Ukraine - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs and etiquette (Culture Smart!)
by Anna Shevchenko
from Kuperard
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.
Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include
* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do's, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken
"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel
"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel
"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer
"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine
"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times
Russia & Belarus (Lonely Planet Travel Guides)
by Mark Elliott
from Lonely Planet
Cosmopolitan cities, bubbling volcanoes, spectacular mountains and breathtaking art - Russia is as diverse as it is dramatic, while Belarus satisfies those in search of a Soviet experience. Untangle the conspiracy theories and immerse yourself in the rich heritage - from Minsk to Moscow, Siberia to Kamchatka, make sure you're carrying this best-selling guide to the world's most enigmatic destination.
Cultural Context - in-depth background information brings you up to date on Belarusian politics and Tuvan throat-singing.
Discerning Reviews - hand-picked listings from our team of expert authors reveal Moscow's swankiest clubs and Siberia's finest adventure tours.
140+ Maps - detailed, grid-referenced maps throughout.
Comprehensive Language Chapter - includes Cyrillic script.
Ukraine, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
by Andrew Evans
from Bradt Travel Guides
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
by Omer Bartov
from Princeton University Press
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This poignant travelogue reveals the complete erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a fiercely aggressive Ukrainian nationalism.
Bartov, a leading Holocaust scholar, discovers that to make sense of the heartbreaking events of the war, he must first grapple with the complex interethnic relationships and conflicts that have existed there for centuries. Visiting twenty Ukrainian towns, he recreates the histories of the vibrant Jewish and Polish communities who once lived there-and describes what is left today following their brutal and complete destruction. Bartov encounters Jewish cemeteries turned into marketplaces, synagogues made into garbage dumps, and unmarked burial pits from the mass killings. He bears witness to the hastily erected monuments following Ukraine's independence in 1991, memorials that glorify leaders who collaborated with the Nazis in the murder of Jews. He finds that the newly independent Ukraine-with its ethnically cleansed and deeply anti-Semitic population--has recreated its past by suppressing all memory of its victims.
Illustrated with dozens of hauntingly beautiful photographs from Bartov's travels, Erased forces us to recognize the shocking intimacy of genocide.
Russia, Belarus & Ukraine (Insight Guides)
by Jane Hutchings
from Insight Guides
Provides everything you need in a guidebook to Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Presents invaluable on the spot information on the life history, culture, politics and people of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. All maps are clearly highlighted and numbered to the text and listings of travel details, hotels, eating places, and phone numbers are also presented. Softcover.
Ukraine Map by ITMB
by International Travel Maps and Books
from International Travel Maps and Books
Folded paper road and travel map in color. Scale 1:1,000,000. Distinguishes roads ranging from highways to other roads. Legend includes railways, international airports, airports, gas stations, museums, churches/monasteries, monuments, border crossings, castles, historical sites, archeological sites, hotels, other points of interest, recreation zones, National Parks/nature reserves, Chornobyl' danger zone. Includes inset maps of Odesa, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovs, Donets'k, L'viv, Kharkiv and extensive index.
Kiev: The Bradt City Guide (Bradt Mini Guide)
by Andrew Evans
from Bradt Travel Guides
Belarus Travel Guide)
by Nigel Roberts
from Bradt Travel Guides
Anyone with an interest in history and sociology will be fascinated by the continuation of traditional rural pastimes and industries where a horse and cart is still in use. There are also vast areas of marshes, lakes and rivers, which are of particular appeal to ecologists and environmentalists.
Slav and Belarussian cultural monuments, churches, monasteries and castles dating back to the Middle Ages, are explored in detail.
Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter
from Umbrage Editions
On April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 at the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant near Chernobyl exploded, releasing 400 times more radioactive matter than the bombing of Hiroshima. Igor Kostin, then a reporter for the Novosti Agency, took the very first photograph of the accident, continuing to endure massive radiation overexposure to document the disaster for the International Atomic Energy Agency. For the next twenty years he persistently investigated the explosion's effects on mankind and the environment.
This never-seen-before photographic collection tells the incredible stories of liquidators, soldiers, scientists, and residents throughout Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Germany, Sweden, and France that have been socially, politically, and medically impacted by the catastrophe, creating a global perspective of the tragedy. With a distance of 20 years this spring, Chernobyl: Confession of a Reporter sparks timely debate over the health and sociological implications of current global energy policies.
Igor Kostin, born in Moldava in 1936, is a laureate of the most distinguished international prizes including five World Press Photo, a contributor to Time, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Liberation, and Stern. Kostin lives and works in Kiev, 50 kilometers from Chernobyl.
Chernobyl Legacy
by Magdalena Caris
from de.MO
Chernobyl Legacy bears witness to the present-day effects of a horrific nuclear accident of unprecedented magnitude. Searing images documenting the effects following the Chernobyl disaster are central to the mission of this book, the work of noted photojournalist Paul Fusco of Magnum Photos and Magdalena Caris. Commentaries by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, actor Michael Douglas and Didier J. Cherpitel, the secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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