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General non-fiction
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This highly successful program assists in the development of all the language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) by presenting…
realistic settings, situations, and contexts. It consists of 12 chapters and can be used in an intermediate or advanced Russian course. V Puti offers conversational exercises, various readings (biographies, poems, literature and historical texts) and grammatical explanations and practice. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history which enable the students to understand the Russian language in context.
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General non-fiction, Writing
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This highly successful program assists in the development of all the language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) by presenting…
realistic settings, situations and contexts. It consists of 12 chapters and can be used in an intermediate or advanced Russian course. V Puti offers conversational exercises, various readings (biographies, poems, literature and historical texts) and grammatical explanations and practice. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history which enable the students to understand the Russian language in context. V Puti: Student Activities Manual is an integral part of the V Puti course. The structure matches the main textbook and provides a wealth of exercises and activities, either for class-use or homework.
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Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies assesses the status of medical, research, sterilization, and other commercial applications of radioactive sources…
and alternative (nonradioisotopic) technologies in the United States and internationally. Focusing on Category 1, 2, and 3 sources, this report reviews the current state of these sources by application and reviews the current state of existing technologies on the market or under development that are or could be used to replace radioisotopic technologies in those applications. Radioactive Sources will support existing and future activities under the National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Radiological Security program to reduce the use of high-risk radiological materials in commercial applications.
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In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social…
practices in today’s China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China’s emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes have conjointly structured and sustained people’s ongoing longings and sufferings under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development. While young gay men are increasingly mobilized in their decision-making to pursue sociocultural and socioeconomic capital to afford a queer life, the ubiquitous and compulsory mobilities have significantly reshaped and redefined today’s queer kinship structure, transnational cultural network, and social stratification in China and capitalist Asia. With Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, Wei interrogates the meanings and functions of mobilities at the forefront of China’s internal transformation and international expansion for its great dream of revival, when gender and sexuality have become increasingly mobilized with geographical, cultural, and social class migrations and mobilizations beyond traditional and conventional frameworks, categories, and boundaries.
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Medicine, Psychology
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This study explores the inner world of a rare human phenomenon—a man who was endowed with virtually limitless powers of…
memory. From his intimate knowledge of S., the mnemonist, gained from conversations and testing over a period of almost thirty years, A. R. Luria is able to reveal in rich detail not only the obvious strengths of S.’s astonishing memory but also his surprising weaknesses: his crippling inability to forget, his pattern of reacting passively to life, and his uniquely handicapped personality.
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Historical fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Winner of the 2018 Bolshaya Kniga Award Winner of the 2019 NOS Literature…
PrizeAn exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history.With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities, offering an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.Praise for In Memory of Memory:"A luminous, rigorous, and mesmerizing interrogation of the relationship between personal history, family history, and capital-H History. I couldn't put it down; it felt sort of like watching a hypnotic YouTube unboxing-video of the gift-and-burden that is the twentieth century. In Memory of Memory has that trick of feeling both completely original and already classic, and I confidently expect this translation to bring Maria Stepanova a rabid American fan base on the order of the one she already enjoys in Russia." —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot, finalist for the Pulizter Prize for Fiction"There is simply no book in contemporary Russian literature like In Memory of Memory. A microcosm all its own, it is an inimitable journey through a family history which, as the reader quickly realizes, becomes a much larger quest than yet another captivating family narrative. Why? Because it asks us if history can be examined at all, yes, but does so with incredible lyricism and fearlessness. Because Stepanova teaches us to find beauty where no one else sees it. Because Stepanova teaches us to show tenderness towards the tiny, awkward, missed details of our beautiful private lives. Because she shows us that in the end our hidden strangeness is what makes us human. This, I think, is what makes her a truly major European writer. I am especially grateful to Sasha Dugdale for her precise and flawless translation which makes this book such a joy to read in English. This is a voice to live with." —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic"Dazzling erudition and deep empathy come together in Maria Stepanova's profound engagement with the power and potential of memory, the mother of all muses. An exploration of the vast field between reminiscence and remembrance, In Memory of Memory is a poetic appraisal of the ways the stories of others are the fabric of our history." —Esther Kinsky, author of Grove"A book to plunge into. 'Everyone else's ancestors had taken part in history' writes Stepanova; building itself via accumulation, these chapters become an important testimony to the cultural and political lives of the people held beneath the surface of the tides of history" —Andrew McMillan, author of Playtime
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Adventure storiesTravel and geography
Когда обычный человек, любой из нас, вдруг оказывается на грани жизни и смерти, один, посреди непроходимых джунглей, он сможет выжить?…
Именно такая незамысловатая дилемма стоит перед героем нашей истории. Возвращаясь из отпуска, после заурядного сафари на джипах с фотоаппаратом в Намибии, он вдруг оказывается на грани выживания, после того, как их самолет был сбит какими-то повстанцами и упал в девственных джунглях Итури, в Республике Конго. Словом, наш герой нежданно-негаданно оказывается там, где дикая природа - отнюдь не единственный смертельный враг, и где просто выжить - далеко не единственная сверхзадача. Повествование, выдержанное в духе классической приключенческой литературы, переносит читателя из мира реального в мир, где всё пропитано тревогой и отчаянием главного героя от навалившихся на него несчастий. В этой книге естественным образом переплетаются между собой человеческие эмоции и нечеловеческое напряжение в борьбе за жизнь. По мере развития сюжета психологическая деградация героя гармонично вписывается в подробное описание окружающей его прир�
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Law and crime
Most Evil II is Steve Hodel's follow-up investigation (2009-2015) into his father's potential murders and introduces new evidence and additional…
linkage obtained by him over the past six years. Included in that evidence, is the solving of the Zodiac's forty-five year cryptic cipher, which gives us the answer to the question asked in Most Evil, "Were Black Dahlia Avenger and Zodiac the same serial killer?" The solution of that cipher provides us with the name of San Francisco's most infamous serial killer. However, it is not presented as just another "theory" from some armchair detective, or even from the author himself, a highly respected, veteran LAPD homicide detective. Rather, the solution comes from the killer's own mouth, written in his own hand--it is Zodiac's personally signed confession!
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Anthologies
This new volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a…
wide range of contemporary literature from the world's most spoken language, without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. The stories - many of which appear here in English for the first time - are by well-known writers as well as emerging voices. From a story by Li Rui about the honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to one by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society, they are infused with both rural dialect and urban slang and feature a wide range of styles and points of view. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.
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European history, Politics and government
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The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and…
the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” But as award-winning historian Mary Sarotte shows in [Title TK] , the opening of the Wall on November 9, 1989 was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government’s deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-level bureaucrats, a bumbling press conference given by an inept member of the East German Politburo, the negligence of government leaders, the bravery of ordinary people in East and West Berlin--these combined to bring about the end of nearly forty years of oppression, fear, and enmity in divided Berlin. When the news broke, Washington and Moscow could only stand by and watch as Tom Brokaw and other journalists narrated the televised broadcast of this critical moment in the thawing of the cold war. Sarotte opens her story in the months leading up to that fateful day. Following East German dissidents, she shows how their efforts coalesced around opposition to the regime’s restrictions on foreign travel. The city of Leipzig, close to the border with Czechoslovakia, became a hothouse of activism, and protests there quickly grew into massive demonstrations. The East German Politburo hoped to limit its citizens’ knowledge of these marches, but two daring dissidents, East Berliners Aram Radomski and Siegbert Schefke, managed to evade the Stasi and film the largest of them from a church tower. They then smuggled their tape to West Germany; broadcast in both nations, the footage galvanized activists across East Germany, and precipitated the stunning developments on November 9. Facing mounting pressure from its own citizens, the East German Politburo planned to put off enacting any meaningful change to its travel policy by issuing a deceptive ruling that would appear to offer more freedom, but which in fact would allow the state to maintain strict control over its citizen’s movements. But the bureaucrats tasked with preparing the "new” regulations misunderstood their task, and instead drafted a declaration that said East Germans could freely leave the country. This declaration ended up in the hands of regime spokesman Günter Schabowski, who announced the rules at a press conference without understanding their import. Stunned reporters were soon broadcasting the news around the world. Crowds of East Germans began streaming to the Wall, prompting a showdown with border guards, who received no support or direction from East German leadership as the throngs multiplied. By 11:30, Harald Jäger, a second-tier passport control officer, had had enough and finally opened the wall to the mob gathering outside his gate. Even though East German forces successfully regained control by the morning, it was too late--for the wall, for the regime, and for Communism in Eastern Europe. Drawing on evidence from archives in multiple countries and languages, along with dozens of interviews with key actors, including Harald Jäger, [Title TK] is the definitive account of the event that brought down the East German Politburo and came to represent the final collapse of the Cold War order.
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General fiction, Romance
Саре чуть больше двадцати лет, когда у неё обнаружен рак. Болезнь, перевернув всю её жизнь, все же даёт возможность вступить…
в игру, продолжать строить планы, бороться и любить. Желание Сары прожить свою жизнь настолько велико, что даже отношения с врачом, Роберто, вырываются из больничных стен в «настоящую» жизнь, где любовь и страх переплетаются в вихре эмоций. А прошедшее время выражается госпитализациями, бесконечными анализами, слезами, улыбками, осознанием того, что болезнь не хочет уходить, физическим и душевным перерождение девушки, который пришлось слишком быстро стать женщиной.
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Adventure stories, Mysteries and crime stories
Книга из серии повестей о комиссаре Джермано. От сердечного приступа умирает бывший владелец похоронного бюро, в последние годы занимавшийся исключительно…
своим виноградником. Смерть кажется совершенно естественной, но проницательный комиссар Джермано сразу понимает, что здесь что-то не так. И начинает расследование...
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Adventure stories, Mysteries and crime stories
Комиссар Винсент Джермано принадлежит к полицейским старой школы. Родившись в Сан Франциско, он уже двадцать лет живёт в Италии и…
не собирается ничего менять в своей жизни. В провинции Кастелли Романи, к югу от Рима, происходят преступления, подвергающие проницательность комиссара и его помощников нешуточным испытаниям. Речь идёт о «дополнительном времени» для футбольного арбитра и об исчезнувшей девушке...
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Adventure stories, Mysteries and crime stories
在罗马的附近发生了一些无法解释的凶杀。金警官是检查的负责人， 他应该解决这个谜。天宫图是一系列的第五本书。 这些书的主角就是警察的警官， 金樊尚。 http://claudioruggeri.blogspot.it http://www.facebook.com/Ruggeri.Commissioner.Page http://www.twitter.com/RuggeriC83
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Adventure stories, Mysteries and crime stories
Серия необъяснимых убийств происходит в провинции Рима, расследованием будет назначен заниматься Винсент Джермано, комиссар должен будет разгадать загадку.
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Food and drink, Fitness
Рецепты приготовления различных блюд итальянской кухни.Подборка рецептов простых и не очень, «украденных» из меню великого повара -- моей мамы.
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Adventure stories, Mysteries and crime stories
Человек найден мертвым в собственной художественной галерее. Винсент Джермано призван распутать клубок из многих возможных версий. Комиссар должен провести расследование тронутое грустью.
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Biography, Politics and government
Встреча двух друзей в один из летних дней, в которой более молодой будет слушать анекдоты и рассказы другого о мире,…
который исчез всего лишь вчера, но больше уже никогда не сможет существовать, во времена которого часто можно было услышать фразу «Я без единой лиры...»
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Adventure stories, Mysteries and crime stories
Тело молодой женщины найдено в лесу, с первых улик как мотив и имя убийцы представляется очевидным для всех, кроме как для Винсента Джермано, комиссар решит провести расследование.
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Folklore, fables and fairy talesHistory
Автор известного бестселлера "Великие Генералы Истории" представляет свою новую работу о бесследно исчезнувших великих культурах древности, и о том как…
они преследуют нас и сегодня. От погибшей Атлантиды Платона, высокотехнологической утопии, поглощённой океаном всего за один скорбный день и американской колонии Роанок, чьих жителей поглотили дикие леса неосвоенного континента, до древних исследователей Америки, прибывших на континент за две тысячи лет до Колумба - исчезновение этих обществ загадочны и неправдоподобны. В книге описаны десять цивилизаций, когда то существовавших, а сейчас полностью исчезнувших. Некоторые из них на века опередили соседей в развитии, другие оставили для нас неразрешимые тайны. Книга предлагает версии различных гипотез о том, как культуры, длившиеся веками, могут бесследно изчезнуть, а также и полезные уроки, которые мы, современные жители планеты земля, можем из этих исчезновений для себя извлечь.