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In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literature and the emergence of its Russian progeny through the prism of the writers' engagement with fantasy. Viewing the mutual interaction...

This book focuses on means for strengthening deterrence and defense by exploiting advances in military technology in Europe. It reviews the Soviet strategy and operational concepts, their vulnerabilities, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

First published in 1988. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is well-known for broadcasting news and information to millions of listeners in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In order to be an effective surrogate home service, RFE/RL has built up over the...

This book presents fifty analytical reports of Soviet/East European survey by the research staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, focusing on the main events and trends in the Soviet bloc during Mikhail Gorbachev's third year in office from...

No book on the Soviet ground forces has been published in any language, including Russian, for many years. This study is the first comprehensive treatment of this central element in the modern Soviet military structure. The dramatically improved Soviet...

A crucial link in post-Soviet economic reconstruction will be telecommunications, which all modern economies must have in order to thrive. How ready are the telecommunications systems in the countries of the former USSR to meet the challenge? This book...

This book considers meta-theories of state-socialist society and examines the institutional framework and conflict between various groupings in the political system. It discusses some counterpoints to the Soviet model which have developed in China,...

Because of altered investment priorities, policymakers in socialist countries can no longer increase the resources devoted to agriculture as they have in the past. Instead, they must seek alternative means of improving agricultural performance. One...

Suggesting that events in Poland during 1980–1981 represent the tip of an iceberg, the contributors examine the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and its potential consequences for European security. They analyze developing problems and trends in the...

In several respects, Romania is unique among communist states. It has been the only Warsaw Pact member to deviate consistently from Soviet foreign policy norms, and it remains the sole Eastern European country to avoid oil imports from the USSR. At the...

This volume reports a research that represents some of the collaborative efforts aimed at investigating political attitudes and behaviors in the broader Soviet society, examining the public opinion constraints on efforts to transform the new...

This book focuses on the graduate education of a small group of economists—those at elite schools. It is intended for three audiences: aspiring economists, economists, and the lay public. The book reports conversations with MIT, Harvard, Chicago, and...

This book provides an account of the Jews of Iraq, their history, culture and society. It covers the Iraqi Jewish history in three parts: from the Assyrian Captivity to the Arab Conquest (731 bc–ad 641); the encounter with Islam (641–1850); and the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820367675Author Mary StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593652985Author Heather Cox RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 277g

In 1914, the Dominion of Newfoundland found itself at war in defense of the British Empire. On the home front, the war effort reshaped the relationship between citizens and the state, moving from a classical liberalism that emphasized individual rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385698740Author Stephen BownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 516g

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. This new history of the Alamut era of the Nizari Ismaili community concentrates on the local politics of the remote mountainous Caspian region. This is where the prominent religious and...

This volume includes sources relating to a range of social and cultural contexts, including the proliferation of natural history crazes (ferns, aquaria, orchids, etc); debates about the social and environmental impacts of changing land use in town and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063308510Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063293144Author David PetraeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820367026Author Shelene GomesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820366364Author Shelene GomesFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820366951Author Joe StreetFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062858214Author Aran Robert ShetterlyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower shares a special look inside America’s Capitol and highlights what the people who work there mean to the future of democracy. Perfect for readers of Brower’s first middle grade book, Exploring...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778715269Author Tracey TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaPublisher Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778715177Author Tracey TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaPublisher Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778715115Author Tracey TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaPublisher Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778715238Author Tracey TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaPublisher Crabtree Publishing Co,CanadaWeight(grams) 113g

This book recalls masking efforts in response to the Spanish flu epidemic. Masking the population as an ineffective response to disease by public health officials and political bureaucrats at various levels of jurisdiction reached its zenith in 2020...

To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people - nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the "Pearl of the Antilles," France's most valuable...

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning...

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives. Bridging the gap between the two areas, this book:· Establishes a framework to pursue...

This monograph presents a study of the most significant book in the history of anatomy, Fleming Andreas Vesalius' (1514-1564) De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius' Fabrica was immediately recognised as changing the view of the human body when it was...

In 1864 Abraham Lincoln appointed Elihu Burritt as United States consul in Birmingham. Burritt captured the very nature of the Black Country's unique industrial landscape with his now famous phrase 'black by day and red by night', referring to the...

A dramatic history of the Steel Lobsters, Sir Arthur Hesilrige's Regiment of Horse, in the English Civil War - the last fully armoured knights in England. The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding...

Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender, nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of Tobacco on the Periphery (a...

A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funeral portraits created by the inhabitants of Roman Egypt in the 1st century CE. These remarkable paintings take their name from a district of Roman...