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Children of the Katyn Massacre: Accounts from Polish Families Torn by the 1940 Mass Murder in Soviet Camps by Gino Felice 9780786427567
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27World War II was--and remains--one of the bloodiest wars in history. Not only did millions of soldiers die in combat but millions of civilians lost their lives--some for no greater crime than... -
KGB: Death and Rebirth by Martin Ebon 9780275946333
Booksplease Price: $97.79It was official. In 1991, two months after an abortive coup in August, the KGB was pronounced dead. But was it really? In KGB: Death and Rebirth, Martin Ebon, a writer long engaged in the study of... -
The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic by Edward Peterson 9780275973285
Booksplease Price: $99.08The opening of the secret files of the East German Ministry of State Security after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 enabled this study. Most interesting are the reports from the thousands of... -
Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union Ellen Mickiewicz (Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science, Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science, Emory University) 9780195063196
RRP: $22.56Booksplease Price: $20.58Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near... -
In The Footsteps Of Adam by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic... -
Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs Of Yegor Ligachev Yegor Ligachev 9780813328874
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $78.61This memoir by the second most powerful Communist Party leader during the early Gorbachev years provides an important alternative view of the USSR's transformation?a view that is gaining ground in... -
Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace: Dialogue, Transformation and Global Citizenship by Olivier Urbain 9781848853041
Booksplease Price: $38.12Who is Daisaku Ikeda? At one level, he is the leader of a religious movement - Soka Gakkai - which began in Japan, where it still has its headquarters, but which now claims 12 million adherents... -
From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR by Louis Sell 9780822361794
RRP: $165.12Booksplease Price: $132.48When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United... -
The Russian Intelligentsia: From the Monastery to the Mir Space Station Christopher Read 9781350441811
Booksplease Price: $39.40The Russian Intelligentsia is the first single-volume history of a small but tremendously influential group of Russian intellectuals who achieved world renown in a variety of spheres. While previous... -
From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR by Louis Sell 9780822361954
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United... -
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall Andrew Roberts 9781851243228
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of... -
A Foreign Policy in Transition: Moscow's Retreat from Central America and the Carribbean, 1985-1992 by Jan S. Adams 9780822312932
Booksplease Price: $40.43During his years of leadership in the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev initiated revolutionary changes in that country's foreign and domestic policies. A Foreign Policy in Transition charts the... -
The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe by Keith Martin 9780520364981
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe explores the pivotal events of 1989 that reshaped the global political landscape, focusing on the role of the Soviet Union in the... -
The Polish Complex by Tadeusz Konwicki
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.14The Polish Complex takes place on Christmas Eve, from early morning until late in the evening, as a line of people (including the narrator, whose name is Konwicki) stand and wait in front of a... -
The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era by Ronald W. Schatz
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $104.26Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War. The crew... -
iWork '09: The Missing Manual Josh Clark 9780596157586
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $31.85With iWork '09, Apple's productivity applications have come of age. Unfortunately, their user guides are stuck in infancy. That's where iWork '09: The Missing Manual comes in. This book quickly... -
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union by Scott Shane 9781566630993
Booksplease Price: $17.11By the 1980s the Soviet Union had matched the United States in military might and far surpassed it in the production of steel, timber, concrete, and oil. But the electronic whirlwind that was... -
Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps Josh Clark 9781449381653
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $30.15So you've got an idea for an iPhone app - along with everyone else on the planet. Set your app apart with elegant design, efficient usability, and a healthy dollop of personality. "Best iPhone App... -
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.60A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a... -
Nationalism and the Breakup of an Empire: Russia and Its Periphery by Miron Rezun 9780275943202
Booksplease Price: $98.70The Soviet polity is presently going through its most difficult transition ever. The Russian Center's point of view is that the crisis is an issue of imperialism: the decline and fall of the old... -
Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace by Olivier Urbain 9781780765723
Booksplease Price: $40.39The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution. However, far... -
Soviet Policy Toward Israel Under Gorbachev by Robert O. Freedman 9780275939946
Booksplease Price: $29.58Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 signalled the beginning of significant improvements in Soviet-Israeli relations--thoroughly examined in this carefully researched volume. Based on an... -
The August Coup: The Destruction of the Soviet Union and the Making of New Russia 1985-1991 by Robert Service 9781529065787
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.15'Lively and insightful' - The Times'A must-read for those fascinated by the decline and fall of the USSR and the emergence of a new Russia' - Mark Galeotti, author of Forged in War'Immensely... -
Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Una Bergmane
RRP: $44.49Booksplease Price: $43.99In March 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence. Within weeks, the two other Baltic states, Estonia and Latvia, announced the beginning of a transition period... -
Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO by Susan Colbourn 9781501766022
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $30.46In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear... -
Berlin and the Cold War Seth Givens 9780821425343
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33The Cold War is back in the news. So is history, in the sense of past geopolitical confrontations that for a span of a few decades were thought to be largely decoupled from present-day political... -
Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles by Deepak Chopra
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Dr Deepak Chopra, the bestselling pioneer in mind/body medicine, shows how coincidences are messages about the miraculous potential of each moment. He reveals how, through understanding the forces... -
Soviet Politics 1917-1991 by Mary McAuley 9780198780670
Booksplease Price: $70.23In October 1917 revolution swept away the Tsarist system under which Russia had assimilated its neighbouring states. Led by Lenin, the Communist Party transformed this empire into the Soviet Union,... -
Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia by Ellen Mickiewicz 9780195101638
Booksplease Price: $50.97At 7:20 pm on October 3, 1993, a nervous and shaky anchor broke into coverage of a soccer match to tell Russian viewers that their state television was shutting down. In the opening salvos of the... -
Why Is God Laughing?: The path to joy and spiritual optimism by Deepak Chopra
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.62Why Is God Laughing? tells the story of successful comedian Mickey Fellows and his friend Francisco as they explore how to overcome fear, egotism and addiction (which are the three major obstacles to... -
Education for Decline: Soviet Vocational and Technical Schooling from Kruschev to Gorbachev by Dennis Soltys 9780802080349
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54Perestroika - economic and political reform - is what the world associated with Mikhail Gorbachev when he led the USSR. There were, however, some political scientists in the West who saw Gorbachevism... -
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Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography by Neil Hegarty 9780753556702 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $3.42Sir David Frost, who died suddenly in August 2013, was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States... -
The Third Jesus: How to Find Truth and Love in Today's World by Deepak Chopra 9781846041129
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98In this dazzling book, one of the most influential spiritual thinkers of our time provides an answer that is as challenging as it is uplifting. Deepak Chopra searches for the Christ who stands at the... -
The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin by Dale R. Herspring 9780700636785
Booksplease Price: $36.56Choice Outstanding TitleThroughout its existence, the Red Army was viewed as a formidable threat. By the end of the Cold War, however, it had become the weakest link in the Soviet Union’s power... -
Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post–Soviet Esotericism by Edmund Griffiths 9783838209630
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $31.86"Aleksandr Prokhanov (born 1938) is a prizewinning novelist and also, as editor of the weekly newspaper Zavtra, a leading figure in Russian imperial patriotism. Ever since 1991, when he signed (and... -
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old by Deepak Chopra
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Scientific studies show that the mind/body connection has an extraordinary power to heal. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind goes beyond ancient mind/body wisdom and current anti-aging research to show you... -
Conversations with Power: What Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About Leadership by Brian Michael Till 9780230110588
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.74Fresh out of college, and frustrated with own generation's political apathy, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. To his surprise, they were eager to talk, and he... -
Profiles in Humanity: The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights by Warren I. Cohen 9780742567016
Booksplease Price: $72.41This compelling book tells the inspirational stories of men and women who fought for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights throughout the twentieth century. These courageous individuals include... -
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The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra 9781846042386 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $5.64Seven steps to lasting happiness.In The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, bestselling author and the world's leading figure in alternative medicine Dr Deepak Chopra show us how to be happy in spite of... -
Does Putin Have to Die?: The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine by Ilya Ponomarev
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine. Opposing Putin is a risky proposition; for instance, a fellow Russian Parliament member turned dissident, Denis Voronenkov, was on...