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	All Along the Rhine: Recipes, Wine and Lore from Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Holland • Kay Shaw Nelson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A tribute to the Rhine Valley, its history, culture and especially its food in 130 authentic recipes. (GER111, $14.95)
	All Quiet on the Western Front • Erich Maria Remarque • LITERATURE • Written by a soldier in the kaiser's army, this novel has been hailed as the greatest novel of World War I, and was later made into a memorable film. (GER15, $13.95)
	All Rivers Run to the Sea • Elie Wiesel • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel recounts his remarkable life, from his childhood in Romania to the horrors of Auschwitz, his days as a young writer in post-war France and New York and his many pilgrimages to Israel. (EUR153, $16.00)
	Amadeus • Milos Forman • The Oscar-winning account of Mozart's life, death and downfall, starring F. Murray Abraham as the cruel and mediocre Salieri. (AST65, $26.99)
	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay • Michael Chabon • LITERATURE • A dazzling tale that follows its heros from Nazi-occupied Prague to New York (and the Antarctic). (ANT175, $15.00)
	Amsterdam Map • Borch Maps • A laminated, folded map of the city center, at a scale of 1:11,000. (NTH36, $7.95)
	Anne Frank Remembered • Miep Gies • Allison Leslie Gold • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • YOUNG ADULTS • A memoir of Anne, the Frank family and occupied Amsterdam by Miep Gies, who with her husband and colleagues hid and protected the Franks through much of World War II. Ages 12 to adult. (NTH59, $14.00)
	Architecture of New Prague 1895-1945 • Rostislav Svacha • Alexandra Buchler • Jan Maly • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Architects and tourists with a serious interest in architecture will want this book. Originally published in Czech in 1985, it stakes out the first half of the 20th century as a seminal period for Czech architecture. (CZH49, $75.00)
	The Arsonist • Egon Hostovsky • Christopher Morris • LITERATURE • A brief novel of intrigue and identity transformed by a leading 20th-century Czech writer. (CZH42, $17.50)
	Art and Society in the Middle Ages • Georges Duby • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A study of the relationship between the production of art and the nature of Medieval society. (EUR85, $30.55)
	Art Book Van Gogh: A Profound and Tormented Genius - His Life in Paintings • Anna Torterolo • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A colorful survey of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh. (NTH51, $12.95)
	Art From the Ashes • Lawrence L. Langer • ANTHOLOGY • A powerful collection of stories, journals, essays, poetry and prose about the Holocaust (EUR131, $41.95)
	The Art of Describing, Dutch Art of the Seventeenth-Century • Svetlana Alpers • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An original and controversial study that challenges the current en-vogue scholarship on Dutch art. (NTH69, $28.00)
	The Art of Polish Cooking • Alina Zeranska • Janina Domanska • FOOD • A book brimming with Polish recipes and food traditions. (PLD15, $23.00)
	Art of the Byzantine Era • David Talbot Rice • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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)
	Arthur Schnitzler, Four Major Plays • Arthur Schnitzler • Carl R. Mueller • LITERATURE • A collection of four full-length plays from the Austrian writer. (AST53, $19.95)
	Austria & Hungary Map • Kummerly & Frey Maps • A colorful map of both Austria and Hungary at a scale of 1:800,000 published in Austria. (AST19, $12.95)
	Austria As Theater and Ideology, The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival • Michael Steinberg • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A scholarly analysis of the relation between the festival, politics and Austrian cultural identity. This revealing, intriguing book is in-depth and analytical, not the usual reading for travelers, but well worth the effort. (AST55, $22.95)
	Austria Map • Freytag & Berndt • The home-grown map of Austria, published by the fine Vienna-based Freytag & Berndt. Scale 1:300,000. (AST28, $12.95)
	The Austrians, A Thousand-Year Odyssey • Gordon Brook-Shepherd • HISTORY • Detailed, impressively researched and readable, this book is a wide-ranging narrative history of the last 1,000 years of Austria and the Austrian character. (AST10, $23.00)
	The Autumn of the Middle Ages • Johan Huizinga • HISTORY • A pioneering work of social and cultural history, this well translated classic is a richly detailed portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. (EUR17, $25.00)
	Avant-Guide Prague, Insiders' Guide for Urban Adventures • Dan Levine • GUIDEBOOK • Created by a former Frommer's writer, this slim volume packs useful, youthful information into a colorful format. (CZH22, $19.95)
	The Axe • Ludvik Vaculik • Marian Sling • LITERATURE • A story of ideology, played out between father and son, set against the cultural reawakening of 1960's Czechoslovakia. (CZH34, $16.00)
	Badenheim 1939 • Aharon Appelfeld • Dalya Bilu • LITERATURE • A haunting tale of the daily life of well-to-do and unsuspecting Jewish vacationers at a fictional Ausrian resort on the eve of the holocaust. (AST35, $12.95)
	Baedeker's Austria • Baedeker's Travel Guides • GUIDEBOOK • The much-revised classic with map. (AST56, $25.00)
	Baedeker's Netherlands • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A compact and colorful guide to the country, featuring photographs and a useful pull-out map. (NTH38, $25.00)
	Balkan Tragedy, Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War • Susan Woodward • HISTORY • A scholarly, detailed analysis of Yugoslavia's collapse, published by the Brookings Institution, where the author is a senior policy fellow. (BLK18, $24.95)
	Balkans Southeast Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt • OUT OF PRINT • A nicely detailed regional map, showing the route of the Danube from Budapest to the Black Sea, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (EUR147, $12.95)
	The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 • Misha Glenny • HISTORY • Glenny poignantly challenges the role of the Great Powers in the region in this survey. (BLK32, $20.00)
	Baltic Light, Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and North Germany • Helmut Borsch-Supan • Helmut Rudolf Leppien • Catherine Johnston • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A beautifully illustrated work celebrating the plein air painting of the Baltic. (DMK23, $70.00)
	Baroque and Rococo Art • Germain Bazin • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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)
	Bauhaus • Frank Whitford • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A survey of the highly influential Bauhaus school of design. Whitford follows the movement from its early 20th century history in Germany up through the mark it has left on today's society. (GER55, $18.95)
	Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 • Tia DeNora • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Both a probing biographical account of Beethoven's life and an insightful sociological study of "artistic genius," this engaging book also examines the musical world of 18th-century Vienna. (AST25, $21.95)
	Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance • Leon Plantinga • MUSIC • An insightful source of helpful and practical information, written with color and style. (GEN165, $49.95)
	Before the Deluge, A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920's • Otto Friedrich • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A fascinating portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, this book features illuminating essays and an extraordinary collection of contemporary images of the city before the devastation of WWII. (GER11, $17.95)
	Bela Bartok and Turn-of-the-Centry Budapest • Judith Frigyesi • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A study of Bartok and turn-of-the-century modernism in Hungary. (HGR35, $26.95)
	Belarus, At a Crossroads in History • Jan Zaprudnik • HISTORY • A history of Belarus, with a focus on the status of the nation as the Soviet Union crumbled. (RUS123, $32.00)
	Beneath the Wheel • Hermann Hesse • LITERATURE • A short novel, set in a village in the Black Forest not unlike where Hesse was born. (GER105, $14.00)
	Benelux Map • Michelin Travel Publications • A self-folding map covering the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg at a scale of 1:400,000. (NTH03, $11.95)
	Berlin • David Large • HISTORY • An engaging, textured portrait of the city from German Unification to 1989. (GER73, $32.50)
	Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Story of Franz Biberkopf • Alfred Doblin • LITERATURE • An expressionistic, shimmering novel set within the confines of Alexanderplatz in 1920s Berlin (later made into a movie by Fassbinder). (GER86, $19.95)
	Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait • Ronald Taylor • HISTORY • Organized chronologically, this illustrated survey covers the full range of the cultural history of Berlin from medieval architecture to expressionism during the Weimar years, and the 1980s art scene. (GER40, $55.00)
	The Berlin Diaries • Marie Vassiltchikov • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE • The compulsively readable wartime account of an emigre Russian princess who was secretary to Adam Von Trott, mastermind of the failed 20th of July plot to assassinate Hitler. Idealistic, vivacious and observant, "Missie" conveys the flavor of Berlin during the 1940s. (GER104, $15.95)
	Berlin Map • Falk Maps • The home-grown map of Berlin, with a fantastic amount of detail, at scales of 1:25,000-1:35,000. (GER75, $12.95)
	Berlin Noir • Philip Kerr • LITERATURE • A trio of novels (March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem) that follow the fate of detective Bernie Gunther as he tries to make a living in Nazi Germany. (GER47, $18.00)
	The Berlin Stories • Christopher Isherwood • LITERATURE • "The Last of Mr. Norris" and "Goodbye to Berlin" find Sally Bowles, Fr�ulein Schroeder and the doomed Landauers caught up in the nightlife, danger and mystique of 1931 Berlin. (GER19, $15.95)
	Birds of Britain & Europe • Hermann Heinzel • Richard Fitter • John Parslow • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • This masterfully organized Collins Pocket Guide, featuring 3,000 color illustrations covers the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. (EUR49, $27.50)
	Birds of Europe • Killian Mullarney • Lars Svensson • Dan Zetterstrom • Peter J. Grant • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE • A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent. (FG47, $29.95)
	Bismarck and the German Empire: 1871-1918 • Lynn Abrams • HISTORY • The rise of Prussia. (GER14, $15.95)
	Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman • Alan John Percivale Taylor • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This classic biography, first published in 1955, casts the Prussian prime minister and Germany's first chancellor as more of an opportunist than a planner. (GER85, $12.95)
	Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia • Rebecca West • Christopher Hitchens • HISTORY • First published in 1941, this monumental work explores the complex history of Yugoslavia, its heroes, politics and culture. It's a big, challenging book -- some call it the best ever written on the Balkans. (BLK04, $25.00)
	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)
	The Black Sea, A History • Charles King • HISTORY • A brisk narrative history of the region showing the Black Sea as uniting diverse cultures in the Balkans, Central Asia and Middle East. (EUR173, $35.00)
	Blue Guide Amsterdam • Charles Ford • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide in the well known series, this book provides detailed coverage of the history, art and architecture of Amsterdam. Serious-minded travelers will not want to be without it. (NTH15, $19.95)
	Blue Guide Belgium • Bernard McDonagh • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, no-nonsense overview of Belgium and Luxembourg, covering in detail the art, history and architecture of the region. (NTH14, $24.95)
	Blue Guide Berlin and Eastern Germany • Anne Massey • GUIDEBOOK • This book provides detailed coverage of the history, art and architecture of Berlin and the surrounding areas. (GER66, $20.95)
	Blue Guide Budapest • Bob Dent • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide to the architecture, history and culture of Budapest. (HGR20, $18.95)
	Blue Guide Czech and Slovak Republic • Michael Jacobs • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive travel guide with a focus on history, architecture and art. Michael Jacobs, a popular author of guidebooks, presents a thorough portrait of the region. (CZH18, $24.95)
	Blue Guide the Netherlands • Rachel Esner • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide to Holland, heavily focused on art and architecture. (NTH54, $24.95)
	The Book of Images • Rainer Maria Rilke • Edward Snow • LITERATURE • Poems and lyrics from Rilke during his most emotional and impressionistic period (1902-1906), ably translated by Edward Snow and presented in bilingual format on facing pages. (GER122, $16.00)
	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting • Milan Kundera • LITERATURE • Kundera strings together loosely related short stories to form an original and entertaining look at Czech culture. (CZH17, $13.95)
	Bradt Guide Serbia • Laurence Mitchell • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular series with good information on transportation, historical sites, and accommodations, with an extended section on Belgrade, the capital city, and a separate chapter on Kosovo. (BLK67, $24.99)
	Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays • Stanislaw Baranczak • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Essays on writers and writing from an Eastern European intellectual and poet. (EUR139, $12.50)
	The Bridge at Andau • James Michener • LITERATURE • The true story of a bridge that became a means of escape to the west during the Hungarian revolt in 1956. It's classic Michener: gripping and action-packed. (HGR17, $6.99)
	A Bridge Too Far • Cornelius Ryan • HISTORY • War historian Cornelius Ryan chronicles in detailed, readable prose the battle of Arnhem, one of the most important -- and bloodiest -- campaigns in World War II. (WAR21, $18.00)
	Bruegel • Walter S. Gibson • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated biography of Bruegel the Elder in the "World of Art" series. (NTH41, $14.95)
	Budapest Diary, In Search of the Motherbook • Susan Rubin Suleiman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A lovely and affecting memoir of a childhood in 1940s Budapest and a return trip in 1993 as an academic fellow. Suleiman is now a professor at Harvard. (HGR37, $14.95)
	Budapest Exit, A Memoir of Fascism, Communism and Freedom • Csaba Teglas • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A tale of life in Budapest from the Nazi invasion to the 1956 Hungarian revolution. (HGR36, $27.95)
	Budapest Map • Borch Maps • A convenient map of the city center at a scale of 1:11,000. (HGR34, $7.95)
	Buddenbrooks, the Decline of a Family • Thomas Mann • LITERATURE • Mann's masterpiece about the decline of a German family at the end of the 19th century. (GER22, $25.00)
	Bulgaria Map • Freytag & Berndt • A colorful, detailed folding paper map of the country, at a scale of 1:400,000. (BGR06, $12.95)
	The Burgermeister's Daughter, Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town • Steven Ozment • HISTORY • Meticulously researched and absorbing, this narrative by a Harvard historian traces the legal battle of the daughter of a well-to-do family who was thrown out of her home and disinherited in 1525. (GER25, $13.00)
	Cadogan Guide Bavaria • Rod Bolt • GUIDEBOOK • A compact travel guide to Bavaria, Franconia and the Romantic Road. It offers a good overview of the culture and history of the region and detailed travel information on sites and attractions. (GER52, $17.95)
	Cadogan Guide Prague • Sadakat Kadri • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to Prague in the excellent British series. (CZH48, $14.95)
	The Captive Mind • Czeslaw Milosz • LITERATURE • Milosz's best-known prose work demonstrates how citizens experience totalitarianism. (PLD30, $14.00)
	The Castle, A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text • Franz Kafka • Mark Harman • Malcolm Pasley • LITERATURE • A new translation of Kafka's unfinished masterpiece. (EUR68, $14.00)
	Central Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt • A colorful physical relief map of Central Europe at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (EUR12, $11.95)
	Central Europe, Enemies, Neighbors, Friends • Lonnie Johnson • HISTORY • 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)
	Children of the Holocaust • Arnold Lustig • LITERATURE • Three books from Lustig's oeuvre, here collected in a single volume. (GER110, $24.00)
	Chopin in Paris, The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer • Tad Szulc • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of the famed composer Fryderyk Chopin. (FRN161, $20.95)
	Citizen Soldiers • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • Ambrose's account of the battles fought in the year between D-Day and the German surrender, from the U.S. Army's perspective. (WAR19, $18.00)
	City Flash Berlin • Hallwag • A sturdy, easy-to-fold city map (GER42, $9.95)
	Civilization and Its Discontents • Sigmund Freud • Peter Gay • HISTORY • The standard edition. (AST50, $12.95)
	Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley • HISTORY • 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)
	Classical Music 101, A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music • Fred Plotkin • MUSIC • A primer on classical music. (MUS15, $18.95)
	The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven • Charles Rosen • MUSIC • Written in 1972, the first edition of this book won the National Book Award and became an instant classic, an eminently readable account of the Viennese Classical School. (MUS38, $21.95)
	The Coasts of Bohemia, A Czech History • Derek Sayer • HISTORY • A political and cultural history of the Czech people, this intriguing book places the historically important Bohemia and Moravia regions at the center of European events. The author draws on literature, the arts, culture and politics to evoke Czech history, society and identity. (CZH10, $29.95)
	The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms • Leon Botstein • MUSIC • A remarkable compendium of essays by Botstein and 29 collaborators. (GEN166, $35.00)
	The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh • Vincent Van Gogh • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A handsome three volume set containing all the available letters written by Vincent Van Gogh. (NTH35, $100.00)
	The Complete Operas of Mozart, A Critical Guide • Charles Osborne • MUSIC • (MUS12, $17.95)
	The Complete Stories • Franz Kafka • LITERATURE • All of Kafka's stories, including The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, and In The Penal Colony. (CZH47, $15.00)
	A Concise History of Bulgaria • R.J. Crampton • HISTORY • A highly readable, illustrated introduction to Bulgaria's history from medieval empire to Ottoman rule, revival and modernization, to the fall of Communism. (BGR01, $27.99)
	A Concise History of Germany • Mary Fulbrook • HISTORY • This essential short history of Germany -- a whirlwind survey in less than 300 pages -- explores the relationships between social, political and cultural factors in this land located in the center of Europe. (GER13, $25.99)
	A Concise History of Hungary • Miklos Molnar • Anna Magyar • HISTORY • The author, a Hungarian historian, narrates the history of Hungary from little-known origins to 1988, encompassing the Magyars, the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Soviet era. (HGR30, $28.99)
	Contemporary Jewish Writing In Hungary: An Anthology • Eva Forgacs • Susan Robin Suleiman • ANTHOLOGY • This anthology of Hungarian authors both famous (Pulitzer Prize winner Imre Kertesz) and never-published-in-English contains a mixture of novel and memoir exerpts, short stories and poetry. The authors span the generations from pre-World War Two to post-Communist. (HGR39, $24.95)
	The Corpse on the Dike • Janwillem van de Wettering • MYSTERY • A volume in the long-running and immensely popular "Amsterdam Cops" series, this book focuses on two police detectives' investigations of the seamy side of Amsterdam. (NTH66, $13.00)
	The Corrections • Jonathan Franzen • LITERATURE • A dazzling novel of life and love and family and holidays that follows the peregrinations of the Lamberts -- father, mother and offspring -- from New York to Philadelphia to Vilnius. (EUR122, $15.00)
	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)
	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, $45.00)
	Czech and Slovak Republics Map • Michelin Travel Publications • A shaded relief map of the two nations at a scale of 1:600,000. It also covers the route of the Danube between Regensburg and Budapest. (CEU17, $11.95)
	Czech and Slovak Republics Map • Freytag & Berndt • A detailed map to the Czech and Slovak republics, at a scale of 1:400,000. It is also the most detailed map available of the route of the Danube between Regensburg and Budapest. (EUR35, $12.95)
	Czecho/Slovakia: Ethnic Conflict, Constitutional Fissure, Negotiated Breakup • Eric Stein • HISTORY • A fascinating, scholarly account of Stein's experiences consulting on constitutional reform in Czechoslovakia. (CZH40, $29.95)
	Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland • Paul Zumthor • HISTORY • First published in 1959, this richly detailed portrait of Dutch society during the golden age looks at material life of the average citizen including food, housing, holidays, industry, relations between the sexes -- and even toilet habits. (NTH19, $26.95)
	The Danube Cycleway, Donaueschingen to Budapest • John Higginson • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, practical guide to the popular biking route along the Danube from Donaueschingen in Bavaria though Austria to Budapest. (CEU20, $18.95)
	A Dark and Bloody Ground, The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 • Edward G. Miller • HISTORY • The well documented story of battles in the Hurtgen Forest. (WAR26, $32.95)
	Defiance, The Bielski Partisans • Nechama Tec • HISTORY • The story of Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut. (RUS120, $26.75)
	The Discovery of Heaven • Harry Mulisch • Paul Vincent • LITERATURE • A novel of love, science and spirituality from the celebrated Dutch author. (NTH78, $20.00)
	Dora Bruder • Patrick Modiano • Joanna Kilmartin • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • OUT OF PRINT • A moving meditation on the fate of a 15 year old Jewish girl deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942. (FRN200, $19.95)
	The Doughboys, America and the First World War • Gary Mead • HISTORY • World War I through the eyes of the American veterans who fought in its trenches. (WAR75, $19.95)
	Dresden Map • Borch Maps • A colorful, folded, laminated map of Dresden. (GER77, $7.95)
	Dutch Painting (World of Art) • Rudolf Herman Fuchs • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Starting with Van Eyck and his 15th-century contemporaries, this volume in the "World of Art" series surveys nearly 500 years of painting in the Netherlands, ending with a discussion of late 20th-century artists. Featuring almost 200 illustrations. (NTH72, $14.95)
	Dutch Painting 1600-1800 • Seymour Slive • Jakob Rosenberg • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A generously illustrated, scholarly history of 200 years of Dutch art. (NTH48, $40.00)
	The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 • Jonathan Israel • HISTORY • Impressive in scope (and daunting in size), we heartily recommend this massively well-researched, genuinely readable and authoritative history for travelers with a healthy appetite for history. (NTH76, $65.00)
	Dutch, A Rough Guide Phrasebook • Rough Guide • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • An A-Z pocket dictionary, phrasebook and mini-guide to the Dutch language. (NTH74, $6.99)
	Dutch, Start Speaking Today • Language/30 • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A 90-minute crash course in Dutch featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook. (NTH73, $21.95)
	Dvorak and His World • Michael Beckerman • MUSIC • A fascinating view of the Czech composer's personal life and his influence on the world around him. (CZH23, $27.95)
	Eastern Approaches • Fitzroy MacLean • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • OUT OF PRINT • Fitzroy MacLeans's action-packed account of his amazing adventures undercover in the Central Asian Republics of the USSR during Stalin's reign, as a commando in the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa, and with the Partisans in Yugoslavia during World War II. Touted as the real-life inspiration for James Bond, Maclean is not only a terrific writer but an eyewitness to historic events. Originally published in 1949. (CAS48, $30.00)
	Eastern Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt • A detailed travel map of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (EUR36, $11.95)
	The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 • Norman Stone • HISTORY • A classic study of Russia's contribution to WWI. (WAR76, $16.95)
	Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 • Alfred W. Crosby • NATURAL HISTORY • The story of how early explorers, colonists and settlers reshaped our biological world. (NAT22, $26.99)
	Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe • Henri Pirenne • HISTORY • Pirenne, an important economic historian, traces the economic and social development of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the 15th century in this classic book, first published in 1936. (EUR18, $15.00)
	Effi Briest • Theodor Fontane • Peter Demetz • LITERATURE • The sad tale of Effit Briest and her fall from Brandenburg society. (GER87, $14.00)
	Egon Schiele • Frank Whitford • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The life and work of an intriguing artist, who died at the young age of 27. The author delves into Schiele's troubled personal life and the surrounding atmosphere of his home in Vienna, creating a unique portrait of a man. (GER57, $14.95)
	Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil • Hannah Arendt • RELIGION • A provocative, challenging account of the trial of the Nazi leader. (GEN255, $13.95)
	Elizabeth and Her German Garden • Elizabeth Von Arnim • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The gently satirical, light-hearted first book by English novelist Von Arnim tells of daily life on a Pomeranian estate. Originally published in 1898, it's an intimate, semi-autobiographical account in the form of a diary. (GER72, $15.95)
	The Engineer of Human Souls • Josef Skvorecky • Paul Wilson • LITERATURE • This complex, entertaining novel centers on protagonist Danny Smiricky, a writer in exile, living and teaching in Canada after living under both the Nazis and the Communists. (CZH29, $14.95)
	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 Expressionists • Wolf-Dieter Dube • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A general survey of Expressionism, presented by the senior curator at the Bavarian State Art Collection. With the use of many of the artists' own words, he tracks the movement back to such luminaries as Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and follows it through its years of dazzling creativity. (GER56, $18.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Amsterdam • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A wonderful guide to Amsterdam, filled with detailed drawings, photographs and thumbnail sketches. The highly visual format covers a wide range of information and is very well indexed. Slim and attractive, it also includes detailed maps and cutaway drawings of landmarks. (NTH01, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Austria • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide to all of Austria features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. (AST59, $25.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Berlin • Malgorzata Omilanowska • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide to Berlin features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (GER74, $25.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Budapest • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Featuring handy maps and solid information on culture and history in addition to a detailed overview of attractions. With hundreds of photographs. (HGR15, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Istanbul • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide to Istanbul features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (TKY86, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Munich & the Bavarian Alps • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, illustrated guide with excellent maps, hundreds of photographs and succinct listings. (GER119, $25.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Prague • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the celebrated city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (CZH01, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide The Netherlands • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book covers Holland, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (NTH71, $25.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Vienna • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide features color photography and excellent neighborhood maps. (AST01, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide Warsaw • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive visual guide featuring great neighborhood maps, architectural diagrams, photographs and an overview of the culture and history of the city. (PLD08, $20.00)
	Fatelessness • Imre Kertesz • Tim Wilkinson • LITERATURE • This powerful novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the story of a teenage boy deported from Hungary to the Nazi death camps in 1944. It's drawn from Kertesz's own experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. (CEU26, $13.95)
	Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture • Carl E. Schorske • HISTORY • A landmark study of turn-of-the century Vienna -- one of the key chapters in modern intellectual history. Among its luminaries were Freud, Klimt, Kokoshka and Schoenberg. (AST04, $22.95)
	Flashman and the Tiger • George MacDonald Fraser • LITERATURE • This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI. (WAF58, $14.95)
	Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700 • Hans Vlieghe • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A lavishly illustrated overview of the art of the southern Netherlands from 1585-1700. (BLG07, $85.00)
	Flemish Cities Explored • Derek Blyth • GUIDEBOOK • A walking guide to well-known towns in Belgium, covering the history and culture of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent as well as Leuven, Mechelen and Ostend. (BLG05, $24.95)
	Fodor's Berlin's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • A shirt-pocket guide with a map and brief overview of Berlin's many museums, grand buildings and other not-to-be-missed cultural attractions. (GER16, $11.95)
	Fodor's Exploring Germany • John Ardagh • GUIDEBOOK • Lively, fully illustrated and compact, this practical guide by a well regarded author shows John Ardagh's long experience and insight. (GER05, $22.00)
	Fodor's Munich's 25 Best • Citypack • GUIDEBOOK • This slim guide to Munich includes a separate map of the center of the city and a 96-page pocket book with essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing. (GER167, $11.95)
	Fodor's Prague's 25 Best • Fodors • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN DECEMBER • This pocket-size booklet includes an outstanding map of the city as well as a brief overview of its museums, grand buildings and other attractions. (CZH02, $11.95)
	Fodor's Vienna to Salzburg • Fodors • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in a growing series focusing on restaurants, attractions and activities in the land of Mozart. (AST73, $16.95)
	Frederick the Great • Theodor Schieder • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • OUT OF PRINT • A topical rather than chronological biography addressing the principal controversies surrounding Frederick the Great. (GER84, $31.80)
	Freud in Vienna and other Essays • Bruno Bettelheim • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A collection of essays on subjects ranging from Freud to the Holocaust and child psychology. (AST51, $19.00)
	Frommer's Munich & the Bavarian Alps • Darwin Porter • Danforth Prince • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent guidebook to the region, with lots of practical information (GER49, $16.99)
	Garden Lover's Guide to Germany • Charles Quest-Ritson • GUIDEBOOK • A richly illustrated guide to the gardens of Germany. (GER103, $19.95)
	German English Bilingual Visual Dictionary • DK Publishing • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • With thousands of neatly arranged color photographs, this compact book is impressively comprehensive, covering everything from the basics of die Schule (school) to the vocabulary of der Augenoptiker (optometrist). (GER162, $12.95)
	German for Travelers • Living Language • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy German phrasebook, with over 3800 German words and phrases. (GER58, $7.95)
	The Germans • Gordon A. Craig • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A gifted historian, Craig explores the complex paradoxes of German identity in this masterly portrait of German life, past and present, with chapters on religion, money, Jews, women, literature and society, Berlin and language. (GER10, $18.00)
	Germany from Partition to Reunification • Henry Ashby Turner • David Young • HISTORY • An introduction to the political history of post-World War II Germany. (GER79, $22.00)
	Germany in the High Middle Ages, 1050-1200 • Horst Fuhrmann • HISTORY • German development through the first three crusades and the rise of the kingdom of Germany. (GER31, $39.99)
	Germany Map • Freytag & Berndt • Detailed and with an index, this map at a scale of 1:700,000 covers east to Prague. (GER07, $15.95)
	Germany, Benelux, Austria Czech Republic Map • Michelin Travel Publications • This handy map shows road and river routes from Amsterdam and Berlin to Prague, Vienna, Munich and Salzburg at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (EUR100, $11.95)
	The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban landscape • Brian Ladd • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An analysis of the history -- and future -- of Berlin in relation to its architecture and monuments. It's an absorbing narrative history of Berlin, focusing on its changing identity and how it is reflected in architecture. (GER44, $20.00)
	Girl in Hyacinth Blue • Susan Vreeland • LITERATURE • This finely-crafted novel tells the story of the girl in an imagined, undiscovered portrait by Vermeer. Created in the 17th century, the painting passes through a number of people's hands, and following its path provides a series of tales that reflect the history and character of Holland and Europe through the years. (NTH23, $13.00)
	Girl With a Pearl Earring • Tracy Chevalier • LITERATURE • Chevalier's richly drawn novel imagines the story behind Vermeer's mysterious portrait of a turbaned girl with a pearl earring. (NTH25, $14.00)
	Girl With a Pearl Earring • Peter Webb