Cultural Region/Central Europe
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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
$21.99 Add to cartThe creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West
- Author: Wyman, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1538701197
- Language: English
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The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit
$20.00 Add to cartIt has been nearly three decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. In testament to the endurance and vital… [more below]
- Author: MacLaine, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 743400739
- Language: English
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The Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Vienna
$29.95 Read more“From the Congress of Vienna to the Austria World Summit, the city of Vienna has hosted key meetings on peace to climate action. This is a first-class book about Vienna as the crossroads of civilizati… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361952
- Language: English
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Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
$19.99 Add to cartIn the early seventies, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe–in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. He was accompanied by an unforgettable sidekick named Stephen Katz (who will be gloriously fa
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713802
- Language: English
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Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies- Author: Robb, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426844
- Language: English
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When the World Was Ours
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a “brutally honest and totally believable” (Booklist, starred review) story of three young friends whose fat… [more below]
- Author: Kessler, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1534499652
- Language: English
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Banner in the Sky: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$15.99 Add to cartA timeless outdoor adventure story, winner of a Newbery Honor, that will appeal to fans of Hatchet and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.
Josef Matt, the only man to ever try to conquer th
- Author: Ullman, James Ramsey
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 1988
- ISBN10: 64470482
- Language: English
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
$18.99 Add to cartA book for lovers of all things Italian — an homage to the city of Trieste.
This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After vi- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811804
- Language: English
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
$20.00 Add to cartThe Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was firs
- Author: Murray, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1472958055
- Language: English
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By Water: The Felix Manz Story
$19.95 Add to cartAction-packed graphic novel perfect for fans of the Boxers
& Saints series.Five hundred years ago, in an age marked by war, plague,
inequality and religious coercion, there were people across Europe wh… [more below]- Series: Heroes of the Radical Reformation #1
- Author: Landsel, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1636080537
- Language: English
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Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
$16.98 Add to cartIt seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally no… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Jan Tomasz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190614536
- Language: English
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The Hungarian Cookbook
$22.99 Add to cart“Our appetite for this interesting cuisine, a melding of Germanic, Slavic, Tartar, and Turkish influences, has been whetted by [this] excellent new work.”–New York Times
- Author: Derecskey, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 1987
- ISBN10: 0060914378
- Language: English
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
$26.95 Add to cartWhy Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that sprea- Author: Mokyr, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180962
- Language: English
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Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition Through the Salem Trials
$17.95 Add to cartThis in-depth and comprehensive resource explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World. Witch Hunts in the We… [more below]
- Series: Extraordinary World
- Author: Pavlac, Brian A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 080323290X
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$12.95 Add to cartThe Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a han… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555346
- Language: English
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Homestead
$13.95 Add to cartEach life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface of the tiny alpine village called Rosenau. Be it a mysteriously misaddressed love letter or a girl’s careless delivery of two helpless
- Author: Lippi, Rosina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0395977711
- Language: English
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The Third Man and The Fallen Idol
$16.00 Add to cartThe Third Man is Greene’s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his o… [more below]
- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 1992
- ISBN10: 014018533X
- Language: English
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The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
$17.00 Add to cartThe first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s novels to be published in English, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that “portrays the…breakdown of a murderer in ways
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0374531064
- Language: English
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Baron Bagge
$13.95 Read moreA novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as well as what may lay beyond our mortal coils), Baron Bagge concerns a young Austrian cavalry lieutenant in the Carpathian mountains at
- Author: Lernet-Holenia, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234452
- Language: English
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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests: Revised Edition
$17.00 Add to cartItalo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler’s apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He l
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956585
- Language: English
