Padraic Kenney is Professor of European History at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950. This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies--but in the whirlwind...

Katherine Verdery is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Among her books are Transylvanian Villagers and National Ideology under Socialism. Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style...

Shimon Redlich draws on the historical record, his own childhood memories, and interviews with Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians who lived in the small eastern Polish town of Brzezany to construct this account of the changing relationships among the town's three ethnic groups before, during, and after World War II. He details the history of Brzezany from the prewar decades (when it was part of independent Poland and members of the three communities remember...

Serbia Travel Guide - Expert tourist holiday tips including Belgrade museums and restaurants, Balkan music and culture as well as wine-tasting, rafting and hiking. This guide book also features festivals such as Guca and EXIT, architecture in Subotica and Novi Sad, hidden monasteries and fortresses including Studenica, Petrovaradin and Golubac.

Hadia is an independent woman in Cairo. Gasir is a painfully awkward lab assistant with attachment issues over his dead mother. Is he really her knight in shining armour? “Egyptian Products” by Egyptian writer Laila Soliman, is taken from “Plays from the Arab World”, a collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa, now available as individual ebooks.

Ahmad and Nour rent a flat so that they can spend time together away from their families, but is having a space to themselves going to solve all their problems? “Withdrawal”, by Syrian writer Mohammad Al Attar, is taken from “Plays from the Arab World”, a collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa, now available as individual eBooks..

Ukraine's complex history has long been a mystery to many For centuries, this nation has been shaped by many forces, from empires and wars to nationalism and political strife. Discover Ukraine's past from ancient times to today with this engaging book Delve deep into the many factors that have shaped this nation's past, from its mediaeval origins to its struggles under foreign empires, and discover how it has emerged as an independent force. Drawing...

When the young and naive D'Artagnan sets out on his quest to become a King's musketeer, he immediately encounters the dangerous femme fatale, Milady de Winter. After discovering that the musketeers have been disbanded, he makes it his mission to get them reinstated. But will his feud with Milady thwart him? And who the heck is she? This riotous adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel by John Nicholson (Hound of the Baskervilles, Peepolykus was...

Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945) is considered Japan's first and greatest modern philosopher. As founder of the Kyoto School, he began a rigorous philosophical engagement and dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel. John W. M. Krummel explores the Buddhist roots of Nishida's thought and places him in connection with Hegel and other philosophers of the Continental tradition. Krummel develops notions of self-awareness,...

Mike's journey begins with his grandfather's surprise request––would you go to the old country and find my grandfather's birthplace? Mike's demanding work schedule had no room for a holiday, but Mike agreed to go. Why? Did Mike look forward to touring: Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernitsi and Kiev. Had historical events and outstanding people been the main attraction? Was knowledge of the current cultural, political and economic challenges the determining...