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Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth
ISBN: 9781501771316 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women's bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist...
Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play ou...
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126,51 |
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”Nomadity of Being” in Central Asia: Narratives of Kyrgyzstani Women’s Rights Activists
ISBN: 9789811954450 / Angielski / Twarda / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, “nomadity of being. ” Here, foreign information and requirements, even forced ones, are transformed into an amalgamation of the new and the old, alien and native—like kurak, a quilted patchwork blanket, made from scraps. Conceptualizing feminist narratives in Kyrgyzstan, while keeping in mind, the complex relationship between ideological borrowing, actualization, appropriation or self-colonization of “feminist” concepts can expand both scholarly and activist understanding of...
This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, “nomadity of being. ” Here, foreign information...
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564,88 |
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Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944: The demolition of Army Group Center
ISBN: 9781472853950 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,53 |
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The Secret Police of Russia: Neglectful Treatment, Cooperation, and Giving in (2022 Guide for Beginners)
ISBN: 9783988310002 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,80 |
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Stalin: A Pocket Biography
ISBN: 9781803992754 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,36 |
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My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
ISBN: 9781773237480 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,95 |
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The Politics of Literary History: Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990
ISBN: 9783031187230 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries. While Russia saw a return to a more nationalist way of thinking about literature and a new emphasis on Orthodox religion after the fall of the Soviet Union, the opposite is true for Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland. In these countries, literary historiography fosters connections between Western scholarship and literatures written in the national...
This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ide...
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524,53 |
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Discourse and Affect in Postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina: Peripheral Selves
ISBN: 9783030802479 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of politico-economic and ideological developments. Through world systems and postcolonial theory, historical and new materialist optics, discursive and affective analytical registers, and various qualitative methodological choices, the author analyzes peripheral subjectivity in connection to global proletarianization, as well as past and present resistance via social and personal movement(s). She refers to past Yugoslav socialist and anticolonial...
This book examines the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia in an empirically rich self-reflexive account of poli...
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484,18 |
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My Disillusionment in Russia
ISBN: 9798888300671 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,34 |
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My Disillusionment in Russia
ISBN: 9798888300688 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,52 |
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The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920: Lloyd-George, Lenin and Poland
ISBN: 9781032434636 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent.
The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to chall...
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657,15 |
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Cosmonaut: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9781683403708 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut was designed and reimagined over timeIn this book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s and the ways this icon has been reinterpreted throughout the years and in contemporary Russia. Compiling material and cultural representations of the cosmonaut program, Lewis provides a new perspective on the story of Soviet spaceflight, highlighting how the government has celebrated figures such as Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova through newspapers, radio, parades, monuments, museums,...
How the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut was designed and reimagined over timeIn this book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the S...
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155,77 |
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Finnish Colonial Encounters: From Anti-Imperialism to Cultural Colonialism and Complicity
ISBN: 9783030806125 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe – Finland. Although Finland never had overseas colonies, the authors argue that the country was undeniably involved in the colonial world, with Finns adopting ideologies and identities that cannot easily be disentangled from colonialism.This book explores the concepts of ‘colonial complicity’ and ‘colonialism without colonies’ in relation to Finland, a nation that was oppressed, but also itself complicit in colonialism. It...
Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empire...
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403,47 |
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The Vortex That Unites Us: Versions of Totality in Russian Literature
ISBN: 9781501769382 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Considering a diversity of texts that have in common chiefly their prominence in the Russian literary canon, Jacob Emery examines the persistent ambition in Russian literature to gather the whole world into an artwork. Emery reveals how the diversity of totalizing figures in the Russian canon—often in alliance with ideologies like the totalitarian state or enlightenment reason—strive for the frontiers of space and time in order to guarantee the...
The Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Considerin...
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223,92 |
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Red Odyssey: A Voyage Across the Crumbling Empire
ISBN: 9781663209115 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,57 |
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Camouflage, Insignia and Tactical Markings of the Aircraft of the Red Army Air Force in 1941: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781804512562 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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201,52 |
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The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia: The History and Results of Research in 1940–1980
ISBN: 9781803273907 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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169,09 |
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Interacting Francoism: Entanglement, Comparison and Transfer between Dictatorships in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9781032316024 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chapters always have more than one dimension: they speak of interrelation, entanglement, collaboration, diffusion, in general, put the different dictatorships (essentially: Francoism, diverse Fascisms and Communism) in context and comparison.
The chapters always have more than one dimension: they speak of interrelation, entanglement, collaboration, diffusion, in general, put the different d...
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705,83 |
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The DJ Who "Brought Down" the USSR: The Life and Legacy of Seva Novgorodsev
ISBN: 9781644696477 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a Russian emigre jazz musician makes his DJ debut on the BBC's airwaves in 1977 with Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke," no one expects that he, Seva Novgorodsev, would become more popular than just a presenter of forbidden Western music-he would liberate the people of the USSR.
When a Russian emigre jazz musician makes his DJ debut on the BBC's airwaves in 1977 with Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke," no one expects that he, Seva Nov...
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543,09 |
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The Russia-Ukraine War of 2022: Faces of Modern Conflict
ISBN: 9781032377988 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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657,15 |