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International Cooking  Eastern and Central European Kitchen, The
Contemporary and Classic Recipes
Silvena Rowe; photography by Jonathan Lovekin
Winner of the Glenfiddich Best Photography Award
The fresh ingredients and unfamiliar flavor combinations of Central and Eastern Europe are capturing the imaginations of gourmet stores and restaurants in the West, as bord...
$20.00
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 One World Vegetarian Cookbook
Troth Wells
An information-packed gastronomic tour of the world and the ultimate resource for global vegetarian recipes
One World Vegetarian Cookbook starts in your backyard-buying produce at your local farmers' market or perh...
$35.00
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 Spice Kitchen, The
Flavorful Recipes from Around the World
Michal Haines; photography byJacqui Blanchard
A cookbook that will undoubtedly inspire new directions in your culinary repertoire
Since the days of the Silk Road and the Spice Trail, adventurers have traversed uncharted territories purely to get their hands on spices—th...
$29.95
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 Warm Bread and Honey Cake
Home Baking from Around the World
Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra; photography by Vanessa Courtier
UK Guild of Food Writers Award Winner COOKERY BOOK OF THE YEAR
Baking is one of life’s pleasures—few can resist the comforting smell of freshly baked bread, the warmth of spices, sticky cak...
$35.00
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Art for Travellers Series  Art for Travellers Prague
The Essential Guide to Viewing Art in Prague
Deanna MacDonald
It is no exaggeration to call Praha (Czech for Prague) one of the most beautiful cities in the world; few places possess such atmosphere and history, such magnificent art and architecture. Part of its allure comes from its extraordinarily ec...
$20.00
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Assorted Travel Titles  A Traveller's History of Poland
John Radzilowski
Poland is a major European country with over 38 million inhabitants and a land area comparable to Spain. It has played a major role in European history but its subjugation by foreign powers in the nineteenth century and during the Cold War eclipsed P...
$14.95
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Biography & Memoirs  Ivan Mestrovic
The Making of a Master
Maria Mestrovic, Foreword by Christopher Cviic
Discovered by a master stonemason at the age of 16 in a small village in the hills above the Dalmation coast in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mestrovic trained at the Art Academy in Vienna, and went on to exhibit his work in Paris, Be...
$33.50
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 Nine Lives
Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands
Waldemar Lotnik with Julian Preece; foreword by Neal Ascherson
By any standards, Waldemar Lotnik's experience of the Second World War was remarkable. Fighting in the Polish Resistance, his unit was engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with pro-Nazi Ukrainians. Unknown in the West, this struggle was, like that...
$14.95
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 Tsar's Doctor, The
Mary McGrigor
Born in 1767, James Wylie became one of the most celebrated doctors in Europe and the center of two of the most fascinating and enduring conspiracy theories in Russian history. Wylie signed Tsar Paul I’s death certificate, mysteriously giving a...
$16.95
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The Business Traveller's Handbooks  Russia
The Business Traveller’s Handbook
Chris Gilbert
About the series: Catering for the needs of the discerning business traveler, the Business Traveller’s Handbooks are the vital passport to a successful and enjoyable trip, containing:
• Insider tips on how to get th...
$20.00
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Cities of the Imagination  Prague
A Cultural History
Richard Burton
Located at the very center of Europe, Prague has been on the frontline of international political, intellectual, religious, and cultural conflicts for more than six centuries. Invaded and occupied by the Habsburgs, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Na...
$15.00
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Current Affairs  Survival
Saving Endangered Migratory Species
Stanley Johnson and Robert Vagg
Produced in conjunction with a UN agency, this book is both an informative warning against the threat facing many species and a stunning celebration of their beauty
Our ruthless exploitation of the natural world has already driven...
$50.00
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Fiction  Bering
A Novel of the Russian Imperial Great Northern Expedition
Edward John Crockett
Empress Anna Ivanova decrees that Danish-born Captain-Commander Vitus Jonassen Bering is to spearhead an ambitious Imperial Great Northern Expedition to explore and map the coastal waters off Siberia, chart a northern sea route to Japan and Cathay, a...
$19.95
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 Curse of Ezekial, The
Nabil Saleh
Set against the historical backdrop of Alexander the Great's siege of the Phoenician city of Tyre in 332 BC, The Curse of Ezekiel tells the tale of Bomilcar, a young Tyrian who lives a carefree existence despite the advance of Alexand...
$18.00
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 Dawning, The
Milka Bajic-Poderegin; translated by Nadja Poderegin
The Dawning is a family saga which evolves against the turbulent background of the town of Plevlje (on the confines of Bosnia and Herzegovian) as it emerges from five centuries of enslavement in the wake of the collapse of the Turkish and Au...
$14.95
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 Fat Skeletons
Ursule Molinaro
Mara is a translator. In her Greenwich Village apartment she successfully renders her native Czech into best-selling English, until one fine night she notices alarming similarities between her own Prague childhood and a "brilliant novel" by...
$11.95
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General History & Politics A Traveller's History of Poland
John Radzilowski
Poland is a major European country with over 38 million inhabitants and a land area comparable to Spain. It has played a major role in European history but its subjugation by foreign powers in the nineteenth century and during the Cold War eclipsed P...
$14.95
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 A Traveller's History of Russia (5th ed.)
Peter Neville
This book provides a comprehensive survey of Russia's tragic and glorious history from prehistory through glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union right up to the present day. The book begins with prehistoric Russia and its nomadic invaders, and...
$14.95
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 Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Antonella Salomoni; translated by David Stryker
In February 1917, the centuries-old and immense empire of the Czars, ally of the US and Britain during World War I, suddenly collapses. Eight months later, the revolutionaries, under Lenin's leadership, take power and sign an armistice with Ge...
$15.00
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Nine Lives
Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands
Waldemar Lotnik with Julian Preece; foreword by Neal Ascherson
By any standards, Waldemar Lotnik's experience of the Second World War was remarkable. Fighting in the Polish Resistance, his unit was engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with pro-Nazi Ukrainians. Unknown in the West, this struggle was, like that...
$14.95
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