Replica of 1908 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, New York; Bombay, and Calcutta. Elibron Classics. Oversize maps are available as a free download. John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – ……続きを見る
著者:Eva Hoffman
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2012年12月03日
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)
The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."
Since its publica……続きを見る
著者:Kalman Weiser
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basi……続きを見る
"An extraordinary memoir.” Luba Vinogradova, co-author of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist With the Red Army, 1941-1945
“An important contribution to our understanding of the Second Worl……続きを見る
**The astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War IIーwhen the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia.
“An amazing,……続きを見る
‘It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians’ extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.’ Philip Marsden, Spectator
Geoffrey Hosking’s landmark book provid……続きを見る
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 Veneti……続きを見る
The Children of Odin
by Padraic Colum
Long ago, in a Northern paradise called Asgard, dwelt many gods and goddesses. They were wise and they were beautiful. They lived in peace, untouched by evil...……続きを見る
Apariţia revistei „VITRALII...” - publicaţie a veteranilor din serviciile de informaţii secrete române - este expresia unui interes naţional, evident şi imperativ, conjugat cu o necesitate so……続きを見る
著者:Jan Masaryk
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2012年12月06日
Speaking to My Country by Jan Masaryk; Foreword by Madeleine Albright; Biographical Note by Helen Epstein (69,000 words)
First published in 1944, these speeches deserve study by contemporary student……続きを見る
著者:David Rohde
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年05月29日
“Powerful… definitive… Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded.” ーThe Washington Post
In 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Chr……続きを見る
When Ermentrude, a young Gothic woman, leaves home to gain her independence, she enters a world of perilous events, romance, and adventure.
Caught between her love of exploring Middle Earth and the ……続きを見る
著者:Laura Olson
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年07月31日
This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and traditi……続きを見る
As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad, Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German……続きを見る
著者:Martha Gellhorn
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2011年08月22日
Martha Gellhorn was one of the firstーand most widely readーfemale war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for ……続きを見る
著者:Adrian Webb
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年04月16日
The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919 is a compact and comprehensive reference guide to the area, from the Treaty of Versailles to the present day. With particular focus o……続きを見る
In The Modern Balkans, historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe. Originally separated from the rest of Eu……続きを見る
Popular Romances of the West of England
by Robert Hunt
Or the drolls, traditions and superstitions of Old Cornwall. The romances collected in this volume give the tourist the means of restoring the ……続きを見る
City Scenes, or a Peep Into London is a historical book by Harvey & Darton. This book has 86 chapters and This scarce antiquarian book is a Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfectio……続きを見る
European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the Engl……続きを見る
Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter’s Tribute is an illustrated intergenerational memoir of the author’s father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltán Kubinyi, the Commanding Officer who saved him and over 100 ……続きを見る
著者:Paula Huntley
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年02月02日
A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances.
In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians pou……続きを見る
An American visits Siberia, along the Amoor river, during the mid nineteenth century. This piece includes a description of a wedding as well as the usual cultural comments and landscape and business……続きを見る
The dramatic family saga Hardly Ever Otherwise by Maria Matios, having won the Ukrainian national Book of the Year Award 2007 and Grand Prix at the Ukrainian Coronation of the Word Prize 2007, narra……続きを見る
This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace.
Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and tr……続きを見る
著者:Carol Stevens
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年09月13日
Russia's emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter I's radical programme of 'Westernising' reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European ar……続きを見る
Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, ev……続きを見る
Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
by Sir George Douglas
Treasury of fanciful, picturesque narrativesーassembled by noted folklorist and recounted in their native vernacularーtell of brownies, kelpies, m……続きを見る
著者:Roxanne Easley
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年08月28日
In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War, the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating some 23 million privately-owned serfs. Thi……続きを見る