Clik here to view.
Desire: A History of European Sexuality – $545
Desire: A History of European Sexuality is a sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present day. It traces two concepts of sexual desire that have competed in European history:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Eyes of Venice – $280
Venice at the end of the 1500s is an unforgiving city. The Doge rules with an iron fist and the Holy Office harbors suspicions about everything and everyone. Even the walls have eyes. The Republic of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt – $395
Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation. Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6: Life and Death in the British...
From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence. And the truth is often more remarkable than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled...
One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus travels to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books, seeking the best way to achieve a fulfilling old age. Daniel Klein journeys to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?...
Finnish Lessons is a first-hand, comprehensive account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past three decades. The author traces the evolution of education policies in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pedigree – $275
Pedigree Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe – $395
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
German Europe – $305
The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest – $545
The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Exiles Return: A Novel – $375
WITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES SET IN THE ASHES OF POST–SECOND WORLD WAR VIENNA, A POWERFUL, SUBTLE NOVEL OF EXILES RETURNING HOME FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER FLEEING...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unhappy Union: How the euro crisis – and Europe – can be fixed (Economist...
The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency brought the European Union close to...
View Article
