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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"a captivating exploration of how "Western Civilization"-the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times-is a powerful figment of our collective imagination"--
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 26
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A powerful and elegant debut novel about love, memory, exile, and war. --Provided by the publisher--
One snowy holiday morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. Told with an affecting and intimate tone that gradually expands in scope, intensity, poetry, and drama, THE APARTMENT follows the couple across a vague and frozen city on a single...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, women wielded enormous power over their territories for more than a hundred years. In the sixteenth century, as in our own, the phenomenon of the powerful woman offered challenges and opportunities. Opportunities, as when in 1529 Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. A revelatory history of the role of German women in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but as actual killers on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Lower, drawing on twenty years of archival research and fieldwork, presents startling evidence that these women were more than "desk murderers" or comforters of murderous German men: they went on "shopping sprees" and romantic outings to the...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 873 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past: The...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
545 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Determined to make it through the turbulent times made all the more difficult by seemingly constant war, one family must come to terms with leaving their home behind when a secret sends them around the world, leading them to prisons, concentration camps, and other treacherous obstacles. Mexico, 552pp.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"--
Author
Publisher
Family Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Trace your Eastern European ancestors from American shores back to the old country. This in-depth guide will walk you step-by-step through the exciting-- and challenging-- journey of finding your Polish, Czech, or Slovak roots. You'll learn how to identify immigrant ancestors, find your family's town of origin, locate key genealogical resources, decipher foreign-language records, and untangle the region's complicated history. The book also includes...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 141 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Olga and Paul. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, life: Olga, who comes from the Eastern part of Europe, where unremitting poverty is the order of the day. Paul, who comes from the Western part, where unemployment means not hunger, but a crisis of meaning and sense of uselessness. Both are struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life. In both the West and East. Both travel to a new country, and thus into its...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1986, c1985
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 628 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches: grinding, halting battles that sacrificed millions of lives for no territory or visible gain. Yet the first months of the war, from the German invasion of Belgium to the Marne to Ypres, were utterly...
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