Grooves of Change, Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium
• J.F. Brown
• HISTORY
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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
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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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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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Historical Atlas of Central Europe
• Paul Mogocsi
• HISTORY
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An atlas illuminating the shifting borders and alliances in the region.
(EUR33, $45.00)
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Hitler and the Holocaust
• Robert S. Wistrich
• HISTORY
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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, $13.95)
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Imagining the Balkans
• Maria Todorova
• HISTORY
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A challenging book, but well worth the effort for its insight, this collection of essays examines in scholarly and critical detail the roots of our stereotypes and misconceptions about the Balkans.
(BLK19, $24.95)
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The Impossible Country, A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia
• Brian Hall
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Beautifully written, this chronicle of the people, politics and mood of the Yugoslavia as it crumbles is an engaging snapshot and elegy.
(BLK22, $23.95)
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The Improbable Voyage
• Tristan Jones
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Jones, an inveterate Welsh sailor, adventurer and storyteller, channels Eastern Europe circa 1985 in his tale of a tough voyage along the Rhine and Danube to the Black Sea.
(EUR156, $16.50)
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Inventing Eastern Europe, The Map of Civilization on the Mind of Enlightenment
• Larry Wolff
• HISTORY
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The author, a professor of history, looks back to Catherine the Great, Rousseau, Voltaire and Western (mis)perceptions of Eastern Europe during the late 18th century.
(EUR34, $29.95)
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The Jew in the Modern World, A Documentary History
• Paul Mendes-Flohr
• Johan Reinhard
• RELIGION
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A big collection of primary documents on Jewish thought and history in the modern period. It's a sourcebook (and popular university text) illustrating the transformation of religion, culture, and identity from the 17th century to 1948.
(GEN224, $64.95)
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Journal 1935-1944, The Fascist Years
• Mihail Sebastian
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The remarkable diaries of the young Romanian novelist, playwright and poet, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(EUR272, $36.00)
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Lonely Planet Central Europe
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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With dozens of maps, color photographs and sections on history and culture, this practical guide introduces Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and their neighbors.
(EUR94, $28.99)
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Lonely Planet Romania & Moldova
• leif petterson
• Robert Reid
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to Romania and Moldova.
(EUR96, $24.99)
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The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
• Timothy Garton Ash
• HISTORY
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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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National Geographic Traveler Romania
• Caroline Juler
• GUIDEBOOK
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A traveler's guide to the history, nature, culture, and attractions of Romania, thoroughly illustrated in dependable National Geographic style.
(EUR278, $22.95)
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Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
• Rogers Brubaker
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Brubaker uses the village of Cluj, a small Transylvanian hamlet with a significant Hungarian minority, to examine nationalist and ethnic identity.
(EUR265, $55.00)
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Natural Acts, A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
• David Quammen
• SCIENCE
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Quammen augments this new edition of his debut collection of essays with a section of his best work since 1985.
(NAT134, $24.95)
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Noah's Flood, The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
• William Ryan
• Walter Pitman
• SCIENCE
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Yes, there was a flood! So report the scientist-authors in this vivid account of the geology of the Black Sea. They draw on biblical history, marine geology, archaeology and mythology to demonstrate that the Black Sea was breached by the Mediterranean 7,600 years ago.
(BLK42, $15.00)
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Ovid VI, Tristia Ex Ponto
• A.L. Wheeler
• Ovid
• LITERATURE
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Ovid's account of his years exiled in Tomis, now the Romanian port city Costanza, is a fascinating portrait of local tribes and life on the Black Sea coast. Includes both the Latin text and a good translation.
(EUR312, $24.00)
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The Pallas Guide to Romania
• John Villiers
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN JANUARY
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An in-depth illustrated guide to the culture, art, architecture food an attractions of Romania. With maps and limited practical travel information.
(EUR299, $29.95)
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The Phantom Church and Other Stories
• Georgiana Farnoaga
• LITERATURE
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An anthology of stories from the most well-known Romanian authors of the 20th-century.
(EUR158, $21.95)
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Plagues and Peoples
• William McNeill
• HISTORY
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This book traces the waves of epidemics that raged through Europe.
(EUR26, $15.95)
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Romanian Modernism, The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920-1940
• Luminita Machedon
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A gorgeously illustrated history of the oft-forgotten architectural renaissance of interwar Bucharest.
(EUR245, $68.00)
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Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule
• Peter F. Sugar
• HISTORY
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A scholarly survey of five centuries of Ottoman rule in the Balkans, from the Empire's first advances in the 14th century up to its decline in the 19th century.
(BLK20, $32.50)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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We Now Know, Rethinking Cold War History
• John Lewis Gaddis
• HISTORY
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An analytical synthesis of Cold War events presented with the value of hindsight.
(RUS191, $24.95)
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The Witch of Portobello
• Paulo Coelho
• LITERATURE
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Coelho's mesmerizing novel follows the quest of an orphaned Romanian peasant girl with magical powers on her travels across Europe and the Middle East in search of acceptance and enlightenment.
(BLK102, $13.95)
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Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories
• Hanna Krall
• Madeline G. Levine
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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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A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age
• William Manchester
• HISTORY
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In this wide-ranging study, Manchester evokes in vivid detail the great figures and daily life of the 16th century, with information on Henry VIII, Magellan, Borgia, da Vinci and Martin Luther.
(EUR06, $15.99)
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Yiddish Folktales
• Beatrice Weinreich
• LITERATURE
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A collection of 178 tales, many very short, of princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe.
(CEU33, $18.00)
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe
• Dennis Hupchick
• Harold Cox
• HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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The changing borders and complex history of Eastern Europe as told through 52 maps and accompanying essays, organized chronologically. An excellent reference, the book shows the rise of Poland, changing borders of the Ottoman Empire, Hapsburgs and fate of Yugoslavia in admirable clarity.
(EUR138, $19.95)
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