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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Putinism - Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology
A key question for the contemporary world: What is Putin's ideology? This book analyses this ideology, which it terms "Putinism". It examines a range of factors that feed into the ideology - conservative thought in Russia from the ninete...
Problemy poetiki Dostoevskogo
Bakhtin v svoem issledovanii nagljadno pokazal, kak Dostoevskij, otojdja ot staroj khudozhestvennoj formy, rasshiril vozmozhnosti romannogo slova. Fedor Mikhajlovich ispolzoval v svoikh proizvedenijakh sovershenno novoe literaturnoe myshlenie, pri kotorom slova geroev stali zvuchat budto iz raznykh, nezavisimykh drug ot druga istochnikov, sozdavaja opredelennuju polifoniju teksta.Issledovanie proizvelo nastojaschuju revoljutsiju v kulturologicheskom mire i ne utratilo aktualnosti i v nashe vremja - ono daet chitateljam vozmozhnost luchshe ponjat tvorchestvo i istinnyj smysl proizvedenij velikogo russkogo pisatelja.
Teach Yourself to Sleep
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR QUALITY SLEEP 'In her brilliant new book Mikhail delivers accessible science to help you take back control of your bedtime and your sleep' Psychologies Are you suffering from chronic insomnia, an erratic sleep pattern or do...
Gun that Changed the World
The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it's 'Kalashnikov'. The reason for this is simple: there are 80 million Kalashnikovs in circulation on five continents. Once invented, the AK-4...
Smeshnye rasskazy dlja detej (il. E. Kuznetsovoj)
V avtorskij sbornik Mikhaila Zoschenko voshjol ego populjarnyj tsikl rasskazov 'Ljolja i Minka', 'Rasskazy o Minkinom detstve', a takzhe smeshnye istorii o detjakh i zhivotnykh.Proizvedenija Mikhaila Zoschenko vkhodjat v objazatelnuju shkolnuju programmu.
Sentimental Tales
Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, who is anything but a model Soviet author: no...
Sentimental Tales
Sentimental Tales
Zoschenko M. M. Polnoe sobranie rasskazov v odnom tome
V odnom tome sobrany vse rasskazy znamenitogo pisatelja-satirika, klassika russkoj literatury Mikhaila Zoschenko (1894-1958).
Russian Civil War (1)
The main instrument with which the Bolsheviks imposed communism on Russia was the Red Army. Traditionally the origins of this army were among the factory workers who laid down their tools and took up arms as a way of expressing their grievances. A...
God's Shadow
A Times Literary Supplement and History Today Book of the Year 'An astonishing and thrilling story.' Stephen Greenblatt The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervour, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the ...
My Russia- War Or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people's rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from 'slave mentality', and those who embrace 'European' values and try to stand up to oppression.Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country. Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history - and how can we help?
God's Shadow - Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans, with extraordinary military domina...
My Russia- War Or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people's rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from 'slave mentality', and those who embrace 'European' values and try to stand up to oppression.Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country. Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history - and how can we help?
Diaboliad
The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grote...