Europe category: 12800 books
Women of Sicily
Saints, Queens and Rebels
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Rarely have women found their place in the chronicles of Sicily's thirty-century history. Here one of Sicily's most popular historians introduces seventeen women of varied backgrounds who defied convention to make their mark in the annals of the complex history of the world's most conquered island.
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by Georgi Gospodinov
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation
Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
"A quirky, compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its core."-New York Times
A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and...
Istanbul & Ankara Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Istanbul straddles both Asia and Europe and is located on two sides of the Bosphorus River. It is Turkey’s largest city and it was one of the three European Capitals of Culture in 2010. Ankara, in Anatolia province is the capital of Turkey and is the country’s second largest city. Ankara an interesting yet less-travelled place to visit.
Erika and Klaus Mann
Living with America
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Erika and Klaus Mann: Living with America provides new insights into the lives of Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, by focusing on their years in America. It begins with Erika and Klaus Mann’s self-promotional tour of the United States in 1927–1928, and follows up with their return in 1936...
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This volume brings together articles written by experts in the literary history of Central and Eastern European literatures. The overarching topic is the export of Socialist Realism into Europe after WWII, but the authors are interested not so much in highlighting the generalised, top-down mechanism...
by Witold Gombrowicz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Although Witold Gombrowicz’s unique, idiosyncratic writings include a three-volume Diary, this voluminous document offers few facts about his early life in Poland before his books were banned there and he went into voluntary exile. Polish Memories-a series of autobiographical sketches Gombrowicz composed...
by Jonathan Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
In 1202, zealous Western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking terrible devastation. The crusaders spared...
THE GUILLOTINE AT WORK Vol. 1
The Leninist Counter-Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
The Guillotine At Work Vol 1 develops the theme that the Stalinist terror of the 1930s-1950s, the bureaucratisation of Russian society, the imperialist escapades, through to the total disregard for human rights in the Soviet Union and other East European countries under its dominion were not aberrations...
A Tale of Two Villages
Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two...
by Frederic Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
"WHEN we study the foundation of the United Provinces, says a great French writer, "we learn how a State, from an origin almost unnoticed, rapidly rose into greatness, was formed without design, and in the end belied all human forecast. Those large and wealthy provinces of the mainland which...
Lost Cosmonaut
Observations of an Anti-Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Daniel Kalder belongs to a unique group: the anti-tourists. Sworn to uphold the mysterious tenets of The Shymkent Declarations, the anti-tourist seeks out the dark, lost zones of our planet, eschewing comfort, embracing hunger and hallucinations, and always traveling at the wrong time of year. In...
Lost in Transition
Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past....
Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Naples, Pompeii & the Amalfi Coastis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Meander past orange groves and swaying pines to reach...