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Rogers Brubaker / Nationalism Reframed (Large Paperback)

Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe Rogers Brubaker     Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Rogers Brubaker...

Bill Buford (Editor) / Granta 30: New Europe (Large Paperback)

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #30 Granta 30: New Europe Bill Buford (Editor)     The year 1989, annus mirabilis, was the most important year in Europe since the end of World War Two. After 1989, Europe changed...

Garrison Walters / The Other Europe (Large Paperback)

The Other Europe is a general history of Eastern Europe, from the earliest times to the end of World War II. Walters provides an informed and interpretively refreshing focus on this key region. Walters' objective is to acquaint the student and...

Gregory Andrusz (Editor) / Cities After Socialism (Large Paperback)

Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies Gregory Andrusz (Editor), Michael Harloe (Editor), Iván Szelényi (Editor)     Cities After Socialism is the first substantial...

Seamus Heaney (Translator) / Beowulf (Large Paperback)

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns...

Peter Esterhazy / Little Hungarian Pornography (Large Paperback)

An extraordinary montage of sex and politics, Péter Esterházy's innovative novel can be seen to prefigure the liberation of Eastern Europe. Written under what the author calls "small, Hungarian, pornographic circumstances," A Little...

Herta Müller /Budapest (Large Paperback)

The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side, the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges,...

Sarah Binchy (Editor) / SUNDAY MISCELLANY: A Selection 2023-2025 (Large Paperback)

448 pages, Paperback Published December 22, 2025   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second...

Carolly Erickson / Anne Boleyn (Large Paperback)

As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Review of The First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn "was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant daughter escaped, and a subject Ms. Erickson's sensitivity to sexual and political...

John C. Torpey / Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent (Large Paperback)

The East German Opposition and Its Legacy (Volume 4) John C. Torpey     Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once...

Peter F. Sugar / A History of Hungary (Large Paperback)

A History of Hungary   Peter F. Sugar (Editor), Tibor Frank (Editorial Assistant), Péter Hanák (Associate Editor), László Makkai (Contributor), Pál...

Katherine Verdery / National Ideology Under Socialism (Large Paperback)

Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania   Katherine Verdery     The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles...

Stephen Leather /Stretch (Large Paperback)

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he...

Khaled Hosseini/ The Kite Runner (Large Paperback)

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarcy through the horrific invasion of the Taliban, The Kite Runner is the heartbreaking story of the unlikely and inseperable friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant,...

Joyce Carol Oates / The Lost Landscape (Large Paperback)

A memoir of childhood and adolescence, in New York State   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Dubravka Ugrešić / The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays (Large Paperback)

The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugrešić's...

Jeffrey C. Alexander / Fin De Siecle Social Theory (Large Paperback)

Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction and the Problem of Reason Jeffrey C. Alexander     In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory...

Ivo Banac (Editor) / Eastern Europe in Revolution (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Craig J. Calhoun / Nationalism (Large Paperback)

Drawing on examples from Eritrea, Yugoslavia and China to France and Germany, this book clarifies the way in which national boundaries and identities became central to the modern era, how they relate to the development of state power, and how a host...

Scott Lash / Sociology of Postmodernism (Large Paperback)

This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important.   This book is...

Tadeusz Konwicki / A Minor Apocalypse (Large Paperback)

As in his novel The Polish Complex, Konwicki's A Minor Apocalypse stars a narrator and character named Konwicki, who has been asked to set himself on fire that evening in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Warsaw in an act of...

David E. Whisnant / Rascally Signs in Sacred Places (Large Paperback)

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua David E. Whisnant     David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture,...

Joe Starita / "I Am a Man" (Large Paperback)

Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice Joe Starita     In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma),...

Bianca Pitzorno / The Seamstress of Sardinia (Large Paperback)

A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century--a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane...

Tony Judt/ Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Large Paperback)

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 #1-4 Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Tony Judt     Tony Judt's Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word "groundbreaking." It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the...

Katherine Verdery / What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Large Paperback)

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...

Wisława Szymborska / View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (Large Paperback)

In these one-hundred poems Wisława Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischevious. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiousity, she documents...

Liah Greenfeld / Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Large Paperback)

Trilogy of Nationalism #1 Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity Liah Greenfeld     Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. It accomplished the...

Stephen R. Graubard / A New Europe for the Old? (Large Paperback)

Since 1989, it has been possible to review what has been published both at home and abroad on the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and, no less importantly, on the Soviet Union itself, from a new perspective. Few have chosen to engage...

Pauline Marie Rosenau / Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences (Large Paperback)

Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this...

Péter Esterházy / Not Art (Large Paperback)

Winner of the 2004 Peace Prize—Germany’s most prestigious literary honor—Peter Esterhazy, author of the acclaimed Celestial Harmonies, offers us Not Art, a uniquely brilliant novelized exploration of his...

J. Hoberman / The Red Atlantis (Large Paperback)

Argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to both modernism and itself. Offering examples ranging from the Stalinist show trial to Franz Kafka's posthumous career as a dissident writer, this book says that Communism...

Aleksandar Hemon (Editor) / Best European Fiction 2012 (Large Paperback)

Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint,...

Mark Robert Waldman (Editor )/ The Spirit of Writing (Large Paperback)

  The Spirit of Writing: Classic and Contemporary Essays Celebrating the Writing Life Mark Robert Waldman (Editor ), Eaton Hamilton (Contributor), Tom Bradley     In this compilation of essays by...

Brubaker / Ethnicity without Groups (Large Paperback)

Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic,...

William P. Germano / Getting It Published (Large Paperback)

  A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books   Writers and publishers depend on one another, but it often seems as if they speak two different languages. Getting It Published is a lively, insider's guide to...

Jiří Gruša / The Questionnaire (Large Paperback)

The Questionnaire Jiří Gruša, Peter Kussi (Translator), Josef Škvorecký (Preface)     Originally circulated in Czechoslovakia in an underground edition of nineteen typewritten...

Istvan Pogany / The Roma Cafe (Large Paperback)

Human Rights and the Plight of the Romani People Istvan Pogany     Written in a lively and accessible style, and illustrated throughout with photographs, The Roma Cafe is a poignant and intriguing analysis of the diverse problems...

Ivan Klíma/ The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays (Large Paperback)

In this collection of political and personal essays, the novelist Ivan Klima charts five decades in the history of Czechoslovakia -- from the Nazi occupation to the Velvet Revolution. Klima invokes the spirit of the city that shaped him: ironical,...

John Storey / An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture (Large Paperback)

This text presents a survey of the competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. This edition includes new sections on popular culture and carnivalesque, and on postmodernism and the pluralism of value.   238 pages,...

Raymond T. McNally / In Search Of Dracula (Large Paperback)

The History of Dracula and Vampires – The Biography of Vlad the Impaler and Bram Stoker's Diaries Raymond T. McNally, Radu R. Florescu     The true story behind the legend of Dracula - a biography of Prince Vlad of...

James Reston Jr. / The Last Apocalypse (Large Paperback)

Accomplished historical author James Reston, Jr., presents the enthralling saga of how the Christian kingdoms converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance in Europe as the year 1000 approached. Through Reston's brilliant...

Jane A. Plant / Prostate Cancer : Understand, Prevent and Overcome (Large Paperback)

  A GROUND-BREAKING BOOK FOR PROSTATE CANCER SUFFERERS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer (after lung cancer) among men. Professor Jane Plant's international bestseller Your...

Homi K. Bhabha / The Location of Culture (Large Paperback)

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture , he uses concepts...

Miklós Molnár / A Concise History of Hungary (Large Paperback)

Cambridge Concise Histories A Concise History of Hungary Miklós Molnár, Anna Magyar (Translator)     This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy...

Robert Hollinger / Postmodernism and the Social Sciences (Large Paperback)

The major themes of postmodernist writing are demystified in this introductory text. Robert Hollinger reviews key postmodern discussions on critical topics such as values, identity, and the self and society. He compares postmodern thinking with that...

Arthur Asa Berger / Cultural Criticism (Large Paperback)

Cultural Criticism: A Primer of Key Concepts Arthur Asa Berger     In this guide to cultural criticism, Arthur Asa Berger presents complex concepts in jargon-free language, making the book an ideal introductory text. It covers...

Stephen Duncombe (Editor) / Cultural Resistance Reader (Large Paperback)

Stephen Duncombe (Editor), Theodor W. Adorno (Contributor), Matthew Arnold (Contributor), Mikhail Bakhtin (Contributor), Jean Baudrillard (Contributor)    From the Diggers seizing St...

David McKittrick / Endgame (Large Paperback)

The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book...

Bonnie C. Wade / Thinking Musically (Large Paperback)

Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Bonnie C. Wade     As the cornerstone of the Global Music Series, Thinking Musically, Third Edition, explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures...

Ladislav Holy / The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation (Large Paperback)

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology #103 The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation: National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation Ladislav Holy     Ladislav Holy brings to this timely study of...

Sabrina P. Ramet (Editor) / The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989 (Large Paperback)

With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1991, right-wing extremist parties have emerged and claimed a prominence that they have not enjoyed since the early 1940s. The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe...