Europe between the oceans

Europe Between the Oceans

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. By the fifteenth century Europe was a driving world force, but the origins of its success have until now remained obscured in prehistor...

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Europe Between the Oceans

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the pl

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Light Between Oceans

A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper's island. It holds a dead man - and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wif

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Europe Between the Wars

Martin KitchenÂ’s compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malai

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The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Stedmanová

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Southern Africa: Between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 7 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Southern Africa, between the Atlan

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Oceans and Society

This unique textbook presents an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of marine studies, exploring the dynamic relationship between people and

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Between East and West

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the C

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Asylum between Nations

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and

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Between Community and Collaboration

A comparative analysis of the 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe during World War Two. Based on a wide range of documentation,Laurien Vastenhout iden

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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

This volume engages with a specific definition of â€sub-cultures’ over the period from 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the

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Plague between Prague and Vienna. Medicine and Infectious Diseases in Early Modern Central Europe - Karel Černý

Vienna’s prominent landmark, the Pestsäule (Plague Column), commemorates the devastating bubonic plague epidemic of 1679 that killed thousands of the city’s in- habitants.

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Between East and West - Anna Applebaumová

<p>As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, this book illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people.</p>

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Plague between Prague and Vienna - Karel Černý

<p>Vienna’s prominent landmark, the Pestsäule (Plague Column), commemorates the devastating bubonic plague epidemic of 1679 that killed thousands of the city’s in- habitants. The gigantic, three sided marble pyramidis covered with baroque clouds is dedicated to the Trinity and the Nine Choirs of Angels. Although pledged by Emperor Leopold I in the very year of the o...

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Budapest: Between East and West - Sebestyen Victor

Anotace: Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a great river, the Danube, and the regions of Buda and Pest sprang up on either side.Throughout history the cen...

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Blind Spot – An Essay on the Relations Between Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age

Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of pain

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Fisheries and the Law in Europe

Assessing the new fishing relationship between the UK and the EU which will continue to develop over the next decade, it provides an important and stu

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Fisheries and the Law in Europe

Assessing the new fishing relationship between the UK and the EU which will continue to develop over the next decade, it provides an important and stu

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Early Modern Europe

An introduction to Europe between 1500 and 1800. "Early modern" is the term used by historians for the period between the end of the Middle Ages and t

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Militarism, Sport, Europe

This collection explores the relationship between sport and war.

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EU, Europe Unfinished

Explores the rapidly changing relationship between the Balkans and the EU in a time of crisis

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Africa-Europe Relationships

The relationship between Africa and Europe is of high strategic importance. This volume studies the ongoing dynamics between the two continents by ado

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Europe's Fault Lines

An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-right

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Europe's Fault Lines

An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-right

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Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

With an analysis of how the Internet has changed business and society over the years, this book covers natural frictions between present-day Industria

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Europe's 21st Century Challenge

A study of illiberal practices of liberal regimes in the field of security. The work explores the relationship between the internal and external effec

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Drucker on Marketing: Lessons from the World's Most Influential Business Thinker

Bill Cohen's interpretation of Drucker's work has never been needed more than today, when marketing spells difference between success and failure. In

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Nuclear Confrontation in Europe

First published in 1985, this book explores the nuclear confrontation between East and West in Europe: where we stand, how we got there and what the f

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Eighteenth-Century Europe

The three-quarters of a century between 1715 and 1789 are often seen as the last years of Europe's old order. But a dramatic rise in Europe's population, the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Britain and the unprecedented challenges of the Enlightenment began to shake the foundations of the old regime well before 1789. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship...

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Plague between Prague and Vienna - Karel Černý,Sonia Horn

Anotace: Vienna's prominent landmark, the Pestsäule (PlagueColumn), commemorates the devastating bubonic plagueepidemic of 1679 that killed thousands of the city's in-habitants. The gigantic, three sided marble pyramidiscovered with baroque clouds is dedicated to the Trinityand the Nine Choirs of Angels. Although pledgedby Emperor Leopold I in the very year of ...

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A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars : From Versailles to Hitler´s Invasion - Crowhurst Patrick

Anotace: Here, Patrick Crowhurst identifies the crucial political problem that faced Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1939 - the rift between the Czechs and the Sudeten Germans that would open the way for the rise of Konrad Henlein`s right-wing `Sudeten Deutsch` party, and which was exploited ruthlessly by Hitler during Nazi Germany`s 1938 annexation of Czechoslovakia. A ...

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Budapest: Between East and West, 1. vydání - Victor Sebestyen

<p>Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a great river, the Danube, and the regions of Buda and Pest sprang up on either side.Throughout history the cent...

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Advanced Macroeconomics: An Introduction For Undergraduates

Advanced Macroeconomics covers selected topics in advanced macroeconomics at undergraduate level and bridges the gap between intermediate macroeconomi

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Lotharingia : A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between - Winder Simon

Anotace: In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited what became France, another Germany and the third Lotharingia: the ...

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Oxford History of Medieval Europe

An account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all aspects of

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Man and Bird in the Palaeolithic of Western Europe

This book considers the nature of the interaction between birds and hunter-gatherers in Western Europe. It examines aspects of avian behaviour and the

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The Anthems of East-Central Europe Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book juxtaposes national anthems of thirteen countries from central Europe, with the aim of initiating a dialogue among the peoples of East-Central Europe. The book deploys a comparative approach – anthems are presented in the light of those of neighbouring countries, with the conviction that one of the key features of true Europeanness is good relations between neig...

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Last Days in Old Europe

Anotace: In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste to Prague and Vienna to Warsaw, fading aristocrats, charming gangsters, fractious dipl...

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Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

Let the battle begin! The Cossacks II: Battle for Europe add-on continues the renowned Cossacks II:Napoleonic Wars game. It depicts the rather short historic period of the Napoleonic wars. The Napoleon wars changed Europe forever, leading to the formation of empires and putting an end to almost one thousand years of constant strife between small states. The game provide...

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Principles of Economics

Focuses on seven core principles of economics, which help students to make the link between economic theory and practice. This book includes exercises

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Critical Care Emergency Medicine, Second Edition

Suitable for all clinicians who wish to understand the overlap between emergency medicine and critical care, this text focuses on critical care emerge

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Successful Investor

Tells investors how they can make money and, avoid losses in up markets, down markets, and everything in between. Showing how mistakes made in the mar

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Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition

Teaches you how to deal with common infractions such as: an employee speaks to you in an insulting tone that crosses the line between sarcasm and insu

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Chasing Daylight. How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life (UK Edition)

A memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, completed in the three and a half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in Septembe

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Database Management Systems

Explaining the fundamentals of database systems, this work includes applications and examples of database systems, including SQL and Oracle examples. It contains overview chapters at the beginning which make it possible to skip other chapters. Instructors can opt between teaching database application development or database systems issues.

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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

Now updated: the definitive neuroscience resource from Eric R. Kandel, MD (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000); James H. Schwartz, MD, PhD; Thomas M. Jessell, PhD; Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD; and A. J. Hudspeth, PhD § 900 full-color illustrations§Deciphering the link between the human brain and behavior has always been one of the most intriguing and often challenging aspect...

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Napoleonic Artillery

The Napoleonic Wars gripped Europe, and beyond, for over ten years at the beginning of the Nineteenth century. Hundreds of battles were fought between

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Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe

This book identifies and discusses major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention

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Economic History of a Divided Europe

Readers will gain a deeper understanding of the sharp divergence in economic standing between the four different regions of Europe, as well as knowled

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Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe

This book features a broad range of thematic and national case studies which explore the interrelations and confrontations between conservatives and t

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44 Days in Prague: The Runciman Mission and the Race to Save Europe - Shukman Ann

Anotace: After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman`s 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British delegation sought to broker peace between the Czechoslovak republic and its Sudeten German minority-a dispute that Hitler was aggravating with virulent anti-Czech propaga...

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Cossacks II: Battle for Europe (PC)

Let the battle begin! The Cossacks II: Battle for Europe add-on continues the renowned Cossacks II:Napoleonic Wars game. It depicts the rather short historic period of the Napoleonic wars. The Napoleon wars changed Europe forever, leading to the formation of empires and putting an end to almost one thousand years of constant strife between small states. The game provides ...

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Last Days In Old Europe - neuveden

Anotace: The final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observer In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste t...

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The Nordic, Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Nordic, Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe uses an interdisciplinary approach, the author discusses issues of economic policy, international relations and politics, economic and political integration, as well as the effects of global and regional institutions, and priorities in bilateral development cooperation, demonstrating how policies are shaped by the int...

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Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe

Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literatu

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Religion and National Identities in an Enlarged Europe

This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse, m

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Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Europe Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century. With its wide geographical focus from Italy to the USSR via Sweden, Germany, occupied Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as the international stage of the United Nations, the book encourages comparative perspectives, which have the potential to question, deconstruct and re-a...

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Current Challenges of Central Europe: Society and Environment

The book Current Challenges of Central Europe: Society and Environment is a collective monograph published as a follow-up to the international interdisciplinary conference Our Common Present: Current Challenges of Central Europe. As the title of the book suggests, the content is dedicated to the current challenges of the central european region. Thirteen authors from five...

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Current Challenges of Central Europe: Society and Environment - Jan Vávra

<p>The book Current Challenges of Central Europe: Society and Environment is a collective monograph published as a follow-up to the international interdisciplinary conference Our Common Present: Current Challenges of Central Europe.</p><p>As the title of the book suggests, the content is dedicated to the current challenges of the central european region....

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Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe’s Great Recession

This comprehensive study of the Great Recession and its consequences provides comparative analyses of the extent to which social concertation between

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