Eastern European category: 472 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities,...
by Jerzy Jedlicki
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Modernism and pessimism seem to go hand in hand. What are the sources of the historical pessimism we see in the legions of writers and thinkers over the past three centuries who saw modern civilization as degenerate and despicable, happily marching to its own doom? Why did so many educated and intelligent...
The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia
Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943–1953
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
This is the first detailed study of the standard of living of ordinary Russians following World War II. It examines urban living conditions under the Stalinist regime with a focus on the key issues of sanitation, access to safe water supplies, personal hygiene and anti-epidemic controls, diet and...
«Res publica» Redefined?
The Polish-Lithuanian Transition Period of the 1560s and 1570s in the Context of European State Formation Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The union of Poland and Lithuania was ruled by the Jagiellon royal house from 1385–1572, after which a political transition to an elective monarchy was undertaken. This book studies the political transition from the Jagiellon dynasty to an elective monarchy as a political decision-making process...
by Pia Selmayr
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In Wirnts «Wigalois» und Ulrichs «Lanzelet» nehmen Dinge eine herausragende Stellung ein, indem sie eine spezifische Sinnerweiterung erfahren. Man kann sie jedoch nicht für sich genommen betrachten, denn sie stehen in einem wechselseitigen Bezugsgefüge mit Raum und Figur. Dieses Buch verknüpft...
Czech Cuisine
Cookbook of Traditional Czech cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Czech cuisine is one of the most tastiest cuisines all around the world. It combines the best of east and west under one roof. Inside of this book you find over 50 recipes with large images to assure you how to serve the food properly. All recipes use European metric system. Don't worry, unit conversion chart is included.
Slavic Cuisine
All the Best of Slavic Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Slavic cuisine is one of the most tasty cuisines all around the world. This cookbook offers the best recipes of each mayor slavic country. Overall there is over 50 recipes, images included. For those who are not European, there are three unit conversion charts.
Chauvinism, Polish Style
The Case of Roman Dmowski (Beginnings: 18861905)
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The book addresses the genesis of Polish integral nationalism and the role of Roman Dmowski as a co-founder of this phenomenon in the development of Polish political thought at the fin-de-siècle. Based on extensive documentary research, it attempts to show a broader picture of modern Polish political...
China’s Stefan Zweig
The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Reception
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
During his lifetime Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was among the most widely read German-language writers in the world. Always controversial, he fell into critical disfavor as writers and critics in a devastated postwar Europe attacked the poor literary quality of his works and excoriated...
by Yi Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime-the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress-from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct...
Peter de Grote
een biografie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Met de Pulitzerprijs bekroonde biografie van Peter de Grote Dit is de beste en meest uitvoerige biografie over de Russische tsaar Peter de Grote die tot op heden is verschenen. Robert K. Massie toont Peter in zijn jonge jaren en schetst zijn strijd om de macht en zijn pogingen om Rusland militair,...
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood—American and Jordanian. Here are stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father and tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts...
Jerusalem
A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
A collection of 120 recipes exploring the flavors of Jerusalem from the New York Times bestselling author of Plenty, one of the most lauded cookbooks of 2011.
In Jerusalem, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi explore the vibrant cuisine of their home city—with its diverse Muslim, Jewish, and...
Ottolenghi
The Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Available for the first time in an American edition, this debut cookbook, from bestselling authors Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi of Plenty and Jerusalem, features 140 recipes culled from the popular Ottolenghi restaurants and inspired by the diverse culinary traditions of the Mediterranean.
Yotam...