Western Europe category: 1822 books
Gibraltar Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Spain with the Gibraltar Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Spain Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
by Jason Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Madrid, the capital of Spain, is an exciting place to visit and the city’s character is reflected in its distinctive culture. Take a look at the dramatic struggle of life and death portrayed in the bullfighting ring, the charismatic flair of the flamenco dancer and the relaxed, genial atmosphere...
Torremolinos, Fuengirola & Benalmadena Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Once a sleepy fishing village on the outskirts of Malaga, Torremolinos is today quite different from its turn-of-the-20th-century self. A popular escape for tourists from all corners of Europe, it is one of the Spanish Costa del Sol’s most popular cities. Fuengirola and Benalmadena are popular tourist...
Still Waters
Fragments of Nature & Place
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Some of the author’s most evocative writing on nature and place. From observations on the incredible partnership that is lichen to the amazing ecosystem of the Cornish hedge; the folklore of seals to the story of the American Bison. Travel with the author deep into the daily life of a...
The View From A Volvo
A taste of life on the road with a Big Irish Trucker!
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Ever wondered what it would be like to pilot a truck through Europe? Hop in and come for the spin. You'll cross seas, see sights that tourists don't see and meet some weird and interesting people along the way.
A Short History of Portugal
From the earliest times to the 19th century
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger...
Venice & Emilia-Romagna Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Venice is the "Queen of the Adriatic," and this northeastern Italian city is steeped in culture and history. Venice has magnificent basilicas, quaint palazzos, and promenades which hearken back to Renaissance times. Its gondolas and vaporettos travel the canals as the city's primary means...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Inspired by recent works on Nazi empire, this book provides a framework to guide occupation research with a broad comparative angle focusing on human interactions. Overcoming national compartmentalization, it examines Nazi occupations with attention to relations between occupiers and local populations...
Headsman
The Abbaye des Vignerons
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Early in October 1832, a travelling-carriage stopped on the summit of that long descent where the road pitches from the elevated plain of Moudon in Switzerland to the level of the lake of Geneva, immediately above the little city of Vévey. The postilion had dismounted to chain a wheel, and the halt...
The Dunkirk Perimeter and Evacuation 1940
France and Flanders Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The book, the latest in a series of eight Battleground Europe books that deals with the BEF's campaign in France and Flanders in 1940, covers the fierce fighting around the Dunkirk Perimeter during May and June 1940 between the retreating British Expeditionary Force and its French allies and the advancing...
by David A. Messenger
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated Germany. The decidedly pro-German dictatorship of General Francisco Franco gave them refuge and welcomed other officials and agents from the Third Reich...
Cracóvia e sua região
Descubra uma cidade linda, cheia de história e cultura!
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Você quer conhecer a história em cada esquina das ruas?
Então… Bem-vindo a Cracóvia, na Polônia,, no coração da Europa Central, uma das mais belas cidades do velho continente!
Você quer se surpreender com paisagens magníficas e fazer parte dessa beleza?
Então não hesite: Cracóvia...
Spain
The Centre of the World 1519-1682
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change-it was a time when...
Foucault, Crime and Power
Problematisations of Crime in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It considers how crime has been conceived as problem and, by scrutinising the responses that have been adapted to deal with crime, demonstrates how a range of power modalities have...