The Russian Five

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. 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...

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...

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 ...

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. Content includes: Introductory.Wrestling on the Feet.Tips for the Beginner.Tips for Instructors.Suggested Courses of Half-hour Lessons.Standard Wei...

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. 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...

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

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 ...

Reducere. 'A worthy successor to '1984' and 'Brave New World'' - PLAYBOY What would I do for eternal life? Discoveries made within our lifetime will allow pe...

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

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...

Reducere. Wine insiders called André Tchelistcheff the "winemaker's winemaker, " the "wine doctor, " and simply "maestro." After Prohibition brought Napa Val...

Reducere. It's summer in the Dordogne and the heirs of a modest sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited. Their father's estate has been sold to a...

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...

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. As early as 1965, when the MiG-25 interceptor was in the midst of its test program, the Mikoyan Design Bureau started work on an even more capable ...

Reducere. What is God like? How does God work? How does God relate to you? These may be the most important questions you will ever ask. A 600-year-old Russia...

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

Starvation, constant moves, fighting against a seemingly unbeatable enemy: this was the life that Stan and Galina Shkurinsky experienced while comi...

Reducere. Flash cards are an easy and interesting way for your childen recognize the world around them. Approved worldwide by child psychologists teachers an...

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. The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre...

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

Reducere. Alaska is by far the largest state of the United States of America by land area. Nicknamed "the last frontier", Alaska is sparsely populated; the s...

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. An Elizabeth Petrov Thriller Book 1The Russians have developed a weapons system so powerful and deadly it could alter the balance of power in the w...

Reducere. A Legal Thriller - in a Russian Courtroom Drama Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin...

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. 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. My First Book of Numbers is a cheerful way to introduce toddlers to the numbers 1 to 12. Each page features three elements: the printed number, the...

Reducere. I'm a good girl. I live by a code that can't be bent or broken. It is my duty to my family to stay innocent and pure. To marry an Italian man. The ...

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. 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 ...

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...

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. Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine...

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

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

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. A 3-in-1 Annotated Collection of Reissued Short StoriesTwo Troubleshooters Stories plus a Navy SEAL Short BEGINNINGS AND ENDS: Annotated reissue or...

Eastern Orthodoxy?To many Evangelical Christians, Eastern Orthodoxy is limited to such ethnic immigrant communities as the Greek, Russian, Syrian, ...

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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. The highly anticipated Book Five of the #1 bestselling The 39 Clues series. A strange telegram lures fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger b...

Reducere. "New York Times "Notable Book of the Year * "Washington Post "Top Ten Book of the Year In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa w...

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

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

Reducere. This is a true account, to the best of my knowledge, of our journey from our home in East Prussia to West Germany in 1945. I was nine years old at ...

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