New Large Paperback Books

Ruth Hogan / The Light a Candle Society (Large Paperback)

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candleGeorge McGlory - recent widower, part-time librarian, pub quiz enthusiast and lover of loud shirts - witnesses a public health funeral and is deeply moved by the sight of the...

Primo Levi / Moments of Reprieve (Large Paperback)

Essays In this collection of essays based on his time as a Jewish prisoner in the Nazi camps, Primo Levi creates a series of sketches of the people he met who retained their humanity even in the most inhumane circumstances.Having already written two...

Rogers Brubaker / Nationalism Reframed (Large Paperback)

Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe Rogers Brubaker     Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Rogers Brubaker...

Bill Buford (Editor) / Granta 30: New Europe (Large Paperback)

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #30 Granta 30: New Europe Bill Buford (Editor)     The year 1989, annus mirabilis, was the most important year in Europe since the end of World War Two. After 1989, Europe changed...

Garrison Walters / The Other Europe (Large Paperback)

The Other Europe is a general history of Eastern Europe, from the earliest times to the end of World War II. Walters provides an informed and interpretively refreshing focus on this key region. Walters' objective is to acquaint the student and...

Peter Esterhazy / Little Hungarian Pornography (Large Paperback)

An extraordinary montage of sex and politics, Péter Esterházy's innovative novel can be seen to prefigure the liberation of Eastern Europe. Written under what the author calls "small, Hungarian, pornographic circumstances," A Little...

Herta Muller /Budapest (Large Paperback)

The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side, the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges,...

Sarah Binchy (Editor) / SUNDAY MISCELLANY: A Selection 2023-2025 (Large Paperback)

448 pages, Paperback Published December 22, 2025   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second...

Carolly Erickson / Anne Boleyn (Large Paperback)

As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Review of The First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn "was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant daughter escaped, and a subject Ms. Erickson's sensitivity to sexual and political...

John C. Torpey / Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent (Large Paperback)

The East German Opposition and Its Legacy (Volume 4) John C. Torpey     Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once...

Katherine Verdery / National Ideology Under Socialism (Large Paperback)

Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania   Katherine Verdery     The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles...

Stephen Leather /Stretch (Large Paperback)

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he...

Joyce Carol Oates / The Lost Landscape (Large Paperback)

A memoir of childhood and adolescence, in New York State   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Dubravka Ugresic / The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays (Large Paperback)

The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugrešić's...

Jeffrey C. Alexander / Fin De Siecle Social Theory (Large Paperback)

Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction and the Problem of Reason Jeffrey C. Alexander     In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory...

Ivo Banac (Editor) / Eastern Europe in Revolution (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Craig J. Calhoun / Nationalism (Large Paperback)

Drawing on examples from Eritrea, Yugoslavia and China to France and Germany, this book clarifies the way in which national boundaries and identities became central to the modern era, how they relate to the development of state power, and how a host...

Scott Lash / Sociology of Postmodernism (Large Paperback)

This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important.   This book is...

Tadeusz Konwicki / A Minor Apocalypse (Large Paperback)

As in his novel The Polish Complex, Konwicki's A Minor Apocalypse stars a narrator and character named Konwicki, who has been asked to set himself on fire that evening in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Warsaw in an act of...

David E. Whisnant / Rascally Signs in Sacred Places (Large Paperback)

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua David E. Whisnant     David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture,...

Katherine Verdery / What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Large Paperback)

Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of...

Liah Greenfeld / Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Large Paperback)

Trilogy of Nationalism #1 Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity Liah Greenfeld     Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. It accomplished the...

Stephen R. Graubard / A New Europe for the Old? (Large Paperback)

Since 1989, it has been possible to review what has been published both at home and abroad on the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and, no less importantly, on the Soviet Union itself, from a new perspective. Few have chosen to engage...

Pauline Marie Rosenau / Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences (Large Paperback)

Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this...

Peter Esterhazy / Not Art (Large Paperback)

Winner of the 2004 Peace Prize—Germany’s most prestigious literary honor—Peter Esterhazy, author of the acclaimed Celestial Harmonies, offers us Not Art, a uniquely brilliant novelized exploration of his...

J. Hoberman / The Red Atlantis (Large Paperback)

Argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to both modernism and itself. Offering examples ranging from the Stalinist show trial to Franz Kafka's posthumous career as a dissident writer, this book says that Communism...

Aleksandar Hemon (Editor) / Best European Fiction 2012 (Large Paperback)

Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint,...

Mark Robert Waldman (Editor )/ The Spirit of Writing (Large Paperback)

  The Spirit of Writing: Classic and Contemporary Essays Celebrating the Writing Life Mark Robert Waldman (Editor ), Eaton Hamilton (Contributor), Tom Bradley     In this compilation of essays by...

Brubaker / Ethnicity without Groups (Large Paperback)

Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic,...

William P. Germano / Getting It Published (Large Paperback)

  A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books   Writers and publishers depend on one another, but it often seems as if they speak two different languages. Getting It Published is a lively, insider's guide to...

Jiri Grusa / The Questionnaire (Large Paperback)

The Questionnaire Jiří Gruša, Peter Kussi (Translator), Josef Škvorecký (Preface)     Originally circulated in Czechoslovakia in an underground edition of nineteen typewritten...

Istvan Pogany / The Roma Cafe (Large Paperback)

Human Rights and the Plight of the Romani People Istvan Pogany     Written in a lively and accessible style, and illustrated throughout with photographs, The Roma Cafe is a poignant and intriguing analysis of the diverse problems...

Ivan Klima/ The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays (Large Paperback)

In this collection of political and personal essays, the novelist Ivan Klima charts five decades in the history of Czechoslovakia -- from the Nazi occupation to the Velvet Revolution. Klima invokes the spirit of the city that shaped him: ironical,...

James Reston Jr. / The Last Apocalypse (Large Paperback)

Accomplished historical author James Reston, Jr., presents the enthralling saga of how the Christian kingdoms converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance in Europe as the year 1000 approached. Through Reston's brilliant...

Jane A. Plant / Prostate Cancer : Understand, Prevent and Overcome (Large Paperback)

  A GROUND-BREAKING BOOK FOR PROSTATE CANCER SUFFERERS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer (after lung cancer) among men. Professor Jane Plant's international bestseller Your...

Homi K. Bhabha / The Location of Culture (Large Paperback)

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture , he uses concepts...

Robert Hollinger / Postmodernism and the Social Sciences (Large Paperback)

The major themes of postmodernist writing are demystified in this introductory text. Robert Hollinger reviews key postmodern discussions on critical topics such as values, identity, and the self and society. He compares postmodern thinking with that...

Arthur Asa Berger / Cultural Criticism (Large Paperback)

Cultural Criticism: A Primer of Key Concepts Arthur Asa Berger     In this guide to cultural criticism, Arthur Asa Berger presents complex concepts in jargon-free language, making the book an ideal introductory text. It covers...

David McKittrick / Endgame (Large Paperback)

The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book...

Bonnie C. Wade / Thinking Musically (Large Paperback)

Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Bonnie C. Wade     As the cornerstone of the Global Music Series, Thinking Musically, Third Edition, explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures...

Ladislav Holy / The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation (Large Paperback)

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology #103 The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation: National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation Ladislav Holy     Ladislav Holy brings to this timely study of...

Sabrina P. Ramet (Editor) / The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989 (Large Paperback)

With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1991, right-wing extremist parties have emerged and claimed a prominence that they have not enjoyed since the early 1940s. The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe...

Steven Mithen / The Singing Neanderthals (Large Paperback)

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why...

Eric Gordy / The Culture of Power in Serbia (Large Paperback)

Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives Eric Gordy     How does the regime of Slobodan Milošević and his Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) remain in power? Since legitimizing its power in 1990, the SPS has never...

Rob Sheppard / Digital Photographer's Complete Guide to HD Video (Large Paperback)

HD video is one of the hottest new features on digital SLR cameras, and photographers are eager to understand how it works and optimize their results. Rob Sheppard and Michael Guncheon, longtime digital experts and contributors to HD Video Pro...

Andrea Canobbio / The Natural Disorder of Things (Large Paperback)

Claudio Fratta is a garden designer at the height of his career; a naturally solitary man, a tender, playful companion to his nephews, and a considerate colleague. But under his amiable exterior simmers a quiet rage, and a desire to punish the...

James Naughton / Traveller's Literary Companion: Eastern & Central Europe (Large Paperback)

The Traveller's Literary Companion brings the countries of Eastern and Central Europe to you in the words of novelists, poets, and travel writers, including Milan Kundera, Joseph Conrad, Vaclav Havel, Franz Kafka, and many others.An accessible and...

Jachym Topol / City Sister Silver (Large Paperback)

Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as the best Czech book of the year, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs’ newfound freedom in 1989. More than just the story of its young...

Jennifer Lash / Blood Ties (Large Paperback)

Set mainly in Ireland, Jennifer Lash's dark, exhilarating novel is about the redemptive power of love. It tells of Violet Farr and her loveless marriage, her wild, unfathomable son and his illegitimate son, all of them bound together in a repeating...

Janet Wright / Reflexology and Acupressure (Large Paperback)

A practical guide to the drug-free, hands-on therapies of reflexology and acupressure - Endorsement by expert consultant therapists - Easy-to-follow treatments to combat everyday ailments - Gentle treatment tips to suit everyone, including children and...

Chris Alden / In Print (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Steve Erickson / Our Ecstatic Days (Large Paperback)

  Kristin #2 Our Ecstatic Days In the waning summer days, a lake appears almost overnight in the middle of Los Angeles. Out of fear and love, a young single mother commits a desperate convinced that the lake means to take her small son...