Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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The Fur Hat
$11.95 Add to cartIn this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers’ Union is giving fur hats to its members based on their importance, and that he rates onl… [more below]
- Author: Voinovich, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 28 1991
- ISBN10: 0156340305
- Language: English
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Beginner’s First Steps in Ukrainian: Your Strong Base for Correct Pronunciation and Reading
$17.55 Add to cartLearning Ukrainian? This is the perfect starting point. This short but powerful course will guide you to build a strong pronunciation and reading base in Ukrainian language in 12 easy steps. By buying
- Series: Ukrainian Language Learning with Audio
- Author: Pozniak, Yuliia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 3982458145
- Language: English
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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
$19.99 Add to cart“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine’s brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”–Financial Times
Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands,
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603486
- Language: English
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Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage
$40.00 Add to cartTreasures of Ukraine chronicles the arts and heritage of Ukraine at a time when the country’s people, culture, landmarks, and artworks are facing destruction and devastation. Created in partnership w
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0500026033
- Language: English
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0306921421
- Language: English
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsteris
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060590033
- Language: English
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Poor Folk and Other Stories
$16.00 Add to cartWith their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky’s early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major nove… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: April 04 1989
- ISBN10: 0140445056
- Language: English
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History – Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cart“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s maste
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 069115600X
- Language: English
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The Lost
$15.99 Read moreIn this rich and riveting narrative, a writer’s search for the truth behind his family’s tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic–part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0060542993
- Language: English
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Stalingrad
$25.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day a… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140284583
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
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New and Collected Poems 1931-2001
$19.99 Add to cartNew and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz’s exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 0060514485
- Language: English
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
$18.95 Add to cartA landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust
On July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and- Author: Gross, Jan T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234302
- Language: English
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Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization
$35.00 Read moreWithout the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization.
Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philos- Author: Spencer, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587422
- Language: English
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
$25.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize – Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award – One of the New York Times‘ Ten Best Books of the Year
“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enorm- Author: Judt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037757
- Language: English
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Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
$25.99 Add to cart“A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historian
We remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and
- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 154167278X
- Language: English
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Fodor’s Prague: With the Best of the Czech Republic
$21.99 Add to cartWhether you want to visit Prague Castle, walk across the famed Charles Bridge, or enjoy Czech beer in the beer capital of the world, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Prague and across the Czech Rep
- Series: Full-Color Travel Guide
- Author: Fodor’s Travel Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 1640975772
- Language: English
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Lost Pianos of Siberia
$20.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth-where music reveals the deep humanity and the rich history of Siberia.
- Author: Roberts, Sophy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0802149294
- Language: English
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Will to Survive: A History of Hungary
$38.99 Add to cartThe Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequ… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0199327343
- Language: English
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Narcissus and Goldmund
$10.99 Add to cartHesse’s novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emoti… [more below]
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553275860
- Language: English
