Europe category: 12800 books
by Andrew Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
The fifth book in Thorogood’s groundbreaking series of cultural guides takes Poland as its subject. Written and produced in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Speak the Culture: Poland provides a fast track to understanding the key events, figures and customs of this richly creative...
by Steven J. Zipperstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize
Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history.
So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Discover Prague with the most knowledgeable and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to explore the hidden gems of the Old Town, sightsee by tram or simply enjoy the best beer in the world, The Rough Guide to Prague will show you ideal places to sleep, eat, drink, relax and shop...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
London is one of the biggest most important cities in Europe. As it is the capital of England, it is always full of life and it never sleeps. No matter for holiday or for business, London is a great place to be. One of the largest and most important financial centers in the world is located in London....
by John Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
You don’t have to travel far in this city to realize there is one major visual reference in this city, and that’s the superb castle perched high on the hill. Everything tumbles away from this most famous of landmarks. Countless alleyway and steep steps intertwine with tall terraces and imposing...
Germany - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
With the FIFA World Cup in its pocket Germany is feeling its social, political, and economic power once again. After organizing a successful World Cup in 2006 and winning it against Argentina in Brazil in 2014, Germany sees a note of confidence, even triumphalism, permeating the country. As a European...
Austria - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Austria has produced some of the world's finest composers, dazzled us with an imperial Baroque architecture, and led the way with groundbreaking psychoanalysis. It has taught us to waltz, defined what a real coffee house is, and given us one of Europe's most popular winter playgrounds. All this from...
by Richard W. Unger
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The beer of today—brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkenness—is largely the result of scientific and industrial developments of the nineteenth century. Modern beer, however, has...
Turkish Awakening
A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political and social change, with an extraordinary past still linked to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and an ever more surprising present under the leadership...
by Kruno Pekas
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
== The Berlin Guide for Gay Men == Berlin is one of the gay metropolises in Europe and we can say the gayest city in the world. This gay guide is a must if you visit Berlin, specially if you visit Berlin for the first time. You can find here all the most popular places like bars, clubs, restaurants and...
Running Away to Home
Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia
"We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the...
Final Witness
My journey from the Holocaust to Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
At the age of five, Zoltan Zinn-Collis was torn from his home in Slovakia and cast into the deepest horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. In Bergen-Belsen concentration camp he survived the inhuman brutality of the SS guards, the ravages of near starvation, disease, and squalor. All but one of his...
Time Song
Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Shortly after her husband’s death, Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland,...
Me, Myself and Prague
An unreliable guide to Bohemia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
I tripped across the Charles Bridge just before first light, all alone apart from a sleepy pickpocket just clocking on for the morning shift, my heels clacking on the cobblestones, the early morning sky a beautiful deep blue.
Armed only with a romantic soul and a pressing need to escape her...