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Passion and Perception: Essays on Russian Culture
ISBN: 9780982806166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of Stitesiana includes twenty-nine essays on Russian culture, which the author desired to be collected and published in a single volume. This collection represents the bulk of twenty years of scholarship, besides the well-known monographs, which includes book chapters in collective volumes and scholarly journals, and diverse pieces in popular magazines. Some of these essays appeared before the monographs did, and illustrate how Stites worked with his material, presented it, and allowed it to be utilized. Six essays set forth Stites's approach to cultural history... This collection of Stitesiana includes twenty-nine essays on Russian culture, which the author desired to be collected and published in a s... |
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Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900
ISBN: 9780521369862 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West--the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, the stage, radio and television, Richard Stites introduces the people and cultural products that are household words to the Soviet people. He demonstrates how popular culture has over the past century had more impact on the lives of Russian people and reveals more about their lives than the works of giants of high culture. Richard Stites, Professor of History at Georgetown University, is the author...
This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West--the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fictio...
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Vortex: An Adventure of Cosmic Complexity
ISBN: 9781475027198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Imagine yourself pausing to admire the deep purple twilight, when suddenly a mysterious swirling force-the Vortex-picks you up and sends you just far enough into the future that your old life is gone forever This is the story of one such unwilling adventurer-the world's first time traveler-who must learn to cope with the atmosphere of modern life while in hot pursuit of the way back home....
Imagine yourself pausing to admire the deep purple twilight, when suddenly a mysterious swirling force-the Vortex-picks you up and sends you just far ...
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A White Winter Summer
ISBN: 9781479220779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a fiction story about Tom, a blind boy and Annie a mute girl. Both have been recently disabled by freak accidents - the boy by an explosion and the girl by a lightning strike. They learn to communicate in a number of ways other than speech. Their developing friendship is aided with the help of a large white wolf-dog named Winter who helps them find ways to cope with their infirmities. Her parents are Army Officers. They have lived on numerous bases so have moved frequently. Annie's mother, a nurse, was sent overseas where she was killed. Annie is sent to live with her paternal...
This is a fiction story about Tom, a blind boy and Annie a mute girl. Both have been recently disabled by freak accidents - the boy by an explosion an...
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The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
ISBN: 9780199978083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields of Ukraine--Colonel Rafael del Riego, General Guglielmo Pepe, General Alexandros Ypsilanti, and Colonel Sergei Muraviev-Apostol--all hoped to overturn the old order. Over the next six years, their revolutions ended in failure. The men who led them became martyrs. In The Four...
In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a c...
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Runtabaga: A Christmas Story for Grown-Ups
ISBN: 9781412201872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A runt pig and dog help a young boy find his North Pole, meet his personal Santa, and receive a puppy for Christmas.
A runt pig and dog help a young boy find his North Pole, meet his personal Santa, and receive a puppy for Christmas.
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Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power
ISBN: 9780300137576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 638 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society's value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial town and manor house engaged the culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg while thousands of serfs and ex-serfs created or performed. Mikhail Glinka raised Russian music to new levels and Anton Rubinstein struggled to found a conservatory. Long before the itinerants, painters explored town... Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in... |
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123 Years of Postal Life and United States History
ISBN: 9781618082213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Ophelia: A Tale of Woe Undone
ISBN: 9781475028393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Romantically inclined Ophelia finds herself suddenly facing the crisis of her life, and as she struggles alone with her terrible secret we can only wait to see what she'll do next, while considering the course of history that may have turned her into some sort of ticking time bomb....
Romantically inclined Ophelia finds herself suddenly facing the crisis of her life, and as she struggles alone with her terrible secret we can only wa...
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Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia
ISBN: 9780253209498 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "This lively and often moving collection of essays is an important contribution to Western scholarship on Soviet society and culture during the Second World War.... a] straightforward but lively description of cultural life, unhampered by excessive interpretation or cultural theory. For all those who love Russia s cultural heritage, these essays cast a welcome spotlight on some of the people and pockets of life from that tragic but compelling time." Canadian Slavonic Papers "Enjoyable to read and accessible to the nonspecialist, Culture and Entertainment is not only an indispensable... "This lively and often moving collection of essays is an important contribution to Western scholarship on Soviet society and culture during the Sec... |
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The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 - Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780691100586 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period. Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century... |
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Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
ISBN: 9780195055375 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and the arts. In this study, historian Richard Stites offers a vivid portrayal of revolutionary life and the cultural factors--myth, ritual, cult, and symbol--that sustained it, and describes the principal forms of utopian thinking and experimental impulse. Analyzing the inevitable clash between the...
The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range o...
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The Continuum of Know
ISBN: 9781412062466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tod is a non-verbal autistic boy. He is given a rare opportunity to communicate in a ?frozen moment? in time when he meets his soul. One night a light draws his attention to a crack in his backyard. The bright light is coming up through the crack. He investigates and is startled by a whisper. It comes from an odd creature that was formed by the trunk and limbs of a juniper bush that has been partially removed. The whisper invites him to climb on the back of the creature to be taken to ?The Continuum of Know?. Here he meets a mirror image of himself who informs him that the crack has formed...
Tod is a non-verbal autistic boy. He is given a rare opportunity to communicate in a ?frozen moment? in time when he meets his soul. One night a light...
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A Life in Harmony: A Deep Dive into Elvis Presley Life and Legacy in the Entertainment industry
ISBN: 9798879234268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Child Sensitive Teaching: Helping Children Grow a Living Faith in a Loving God
ISBN: 9781933803487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Where's White?: A Color Story
ISBN: 9798218565442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Where's White?: A Color Story
ISBN: 9798218562922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Winter's Gift
ISBN: 9781662837463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Missing Money Mystery
ISBN: 9780692868843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
ISBN: 9780875805528 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Born into the comforts of the Russian aristocracy in 1852, Vera Figner as a child harbored the fairy-tale dream of one day becoming tsarina. By the age of thirty-two, however, Figner had become one of Russia's most vocal revolutionaries, a terrorist and member of the Executive Committee of the People's Will party, and a prisoner sentenced for life for her involvement in the assassination of Alexander II. In this classic memoir, Figner recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary, candidly relating the experiences that shaped her ideas and provoked her to political action and...
Born into the comforts of the Russian aristocracy in 1852, Vera Figner as a child harbored the fairy-tale dream of one day becoming tsarina. By the ag...
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