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Croatia offers a sunny Adriatic coastline and breath-taking scenery, as well as a distinctive culinary tradition that combines central European, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern influences. This book offers over 200 recipes adapted for the American kitchen, featuring classic dishes like Turkey with Pasta Tatters, Strudel with Sauteed Risotto.

The Indian language of Marathi is spoken by over 50 million people. This guide, with its bilingual dictionary and phrasebook, is a useful companion for travellers and businesspeople. Various Marathi words are presented. This phrasebook is divided into 11 sections, which cover everything from greetings to hotels, restaurants, and transportation.

Forgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, "Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of one ethnic community in occupied Poland without referring to the fates of others. In this sense, The Forgotten Holocaust is a powerful corrective."

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This handy dictionary and phrasebook provides practical vocabulary and pronunciation tools to help students, travelers, or businesspeople communicate when visiting Yiddish communities in Jerusalem, London, New York, and many other major cities around the world.

This dictionary provides the traveler, businessperson, or aid worker with all of the fundamental words and phrases needed for communication in Haitian Creole.

Offers an introduction to Hawaiian words and phrases, with sections focusing on basic greetings, food and drink, weather, and assorted cultural activities. This dictionary and phrasebook is a useful companion for vacationers and others interested in traditional Hawaiian culture.

Authentic Finnish recipes, adapted for the American kitchen.

Over 63 million people worldwide speak Korean, making it one of the fifteen most widely spoken languages in the world. This helpful guide is an essential resource for visitors to Korea. Users of this two-way dictionary and practical phrasebook will be understood in both North and South Korea. The book includes a primer in the Korean writing system ("hangul), which is used in all entries along with the official romanization taught by the Korean government. A pronunciation guide and a basic grammar also appear. Each of the 15 phrasebook chapters includes cultural information to help travelers avoid uncomfortable moments in situations such as dining out, shopping, and seeking medical attention.

This work is a visual dictionary of Maya glyphs, offering a comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each entry includes the illustrated glyph, its phonetic transcription, Mayan equivalent, part of speech and meaning.

Presents the basics of reading and understanding Arabic script. Beginning with an introduction to the alphabet and the pronunciation of Arabic characters, this book also features the rules of reading and writing the language, including reading direction, consonant-vowel elisions, and letter linkages or ligatures.

This guide covers the Spanish dialects found throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America. The book includes a dictionary of over 2000 words, followed by a brief introduction to Spanish grammar.

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This unique book examines the history, culture, and inner workings of the seven smallest independent countries in Europe. These are among the oldest lands in Europe and, despite their diversity, they have much in common. Most have relatively high per capita incomes and life expectancies, and relatively low unemployment. This narrative first presents the many unique issues that confront small countries, including maintaining their independence, economic viability, native languages, and forms of government. The second part of the book describes each microstate in turn, showing how each one has met these challenges and adapted over time. These concise and engaging histories contain cultural information on subjects including the arts, gastronomy, and popular tourist sites.

These language dictionaries and phrasebooks from Hippocrene target language and are designed with the needs of the student or traveler in mind.

These language dictionaries and phrasebooks from Hippocrene target language and are designed with the needs of the student or traveler in mind.

Travel to Turkey, a popular destination due to its fascinating history, rich culture and natural beauty! This two-way dictionary and phrasehook is the ideal language guide for visitors, offering extensive vocabulary and phrases for travel-related and day-to-day situations.

These language dictionaries and phrasebooks from Hippocrene target language and are designed with the needs of the student or traveller in mind.

This dictionary and phrasebook covers all aspects of daily life. It includes the original Hebrew, along with easy-to-use pronunciation for English speakers.

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From research conducted by Chinese social scientists, this expanded edition explains the origins of Jewish immigrants in China, when and why they came, the routes they followed, where they settled, and descriptions of their religious and social lives under the Hans, the Monguls and the Manchus.

In this exanded edition, the author includes chapters on Russian-American marriages resulting from Internet and agency introductions, young couples who live in both Russia and the US, the generation of children who are Russian-American, and how couples differ in their attitudes to raising children.

Black Forest pork roast, housekove knedliky (bread dumplings), Hungarian goulash, spinach Zagora style (from Bulgaria) and Mititei (Romanian sausages) are just some of the mouth-watering dishes in this book of recipes from the shores of the Danube.