Europe category: 12800 books

Rick Steves Walks eBooks are straightforward, self-guided walking tours through some of Europe's most popular destinations, designed for easy reference on your mobile device or eReader. In Rick Steves Walk: The Ramblas Ramble, Barcelona, Rick shares his candid advice on how to get the most...

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar...

Examining such issues as the welfare state, the politics of unemployment and government-industry relations, this work looks at the developments in western European politics up to and during the 1980s.

This new, thoroughly updated 5th edition of Bradt's Faroe Islands remains the only English-language guide to this isolated, unspoiled archipelago, home to Tórshavn, the world's smallest capital, and where there are twice as many sheep as people. Bradt's Faroe Islands offers detailed information about...

All Sorts Of People  Every traveller, old or young, international or national, meets people. These can be fellow travellers or locals. You never met them before but while you are observing them, you see a behaviour you didn’t expect. Either nice or strange, it catches your attention. You...

Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre C’est une valse dont les Viennois ne se lassent pas. Dans l’ancienne capitale des Habsbourg, parée de palais et de musées parmi les plus beaux d’Europe, tout est fait pour danser avec la vie. Il est si facile...

L’auteur nous présente ici le cœur d’un empire alors au faîte de sa puissance : l’Autriche. La Vienne de Tissot, avec Paris et Berlin, donnait le ton à l’Europe entière. Aiguillonné par son insatiable curiosité, il veut tout voir, tout comprendre, il visite tout, entre partout, rencontre...

The Western Ukraine is very popular for the “green” tourism: its medium-range mountains with flat peaks and wood-covered slopes, amazing landscapes, healing air, favourable climate, unique mineral springs make this region one of the healthiest and beautiful places in Ukraine.  The Carpathians...

Adrian Wagner interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Adrian is an emerging German leader. Aged 26, from the Millennial Generation “X,” he writes on social transformation and integral consciousness. In this interview, he discusses German Identity and Patriotism; the state of German consciousness,...

We travel to grow – our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise – sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people,...

Good Ski Guide ... Good Party Guide! For a lot of people its not just about good snow and great skiing though you get that here, of course. Its also a holiday opportunity and other factors ought to be considered. So we have compiled a second Index for the Top 50 Resorts in which we reveal our Top 5s...

A compelling chronicle of a hiking and wildlife research expedition along the length of the Carpathian Mountains, from Romania to Poland, some 1,700 miles as the crow flies. (This volume, Part 1, covers the first half of the journey, through Romania and Ukraine.) On the trail of wolves, we are led...

Four years after his escape from the Soviet Union in 1990, award-winning journalist and author Vitali Vitaliev went in search of surviving pockets of freedom, autonomy and self-government. He found eleven countries, each with a population of less than half a million, each one of them beautiful and...