Western Europe category: 1822 books

Activity directors live and work in a multicultural world with residents, clients, and staff from many different places on the globe. A travel program allows activity staff to connect with the memories of residents who lived in other countries, have friends or relatives overseas, or who enjoyed traveling...

Marseille is a major city in southern France and is the largest port city in the Mediterranean and the French Riviera. The city is a popular port of call for cruise ships and has many differences from Paris. You may even think you are in another country with its cliffs, fjords (clanques), sea views,...

This guidebook contains 58 walking routes which explore the best of the Julian Alps of Slovenia. The walks and treks in this guidebook are organised around five bases in the Julian Alps - Kranjska Gora, Bovec, Kobarid, Bled and Bohinj - all of which have a range of accommodation and public transport...

From June 2009 until August 2011, Cathal McCarron followed the entire U2 360˚ tour around the world to promote 'Me & U2' (a self-published memoir of how U2 infiltrated and influenced his life). In this new book, Cathal describes his dramatic time following the U2 tour through Europe in the summer of...

Rich and bubbling beer, chocolate, oil paint and bureaucrat’s pot Belgian bourgeoisie attached to your stinking shell. Stir gently, and the court will find "artificially control" built roughly two parts Flemish speaking German and some Walloons who speak French. Bruges (Bruges) is a city...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. During the period of 1855-1871, the United States Army commissioned two formal observations of foreign conflict: the Delafield commission to the Crimean War and the Sheridan expedition...

The picturesque Dutch city of The Hague (also known as Den Haag) is located in western Netherlands. Although it is not the capital of the country, the city is the seat of the Dutch government, Supreme Court, Parliament, and Council of State and it is the administrative capital of the nation. With...

An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses—shaped...

Europe vacation made easy....This book will take away all your pre-travel anxiety.Why plan a vacation nearby, when you can travel to Beautiful Europe! This book gives you the tips to travel really really cheap giving best value for your money. Plan your trip yourself - international flights tips,...

These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high. Authors...

Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years after its creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assess its performance to show why. Looking at a range of key indicators the authors show how the euro has failed to deliver on its...

Scotland revels in its authenticity. As Europe moves closer towards a monotone culture and travel experience, this rugged northern nation showcases something entirely original. Landscapes roll uninhabited and untrammeled, deserted beaches hide beneath cliffs, tiny villages evoke impressions of yesteryear,...

In his painstakingly long academic journey through mountains of source material available in Europe, Prof Prodosh Aich establishes that the entire understanding of India developed by self-claimed scholars from West is erroneous, since the initial attempt to comprehend ancient India through the Vedas...

This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the...