The Russian Five

DescriptionRead and Think Russian is an intermediate-level textbook with the goal of bringing students' proficiency to the advanced-low level by th...

Explores how fate played a capricious role in the lives of five of the greatest players in chess history, such as Russian champion Mark Taimanov be...

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Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which Russia and Central Asi...

Reducere. DescriptionLyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innov...

Reducere. Considered one of the greatest novels ever written, "War and Peace" masterfully captures an intimate view of humanity on an epic scale. In this swe...

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Reducere. The term "biography" seems insufficiently capacious to describe the singular achievement of Joseph Frank's five-volume study of the life of the gre...

Reducere. Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debat...

The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refu...

Reducere. Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These ...

DescriptionRichard Taruskin's sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insid...

Reducere. The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it's 'Kalashnikov'. The reason for this is ...

Jeeves and Wooster return in a new espionage caper full of japes, high jinks, and jiggery-pokery in a series that is "impossible to read without gr...

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Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the t...

Reducere. This omnibus edition includes books five and six in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series.Mountain of the Dead - The greatest unsolved mys...

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Tolstoy published Anna Karenina in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "f...

Reducere. A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five...

Gareth Jones - Eyewitness to the Holodomor is a meticulous study of the efforts made by the the Aberystwyth and Cambridge-educated journalist, a fl...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History: A Captiva...

Reducere. March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish a...

This newly revised edition includes up-to-date information and historical photographs on everything you need to know about the Last Frontier, all i...

Reducere. Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the ...

Reducere. Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Ru...

Reducere. "This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." --The Huffington PostPicking up where Fall of Giant...

Reducere. The Eastern Christian "Love of the Beautiful" can be a companion on your own spiritual journey A collection of writings by monks from the fourth to...

With six powerful 2, 500hp Pratt & Whitney radial engines, the B-36 was the largest aircraft ever to enter volume production, joining the US Air Fo...

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Reducere. Over 100 pages of the BEST and ONLY Russian-Jewish recipes you'll ever need, with 80 full-color illustrations. These recipes highlight cooking trad...

DescriptionWhat the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung ...

Reducere. What happens when journalism is made superfluous? Combining ethnography, media analysis, moral and political theory this book examines the unravell...

Reducere. Raffi was one of the most influential Armenian writers and political commentators of the 19th century. His works included social and political commen...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cambridge Five, then keep reading...During the poverty-stricken years of the Great Depressio...

DescriptionThe neuroscientist Alain Berthoz experimented on Russian astronauts in space to answer these questions: How does weightlessness affect m...

What would happen if you built one of the world's most advanced societies inside a forest--and strove to make women full partners in power? After l...

Reducere. Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more t...

DescriptionThis guide describes twenty high-altitude treks of 2-9 days in the mountains of Tajikistan, covering the Fann Mountains, Pamirs and nort...

Reducere. The final book in Ken Follett s #1 ``New York Times ``bestselling Century Trilogy following ``Winter of the World ``and`` Fall of Giants`` now in m...

Reducere. When a local's troubling death is linked to a Russian oligarch and his multinational conglomerate, Bruno faces one of his toughest cases yet, one t...

Reducere. A flight disappears over the North Pole.No distress calls. Vanished into thin air. Mitch Matthews is a writer struggling to make ends meet when his...

Reducere. An intimate view of the last Russian Tsar and his family The cataclysm of the First World War ultimately swept away many of the great monarchies of...

From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolut...

Reducere. A planetary system, consisting of a star and five planets, is travelling through our galaxy and will pass close to Earth. The four largest planets ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and Ru...

Reducere. A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years. What really happened to the USS Scorpion? May 1968: An American su...

Reducere. Rescues from the Sky features the true stories of the US Coast Guard Aviation Medical Rescue Service as seen through the eyes of a wet-behind-the-e...

Reducere. Alter Wiener's father was brutally murdered on September 11, 1939 by the German invaders of Poland. Alter was then a boy of 13. At the age of 15 he...

"Never before has the delight and wonder experienced in young love, in which is implicit physical discovery, been conveyed with such touching hones...

- Combat stories of eight German infantry soldiers: one paratrooper, two members of the Waffen-SS, and five members of the Wehrmacht - A concluding...

In 1839, forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king, Shah Soojah,...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

Reducere. Since the Korean War ended in 1953, several books and articles have been published about the air-to-air battles between the American F-86s and Russ...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History...

Reducere. The Revolution Betrayed is one of the most important Marxist texts of all time. It is the only serious Marxist analysis of what happened to the Rus...

Reducere. In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of ``direct action``-...

Reducere. Hanna and Andreas will do anything to leave oppressive East Germany behind. There's one escape route open to them, but can they survive it? Hanna a...

Reducere. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature AwardIn The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning...

Reducere. Key West seduces people--then asks them to leave in the morning. Take Aaron Katz. He chucked his NY nine-to-five to restore the Mangrove Arms, a ro...

Reducere. Follow the story of Russian Jewish immigrants who sent five sons off to World War II and the Occupation Forces. Four returned. Sadly, their middle ...

America has nearly five thousand miles of coastline. What would it be like to travel from the islands of Maine to the stepping-stones of the Florid...

Reducere. A visionary novel from the author of Super Sad True Love Story and Little Failure.The Russian Debutante's Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin, on...

Reducere. The crashes of Air Rhodesia Flight RH825 and Air Rhodesia Flight RH827 were two of the deadliest aviation incidents in the history of Zimbabwe-and ...

Reducere. Following the great success of the first volume of the Classics of Marxism, a second volume is now published with five more important works. Wage L...

Reducere. Translation of poems by Yuri Zhivago, the main character of the Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak's world- famous novel "Doctor Zhivago, " which w...