Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
10 best books like Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Mark Mazower): Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation, The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great, Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, The Thread, The Spanish Civil War, Pan, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Barcelona
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
| Author | Kapka Kassabova |
| ISBN | 1555977863 |
In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| ISBN | 0140298517 |
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people.
Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction—they are Europe's...
The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
| Author | Steven Pressfield |
| ISBN | 0553382055 |
I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s unflinching eye for detail the...
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
| Author | Richard E. Rubenstein |
| ISBN | 0156030098 |
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view...
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
| Author | María Rosa Menocal |
| ISBN | 0316168718 |
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, María Menocal now brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years.The story begins as a young prince in exile—the last...
| Author | Victoria Hislop |
| ISBN | 0755377737 |
A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth century--both natural and man-made--in the turbulent city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Victoria Hislop, internationally...
| Author | Hugh Thomas |
| ISBN | 0141011610 |
Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today.
What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0141180676 |
I went into the café and sat down in the corner. I prefer to sit there. I took out my book and opened it. After a while, I looked up and saw that one of the waitresses was standing behind me. I realised she had been there for some time. She was a pretty brunette who looked about twenty.
- Excuse me, I said....
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
| Author | Amin Maalouf |
| ISBN | 0805208984 |
In our society the word crusade has been largely divorced from its origins in a European invasion of the Middle East, so much so that our previous president probably didn't recognize how inflammatory this statement was.
This book is a solid reminder that there were two sides, and often more,...
| Author | Robert Hughes |
| ISBN | 0679743839 |
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal...
Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
| Author | Bruce Clark |
| ISBN | 0674023684 |
In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims from Greece to Turkey. The transfer was hailed...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 0547239696 |
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into...
| Author | John Lewis Gaddis |
| ISBN | 1594203512 |
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades
John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill...
| Author | Δημοσθένης Παπαμάρκος |
Οι ήρωες αυτών των διηγημάτων, στρατιώτες που πολέμησαν στη μικρασιατική εκστρατεία, έρχονται αντιμέτωποι με τους ρόλους που τους επιβάλλουν οι παραδοσιακοί...
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945
Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony...
A Traveller's Guide to Homer: A Journey across Turkey in the Footsteps of Odysseus
In October 1945, at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been mesmerized with Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. As the culmination of a life spent exploring...
The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture
| Author | Charles King |
| ISBN | 0817997911 |
Throughout the past two centuries, Moldova was the object of a variety of culture-building efforts from Russian, Romanian, and Soviet influences before emerging as an independent state in 1991. The author
•Highlights the political uses of culture—the ways in which language, history,...
"İlk elli yıl kiliseye, sonraki elli yıl sinagoga, ondan sonraki elli yıl da camiye gitti. Bir ara Konstantinopolis’e gelen Luther’in papazlarını da dinledi. Sonunda o gün nerede yemek dağıtılıyorsa oraya gitmeye karar verdi.
Büyük depremler, veba salgınları ve...
Minerva's Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought
| Author | Jeffrey Abramson |
| ISBN | 0674057023 |
Informal in tone yet serious in content, this book serves as a lively and accessible guide for readers discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and Plato. Because the arguments of the great philosophers are nearly eternal, even those long schooled on politics will...
Türkiye 1643: Goşa'nın Gözleri
1641 yılında Rûm Vilayeti Defterdarı Mehemmed Murad Efendi vilâyetinin vergi nüfusunu saymakla görevlendirilir. Yapılacak sayıma göre bölgeden ne kadar vergi toplayabileceğine karar verecektir Osmanlı devleti. Bu kitap işte bu defterden yola çıkarak yapılan uzun bir soruşturmanın,...
The Mafia Manager: A Guide to the Corporate Machiavelli
A leading figure from one of the world's first and best organized conglomerates here reveals management techniques we can all use. Witty, fun, and surprisingly useful, this is a must for the aspiring corporate Machiavelli. Unlike other management guides, The Mafia Manager shuns theoretical verbiage...
| Author | Edward Cartwright |
| ISBN | 0415573122 |
This textbook is a first major introduction to behavioral economics, designed primarily for advanced undergraduate students. Unquestionably the hottest new field to have emerged in the social sciences over the past decade, behavioral considerations are now making themselves felt across academia...
| Author | Thomas Korovinis |
| ISBN | 9603259306 |
Το βιβλίο του Θωμά Κοροβίνη "O γύρος του θανάτου" είναι ένα δυναμικό δραματικό μυθιστόρημα που αναφέρεται στην πολυτάραχη ζωή του Αριστείδη Παγκρατίδη...
Καταστροφές και θρίαμβοι : Οι 7 κύκλοι της σύγχρονης ελληνικής ιστορίας
Μια σφαιρική και ρηξικέλευθη αποτίµηση της ιστορικής πορείας της σύγχρονης Ελλάδας που εντάσσει τη σηµερινή κρίση σε ένα πλαίσιο ιστορικής διάρκειας,...
...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς
Τι να σου πω, όλα αυτά τα χρόνια που εσύ έλειψες, τα χρόνια λέω που μας άντρωσαν μέσα στην κρεατομηχανή, μ' έχουν μπερδέψει. Είναι δύσκολο πια να ξεχωρίσεις...
The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
| Author | Erik Durschmied |
| ISBN | 1611453216 |
From the wooden horse at Troy to a harrowing photograph snapped in Vietnam, from Robert E. Lee’s lost battle plans to the evacuation of Dunkirk, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and heroism. Time and again, invincible armies fall to weaker opponents in the face...
Os Piores Contos dos Irmãos Grim
| Author | Luis Sepúlveda |
| ISBN | 9724144135 |
Um livro inclassificável,
uma brincadeira delirante,
um atentado à seriedade dos leitores.
Os irmãos Grim – gémeos, na realidade – terão sido dois tipos que passaram pelo Chile e pelo Uruguai sem que deles restasse mais do que retalhos aleatórios das suas vidas e obras,...
| Author | Δημήτρης Δημητριάδης |
[...]η θέση της η γεωγραφική είναι το άσθμα μου, ολόκληρο το σχήμα της άλλοτε απλώνεται πάνω στο σώμα μου σα γιγαντιαίος έρπης ζωστήρ και με τρελαίνει, κι...
Dio ci ha creato gratis: Il Vangelo secondo i bambini di Arzano
| Author | Marcello D'Orta |
| ISBN | 8804348976 |
Το δεύτερο βιβλίο του Μαρσέλο Ντ΄ Όρτα είναι η συλλογή από εκθέσεις μαθητών με θέμα τη θρησκεία. Έχοντας διαβάσει ήδη το ‟Εγώ ελπίζω να τη βολέψω” είχα...
Que de lejos parecen moscas
El señor Machi es un trepador y se considera exitoso. Hizo su fortuna bajo la dictadura militar, la afinazó en los dos primeros gobiernos de la democracia y se casó con una mujer de doble apellido, hija de un terrateniente. El éxito son diez millones de dólares en el banco, el BMW, la ropa de marca,...
