Europe category: 12800 books

Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey. Europe is the heart of Western civilization, nourishing a rich mix of cultures and home to a wealth of historical sights. This new edition covers Western Europe's top attractions, from Modernist architecture of Barcelona to...

During my last year before retirement as an agricultural engineer, the idea to travel Europe popped into my mind. The more I thought about it, the bigger the plan grew and in more detail. One month after retirement, I was in London, looking around for an adventure bike to buy, and did just that within...

From Portugal to Hungary, from Great Britain down to Greece, Europe is a lot to take on. Luckily, the student adventurers behind Let’s Go Europe 2013 think you can handle it-with a little help. Whether you’re whipping through London, Barcelona, and Prague in five days or spending a leisurely year...

The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget has all you need to know for an out-of-this-world trip that won't affect your credit rating. Leave financial woes behind and get to grips with every corner of the continent, from awe-inspiring Stonehenge to the jaw-dropping Sistine Chapel, blissful beaches on...

Join Shelley and her husband, Mike, as they explore Europe from their temporary home in a small French village. Their dream was to live in southern France for a year; to be immersed in the culture and lifestyle of Provence. But there was also the lure of other wonderful destinations. The list of places...

From Portugal to Hungary, from Great Britain down to Greece, Europe is a lot to take on. Luckily, the student adventurers behind Let’s Go Europe 2015 think you can handle it-with a little help. Whether you’re whipping through London, Barcelona, and Prague in five days or spending a leisurely year...

THE year 1870 will long remain memorable in the annals of Europe. For in that year occurred a great and decisive war whose outcome was destined to exercise a large and profound influence upon the history of the subsequent period; whose consequences were to prove pervasive, far-reaching and unhappy,...

FIRST PRESS REVIEWS: SCHEKKER, Youthmagazine of German government: "This book gives a small, but fine insight in the way of live of 28 different EU-countries, usefull informations and great pictures. With this book in my hand travelling through europe, I can say: I am a European at heart.“ DEUTSCHE...

After World War I, diplomats and leaders at the Paris Peace Talks redrew the map of Europe, carving up ancient empires and transforming Europe's eastern half into new nation-states. Drawing heavily on the past, the leaders of these young countries crafted national mythologies and deployed them at...

The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing...

What Europe is and what it should be is often the subject of passionate debate. A unique concept whereby several nations are brought together under a humane, democratic system? The strongest economy in the world? A patchwork of different cultures? A tolerant home for freethinkers and the persecuted?...

One would assume that with the collapse of Communism, East Europeans would drink much less than before. A democratic society should surely be able to provide many more means of escape than alcohol – books, free press, foreign travel and the cornucopia of consumer goods. The reality, however,...

It's party time in Europe! Bestselling author Rick Steves explores the best festivals in Europe, from the Running of the Bulls in Spain to Carnival in Venice. There will be no museums! And no art galleries! Just Europeans having lots of fun. Across Europe, festival traditions go back centuries...

This volume presents a collection of diplomatic documents describing Britain’s relations with Eastern Europe from 1979 to 1982, with special focus on the crisis in Poland. After coming to power in 1979, the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher reaffirmed a policy of ‘differentiation’...