Europe category: 12800 books
by Marina Soroka
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their functions evolved to the point where their original medicinal purpose was relegated to a secondary place by the unintended uses of spas as stages of social...
A Short History of Europe
From Pericles to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great
In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the...
by R.G. Waldeck
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
As European capitals fell during 1940 and 1941, there swarmed to the Athene Palace, Bucharest's Grand Hotel, diplomats, generals, Gestapo spies, and demi-mondaines from all over Europe. Arriving at the crowded Athene Palace on the day Paris fell in 1940, the American female journalist Rosa Goldschmidt...
Radicalization in Western Europe
Integration, Public Discourse and Loss of Identity among Muslim Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Employing a theoretical framework based on the concept of identity loss, this book seeks to understand why increased integration has stimulated greater radicalization among the Muslim populations in Western Europe.
Through extensive field research in four European countries – the UK, the...
by Josip Glaurdic
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H.W. Bush, and the British Foreign Office; evidence generated...
Europe by Eurail 2019
Touring Europe by Train
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler’s one-stop source for visiting Europe’s cities and countries by rail for more than forty years. This comprehensive guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred...
by Claude Roudeau
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Tout au long de ma vie, un attrait pour la "différence" me fera beaucoup voyager, regarder, ...apprendre. Modestement. Loin des palaces.
Ravi de découvrir des lieux, des monuments, des paysages, mais plus encore des gens, dans leur travail, leur mode de vie, leur façon d'être...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Europe: the name is quite enough to describe the beauty of nature lying within the continent. Europe holds the westernmost part of the Eurasia. To the north there lies icy Arctic Ocean, at west there is beautiful Atlantic Ocean. South of the Europe is bordered by Mediterranean Sea. Water shades of...
Europe's Best Bakeries
Over 130 of the Finest Bakeries, Cafes and Patisseries Across Great Britain and the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
An inspirational, illustrated guide to Europe's 135 best bakeries.
From the splendid Eccles cakes of London's St John Bakery to the delicate pasteis de nata at Manteigaria in Lisbon, Europe's Best Bakeries has baked goods for every taste.
Breads run from giant sourdough loaves at Poilâne in...
by Nathan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Prague, Czech Republic. Prague is the capital city and largest city of the Czech Republic. It is one of the larger cities of Central Europe and has served as the capital of the historic region of Bohemia for centuries. This magical city of bridges,...
by Shawn English
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Frankfurt, Germany.
Frankfurt is a city of contrasts. Wealthy bankers, students and granola drop-outs coexist in a city that has some of the highest, most avant-garde skyscrapers of Europe next to well maintained old buildings....
Northern Europe By Cruise Ship - 2nd Edition
The Complete Guide to Cruising Northern Europe – includes Baltic, British Isles and Fjords of Norway
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Embark on a voyage to some of the most famous capitals of the world with the new second edition of Northern Europe By Cruise Ship. From the British Isles to Scandinavia, Russia, the Baltic States and Germany, Northern Europe By Cruise covers the ports, shore excursions, cruise options and shopping opportunities....
by Tom Fort
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
'You have to be on your guard when you go back to special places. You may be able to locate them easily enough on the map, but maps tell only one story. Times change and places and people with them. The memory plays curious tricks, and things aren't always as you remember or expect.'
Twenty...
The Portuguese
A Portrait of a People
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent’s south-west rim.In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led...