The Phoenix of Philosophy
The Phoenix of Philosophy
The Phoenix of Philosophy
The Phoenix of Philosophy
Ideas Against Ideocracy
Ideas Against Ideocracy
Youth Culture
This innovative collection of newly commissioned essays from leading experts in sociology and cultural studies looks at youth culture through subcultural identity. Youth Culture is the first text to bridge sociology and cultural studies in order t...
Transformative Humanities
Distinguished scholar Mikhail Epstein offers a re-assessment of the role of the humanities and advocates their constructive potential for the society and intellectual culture of the future. In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bac...
Random Processes By Example
This volume first introduces the mathematical tools necessary for understanding and working with a broad class of applied stochastic models. The toolbox includes Gaussian processes, independently scattered measures such as Gaussian white noise and...
Water on Sand
From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War. As the first holistic environmental history of the region over the last half millenn...
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and t...
Elements of Moral Cognition
Is the science of moral cognition usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate 'moral grammar' that causes them to analyse human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as th...
From Utterances to Speech Acts
Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential comp...
Elements of Moral Cognition
Is the science of moral cognition usefully modelled on aspects of Universal Grammar? Are human beings born with an innate 'moral grammar' that causes them to analyse human action in terms of its moral structure, with just as little awareness as th...
The Master And Margarita
He is accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order are in disarray. Only the Master, a writer and a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil’s onslaught.
Bistatic Radar
Bistatic radars have been a focus of study since the earliest days of radar research. Despite this, until recently only a few bistatic systems have crossed the experimental study threshold, and, consequently there is little knowledge about them co...
Half a Century of Chess
In this collection of his best games, former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik demonstrates the deep strategic style that took him to the title . Written by one of the greatest players of all time . Contains 90 annotated games from Botvinnik's care...
Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory
Quantum field theory is the basis of our modern description of physical phenomena at the fundamental level. This systematic and comprehensive text emphasizes nonperturbative phenomena and supersymmetry. It includes a thorough discussion of various...
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the cente...
Business in Post-Communist Russia
It is a widely held idea that Russia has completed its revolution which brought down the Soviet economy, and that many companies after privatisation work as typical western companies. Another belief is that Russia has adopted a market economy but ...
Bookkeeping For Dummies
The fast and easy way to master the art of bookkeeping If you're a business owner or an employee who manages finances, the latest edition of Bookkeeping For Dummies is for you. This handy guide gives you clear and concise information on how to kee...
The Geometrical Language of Continuum Mechanics
Epstein presents the fundamental concepts of modern differential geometry within the framework of continuum mechanics. Divided into three parts of roughly equal length, the book opens with a motivational chapter to impress upon the reader that dif...
Knitting Block by Block
Blocks are quick to knit, portable pieces perfect for group and charity projects. In this volume, the author reimagines the humble block with 150 patterns and masterfully demonstrates how to mix, match, and easily combine them into one-of-a-kind g...
Model Nazi
Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an ef...
Cognitive-Experiential Theory
In this volume, Epstein presents a new theory of personality, referred to as cognitive-experiential theory, that is integrative of all other major personality theories. This integration is accomplished by expanding upon current basic assumptions, ...
Reading Financial Reports For Dummies
Your personal roadmap to becoming fluent in financial reports At first glance, the data in financial reports might seem confusing or overwhelming. But, with the right guide at your side, you can learn to translate even the thickest and most comple...
Big Book of Creativity Games: Quick, Fun Acitivities for Jumpstarting Innovation
Behind these creativity-boosting games is more than 20 years of scientific research by one of the world's leading experts on creativity! Did you know that: Group creativity techniques like brainstorming can actually inhibit creativity? Failure spu...
Bookkeeping For Dummies
Concise, easy-to-understand information on every aspect of bookkeeping Bookkeeping For Dummies is a clear guide to tracking transactions, figuring out balance sheets, keeping ledgers or journals, creating financial statements, and operating accoun...
Thoughts without a Thinker
This text discusses how Eastern spirituality can enhance Western psychology. As patients and therapists find themselves reaching for new solutions to their problems, the traditional disctinctions between matters of the mind and matters of the spir...
Rabelais and His World, Revised Edition
Rabelais and His World, Revised Edition
Podnjataja tselina
Mikhaila Aleksandrovicha Sholokhova mnogie pokolenija chitatelej znajut kak avtora vsenarodno ljubimogo romana 'Tikhij Don', sbornika 'Donskikh rasskazov' i takikh proizvedenij, kak 'Oni srazhalis za Rodinu', 'Sudba cheloveka', 'Podnjataja tselina'. V 1965 godu pisatelju byla prisuzhdena Nobelevskaja premija po literature 'za khudozhestvennuju silu i tselnost eposa o donskom kazachestve v perelomnoe dlja Rossii vremja'. V romane 'Podnjataja tselina' rasskazana istorija ustanovlenija sovetskoj vlasti v surovykh donskikh krajakh. Jarkimi, dramatichnymi kraskami Sholokhov izobrazil v nem perelomnyj moment istorii nashej strany, kogda obraschalis v prakh mnogovekovye ustoi i traditsii, ustupaja mesto novym porjadkam. Uvlekatelnyj sjuzhet, neodnoznachnye kharaktery, istoricheskaja dostovernost (Sholokhov sam byl svidetelem mnogikh sobytij, opisannykh v knige) pozvoljajut romanu 'Podnjataja tselina' ostavatsja v chisle samykh izvestnykh proizvedenij sovetskoj literatury.
Scenes from the Bathhouse
Uproariously funny stories that give a behind-the-scenes look at daily life in the Soviet Union of Zoshchenko's time
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.&qu...
God's Shadow - Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
The history of the Ottoman Empire-once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power-has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this "original and wi...
All the Kremlin's Men
All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics ...
How to Slay a Dragon
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today's Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia's prisons on politically motivated charges, he knows all too well the best and the worst of his country. He now lives in exile and, like ...
Light and the Dark
Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict...
Russias Ideology of Authenticity Varieties of Conservatism in Russian History from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russias policies. Specifically, he analyzes such con...