Western Europe category: 1822 books

What is fascism in the twenty first century? What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images spontaneously...

Blood in the Forest tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of fields and forests in Western Latvia known as the...

Denis is a ne’er-do-well that has lived a carefree life of adventure and lust until a fateful day that will change his life and his soul forever.Stephan and Bassina are the innocent children of a Frankish noble until an enemy raiding party destroys their family and their childhoods.Ibriham...

The circulation of goods, ideas, and people has shaped a common European food culture. But practical questions pertaining to this process remain unanswered. How and why do changes in food habits occur and what are their implications? What are the social and cultural processes involved between hosts...

MAKING A MARK was written in order to answer the author’s teenage grandson’s questions about art (What is Cubism?  Who is Cézanne?). It starts with the first known cave paintings, and progresses through the great artistic periods and movements in the western world until the 21st century....

The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Seemingly written by a churchman who was in Jerusalem itself...

Whether you are moving to Copenhagen as a student, employee, or are simply curious about Danish life (from a foreigner’s perspective), this book is for you. One Year in Copenhagen outlines my personal experience moving to Copenhagen as a full time, international student. The book is organized by...

★繼《我睡了81個人的沙發》之後，連美恩最新冒險力作！ 女警把手伸進我的衣服裡，隔著內衣褲搜身，連胯下和股縫都沒放過。 緊接著我又被帶到另一個房間，壓了十根手指頭的指紋， 還拍了像在電影裡才會看到那種拿字卡的白背景犯人照…… 連美恩，一個原本連光圈、快門是什麼都搞不清楚的女孩，為了成為一個攝影師的夢想，隻身踏上歐洲大陸，在經歷了十四個月顛沛流離的日子後，她選擇留在倫敦，這個占卜師曾極力嚇阻她絕對不要沾上邊，否則一定會愛情事業兩失意的地方。 於是，還沒來得及捲起袖子大展身手，美恩就先被英國海關拘留了一夜，好不容易住進充滿藝術氣息的東倫敦，又接連遇到問題多多、驚悚不已的古怪室友；交了充滿藝術家氣息的英國男友，竟面臨到該不該為了愛情吃下橫死路邊野兔的人生難題；終於成為獨立接案的時尚攝影師後，卻在搞不清楚的狀況下屢次挑釁殺人不眨眼的黑道幫派分子。 看來占卜師的預言果然沒錯，不過，這樣殘酷的預言，在遇到對夢想充滿衝勁和滿滿生命力的美恩，竟然奇妙的轉化成一場又一場燦爛無比的煙花，實在讓人看了嘖嘖稱奇、大呼過癮。 透過這本書，美恩將邀請你和她一起走過這些年來在歐洲尋夢的心路歷程。那一個個讓人感到不可思議的小故事、旅遊書上看不到的城市風景，以及我們每個人有機會面臨到的，對於築夢路上會遇到的困惑與自我懷疑…… 儘管我們每個人對於跨出舒適圈都有著一定程度的恐懼，但是就像美恩分享的： 「慢慢地，我不再害怕一個人上路這件事，因為我越來越清楚地知道，當你勇往直前地朝你想去的那個方向奔跑時，就會在路上遇到跟你有一樣目標、一樣夢想的人，他們將成為你的朋友，...

Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's...

A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted—and beautiful—commodity in Europe. In the 1630s, visitors to...

A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal’s Hat and The Borgias. Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political...

Waterloo is one of the defining campaigns of European history. The name conjures up images of the terrible scale and grandeur of the Napoleonic Wars and the incredible combined effort that finally ended Napoleon's aspirations of power in Europe. Drawn from unpublished first-hand accounts, and using...

Barbara W. Tuchman—the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Guns of August—once again marshals her gift for character, history, and sparkling prose to compose an astonishing portrait of medieval Europe. The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on...

The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring...