Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures (DK Our World in Pictures)

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Bibliographic Information Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9780199580729 Published online: 2010 Current Online Version: 2016 DOI: 10. This was one of the great test cases of the project to try and see what makes a book ‘from’ a particular place. This extra entry represented territories not on the list of UN recognised nations (plus Taiwan) that I used for this project.

If you have a recommendation (or you know about an English version of one of the books marked ‘translation sought’), please leave a comment at the bottom. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Overseas territories, the Arctic, flags of the world and complete geographical and political maps are also given due attention. Each entry gives a brief history and outlines contemporary social, economic, political and religious issues.I think I’ll try a less ambitious route and make a list of what I have read by country… and then fill in the gaps over a lifetime. He recounts his story to the narrator whom he first meets at the Austerlitz train station in Brussels, years later.

Also in glasgow, where I study (english lit and russian) you can learn czech or estonian but tough luck if you’ve got interest in slovakia. I love learning about other cultures, and I think one of the best ways to immerse yourself is to read their literature.Perhaps I’ll have to put him on my list for 2013 as I’m only reading prose for this project and although I can read French and German (slowly), I’m sticking to English translations. This country guide is divided into continental chapters, featuring each nation's geography, climate and economics, supplemented by stats and data.

I couldn’t found the publisher’s reference, but I’m sure it was translated to English ’cause I found some . Zero,Zero,Zero, by the same author keeps on showing the evils of our modern world, addicted to cocaine…both reviews on my blog. If you have any suggestions I might have a go at translating one or two (I can only handle some Western European languages).I’ve been doing a similar challenge (without a “one year” time frame) and started compiling the books I read on one of my blog’s pages ( http://readingtoday. He wrote Auto da Fe which was very popular in the 70s but his best work is his autobiography in 3 volumes …. Please let me know if I can be helpful with any countries–I’m now going to go back through to find and read better/more representative books for some countries, as well as some significant non-countries like Hong Kong.

As you’ll see, for some of the countries where you have yet to gain a suggestion, she had to make compromises (see: Palau). I hope you don’t mind me “borrowing” your book suggestion for Andorra – it sounds much better than the one I had found.There is also a fascinating 'insight' fact for each country revealing interesting details that make places so unique. However, the best thing about this is the exposure to so many different cultures that bring to the table so many – at least to our culture – fresh ideas. New Finnish Grammar also sounds good – I heard Boyd Tonkin talking about it at the London Book Fair this week – another on for next year I think! The happiness of Kati” I think it’s so interesting and this book is Thai book that translated in many language such as american english japanese chinese .