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Prague Tales (Central European Classics) מאת Jan Neruda A collection of Neruda's intimate, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth century Prague. These vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth century realist....

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Politics as a Moral Problem מאת Janos Kis In a world where politics is often associated with notions such as moral decay, frustration and disappointment, the feeling of betrayal, and of democracy in trouble, Kis examines theories about the morality of political action. Amending the two classical theses of realism and of indirect motivation ...

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The Slave Girl and Other Stories (CEU Press Classics) (Central European Press Classics) מאת Ivo Andric This is a string of newly translated as well as already published stories by the classic Serbian author of the greatest significance in Eastern European literature. This volume includes numerous examples of the oppression of women and the disaster that ensues if any should defy the established rules...

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In a Maelstrom: A History of Russian-Jewish Prose, 1860–1940 מאת Zsuzsa Hetenyi A concise history of Russian-Jewish literature, with special attention to the prose works. Russian-Jewish literature is discussed in four periods, showing what led to the turning points (1881-82, 1897, 1917). Hetenyi demonstrates why the selected epoch (1860-1940) represents a separate strand outsid...

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China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism And Transnationalism מאת Pal Nyiri; Joana Breidenbach The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspectiv...

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The Roma: A Minority in Europe: Historical, Political and Social Perspectives מאת Roni Stauber The situation of the Roma in Europe, especially in the former communist states, is one of the more important human rights issues on the agenda of the international community, especially in the Euro-Atlantic bodies of integration. Within European states that have Roma populations there is a growing a...

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Martin Kacur - The Biography of an Idealist מאת Ivan Cankar A novel that dates from 1907 tells the story of a young schoolteacher who tries to enlighten his Slovenian countrymen....

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Vilnius: City of Strangers מאת Laimonas Briedis Presents the history of the capital city of Lithuania from its 14th century legendary beginnings up to 2009, when Vilnius bears the distinction of European Capital of Culture. Besides applying the traditional apparatus of historical investigation and referring to a large amount of sources, the speci...

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Ethnic Profiling in the European Union: Pervasive, Ineffective and Discriminatory מאת Rachel Neild Looks at ethnic profiling by police across Western Europe, both in the context of ordinary policing and in counterterrorism....

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Mixes, Matches and Mistakes מאת B. Guy Peters These papers are a cross-section of reform efforts in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania and Russia, demonstrating some successful transformations, some much more limited successes, while the continuing outcomes of most reforms can be expected to be mixtures of success and failure....

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Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero מאת Maria Todorova This is a historical study, taking as its narrative focus the life, death and posthumous fate of Vasil Levski (1837-1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The main title refers to the 'thick description' of the reburial controversy during the final ph...

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Fighters for Freeedom מאת Juozas Daumantas An autobigraphical account of the armed resistance movement and related circumstances in Lithuania under Soviet occupation....

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Addressing Ethnic Profiling by Police: A Report on the Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search Project מאת Rebekah Delsol Describes how selected police forces in Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain monitored police use od stops and searches to determine discrimination and effectiveness....

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Discourse, Debate, and Democracy מאת David Cratis Williams Composed of selected articles from the first three years of the biannual journal, Controversia. The articles selected speak to the central issues of the roles of discourse and debate in democracies....