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The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304

By: John Fennell

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The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304

By: John Fennell

John Fennell's history of thirteenth-century Russia is the only detailed study in English of the period, and is based on close investigation of the primary sources. His account concentrates on the turbulent politics of northern Russia, which was ultimately to become the tsardom of Muscovy, but he also gives detailed attention to the vast southern empire of Kiev before its eclipse under the Tatars. The resulting study is a major addition to medieval historiography: an essential acquisition for students of Russia itself, and a book which decisively fills a vast blank on the map of the European Middle Ages for medievalists generally.

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258

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Routledge

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1317873130

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9781317873136

The Soviet World of American Communism

By: Harvey Klehr,John Earl Haynes,Kyrill M. Anderson

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The Soviet World of American Communism

By: Harvey Klehr,John Earl Haynes,Kyrill M. Anderson

The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation. Now the American authors of that book, along with Soviet archivist Kyrill M. Anderson, offer a second volume of profound social, political, and historical importance. Based on documents newly available from Russian archives, The Soviet World of American Communism conclusively demonstrates the continuous and intimate ties between the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) and Moscow. In a meticulous investigation of the personal, organizational, and financial links between the CPUSA and Soviet Communists, the authors find that Moscow maintained extensive control of the CPUSA, even of the American rank and file. The widely accepted view that the CPUSA was essentially an idealistic organization devoted to the pursuit of social justice must be radically revised, say the authors. Although individuals within the organization may not have been aware of Moscow’s influence, the leaders of the organization most definitely were. The authors explain and annotate ninety-five documents, reproduced here in their entirety or in large part, and they quote from hundreds of others to reveal the actual workings of the American Communist party. They show that: • the USSR covertly provided a large part of the CPUSA budget from the early 1920s to the end of the 1980s; • Moscow issued orders, which the CPUSA obeyed, on issues ranging from what political decisions the American party should make to who should serve in the party leadership; • the CPUSA endorsed Stalin’s purges and the persecution of Americans living in Russia.

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Yale University Press

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0300138008

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9780300138009

Training for Performance

A meta-disciplinary account

By: John Matthews

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Training for Performance

A meta-disciplinary account

By: John Matthews

Training for Performance is the first work of its kind; not in the sense that it addresses training for performance, but in that it invites a critical questioning of the imperatives and the rhetoric which govern academic and practical concerns for training alike.' Dr Martin Welton - Queen Mary University of London Training for Performance: a Meta-disciplinary Account is an innovative contribution to the field of work on contemporary actor and performer training. John Matthews introduces the concept of 'askeology' - a field of study that dissolves divisions between disciplines and their exercises - and identifies four meta-disciplinary categories in the process of training that are common to all institutional contexts: Vocation; Obedience; Formation and Automatisation. Through the exploration of contrasting accounts of training and the differing cultural politics within which they operate, Matthews provides a highly original and comprehensive approach to defining one of the most frequently used terms in theatre and performance studies. Training for Performance encourages performers to think afresh about how they understand and engage in their training and is an invaluable resource for any actor, student or professional interested in the process of performance.

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A&C Black

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1408139243

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9781408139240

Essential Interventional Cardiology E-Book

By: Michael S. Norell,John Perrins,Berhard Meier,A. Michael Lincoff

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Essential Interventional Cardiology E-Book

By: Michael S. Norell,John Perrins,Berhard Meier,A. Michael Lincoff

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book has been prepared by professionals working in the UK. It covers the basic principles and practice of interventional cardiology, vascular and non-vascular, written specifically for the general cardiologist. Designed to facilitate easy access to key information, it contains numerous line illustrations, diagrams, graphs, and charts. The entire spectrum of interventional cardiology is covered in an easy-to-read format. In this new edition are fifteen new chapters written by experts from around the world. The excellent appendix of trials in interventional cardiology has been fully updated making this the best available source on how to apply trials to clinical practice. Includes editors and contributors from the US and Europe for a truly international perspective. Begins each chapter with 6-10 key points written in bullet format that summarize important concepts in the chapter, making reference a snap. Includes extensive coverage of new technologies for interventional cardiology, including lasers, cutting balloons, and distal protection to keep you completely current. Covers high problem areas for intervention, including new material on chronic total occlusions, bifurcation lesions and PCI in small vessels. Adds a new section on peripheral vascular intervention including the new development areas for interventional cardiologists like carotid, renal and lower extremity. Contains new information on hot topics such as ASD, PFO closure, and aortic valve intervention.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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070203732X

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9780702037320

It's Abstraction, Concretely

By: John McGreal

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It's Abstraction, Concretely

By: John McGreal

John McGreal's three new books – It’s Abstraction, Concretely, It’s Figuration, Groundly and It’s Representation, Really – continue the ‘It’ Series published by Matador since 2010. They constitute another stage in an artistic journey exploring the visual and audial dialectic of mark, word and image that began over 25 years ago. Emerging out of the first books on the Bibliograph published in 2016, initiated with It’s Nothing, Seriously, these new texts retain some of the same structural features. The Bibliographs contain the same focus on repetition and variation in meaning of their dominant motifs of representation, abstraction and figuration which have framed philosophical discourse on epistemology and ontology in aesthetics; their chance placement in each Bibliograph interspersed with one another displaying and enhancing similarities and differences. At the same time these works constitute a development in the aesthetic form of the Bibliograph. In earlier works on Nothing, Absence and Silence, it was just a question of finding and transferring given textual references from their source to construct their Bibliographs, with the focus being on the strategic position of the latter within each book. In these new works, the concern has been with working on the line and shape of the references themselves, with their enhanced spacial form as well as that of each Bibliograph as a whole. In shaping and spacing the referential images, the place of words and letters became as important as their semantic & syntactical role. Expansion and contraction of whole words was used to enhance this process. Under such detailed attention their breakdown into particles of language, into part-words and single letters was a result. The recombination of elements produced new words in a process of restrangement with new sequences of letters having visual rather than semantic value. The play on prefixes of dominant motifs yielded new words as did tmesis. This concern with the form of referential images does not preclude an equal commitment to their content. The aleatory character of textual entries in each Bibliograph encourage the reader to let his or her mind go; to read in a new way on diverse contemporary issues across conventional boundaries in the arts and sciences at several levels of physical, psychical and social reproduction.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1788036425

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9781788036429

Operative Techniques in Spine Surgery

By: John Rhee,Scott Boden

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Operative Techniques in Spine Surgery

By: John Rhee,Scott Boden

Derived from Sam W. Wiesel and Todd J. Albert’s four-volume Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery, this single-volume resource contains a comprehensive, authoritative review of operative techniques in spine surgery. In one convenient place, you’ll find the entire Spine section, as well as relevant chapters from the Oncology and Pediatrics sections of Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery. Superb full-color illustrations and step-by-step explanations help you master surgical techniques, select the best procedure, avoid complications, and anticipate outcomes. Written by global experts from leading institutions, Operative Techniques in Spine Surgery, Third Edition, clearly demonstrates how to perform the techniques, making this an essential daily resource for residents, fellows, and practitioners.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197517383X

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9781975173838

Bulgaria In Transition

Politics, Economics, Society, And Culture After Communism

By: John D. Bell

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Bulgaria In Transition

Politics, Economics, Society, And Culture After Communism

By: John D. Bell

Since the forced resignation of Todor Zhivkov in November of 1989, Bulgaria's transition to democracy has been marked by good beginnings ending in frustration or disappointment. It has avoided the violent ethnic confrontations that have characterized much of the "post-Communist" Balkans, but has also seen the development of an influential criminal

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Routledge

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0429723830

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9780429723834

A Memoir of John Maclean, M.D., the First Professor of Chemistry in the College of New Jersey

By: John Maclean

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A Memoir of John Maclean, M.D., the First Professor of Chemistry in the College of New Jersey

By: John Maclean

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3368723294

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Book's by John M. Mikhail

The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304

The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304

The Soviet World of American Communism

The Soviet World of American Communism

Training for Performance

Training for Performance

Essential Interventional Cardiology E-Book

Essential Interventional Cardiology E-Book

It's Abstraction, Concretely

It's Abstraction, Concretely

Operative Techniques in Spine Surgery

Operative Techniques in Spine Surgery

Bulgaria In Transition

Bulgaria In Transition

A Memoir of John Maclean, M.D., the First Professor of Chemistry in the College of New Jersey

A Memoir of John Maclean, M.D., the First Professor of Chemistry in the College of New Jersey

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