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Prague University Town

Petran Josef, Petranova Lydia

ISBN: PB: 9788024640532, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
216 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 141 colour plates, 1 halftone,

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petran and Lydia Petranova guide us through the history and architecture of Prague's diverse univers...

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Children's Books

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Paris: The City of Lights Pop-Up

Cestaro Dario, Lugato Franca

ISBN: HB: 9788829701056, DAP, Marsilio Editori, November 2019
12 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Children's book author and illustrator extraordinaire Dario Cestaro (born 1971) presents the beauty of Paris through the spectacular paper architecture of a pop-up book. Cestaro takes young – and young at heart – readers t...

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Europe

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Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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Travel

Pilgrimage to Santiago

Mullins Edwin

ISBN: PB: 9781902669311, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Long Road to Heaven", the annual pilgrimage to the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela has taken place for over a thousand years. In the great cathedral of Santiago are said to lie the bones of St. James of the Great,...

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Portuguese A Portrait of a People

Hatton Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781904955771, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 21.4x14.1 cm, black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent's south-west rim. Barry...

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Travel

Paris in Quotations

Mitchell Jaqueline

ISBN: HB: 9781851244102, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm

Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the "most extraordinary place in the world", for Hazlitt, "a beast of a city", and for French writers, the essence...

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Travel

Paris, Je T'aime An Urban Sketchbook

Lapin

ISBN: HB: 9788416504152, Hoaki, April 2016
120 pp., 20x15 cm, fully illustrated in colour

A fresh, well-observed, annotated, carnet de voyage about the City of Lights by French illustrator Lapin. A must-have art book for all Paris lovers and visitors with streak of creativity.

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Path in the Mighty Waters Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World

Berry Stephen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300204230, Yale University Press, February 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

This vivid and revealing portrait of shipboard life as experienced by eighteenth-century immigrants to the New World explores the transformative journey undertaken by the thousands of Europeans who journeyed in search of a better life. Stephen Berry...

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Travel

Pilgrimage to Dollywood A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

Morales Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780226536521, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 24 halftones, 4 maps

A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music's most likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral aesthete can't help cracking a smile or singing along with songs like "Jolene" and "9 to 5". More than a mere singer or a...

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Prague

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781908493637, Signal Books, November 2012
224 pp., 19.8x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart s...

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