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Balkan Tragedy, Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War • Susan Woodward HISTORY • 1995 • PAPER • 536 PAGES A scholarly, detailed analysis of Yugoslavia's collapse, published by the Brookings Institution, where the author is a senior policy fellow. Woodward places the Bosnia-Herzegovina war in an international context, showing how Western Europe and the U.S. policies contributed to the explosion of violence. (BLK18, $24.95)
Balkans South-East Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt 2008 • MAP A nicely detailed travelers map of Southeast Europe from Prague east to Odessa and south to Italy, Greece and western Turkey, including the Danube, Romania, Bulgaria and the Black Sea from Odessa to Istanbul. At a scale of 1:2,000,000. One Side. 40x35 inches. (EUR147, $14.95)
Baroque and Rococo Art • Germain Bazin ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1985 • PAPER • 288 PAGES 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, $21.95)
The Black Sea, A History • Charles King HISTORY • 2005 • PAPER • 296 PAGES This brisk narrative history takes in the history, culture and politics of the region from 700 B.C. to the 1990s. King argues that, like the Mediterranean, the Black Sea unites diverse languages and cultures (Greek, Roman, Armenian, Persian, Scythian, Byzantine, Ottoman, Tatar and Mongol). The book opens with a chapter on Pontus Euxinus, an ancient Greek site along the shores of the Black Sea. Charles King is a professor in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. With four maps and 15 black-and-white photographs. (EUR173, $35.00)
Bradt Guide Transylvania • Lucinda Mallows GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 352 PAGES A comprehensive guide in the growing series by Bradt, noteworthy for its focus on culture, nature and responsible travel. The author includes sights and activities throughout the country. (EUR311, $24.99)
Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays • Stanislaw Baranczak CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1992 • PAPER • 258 PAGES Poet and professor Stanislaw Baranczak, a fixture on the Eastern European intellectual scene in the second half of the 20th century, reflects on writers and writing in this collection of stimulating and insightful essays. (EUR139, $12.50)
Central Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt 2010 • MAP This colorful regional European map, like the sister map Europe Grand Tour (EUR185), covers from Paris and Amsterdam to Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Rome and Dubrovnik. One Side. 49x34 inches. (EUR12, $14.95)
Central Europe, Enemies, Neighbors, Friends • Lonnie Johnson HISTORY • 2010 • PAPER • 382 PAGES An academic survey of the social, political, and economic past of Central Europe, and the conflicts that stir modern-day European politics. From medieval to modern times, the formative historical events of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia, are all introduced. Johnson is especially successful in analyzing the struggle of small nations in the face of imperial powers and how these experiences have created a diverse European heritage. With maps. Awarded an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by Choice. (EUR69, $47.25)
Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley HISTORY • 2006 • PAPER • 240 PAGES The entertaining history of a most unusual eighteenth-century European celebrity. Clara the Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe in 1741 by the Dutch sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer, and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of heads of state such as Louis XV and Frederick the Great. A marvelous and unique look at the introduction of Eastern wildlife into the Western world. (FRN536, $12.00)
The Dacian Stones Speak • Paul Lachlan MacKendrick ARCHAEOLOGY • 2000 • PAPER • 368 PAGES With this exciting introduction to the ancient province of Dacia, noted classicist and archaeologist MacKendrick turns his attention to an old area little known to the English-speaking world. He examines its history from the Neolithic culture to the 165 years of urban culture under Roman rule. Also examined is the durability of the Greco-Roman heritage that is reflected in the religious and cultural orientation of present-day Romania. (EUR367, $36.95)
Dracula Is Dead • Jim Rosapepe • Sheilah Kast HISTORY • 2009 • HARD COVER • 424 PAGES Former United States ambassador to Romania Rosapepe and his wife, award-winning journalist Kast, relate their experiences traveling from town to town in Romania. They show how, 20 years after overthrowing Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, it has become a diverse, culturally vibrant and economically successful member of NATO and the European Union. In this engaging account, they travel to Maramures in the north, where the Holocaust took a great toll on the Jewish community that included Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel; to Transylvania, home not just to Vlad Tepes, the real-life Dracula, but to the historic struggles between Romanians and Hungarians and to fascinating spots in-between. (EUR366, $25.95)
Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After • R. J. Crampton HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 526 PAGES A well-written, insightful scholarly country-by-county history of modern Eastern Europe. (EUR273, $43.95)
The Gates of the Forest, A Novel • Elie Wiesel LITERATURE • 1995 • PAPER • 240 PAGES Young Gregor flees from Nazis in Wiesel's philosophical novel. (EUR269, $16.95)
The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube) • Peter Esterhazy LITERATURE • 2000 • PAPER • 246 PAGES 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. Its protagonist is a heroic traveler who communicates in a series of telegrams, narratives and dreamlike monologues. The novel doubles as a stunning travelogue of the Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. (HGR11, $19.00)
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2005 • PAPER • 294 PAGES Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview. (EUR190, $21.95)
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2005 • PAPER • 294 PAGES Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview. (EUR190, $21.95)
The Grooves of Change, Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium • J.F. Brown HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 248 PAGES 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, $25.95)
The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism • Tina Rosenberg CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1996 • PAPER • 437 PAGES 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. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. (EUR54, $17.95)
Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 256 PAGES 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. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people. (EUR189, $15.00)
Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 256 PAGES 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. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people. (EUR189, $15.00)
The Heroic Present, Life Among the Gypsies • Jan Yoors CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2004 • HARD COVER This handsome collection of photographs illuminates Gypsy life and culture. (EUR219, $35.00)
Historical Atlas of Central Europe • Paul Mogocsi HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 232 PAGES An influential, authoritative survey of maps and shifting borders in the region from the Middle Ages until the present. With dozens of superb color maps illuminating the history and ethnic complexity of this bewildering part of the world. The atlas covers the region from Poland, Lithuania, and the eastern part of Germany to Greece and western Turkey and extends in time from the early fifth century to the present. (EUR33, $45.00)
Hitler and the Holocaust • Robert S. Wistrich HISTORY • 2003 • PAPER • 295 PAGES 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, cautioning that we must be always vigilant about intolerance. (EUR114, $15.00)
Imagining the Balkans • Maria Todorova HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 257 PAGES 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, $35.50)
The Improbable Voyage • Tristan Jones TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 1998 • PAPER • 332 PAGES A personable sailor's yarn of a tough trip by water across Europe along the Rhine and Danube to the Black Sea. Jones, an inveterate Welsh sailor, adventurer and storyteller, tackles not only sailing, but also the people, politics and flavor of Eastern Europe circa 1985. Just in case, he flies the Red Ensign, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Dragon of Wales. This is the middle book in a series of three travel books that charts his 2,000-mile voyage across Europe on his on his 38-foot trimaran Outward Leg. (EUR156, $16.50)
Inventing Eastern Europe, The Map of Civilization on the Mind of Enlightenment • Larry Wolff HISTORY • 1994 • PAPER • 419 PAGES A scholarly analysis and history of European geopolitics during the Age of Enlightenment. The author, a professor of history, looks back to Rousseau, Voltaire and Western (mis)perceptions of Eastern Europe during the late 18th century. With chapters on 18th-century literature, fantasy and folklore, travelers and voyages. Recommended for intellectually minded travelers with a serious interest in geography, this book sheds light on widely shared conventions about Eastern Europe. (EUR34, $30.95)
The Jew in the Modern World, A Documentary History • Paul Mendes-Flohr • Johan Reinhard RELIGION • 1995 • PAPER • 741 PAGES 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. With chapters on political emancipation in Western Europe, reform and conservatism, Jewish studies, identity, antisemitism, Eastern Europe Jewry, Zionism and the Holocaust. (GEN224, $69.95)
Journal 1935-1944, The Fascist Years • Mihail Sebastian BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2000 • HARD COVER • 672 PAGES Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the remarkable diaries of the young Romanian novelist, playwright and poet are a multifaceted portrait of fascist Europe. (EUR272, $36.00)
Lonely Planet Central Europe • Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 662 PAGES • BEST SELLER A comprehensive guide to Central Europe, including Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. It is a compact overview of the region, especially appropriate for the independent-minded traveler visiting several countries. With local and regional maps, a section of color photographs, and information on history, culture and attractions. (EUR94, $29.99)
Lonely Planet Romania & Moldova • leif petterson • Robert Reid GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 376 PAGES A practical guide to Romania and Moldova, with information on history, culture and attractions. It also includes 64 detailed maps. (EUR96, $24.99)
The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague • Timothy Garton Ash HISTORY • 1993 • PAPER • 167 PAGES A vividly reported eyewitness account of the fall of the Berlin Wall and other dramatic events of 1989 by an astute journalist and historian of Central Europe. With a chapter each on Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, it's a good introduction to these vibrant cities during a time of great change. (GER36, $15.00)
Mammals of Europe • Priscilla Barrett • David W. MacDonald FIELD GUIDE • 2002 • PAPER • 320 PAGES Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals, it's a comprehensive handbook, with detailed descriptions, range maps and commentary on behavior. (FG61, $38.50)
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, A Novel in Five Stories • Gregor Von Rezzori LITERATURE • 2007 • PAPER • 287 PAGES Set against a backdrop of Central Europe between the wars, these five connected stories follow the fate of a young Romanian -- and his tense, vacillating relationship with Jews (including his own Jewish wife). Originally serialized in the New Yorker in 1969, it's a brilliant, disturbing book. Born in Bukovina in the Capathian mountains, Rezzori's many novels and essays address shifting notions of identity in Central Europe since WWI. (CEU27, $15.95)
Monster of God, The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind • David Quammen NATURAL HISTORY • 2004 • PAPER • 384 PAGES In tracking the alpha predators, Quammen transports us to four of the world's great wild regions: the Gir forest in India, the Russian Far East, the coast of northern Australia and the mountains of Romania. Much like in his award-winning Song of the Dodo, Quammen combines scholarly insight, vivid prose and travel in this latest effort, a marvelous meditation on Indian lions, Australian crocodiles, European brown bears and Siberian tigers, man-eaters all. (BST84, $17.95)
National Geographic Romania • Caroline Juler GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 272 PAGES A traveler's guide to the history, nature, culture, and attractions of Romania, thoroughly illustrated in dependable National Geographic style. (EUR278, $22.95)
Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town • Rogers Brubaker CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2006 • HARD COVER • 502 PAGES Brubaker uses the village of Cluj, a small Transylvanian hamlet with a significant Hungarian minority, to examine nationalist and ethnic identity. (EUR265, $55.00)
Natural Acts, A Sidelong View of Science and Nature • David Quammen SCIENCE • 2009 • PAPER • 352 PAGES A reissue and update of Quammen's first book, a collection of essays that first appeared in Outside Magazine and find him globetrotting from Romania to the Amazon musing on questions of both science and philosophy. (NAT134, $15.95)
Noah's Flood, The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History • William Ryan • Walter Pitman SCIENCE • 1999 • PAPER • 320 PAGES A riveting tale interweaving biblical history, marine geology, archaeology and mythology. The authors are scientists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. They marshal convincing evidence to show that indeed there was a flood -- and a huge one -- when the Black Sea was breached by the Mediterranean 7,600 years ago. (BLK42, $19.99)
Ovid VI, Tristia Ex Ponto • A.L. Wheeler • Ovid LITERATURE • 1968 • HARD COVER • 560 PAGES 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)
The Pallas Guide to Romania • John Villiers GUIDEBOOK • 2008 • PAPER • 416 PAGES From the colourful traditions of Transylvania to the sophistication of Bucharest, the Paris of the East, Romania comes to life in this 416 page book. The gorgeous painted churches of the unspoilt Carpathian mountain country, the unique wooden architecture of Maramures, the fascinating riches of a country on the edge of both the Ancient Roman and the Byzantine empires are presented in detail, together with practical information for travelers. (EUR299, $34.95)
The Phantom Church and Other Stories • Georgiana Farnoaga LITERATURE • 1997 • PAPER • 128 PAGES An anthology of stories by 20th-century Romanian authors, organized thematically. (EUR158, $21.95)
Plagues and Peoples • William McNeill HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 365 PAGES Wide-ranging, fascinating and well researched, this book traces the waves of epidemics that raged through Europe, particularly the famous Black Death of the 13th and 14th centuries. (EUR26, $17.00)
Romanian Modernism, The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920-1940 • Luminita Machedon ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1999 • HARD COVER • 352 PAGES A gorgeously illustrated history of the oft-forgotten architectural renaissance of interwar Bucharest. Particularly interesting is the city's Master Plan of 1934, one of Europe's most advanced and ambitious examples of city planning. Includes dozens of photographs and drawings and plans of significant unrealized projects. (EUR245, $68.00)
Rough Guide Music Balkan Gypsies • Rough Guide World Music MUSIC • 2005 • AUDIO CD The Roma people have had a profound influence on the culture of the Balkans, and it all comes to life in this unboundedly energetic collection of Gypsy 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 best- big, brassy, dramatic and designed for celebration. The production quality is excellent and the liner notes superb. (BLK93, $14.95)
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe • Dennis Hupchick • Harold Cox HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 130 PAGES 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, $21.95)
Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule • Peter F. Sugar HISTORY • 1983 • PAPER • 365 PAGES 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, $34.95)
Train to Trieste • Domnica Radulescu LITERATURE • 2009 • PAPER • 320 PAGES Mona returns to Romania to uncover the truth about the mysterious boy with whom she had fallen in love as a teenager in 1977 in this evocative debut novel by the Romanian-born Radulescu. (EUR313, $15.00)
We Now Know, Rethinking Cold War History • John Lewis Gaddis HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 425 PAGES The eminent Cold War scholar, John Lewis Gaddis, takes advantage of the opening of Soviet archives to re-examine the tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R through the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. (RUS191, $24.99)
The White King • Gyorgy Dragoman LITERATURE • 2008 • HARD COVER • 263 PAGES Originally published in Hungarian in 2005, Dragoman's powerful novel, drawn from the author's own experiences in Eastern Europe, shows the horrors of a totalitarian state (much like Romania) on the life of 11-year-old Djata. (CEU40, $24.00)
The Witch of Portobello • Paulo Coelho LITERATURE • 2007 • PAPER • 288 PAGES From bestselling author Paulo Coelho, this novel follows an orphaned Romanian peasant girl with magical powers who travels across Europe and the Middle East in search of acceptance and enlightenment. (BLK102, $14.99)
Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories • Hanna Krall • Madeline G. Levine BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2006 • PAPER • 272 PAGES A journalist from Warsaw born in 1937, Krall reveals the lives and strange trajectories of her compatriots in these stories, profiles and interviews of survivors of WWII. (PLD49, $14.95)
A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age • William Manchester HISTORY • 1993 • PAPER • 322 PAGES 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. This is his 18th book and Manchester knows how to tell a great story. It's divided into three sections: Renaissance, Reformation and Discovery. (EUR06, $15.99)
Yiddish Folktales • Beatrice Weinreich LITERATURE • 1997 • PAPER • 413 PAGES A collection of 178 Yiddish tales, many just a paragraph or two, gathered from throughout Eastern Europe as part of a project by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in the 1920s and 30s. (CEU33, $18.00)
Birds of Europe • Lars Svensson FIELD GUIDE • 2010 • PAPER • 416 PAGES • FAVORITE This Princeton Field Guide features 3,500 illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom. Color plates depict every species -- and sometimes several different variants -- for 722 birds found from the Urals to the Atlantic, Scandinavia to the Middle East. (FG47, $29.95)

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