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Taras Grescoe Three-Book Bundle: The Devil's Picnic, ...
Taras GrescoeAward-winning journalist Taras Grescoe has written books that have changed how we look at illicit food and other substances (The Devil’s Picnic), how we think about the world’s seafood (Bottomfeeder), and how we as commuters hit the ...
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Taras GrescoeTaras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution "I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe.
The Devil's Picnic: A Tour of Everything the Governments of ...
Taras GrescoeNever in history have we seemed to have such global freedom, such an opportunity to indulge our wildest tastes. We think we live in a time of unprecedented choice. But as Taras Grescoe discovers, this is just an illusion.
Dead Seas: How the fish on our plates is killing our planet
Taras GrescoeIn Dead Seas we follow acclaimed journalist Taras Grescoe on a year-long, round-the-world trip, as he eats his way from the top to the bottom of the food chain with one purpose in mind: to find out whether he can continue to eat such ...
Sacre Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
Taras GrescoeWith side orders of poutine, maple syrup, and Vachon snack cakes. And scarcely a mention of Lucien Bouchard. From the Hardcover edition.
Sacré blues: un portrait iconoclaste du Québec
Taras GrescoeWith side orders of poutine, maple syrup, and Vachon snack cakes. And scarcely a mention of Lucien Bouchard. "From the Hardcover edition."
The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists
Taras GrescoeCan a thirty-something Canadian writer survive bunking with a homophobic roommate on an If-This-Is-Tuesday bus tour? Partying with college-aged pub crawlers in Rome? Trekking among the opium-growing hilltribes of Thailand?
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on ...
Taras GrescoeWhen Helen broke his heart: see Ken Cuthbertson, Nobody Said Not to Go, p. 27. “the female mind is incapable”: see Emily Hahn, Times and Places, p. 59. packed up a Model T Ford: see Ken Cuthbertson, Nobody Said Not to Go, p. 37.
Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe
Ray TarasEuropean anti-Muslim attitudes: the voice of public protest against out-of-touch elites?
Democracy in Poland
Ray TarasAt the same time Poland is frequently identified as the most successful example of a transition from communism to capitalism, having led this series of world-changing transitions.
Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity
Ray TarasYet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the countries examined in this book.
Postcommunist Presidents
Ray TarasThis book, first published in 1997, offers a comparative analysis of the role of presidents in postcommunist states.
Europe Old and New: Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia
Ray TarasThroughout, this interdisciplinary work provides a comprehensive, hard-hitting, and unabashed review of how enlarged Europe embraces contrasting understandings of its political home and of who belongs and who does not.
Russia's Identity in International Relations: Images, ...
Ray TarasBringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West.
Vancouver: Visions of a City
Paul GrescoeRosa and her septuagenarian godmother, Poh Poh, are Chinese. Wendy Newman, of Jewish- and English- Canadian stock, was the first single woman in Canada allowed to adopt an infant from mainland China. In 1992, at the age of forty-four ...
Taras Bulba JES 30
Nikolai GogolFeaturing Stories by the World's Greatest Authors The Joint European Series ( JES) of Classics off.” was the term coined to represent those titles and issues printed across Europe – which included versions in German, Swedish and Dutch.
Consolidating Democracy in Poland
Ray TarasA comprehensive analysis of politics in a young European democracy, this book describes the principal features of Poland’s democratic system--the political institutions, parties, elections, and leaders that have shaped the transition from ...
Alaska: The Cruise-lover's Guide
Paul GrescoeThis fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Alaska cruise guide has something for everyone, from a nautical mile-by-mile description of the Inside Passage, to the best places to observe glaciers, wildlife, and plant life, to ...
Swell: A Year of Waves
Evan SlaterSurf journalist team Evan Slater and Peter Taras capture the essence of waves and the swells that produce them in this breathtaking collection of wave photography.
National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe: ...
PreviewSelected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995 Ray Taras. published in Great Britain PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and ...
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