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Art of the Byzantine Era
• David Talbot Rice
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An indispensable classic and a thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art, wide-ranging and literate. Though it focuses on early Christian Constantinople, the book also includes chapters on Sicily, Venice and the Slavonic art of the Balkans.
(TKY22, $16.95)
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Balkan Babel, The Disintegration of Yugoslavia From the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic
• Sabrina P. Ramet
• HISTORY
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A scholarly political assessment of the last twenty years in the Balkans.
(BLK34, $44.00)
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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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Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, Prelude to the First World War
• Richard C. Hall
• HISTORY
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A concise, schoalrly history of how conflicts in the Balkans escalated into a world war.
(WAR86, $39.95)
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Balkans into Southeastern Europe, A Century of War And Transition
• John R. Lampe
• HISTORY
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A history of the troubled region from the interwar years to the present.
(BLK106, $33.95)
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The Balkans Since 1453
• Traian Stoianovich
• L.S. Stavrianos
• HISTORY
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A seminal history of the region, originally published in 1958.
(BLK36, $33.00)
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999
• Misha Glenny
• HISTORY
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Glenny poignantly challenges the role of the Great Powers in the region in this survey.
(BLK32, $20.00)
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Belgrade, A Cultural History
• David Norris
• HISTORY
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An illuminating tour of the ancient city, its many influences, traditions and culture.
(BLK131, $16.95)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Tradition Betrayed
• Robert J. Donia
• John V. Fine
• HISTORY
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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 Short History
• Malcolm Noel
• HISTORY
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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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Bradt Guide Croatia
• Piers Letcher
• GUIDEBOOK
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This convenient guide in the excellent British series is a personal, informative overview of the country, covering Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik in detail. With excellent travel advice and good information on nature, history, and culture.
(BLK55, $23.99)
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Bradt Mini Guide Dubrovnik
• Piers Letcher
• GUIDEBOOK
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A helpful, condensed guide to the city in the popular Bradt series.
(BLK46, $13.99)
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Burn This House, The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia
• Jasminka Udovicki
• HISTORY
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A thoughtful, scholarly collection of essays on the origin, development and fall of Yugoslavia.
(BLK07, $23.95)
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Bury Me Standing
• Isabel Fonseca
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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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Cafe Europa, Life After Communism
• Slavenka Drakulic
• HISTORY
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These short essays capture the spirit of Croatia after the collapse of communism.
(BLK53, $14.00)
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A Castle in Romagna
• Igor Stiks
• LITERATURE
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A short novel of two alternating stories: one set in Renaissance Lombardy, the other set on a Croatian island during the Bosnian War.
(BLK82, $12.95)
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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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The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953
• Aleksa Djilas
• HISTORY
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This in-depth scholarly history of Yugoslavia focuses on period from the end of WWI to 1953.
(BLK51, $26.00)
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Croatia Map
• World Mapping Project
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This double-sided, full color map covers all Croatia, its coastline and many islands in detail.
(BLK61, $9.99)
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Croatia, A History
• Ivo Goldstein
• Nikolina Jovanovic
• HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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A concise, balanced history of Croatia, from medieval times to the present, by a professor at the University of Zagreb.
(BLK30, $22.95)
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Croatia, A Nation Forged in War
• Marcus Tanner
• HISTORY
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A modern history of Croatia from its medieval origins to Nazi occupation through to the present day by a British correspondent, who reported from the region during the events of 1993.
(BLK23, $20.00)
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Croatia, Through Writers' Eyes
• Barnaby Rogerson
• ANTHOLOGY
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This collection of stories, tales and travel narratives illuminates the history and culture of Croatia. Including contributions by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell and Fitzroy MacLean.
(BLK95, $33.95)
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Croatia, Travels in Undiscovered Country
• Tony Fabijancic
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In these travel essays, Fabijancic, who left what was then Yugoslavia in 1964, writes with insight of his return to Croatia. He's especially good on the people and character of the land, capturing life in the countryside.
(BLK45, $29.95)
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The Culture of Lies, Antipolitical Essays
• Dubravka Ugresic
• HISTORY
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(BLK60, $31.95)
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Danube
• Claudio Magris
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A new edition of the gifted novelist's classic account of a Danube journey from its source in the heart of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire through the Balkans to the Black Sea. It's an intellectually charged, evocative portrait of the places and personalities of Central Europe.
(EUR58, $16.00)
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Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
• Slobodan Curcic
• Richard Krautheimer
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An authoritative guide to the subject.
(TKY72, $40.00)
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Early Christian Buildings, A Graphic Introduction
• Warren Sanderson
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An illustrated introduction to the architecture of Christian antiquity.
(EUR21, $24.95)
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Endgame, The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica
• David Rohde
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The horrific tale of the murder of 7000 Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995 -- and its aftermath -- by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
(BLK71, $20.00)
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Europe's Last Summer, Who Started the Great War in 1914?
• David Fromkin
• HISTORY
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Fromkin puts the imperial struggle between Germany and the Austro-Hungarian over Serbia at the heart of this enthralling, persuasive analysis of the events leading to World War I.
(EUR183, $15.95)
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Exit into History, A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe
• Eva Hoffman
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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In this first-hand report from Eastern Europe, Polish-born Hoffman describes changes during the years immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. A great example of wonderful travel writing, the book goes beyond the sights and sounds to plumb the mindset of politicians, literati and everyday folk during this critical time.
(EUR10, $14.95)
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Fires of Hatred, Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
• Norman M. Naimark
• HISTORY
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This illuminating study focuses on five cases where genocide was a matter of government policy in 20th-century Europe.
(EUR179, $20.50)
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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 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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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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The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners
• Paul Beck
• HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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An irreverent tour of recent Eastern European history in documentary comic-book style, a provocative, fast-moving and opinionated look at who is in conflict with whom and why, nationhood, ethnicity and the future.
(EUR30, $11.00)
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A History of Venice
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
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The great historian Norwich marshals myriad personalities, battles, sieges, and facts into a vivid portrait of the Venetian Republic spanning the 1000 years up to its 1797 defeat at the hands of Napoleon.
(ITL177, $25.00)
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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, $30.00)
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The Julian Alps of Slovenia, Mountain Walks and Short Treks
• Roy Clark
• Justi Carey
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, practical guide to 50 suggested walks ranging from easy strolls to scrambles in the high mountains and multi-day adventures, including four hut-to-hut hikes.
(CEU15, $22.95)
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Kosovo, War and Revenge
• Tim Judah
• HISTORY
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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
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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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Lonely Planet Croatia
• Jeanne Oliver
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent practical guide to Croatia geared for independent travelers.
(BLK27, $23.99)
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Lonely Planet Eastern Europe
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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This practical guide includes Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic as well as the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkans.
(EUR72, $28.99)
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Love Thy Neighbor, A Story of War
• Peter Maass
• HISTORY
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A gripping, personal account of the war, its causes and consequences by a Washington Post reporter.
(BLK10, $14.95)
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Macedonia Map
• MapLink
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(EUR27, $6.95)
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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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Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation
• Andrew Wachtel
• HISTORY
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A scholarly account of the downfall of Yugoslavia with a focus on the Serb-Croat dynamic.
(BLK58, $26.95)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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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.
(FG61, $34.95)
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Materada
• Fulvio Tomizza
• Russell Scott Valentino
• LITERATURE
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(BLK79, $15.95)
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Mediterranean Winter, The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece
• Robert D. Kaplan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The prolific journalist and traveler revisits the Mediterranean of his youth in this extended meditation on the pleasures and freedom of life on the road.
(MED78, $14.00)
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The Ministry of Pain
• Dubravka Ugresic
• LITERATURE
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This contemporary novel revolves around a Croatian writer and her circle, a group of exiled Croats, Serbs and Bosnians.
(BLK97, $13.95)
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Montenegro Coast Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A traveler's map of the coast of Montenegro, islands and adjacent countryside at a scale of 1:100,000.
(BLK78, $11.95)
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The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics
• Ivo Banac
• HISTORY
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This serious scholarly study by a leading historian focuses on the foundation of the modern Yugoslav state.
(BLK52, $36.95)
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A Partisan's Daughter
• Louis De Bernieres
• LITERATURE
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The unlikely romance between Chris, a morose Londoner and Roza, a fast-talking Yugoslavian, is interwoven with Roza's poignant, witty and shocking tales of her past under the Tito regime.
(GBR763, $23.95)
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People of the Book
• Geraldine Brooks
• LITERATURE
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Inspired by the stories she heard in Sarajevo during the war, 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, $25.95)
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People of the Storm God, Travels In Macedonia
• Will Myer
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A sobering account of a 1994 trip to the politically and culturally complex Republic of Macedonia.
(BLK112, $15.00)
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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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The Question of Bruno
• Aleksandar Hemon
• LITERATURE
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(BLK81, $12.00)
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Realm of the Black Mountain, A History of Montenegro
• Elizabeth Roberts
• HISTORY
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An authoritative history of Montenegro from prehistory through independence in 2006.
(BLK129, $37.50)
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II
• Joseph Rothschild
• HISTORY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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An opinionated, well-written and clear political history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania since WWII, completely revised for this third edition to reflect post-Soviet realities.
(EUR31, $34.95)
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Richard Bangs' Adventures With Purpose, Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth
• Richard Bangs
• EXPLORATION
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Hair-raising jaunts to far-flung corners of the world, including Libya, Bosnia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.
(WLD127, $16.95)
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Rough Guide Croatia
• Rough Guide
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, comprehensive guide to Croatia for the traveler. Organized geographically, it also includes a 35-page section on the culture and history of the region.
(BLK31, $19.99)
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Rough Guide Music Balkan Gypsies
• Rough Guide World Music
• MUSIC
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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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Sarajevo Marlboro
• Miljenko Jergovic
• Stela Tomasevic
• LITERATURE
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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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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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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
• Ismail Kadare
• LITERATURE
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Kadare's love story is set against the backdrop of a country in the midst of terrifying change.
(BLK134, $12.95)
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Sunflower Guide Slovenia
• David Robertson
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, popular guide to suggested walks and drives in Slovenia from the Julian Alps to the lakes, Coast and Ljubljana.
(BLK57, $15.99)
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Through the Embers of Chaos, Balkan Journeys
• Dervla Murphy
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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Murphy, a seventy-something Irish grandmother, writes from the heart with authority and verve of three separate trips throughout the Balkans.
(BLK43, $15.95)
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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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The Venetian Empire, 1200-1670
• David Nicolle
• HISTORY
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This clever book in the Men-At-Arms series features illustrations of the city, people and the miltary of the Venetian Empire at its height.
(BLK50, $15.95)
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Venice and the Slavs, The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
• Larry Wolff
• HISTORY
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Wolf focuses on the circa-1700s Venetian Empire in the Balkans as a way to explore relations between eastern and western Europe in this fascinating, scholary study of the region.
(BLK35, $27.95)
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Words Are Something Else
• David Albahari
• LITERATURE
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(BLK80, $15.95)
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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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The World of Venice
• Jan Morris
• HISTORY
• FAVORITE
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Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city.
(ITL12, $16.00)
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