books about: republic     books:       The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia18 reviews Darra Goldstein University of California Press, 1999 One of my favorites! As someone who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, I was very happy to find this book -- it captures all of my favorite recipes, and when I prepare them according to this book, they taste just like my grandma's cooking. More than just a recipe book, this is also an exploration into the rich history and culture of Georgia, and how the history shaped the cuisine. I suggest this book to everyone ...             En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas22 reviews Julia Alvarez Tandem Library, 2002 Historia dominicana Cuanto me alegra que haya una autora que cuenta parte de la historia dominicana. Me encanta como Julia escribe. Este libro esta muy bien hecho pero ojo: Julia Alvarez escribe en ingles no en español. Aun asi, me parece que la traduccion de esta historia esta estupenda.             Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited61 reviews Sam Vaknin Narcissus Publications,Czech Republic, 2001 Get Out While You Can. I have used Vaknins website and book to give me some ideas, and hope, for the situation I am in. I am setting firm boundaries and consequences. I hope through the book I can learn to get more of my life back. All I can say to others is, "If you can get out, run as fast as you can, cause if you don't get out they will destroy you". I know a couple other women in town who have been in long term ...             Prague: Artel Style20 reviews Karen Feldman Artel Books, 2007 Great Gift for Traveler~Interesting Places to read about I gave this to my friend for her birthday. She flew to Prague yesterday and is there right now for a week. She went with someone who grew up there and showed him the book. He loved it and read it before she did. He found it very interesting & having lived there thought it was well written. They are using the book this week and I am sure it will come in handy.             Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust19 reviews Miron Dolot W. W. Norton & Company, 1987 Heart-rending In 1929, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. During the resulting upheaval, some seven million Ukrainians died of starvation. But, while it ended with mass starvation, the Soviet program of oppression started with property confiscation, arbitrary arrests, judicial and extrajudicial murder, and a whole constellation of unspeakable mistreatment. One of the survivors ...             Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea31 reviews Eric Hansen Vintage, 1992 Retrieving the Lost Dutchman's gold would've been easier "Khat ... also known as qat, gat, chat, and miraa ... is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula... Khat contains the alkaloid cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant which causes excitement and euphoria... Traditionally, khat has been used as a socializing drug, and this is still very much the case in Yemen where khat-chewing is predominantly, although not ...             Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Caldecott Honor Book)22 reviews Ernest L. Thayer Handprint Books, 2000 Mudville Strikes Again: A Version for Older Kids Who Love Baseball Christopher Bing's version of Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" is a must for serious baseball fans of any age. He presents the Thayer's classic ballad in a scrapbook/folio format, the poem superimposed against a "yellowed" and torn newspaper. For authenticity--and baseball fans are sticklers for details--Bing uses period font from the era, draws black and white line pictures resembling ...             Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-196821 reviews Heda Margolius Kovaly Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1997 Its the story that plays in my head whenever tragedy befalls me & gives me the strength to get through it. I read this about 6 years ago when it was assigned in one of my undergrad classes. There are enough online reviews for you to read about the plot and like. Rather I want to tell you how her voice has stuck with me. I think of her ability to see the slivering when everything is just gray, and her amazing capacity to keep going. Whenever I think I can't go on, this death/or lost/ or series of ...             Quisqueya LA Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective (Perspectives on Latin ...25 reviews Alan Cambeira M.E. Sharpe, 1996 Quisqueya La Bella "Athens of the New World" Everybody called Quisqueya the "Athens of the New World". It is a country with beautiful beaches and beautiful people and a complex history. The island's ethnic mix of indigenuous, European (mainly Spanish) and African cultures and their merger across time resulted in the distinctive Dominican culture that we know today. Cambeira's passion for his native island is evident on every page. This ...             I Never Saw Another Butterfly24 reviews Hana Volavkova Schocken, 1994 Butterfly wings Only three of the poets and authors whose work is represented in this volume survived the Nazi Holocaust. These works, however, are no more dead than the wings of butterflies mounted in a natural history museum. They fly: They give the children voices for all time---not just the authors and poets' voices, but the voices of all 14,900 children who perished in Terezin from the arrival of ...             Armenia: A Rugged Land, an Enduring People13 reviews Lucine Kasbarian Dillon Pr, 1997 Welcome to Armenia I presume even for an Armenian from Armenia this book would be a treasure. For a Diaspora Armenian it is also a refresher course and more. For the novice, it is an eye opener in introducing an ancient country and its people so rich and colorful and yet hitherto known only in fragments. From its title, Armenia : A Rugged Land, an Enduring People, written on the cover, the latter also made to ...             Trans-Siberian Handbook: Includes Rail Route Guide and 25 City Guides (Trailblazer Guides)15 reviews Bryn Thomas Trailblazer Publications, 2004 Preferable to the Lonely Planet guide. Indeed, one of the best travel guides I've ever encountered For passengers on traveling on all or most of the Trans-Siberian Railway and visiting the cities along it, there are only two English-language travel guides. The Lonely Planet guide appeared in 2003 with a second edition in 2006, while Bryn Thomas updates his guide almost yearly and in 2007 it reached its seventh edition. I'm a two-time veteran of the Trans-Siberian, using the 1st edition of the ...             The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (Institute of Early American History and Culture)14 reviews Gordon S. Wood University of North Carolina Press, 1969 "a true, enduring classic" Gordon S. Wood is one of the deans of the so-called "intellectual historians" of the Revolutionary era. I just finished reading this book for the third time in the last 15 years, and I am struck by the sweeping nature of it. Wood's thesis is essentially that Americans' thinking about government and politics underwent a remarkable change in the 11 years between the writing of the Declaration of ...             The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia15 reviews David King Holt Paperbacks, 1999 A rare gem A true gem of a book, dealing with a subject that is much overlooked. As the inspiration for Orwell's 1984 revising history, it is a chilling look at early Soviet attempts to rewrite history by erasing people from photos. Watching a photo of 5 men dwindle down to a picture of one as the others are disgraced, imprisoned, killed and then erased is just mindblowing! Whether you are a fan of ...             EXCELLENT CADAVERS: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic13 reviews Alexander Stille Pantheon, 1995 The Best Mob Story You've Never Heard "Excellent Cadavers" is probably the best mob story you've never heard. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two heroic Italian prosecutors, mounted an extraordinary legal campaign against the Sicilian mafia during the 1980s. They ultimately paid for their efforts with their lives. But their untimely murders shook Italy so hard they toppled its government. Theirs is a compelling story, full ...             Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies17 reviews Ernesto Sirolli New Society Publishers, 1999 From The Innovation Road Map Magazine "I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us, or this ship, into a better world. But, I can at least put up a sail so that, when the wind comes, I can catch it." E. F. Schumacher This was a fun and insightful book to read. Amidst all the discussion about radical, disruptive and breakthrough innovation, this book is a refreshing reminder that small things can make a big difference. ...             Hana's Suitcase17 reviews Karen Levine Albert Whitman & Company, 2007 amazing, magical story I have read this book to my fourth grade class for the past two years. They are instantly drawn to Hana, Fumiko, and the story of the Holocaust. The minute they see the picture of Hana's Suitcase, they begin to ask all the questions that the children in Japan asked of Fumiko. They always want me to continue reading and they are so eager to find out about her story. This book has inspired so ...             Nesarim: Child Survivors of Terezin (The Library of Holocaust Testimonies)18 reviews Thelma Gruenbaum Vallentine-Mitchell, 2004 An Extraordinary Book An extraordinary book in whih a twenty-year old, named Franta, during the most terrifying of times, inspires forty ten and twelve years olds who were torn from their families, with a faith in their own humanity, with a will to live, and "a respect for our parents and the past, and to be ready for life when this [the Holocaust] ends." The stories of ten of the survivors and how they managed to ...             Where She Came From : A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History15 reviews Helen Epstein Holmes & Meier Publishers, 2005 Amazing personal story!!!!!!! Although this book has a slow start with a lot of historical information, once you get to the Holocaust section, you will not be able to put this book down. I read it while in Vienna and after I visited Prague. I felt so connected to my surroundings and the author that I literally felt like I was in the book. Makes the enormity of the Holocaust personal and understandable. A MUST READ FOR ...             100 & Healthy: Living Longer with Phytomedicines from the Republic of Georgia15 reviews W. Shaffer Fox Woodland Publishing, 2004 100 AND HEALTHY BEST BOOK I HAVE READ ON THE SUBJECT OF ANTI AGING BOOK IS FILLED WITH OVER 800 DOCUMENTED SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTATIONS POWERFUL ARNIE STROM              search for books 1776-1787, 1941-1968, butterfly, caldecott, caribbean, commissar, dominican, economies, entrepreneurship, excellent, execution, falsification, handbook, historical, holocaust, institute, malignant, mariposas, narcissism, perspective, perspectives, photographs, phytomedicines, quisqueya, revisited, survivors, testimonies, trailblazer, trans-siberian, vanishes books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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