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Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea (Theories of Institutional Design) by Jon Elster Publisher Comments This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy. Studies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia provide detailed empirical data... (read more) List Price $126.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir by Norman Manea Publisher Comments The Hooligan's Return is Norman Manea's long-awaited memoir, a portrait of an artist that ranges freely from his early childhood in prewar Romania to his return there in 1997. In October l941, the entire Jewish population of Manea's native Bukovina was... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II by Joseph Rothschild Publisher Comments Since the death of Stalin, the supposedly monolithic character of the Socialist states of East Central Europe has been subjected to serious and major challenges: from Yugoslavia in the late 1940s, from East Germany, Poland, and Hungary in the '50s, from... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Balkans Nationalism War & the Great Powers 1804 1999 by Misha Glenny Synopsis In a timely, passionate survey of Balkan history since the early 19th century, an award-winning journalist chronicles the essential background of the recent terrible events in this war-torn region. 12 maps.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley Publisher Comments A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances. In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kosovo : War and Revenge (2ND 02 Edition) by Tim Judah Publisher Comments Second edition analysis of the origins of the Serb-Albanian conflict. 42 illus.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fracture Zone : A Return to the Balkans by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments A true portrait of one of the world's most chaotic and beautiful regions that explains why violence has always occurred there — and why it may continue for years to come. The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland by Susan Rose Ackerman Publisher Comments The countries of Central Europe in the first round for admission to the European Union have all established constitutional, electoral democracies and market economies. However, much remains to be done to achieve fully consolidated democratic states. This... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Serbs and Croats: Struggle N Yugoslovia by Alex N Dragnich Publisher Comments In this highly informative account, Professor Dragnich discusses the ideals and hopes that the South Slavs brought to Yugoslavia, their tortured attempt to create a workable political system, and the reasons behind the recent chaos and violence. "Concise,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Forging Political Compromise: Antonin Svehla & the Czechoslovak Republican Party, 1918-1933 (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies) by Daniel E. Miller Synopsis In this investigation of Czechoslovakia during the interwar period, Miller (history, U. of West Florida) focuses on the Agrarian or Republic party and its leader at the time, Antonin Svehla. He argues that it was Svehla's ability to mediate among... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm Publisher Comments This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Cultural Freedom: An Exploration of Public Life in Poland and America (Chicago Original Paperbacks) by Jeffrey Goldfarb Publisher Comments In this timely study, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb explores the nature and prospects of cultural freedom by examining the conditions that favor or threaten its development in the political East and West. Goldfarb—who examines conditions in the Soviet... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Concise History of Bulgaria 2ND Edition by Rj Crampton Publisher Comments A concise, illustrated history of Bulgaria from medieval times to the present day.... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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To End a War (Modern Library) by Richard Holbrooke Publisher Comments " One of the most important and readable diplomatic memoirs of recent times. . . . His account should restore some respect to the much maligned art of diplomacy." --The Washington Post " ... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II by Ivan T Berend Publisher Comments A history of Eastern Europe between the two World Wars.... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crosses of Auschwitz (06 Edition) by Zubrzycki Publisher Comments In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Twelve Little Cakes by Dominika Dery Publisher Comments Equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a bright-eyed childhood that no outside force could dim, this is Dominika Dery's acclaimed memoir of Communist-era Czechoslovakia.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dracula, Prince of Many Faces, Vol. 1 by Radu Florescu Publisher Comments Dracula, Prince of Many Faces reveals the extraordinary life and times of the infamous Vlad Dracula of Romania (1431 - 1476), nicknamed the Impaler. Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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With Their Backs To the World (06 Edition) by Seierstad Publisher Comments From beloved international reporter Åsne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Transformation of Cities in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Globalization by F E Ian Hamilton Synopsis This book identifies and describes the inter- and intra-urban transformations of Central and Eastern European cities. The authors discuss the similarities and differences between significant Central and Eastern European cities, comparing patterns of... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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