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In Post-Communist Worlds: Living and Teaching in Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
ISBN: 9780595485192 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for a general audience, this is a book of sometimes serious, usually lighthearted, often humorous stories about life in Eastern Europe and Central Asia shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Russian Empire. "In Post-Communist Worlds" is the product of four years which professor Scheffer and his wife spent inside the former empire: in Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan; "taking life big," while becoming thoroughly engrossed in the author's appointments as a visiting lecturer teaching both students and their teachers about democracy, liberal economy, and other social science...
Written for a general audience, this is a book of sometimes serious, usually lighthearted, often humorous stories about life in Eastern Europe and Cen...
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101,36 |
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View Of The Russian Empire V3: During The Reign Of Catharine The Second And To The Close Of The Present Century (1799)
ISBN: 9780548844236 / Angielski / Miękka / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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222,89 |
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Back on the Map: Adventures in Newly-Independent Estonia
ISBN: 9781449503147 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year is 1992. The smallest of the former Soviet republics has recently regained its freedom following a half-century of repressive occupation. Estonia is back on the map. So what happens now? This evocative memoir vividly captures the frantic yet optimistic spirit of an extraordinary moment in time, providing a detailed and moving account of daily life in a country undergoing dramatic change just a year after the collapse of the Soviet empire. In these pages you'll become immersed in this tumultuous period and come to know a remarkable succession of real people--Estonians and Russians,...
The year is 1992. The smallest of the former Soviet republics has recently regained its freedom following a half-century of repressive occupation. Est...
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44,91 |
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The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East
ISBN: 9781585442379 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel to postSoviet Siberia and the Russian Far East with author Sharon Hudgins as she takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side of Russia--an area closed to most Westerners and many Russians prior to the 1990s. Even today, few people from the West have ridden the TransSiberian railroad in winter, stood on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, feasted with the Siberian Buryats, or lived in the "highrise villages" of Vladivostok and Irkutsk.
One of the few American women who has lived and worked in this part of the world, Hudgins debunks many of the myths and... Travel to postSoviet Siberia and the Russian Far East with author Sharon Hudgins as she takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side o...
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139,04 |
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Siberia: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780199754175 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumors about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless forest, and humming steppe between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean was a vast, strange, and frightening paradise. It was Siberia.
Siberia is a cradle of civilizations, the birthplace of ancient Turkic empires and home to the cultures of indigenes, including peoples whose ancestors migrated to... Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumors about bountiful fur, of...
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Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghad to the Volga River
ISBN: 9781558763661 / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Batutta. Ibn Fadlan was an Arab missionary sent by the Caliph in Baghdad to the king of the Bulghars. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he meets on his way and gives an account of their customs. His is the earliest account of a meeting with the Vikings, called Rus, who had reached the Volga River...
This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers in w...
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109,15 |
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The Sibirsky Extreme Project: Going Where No Bike Had Been Before: Into the Ultimate Depths of Siberia
ISBN: 9781456781187 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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531,14 |
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Silverland
ISBN: 9780719568299 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan, Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. Here she discovers a strange world of lynx and elks, indigenous tribes and shamanism, reindeer broth and taiga-berry pie. She takes the coal-fuelled slow-train around regions hardly exposed to tourism and there she meets a host of colourful and generous characters. They invite this...
Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid...
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66,14 |
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The Companion Guide to St Petersburg
ISBN: 9781900639408 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Companion Guide to St Petersburg was first published in spring 2003 to coincide with the tercentenary of the founding of the city.Most visitors to St Petersburg have heard at least four facts about it: that it is 'the Venice of the North'; that a vast number of workmen, perhaps a hundred thousand, died in the early years of its construction; that it was built on uninhabited marshes; and that it was founded on territory which did not and never had belonged to Russia. These 'facts' have one feature in common: none of them is true. Few people can say this with more authority that Kyril...
The Companion Guide to St Petersburg was first published in spring 2003 to coincide with the tercentenary of the founding of the city.Most visitors to...
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148,97 |
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Valse Des Fleurs: A Day in St. Petersburg in 1868
ISBN: 9781906011147 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an introduction to the Imperial capital of the Tsars. This book recreates one glittering day in the life of St Petersburg in its heyday.
Presents an introduction to the Imperial capital of the Tsars. This book recreates one glittering day in the life of St Petersburg in its heyday.
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87,45 |
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From Paris to New York by Land
ISBN: 9783955803599 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harry de Windt (1856-1933) war ein franzosische-britischer Entdecker und Schriftsteller. Er unternahm lange Reisen uber den gesamten Globus und schrieb seine Erfahrungen nider. In dem vorliegenden Buch aus dem Jahre 1903 geht es um seine Reise von Europa nach Amerika, auf der er versuchte herauszufinden, inwieweit es moglich ware, eine Eisenbahnlinie zu konstruieren, die Paris und New York miteinander verbindet. Auch aus heutiger Sicht handelt es sich dabei immer noch um eine faszinierende Vorstellung. Dieses Buch liegt hier in englischer Sprache vor.
Harry de Windt (1856-1933) war ein franzosische-britischer Entdecker und Schriftsteller. Er unternahm lange Reisen uber den gesamten Globus und schrie...
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204,66 |
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From Paris to New York by Land
ISBN: 9783956560262 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,31 |
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Russia Survival Guide
ISBN: 9781493125708 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,91 |
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Russia Survival Guide
ISBN: 9781493125715 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,40 |
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Moscow, Moskau, Borch Map: Moscow Centre, Kremlin, Greater Moscow
ISBN: 9783866093980 / Angielski / Mapa, składana / 2 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,28 |
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Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary: From the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka
ISBN: 9781108072267 / Angielski / Miękka / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Dundas Cochrane (1780-1825) was destined for the sea from an early age, but is best remembered as 'the Pedestrian Traveller'. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he set out on a six-year tour of France, Spain and Portugal on foot. When in 1820 the Admiralty turned down his offer to explore the river Niger, he decided instead to walk round the world via Russia, Siberia and North America. On his arrival in St Petersburg, the Russian government gave him money to continue his journey using sledges and canoes where necessary, but he abandoned it in Kamchatka, marrying a local woman and...
John Dundas Cochrane (1780-1825) was destined for the sea from an early age, but is best remembered as 'the Pedestrian Traveller'. At the end of the N...
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348,06 |
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Moscow & St. Petersburg Travel Guide: Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
ISBN: 9781500346218 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,31 |
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DK Moscow
ISBN: 9781409370055 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Moscow will lead you straight to the best attractions Moscow has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You'll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best markets and nightspots to great attractions for children. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide also includes in-depth...
The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Moscow will lead you straight to the best attractions Moscow has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorpla...
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66,14 |
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English-Russian phrasebook and 250-word mini dictionary
ISBN: 9781784924034 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English-Russian phrasebook and 250-word mini dictionary The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic communication. This is an indispensable set of phrases to "survive" while abroad. Some of the topics included in the phrasebook are: Asking for directions, Signs, Transportation, Buying tickets, Hotel, Restaurant, Shopping, Greetings, Acquaintances, Communication, Gratitude, Health problems, Apologies, Farewell,... English-Russian phrasebook and 250-word mini dictionary The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books i... |
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40,97 |
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English-Russian phrasebook and 3000-word topical vocabulary
ISBN: 9781784924232 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English-Russian phrasebook and 3000-word topical vocabulary The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic communication. This is an indispensable set of phrases to "survive" while abroad. Some of the topics included in the phrasebook are: Asking for directions, Signs, Transportation, Buying tickets, Hotel, Restaurant, Shopping, Greetings, Acquaintances, Communication, Gratitude, Health problems, Apologies,... English-Russian phrasebook and 3000-word topical vocabulary The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Book... |
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54,31 |