Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Captive Mind
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 0679728562
- Language: English
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The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithu
$18.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.
Imperial, communist or autocratic,- Author: Fatland, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139495
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Pain
$18.00 Add to cartHaving fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of w
- Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0060825855
- Language: English
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
$8.99 Add to cartWhat is death all about? What is life all about?
So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Yea- Author: Bitton-Jackson, Livia
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0689823959
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
$45.00 Add to cart“To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . .” –Dutch resister Herman Friedhoff
In every country that fell to the Third Reich d
- Author: Kochanski, Halik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091657
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance
$18.95 Read more“[Colby] breathes new life into well-trodden WWII tropes, building a vivid, novelistic narrative focused on memory and family.” — Publishers Weekly
“The writing is vivid and lyrical, the narratives
- Author: Colby, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417354
- Language: English
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Nepali Phrasebook & Dictionary
$11.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Nepali Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Nepali phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Navig
- Series: Phrasebook
- Author: Lonely Planet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1786570890
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
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Anya and the Dragon
$9.99 Add to cartA Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book
Sydney Taylor Honor winner Anya and the Dragon, the first in a duology, is a lush tale of magic and dragons, a gem for any adventure-seeking middle grade reader.
Anya an
- Author: Pasternack, Sofiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0358379059
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Eastern Europe
$24.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Eastern Europe is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk Dubrovnik’s city walls, discover history in
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Baker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1788683919
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in h… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756884
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains) [Black and White Editio
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0578754479
- Language: English
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The War Below
$8.99 Add to cartThis companion novel to Skrypuch’s Making Bombs for Hitler follows a boy who joins the underground Ukrainian resistance in the fight against Hitler.
The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and for
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1338608339
- Language: English
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
$32.50 Add to cartA sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities
The West and Islam — the sword and scimitar — have clashed since the m- Author: Ibrahim, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0306825554
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina: Introduction by John Bayley
$35.00 Read moreA beautiful Everyman’s Library Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels in all of world literature, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an introduction by John Bayley.
A famou- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1016
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410007
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Istanbul: With Ephesus & Cappadocia
$19.99 Read moreWalk in the footsteps of emperors and sultans, marvel at some of the greatest monuments on earth, and experience the wonders of East and West with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Istanbul you’ll find:
- Series: Rick Steves
- Author: Aran, Lale Surmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 22, 2020
- ISBN10: 1641713674
- Language: English
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Hungarian Cookbook: Old World Recipes for New World Cooks
$14.95 Add to cartThese enticing Old World Hungarian recipes were brought to America by the author’s grandparents, but they have been updated to accommodate today’s dietary concerns and faster-paced lifestyles. The aut… [more below]
- Author: Fintor, Yolanda Nagy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0781812402
- Language: English
