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A Guide to Belarusians, Belarus and what makes the country unique.
Being on the crossroads between invading armies since time immemorial, Belarus has emerged with a growing sense of identity that sets them apart from their neighbours. The author opens the lid on the background, attitudes and behaviour of a people about which little is known.
'Belarusians often describe themselves with the word 'Pamiarkoŭnasć'. This spans the kaleidoscope of attitudes...
4) Dzhan
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Dzhan, escrito en 1935, uno de los escritos más bellos de la carrera de Andréi Platónov, se presenta por primera vez en una edición íntegra, con todos los finales alternativos que su propio avatar político como bestia negra de Stalin le obligó a redactar, en un intento infructuoso de ver publicada su obra.
Novela indispensable, no solo como alegoría del socialismo en términos filosóficos, sino como retablo humano y ejercicio literario extremo,...
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An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal by Jessica Stern, one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism.
Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian...
6) Estonia
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Bradt's Estonia remains the only English-language guidebook to this Baltics destination and this eighth edition reveals more of the country than any previous guide. Offering extensive coverage of Estonia's complex cultural history and its artists, writers and musicians, alongside comprehensive practical information, Baltics expert Neil Taylor MBE proves that there's much more to Estonia than the cobbled streets and cafés of Tallinn.
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Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Ukraine is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip morning coffee in Lviv's cosy cafes, hike the flower-filled upland pastures and wide, snaking valleys of the Carpathian Mountains, and take a guided tour of Chernobyl – all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Ukraine and...
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Lonely Planet's Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Explore Tallinn's fairy-tale old town, relax at Curonian Spit, and marvel at Riga's art nouveau architecture; all with your trusted travel companion.
Inside Lonely Planet's Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania Travel Guide:
What's NEW in this edition?...
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Georgia lies between Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. This small Caucasian country is used to playing a significant role in global geopolitics, and its strategic location at the crossroads of different civilizations has been a curse as well as a blessing. Once a battlefield of the Christian and Muslim worlds, today it is caught between its NATO aspirations and its location in Russia's backyard....
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Lonely Planet's Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Hike in Tusheti, explore Goris, and discover Baku; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan Travel Guide:
Up-to-date information - all businesses were...
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In this book I describe many adventures and misadventures that I experienced during a two-month trip in the countries listed in the book's subtitle. Come along with me on a very challenging bicycle tour in southwestern Sardinia, an enjoyable visit to the beautiful island of Corsica, an educational week around amazing Malta, a fascinating and somewhat dangerous trip to radioactive Chernobyl, a journey around little visited Armenia, and finally an extremely...
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This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Ukraine reveals a country in the throes of change. The euphoria of the famous Orange Revolution has vanished. The momentum for reform has been checked and the forces of authoritarianism have returned. Even so, modernization continues apace and people are eager to be seen as European. The recent political instability highlights the contradictions of Ukrainian society. Ukrainians are proud of their...
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Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations,...
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Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries on earth, was long hidden from the rest of the world behind the Iron Curtain, and continued to remain unnoticed among the "stans" of Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Now, twenty years later, it has emerged as a modern state with far-reaching ambitions. It has developed rapidly over the last decade, raising a brand-new capital in the middle of its vast, empty grasslands,...
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Learning to read a language with a foreign alphabet can be an intimidating challenge. Even before you can start to study the vocabulary and grammar, you must first decipher this strange new script.
But learning a new alphabet does not have to be so difficult.
Other language courses start by showing a table of the alphabet and then immediately proceed to dialogues and grammatical descriptions. This is not the ideal way to teach a foreign alphabet,...
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Learning to read a language with a foreign alphabet can be an intimidating challenge. Even before you can start to study the vocabulary and grammar, you must first decipher this strange new script.
But learning a new alphabet does not have to be so difficult.
Other language courses start by showing a table of the alphabet and then immediately proceed to dialogues and grammatical descriptions. This is not the ideal way to teach a foreign alphabet,...
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This is a short travel guide for independent travellers to Poland and the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. In particular, this guide covers the Polish cities of Gdansk, Wroclaw, Poznan, and Torun and describes the history and the sights that can be seen there. These places were chosen as the most interesting based on the guidebooks the author had read.
When visiting Gdansk, Poznan, and Wroclaw it's difficult to believe that these...
19) Cap au Nord
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Connaissez-vous la baltique? Et encore mieux, l’Estonie? En septembre 2020, Violaine quitte Paris pour une nouvelle vie au nord-est de l'Europe.
Comment se passe son installation? Quelles sont ses sources d'étonnement?
Suivez ses aventures baltiques à travers ses chroniques.
Dans ce premier tome vous découvrirez :1. L'odyssée nordique 2. A la recherche du test perdu 3. Le trauma de la dame de fer 4. La révélation solaire
20) Lost Province
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Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he's an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei.