Bradt City Guide Kiev  •  Andrew Evans GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 328 PAGES • COMING IN A slim guide to Kiev, featuring information on attractions, a language guide, suggested walking tours, hotel and restaurant recommendations and helpful maps. (UKR13, $12.95)
Taste of Romania: Its Cookery and Glimpses of Its History, Folklore, Art, Literature, and Poetry  •  Nicolae Klepper FOOD •  1999 •  PAPER  • 330 PAGES A cookbook and celebration of Romanian culture, featuring 150 authentic dishes and tidbits on cultural traditions, as well as poems and literary excerpts. (EUR127, $24.95)
An Illustrated History of the First World War  •  John Keegan HISTORY •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 448 PAGES • COMING IN An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War, considerably enhanced by his selection of almost 500 photographs, maps, drawings and illustrations. The visuals clarify and augment his wide-ranging narrative of the origins, battles and consequences of WWI. (WAR16, $50.00)
Dora Bruder  •  Patrick Modiano  •  Joanna Kilmartin BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 119 PAGES • COMING IN Modiano traces the fate of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, who was deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942. The result of a ten-year investigation, his extended essay is a moving personal meditation on loss, interweaving the bare facts of Dora Bruder's story with his own family history. It evokes the atmosphere of Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A celebrated contemporary novelist, many of Modiano's many novels are also set in and around Paris. (FRN200, $19.95)
Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe  •  Henri Pirenne HISTORY •  1936 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES • COMING IN 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. It gives a concise picture of medieval Western Europe, including social disturbances, economic and social catastrophes, famine and the Black Death. A separate section on the North Sea and the Baltic contains specific references to the Hanseatic League. (EUR18, $15.00)
Hagia Sophia, Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church  •  Rowland Mainstone ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES • COMING IN With 300 illustrations and 56 site plans, this authoritative book will delight any traveler to Istanbul interested in history and architecture. (TKY24, $39.95)