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Voices of the Left Behind

Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

By: Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Melynda Jarratt

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Voices of the Left Behind

Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

By: Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Melynda Jarratt

Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, and the Department of National Defence, Veterans Affairs, and other Canadian institutions. Letters from the war children to the Military Personnel Records Unit of the National Archives of Canada illustrate the historic pattern of denial. What these institutions all have in common is their consistent refusal to help war children find their Canadian fathers. Introductory essays frame the subject and give a historical context to the tragic situations these women and their children found themselves in.

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Dundurn

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1459712471

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9781459712478

Valerii Pereleshin

The Life of a Silkworm

By: Olga Bakich

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Valerii Pereleshin

The Life of a Silkworm

By: Olga Bakich

Olga Bakich's biography of Valerii Pereleshin (19131992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Pereleshin lived for thirty years in China and for almost forty years in Brazil. Multilingual, he wrote poetry in Russian and in Portuguese and translated Chinese and Brazilian poetry into Russian and Russian and Chinese poetry into Portuguese. For many years he struggled to accept and express his own identity as a gay man within a frequently homophobic émigré community. His poems addressed his three homelands, his religious struggles, and his loves. InValerii Pereleshin: The Life of a Silkworm, Bakich delves deep into Pereleshin's poems and letters to tell the rich life story of this underappreciated writer.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442648929

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9781442648920

Image and Concept

Mythopoetic Roots of Literature

By: Olga Freidenberg

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Image and Concept

Mythopoetic Roots of Literature

By: Olga Freidenberg

First published in 1997. Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature here - finally - available in English, is devoted to the origins of Greek tragedy. In it, Freidenberg develops the notion that it was the very transition from thinking based on mythological images to the kind of thinking that makes use of formal-logical concepts that resulted in the appearance of literature. With the transition from mythological thinking to conceptual thought, the content of mythological images became the texture of the new concepts. The inherited mythological forms now were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, abstracted. This reinterpretation, in turn, brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, philosophy, ethics, literature, and art. Yet, differentiated and reinterpreted as it was, the folkloric material remained formally preserved in poetic image, structure, and plot.

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Routledge

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113529478X

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The Games of Light and Shadow

By: Olga Gomon

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The Games of Light and Shadow

By: Olga Gomon

Different people live here on Earth. There are those of us whose lives only for a half belong to the visible world. Such people understand the language of animals and hear what the grass sings at dawn. They know the will of gods and live according to the laws of the Universe. They feel every living being on Earth as themselves, filled with love and tenderness to every one without exception. In the Christian tradition they are called saints. In Hindu tradition – sadhu. In Buddhism – the enlightened. When and how do such people realize who they are? How do they find the Teachers who help to know their essence and to reveal their abilities? In the first book of the series Master Olga Gomon tells about her way, her magical childhood and her first teachers.

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1728356520

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Getting Beyond "Interesting"

Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading

By: Olga M. Nesi

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Getting Beyond "Interesting"

Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading

By: Olga M. Nesi

Make use of a detailed plan and ready-to-use lessons for teaching appeal terms and Book Hook writing to students. Getting Beyond "Interesting": Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading is a practical application book that gives librarians all the tools they need to implement the teaching of both appeal terms and Book Hook writing and sharing. When students know how to write Book Hooks and have access to an easy-to-use system for allowing students to share Book Hooks, the result is greatly increased reading through the power of peer recommendations. This book not only supplies a detailed plan for teaching appeal terms and Book Hook writing, but it also provides two extensive appendices containing all the black line masters and forms needed to implement these lessons. As a result, practitioners will be able to enhance their students' reading culture through increased sharing of reading—and most importantly, by empowering students with the ability to clearly define their reading preferences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216089889

Speed Up Your Spanish

Strategies to Avoid Common Errors

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Marianne David,Olga Núñez Piñeiro

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Speed Up Your Spanish

Strategies to Avoid Common Errors

By: Javier Muñoz-Basols,Marianne David,Olga Núñez Piñeiro

‘Excellent book. The chapters put together and systematise a lot of material that is often taught in an anecdotal or haphazard sort of way, if at all. Students will learn a great deal from the book and have their confidence in using Spanish considerably boosted as a result.’ – Jonathan Thacker, Merton College, University of Oxford, UK ‘An invaluable, highly original and methodically sound approach to correcting and eliminating common, yet difficult-to-eliminate errors.’ – Manuel Delgado, Bucknell University, USA ‘The user-friendly format and page layout makes Speed Up Your Spanish a highly practical reference source for students and teachers.’– Ma Victoria García Serrano, University of Pennsylvania, USA False friends, idiomatic expressions, gender and capitalization are just some of the areas that cause confusion for students of Spanish. Learning how to avoid the common errors that arise repeatedly in these areas is an essential step for successful language learning. Speed Up Your Spanish is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains such errors, thereby enabling students of Spanish to learn from their mistakes while enhancing their understanding of the Spanish language. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a grammatical category where English speakers typically make mistakes in Spanish. Each chapter is divided into sections that classify the concepts and errors into subcategories. Full explanations are provided throughout with clear, comprehensive examples and exercises to help the learner gain an in-depth understanding of Spanish grammar and usage. Key features: carefully selected grammar topics and examples based on the most commonly made errors exercises throughout to reinforce learning shortcuts and mnemonic devices providing vital learning strategies a Companion Website available at www.speedupyourspanish.com providing supplementary exercises as well as audio files. Suitable both for classroom use or self-study, Speed Up Your Spanish is the ideal resource for all intermediate learners of Spanish wishing to refine their language skills. Javier Muñoz-Basols is an Instructor in Spanish at the University of Oxford. Marianne David teaches Spanish at the Trinity School in New York. Olga Núñez Piñeiro is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Westminster.

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1135232202

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The Invisible Sex

Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

By: J. M. Adovasio,Olga Soffer,Jake Page

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The Invisible Sex

Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

By: J. M. Adovasio,Olga Soffer,Jake Page

Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. Recent archaeological research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. J. M. Adovasio and Olga Soffer, two of the world's leading experts on perishable artifacts such as basketry, cordage, and weaving, present an exciting new look at prehistory. With science writer Jake Page, they argue that women invented all kinds of critical materials, including the clothing necessary for life in colder climates, the ropes used to make rafts that enabled long-distance travel by water, and nets used for communal hunting. Even more important, women played a central role in the development of language and social life—in short, in our becoming human. In this eye-opening book, a new story about women in prehistory emerges with provocative implications for our assumptions about gender today.

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131541807X

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The Lexicon

By: James Pustejovsky,Olga Batiukova

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The Lexicon

By: James Pustejovsky,Olga Batiukova

An accessible introduction to lexical structure and design, and the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole. The Lexicon can be used for introductory and advanced courses, and includes a range of exercises and in-class activities designed to engage students, and help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521839327

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9780521839327

The Ghost of Dracula

By: Olga Kryuchkova

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The Ghost of Dracula

By: Olga Kryuchkova

Russia, 19th century. A retired lieutenant Alexei Polyansky receives an invitation to serve in the newly formed Corps of Gendarmes. He is immediately given his first assignment; investigating the “Knaves of Hearts,” a Moscow gang engaged in affairs with real estates and selling fake paintings. To the lieutenant’s great surprise, the threads of these seemingly banal crimes lead to the disclosure of an ancient mystery connected to the disappearance of a famous diamond called “The Rose of Versailles,” which Louis XIV gave to his mistress, Louise de La Vallière. Soon after that, an even more mysterious crime is committed; inexplicable events occur on the Yaroslavl Estate belonging to count Shakhovsky, an avid collector of ancient weapons and armours. The owner is visited by the ghost of count Dracula. The old count dies under mysterious circumstances. The investigation leads Polyansky to a certain madam Libush, a lady with a very dark past...

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Babelcube Inc.

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1071518844

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Destiny Under Control Volume 2: Ba Zi Anthology

By: Olga Gomon

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Destiny Under Control Volume 2: Ba Zi Anthology

By: Olga Gomon

The book is for those who live and breathe astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, Feng Shui, I Ching, Qigong, and are trying to understand the collisions of their lives and the movements of destiny. Contents: fundamental principles of the Chinese metaphysics; rules of using the Chinese calendar for making Ba Zi horoscope; human types of personality for all elements and Zodiac cycle animals; prediction of crucial life events; compatibility and auspicious days for important beginnings; a set of health-improving exercises for 24 seasons; detailed description of 28 constellations and their influence on human life purpose; characteristics of 24 seasons with recommendations for the appropriate way of living; description of 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Zodiac cycle animals and their influence on human health and life events; tips for healthy lifestyle according to seasonal cycles; nutrition plan according to the date of birth; auspicious date selection Jian Chu; a table of life activity; identification of karmic traces and condition of chakras with Lo-Shu Grid numerology.

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1728356814

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A Countess in Limbo

Diaries in War & Revolution Russia 1914–1920 France 1939–1947

By: Olga Hendrikoff

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A Countess in Limbo

Diaries in War & Revolution Russia 1914–1920 France 1939–1947

By: Olga Hendrikoff

The diaries reveal details of a remarkable life of a woman born in Imperial Russia who refused to complain about the luxurious life she left behind. CTV National News Its a miraculous tale that takes the readers through revolutions and world wars and chronicles Hendrikoffs transformation from a wealthy privileged lady in-waiting for the Russian empresses to desperate survivor scavenging for coal in a Nazi-occupied France. Calgary Herald Countess Olga Lala Hendrikoff was born into the Russian aristocracy, serving as lady-in-waiting to the empresses and enjoying a life of great privilege. But on the eve of her wedding in 1914 came the first rumors of an impending wara war that would change her life forever and force her to flee her country as a stateless person with no country to call home. In A Countess in Limbo, Countess Hendrikoff tells her remarkable true story that includes the loss of her brother in the Russian gulag, her sister-in-law murdered with the Russian Imperial family, and herself being robbed at gunpoint and accused of being a spy by the Nazis. She also speaks of the daily life that continues during wartime: ration cards and food restrictions, the black market, and the struggle just to get by another day. Her gripping story and thoughtful analysis provide a valuable look at life and humanity in the face of war. Spanning two of the most turbulent times in modern historyWorld War I in Russia and World War II in ParisCountess Hendrikoffs journals demonstrate the uncertainty, horror, and hope of daily life in the midst of turmoil. Her razor-sharp insight, wit, and sense of humor create a fascinating eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution and the occupation and liberation of Paris.

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Archway Publishing

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1480835382

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9781480835382

Form and Function of Paris Representation in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

By: Olga Nikitina

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Form and Function of Paris Representation in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

By: Olga Nikitina

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: A Moveable Feast deals with the years 1921 to 1926 spent by Hemingway as a young man at the beginning of his literary carrier in Paris. He started to write it in 1958 and it actually remained unfinished when he committed suicide in 1961. Taking into account the fact that at that time Hemingway had already written all his best books, that in 1953 he was awarded The Pulitzer Prize and in 1954 - the Nobel Prize for Literature, one could suppose that the book was written by a successful and confident author who looked back at his young years with a gentle smile (sort of "how it all started") probably not without nostalgia. But if one takes a closer look at Hemingway's biography one finds out that the Paris book was being written by the "the rapidly ageing Ernest" [Svoboda, p.159] in the midst of health problems and family pressure, probably foreseeing the end of his literary career, suffering from continuous depressions and paranoia. Add to all this repercussions of the two plane crashes which he survived and the loss of the mother, Pauline Hemingway and his close friend and editor Charles Scribner and you will be able to imagine (probably quite remotely) what Hemingway's state of mind really was while he was writing the book in question. What could be the message of the book written under such circumstances - at the top of the literary career and facing the gap of despair? Was it an attempt to explain to himself what he had done wrong with his life, to calculate what had been lost and what had been gained during Paris years or to prove that in spite of increasing difficulties with writing he is still a great writer? Was he trying to show what had made him the kind of writer he was and (as he desperately hoped) still kept him on the top or was he simply recollecting the old happy times in order to forget the present frustration? A

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GRIN Verlag

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363887897X

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9783638878975

A Brief History of English Syntax

By: Olga Fischer,Hendrik De Smet,Wim van der Wurff

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A Brief History of English Syntax

By: Olga Fischer,Hendrik De Smet,Wim van der Wurff

In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, including changes in word order, the noun phrase and verb phrase, changing relations between clausal constituents and the development of new subordinate constructions. The book puts forward possible explanations for change, drawing on the existing and most recent literature, and with reference to the major theoretical models. The authors use corpus evidence to investigate language-internal and language-external motivations for change, including the impact of language contact. The book is intended for students who have been introduced to the history of English and want to deepen their understanding of major grammatical changes, and for linguists in general with a historical interest. It will also be of value to literary scholars professionally engaged with older texts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108210074

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9781108210072

Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D.

By: Sergey L. Soloviev,Olga N. Solovieva,Chan N. Go,Khen S. Kim,Nikolay A. Shchetnikov

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Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D.

By: Sergey L. Soloviev,Olga N. Solovieva,Chan N. Go,Khen S. Kim,Nikolay A. Shchetnikov

Annals of natural disasters have always caused common interest. Scientists and specialists of various domains, teachers, students, post-graduates, journalists .. and merely inquisitive can find useful and didactic information in such annals~ Sad experience of the natural disasters endured gives very important material for humanity. It allows us not only to understand better the phenomenon itself, but also to prepare ourselves for future cataclysms, which our "Mother-Nature" is so rich in. The book by Sergey Soloviev and a group of his collaborators represents a detailed description of tsunami waves and accompanying phenomena in the Mediterranean Sea over a period of approximately four thousand years. Sergey Soloviev, the founder and recognised leader of the Russian scientific school of tsunami researchers, was unable to see the publication of this book, passing away on March 9, 1994. However, his ample experience in investigation and systematisation of tsunami waves for the Pacific area [Soloviev and Go, 1974, 1975; Soloviev, Go and Kim, 1986] has been widely used in compiling this book. The Mediterranean coasts are the cradle of civilisation. Written accounts of past disasters in this region of the Earth are rather numerous and highly reliable. Therefore the results of the tsunami study in the Mediterranean Sea are of specific value both for the scientific community and for humanity at large.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401595100

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9789401595100

800 Years of Women's Letters

By: Olga Kenyon

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800 Years of Women's Letters

By: Olga Kenyon

This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organised by subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politics, work and war, to childhood, love and sexual passion. '800 Years of Women's Letter' reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's lives through the ages. Here Holoise writes to Abelad of her undying devotion, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woofl correspond about life and writing, and Queen Victoria complains to Robert Peel about the neglect of Buckingham Palace. Many more women write letters that reveal the compassion, humour, love and tenacity with which they confront the often difficult circumstances of everyday life. This is an intriguing insight, and a rare opportunity to read the real words of real women, in their own intimate language. "No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous of more individual than a letter." P D James

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The History Press

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0752472003

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9780752472003

Water

Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us

By: Olga Fadeeva

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Water

Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us

By: Olga Fadeeva

A curiosity-sparking book about water in rainstorms, the Great Lakes, the drip from our taps, and other places in our world. Water is everywhere, and we rely on it every single day. But do you ever wonder about water? How much water is on our planet? What happens when there is too much water or too little water? Why does it rain? What are lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans? Why are the seas and oceans blue and salty? What lives underwater? What about water in human history—how did people get water in ancient times? How do we get water today? What do humans build to travel on the water, and how have we harnessed waterpower? How do we protect this amazing resource for the future? Gorgeous and informative, Water invites children to tour through science and history with two characters they may recognize from Wind: Discovering Air in Motion. Colorful acrylic art and energetic text help readers learn about the natural resource we have depended on since the beginning of life itself.

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Eerdmans Young Readers

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1467467715

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9781467467711

Khanty, People of the Taiga

Surviving the 20th Century

By: Andrew Wiget,Olga Balalaeva

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Khanty, People of the Taiga

Surviving the 20th Century

By: Andrew Wiget,Olga Balalaeva

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty—who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolution—the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the larger world.

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University of Alaska Press

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1602231257

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Children's Lifeworlds

Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing World

By: Olga Nieuwenhuys

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Children's Lifeworlds

Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing World

By: Olga Nieuwenhuys

Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this book questions how class and kinship, gender and household organization, state ideology and education influence and conceal the lives of children in developing countries. Presenting an extraordinarily sympathetic and detailed case study of boys' and girls' work routine in a south Indian village, this book shows children creating the visibility of their work. The combination of personal experience, quantitative data and in-depth anthropological methods, sheds light on the world of those who, though they hold the future, have been left in the dark.

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Routledge

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1134861311

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9781134861316

The Poetic World of Boris Pasternak

By: Olga Raevsky Hughes

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The Poetic World of Boris Pasternak

By: Olga Raevsky Hughes

The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses instead to focus on the aesthetics underlying Pasternak's snuggles and successes to explore the ways in which his views of art and the artist were applied in his writings. Professor Hughes examines those aspects of Pasternak's views on art that he himself considered crucial: the beginnings of poetry in his life, the relation of his art to life, his relationship to his time, and his responsibility to lite and to society. Pasternak's views on art are analyzed as he himself saw them in his autobiographies, critical essays, and letters; and also as they were reflected in his work. Pasternak is allowed to speak for himself: accordingly, all of his published works are used, including letters, little-known works, and available variants of his early poems. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400869544

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The Chronicles of the Counts Dracula-Cardie. Adapted from Baron Olshevris novel «Vampires»

By: Olga Boyko,Iryna Shcherbyna

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The Chronicles of the Counts Dracula-Cardie. Adapted from Baron Olshevris novel «Vampires»

By: Olga Boyko,Iryna Shcherbyna

Your love gave me back my life... Harry, a young and handsome millionaire inherits a mysterious castle in the Carpathian Mountains. His friends, James, Captain Wright, Georges and a specially hired librarian Karl Ivanovich help him to deal with the numerous papers, letters and diaries, which take our heroes into the past. Archival search is necessary not only for entering into the rights of inheritance, but also to understand the causes of the outbreak of the epidemic of deaths in the castle.

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5040599943

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2017

A Novel

By: Olga Slavnikova

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A Novel

By: Olga Slavnikova

An award–winning “satirical political thriller follows the . . . adventures of a Russian gem cutter . . . and the consequences of his affair with a virtual stranger.”(Publishers Weekly) Professor Anfilogov, a wealthy and emotionless man, sets out on an expedition to unearth priceless rubies that no one else has been able to locate. His expedition reveals ugly truths about man’s disregard for nature and the disasters created by insatiable greed. In 2017, winner of the Russian Booker Prize, Olga Slavnikova stuns with a witty, engaging, and remarkable tale of love, obsession, murder, and the lengths people will go to get what they want. “Slavnikova’s characters are magnetizing, and her crystal clear vision of a world in which ‘commercial infinities’ choke off humanism and art is salubriously caustic.” —Booklist

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Abrams

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1468302906

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Management of Snakebites

Study Manual and Guide for Health Care Professionals

By: M D Olga Pudovka Gross

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Management of Snakebites

Study Manual and Guide for Health Care Professionals

By: M D Olga Pudovka Gross

This publication aims to provide useful information mainly to those who must diagnose and treat people envenomed by snakes, and to pass on a compilation of available knowledge about all clinical aspects of snakebite to medically trained crew. It is a good source of comprehensive information about essential drugs for snakebite treatment - specific antidotes to the snake venoms, particularly the one that is produced today in the United States. The reader can use the knowledge in this book to the advantage of ones who need it - snakebite victims. This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Systematic reviews of available updated literature, expert opinions, results of recent clinical studies as well as our own experience were used.

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FriesenPress

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1770678832

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9781770678835

Immortal Melody

By: Olga Salar

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Immortal Melody

By: Olga Salar

When the love for music becomes an obsession a very simple question arises, what price are you willing to pay for it? What are you able to give up to achieve your goals? What if you lost the only woman you loved? What would you be willing to sacrifice?

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Babelcube Inc.

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1071520032

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9781071520031

Cult, Culture, and Authority

Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History

By: Olga Dror

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Cult, Culture, and Authority

Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History

By: Olga Dror

Princess Liễu Hạnh, often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people by her followers, is one of the most prominent goddesses in Vietnamese popular religion. First emerging some four centuries ago as a local sect appealing to women, the princess’ cult has since transcended its geographical and gender boundaries and remains vibrant today. Who was this revered deity? Was she a virtuous woman or a prostitute? Why did people begin worshiping her and why have they continued? Cult, Culture, and Authority traces Liễu Hạnh’s cult from its ostensible appearance in the sixteenth century to its present-day prominence in North Vietnam and considers it from a broad range of perspectives, as religion and literature and in the context of politics and society. Over time, Liễu Hạnh’s personality and cult became the subject of numerous literary accounts, and these historical texts are a major source for this book. Author Olga Dror explores the authorship and historical context of each text considered, treating her subject in an interdisciplinary way. Her interest lies in how these accounts reflect the various political agendas of successive generations of intellectuals and officials. The same cult was called into service for a variety of ideological ends: feminism, nationalism, Buddhism, or Daoism.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824862074

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The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle

How Can Russian Cities be Green?

By: Polina Ermolaeva,Yulia Ermolaeva,Olga Basheva,Irina Kuznetsova,Valerya Korunova

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The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle

How Can Russian Cities be Green?

By: Polina Ermolaeva,Yulia Ermolaeva,Olga Basheva,Irina Kuznetsova,Valerya Korunova

This book provides comprehensive analysis of the social-environmental situation and sustainability issues in Russian megacities based on a large-scale mixed method original empirical research conducted in 2015–2019.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1839826320

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Wormy, the Hairy Caterpillar, and the Rainbow

By: Olga Villa

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Wormy, the Hairy Caterpillar, and the Rainbow

By: Olga Villa

Wormy, the hairy caterpillar, can't wait to become a beautiful butterfly likehis friends. He learns patience is hard, but worth the wait.

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Soto Publishing Company

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0982171102

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9780982171103

The Dream Life of Sukhanov

By: Olga Grushin

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The Dream Life of Sukhanov

By: Olga Grushin

Olga Grushin’s astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores—really, colonizes—the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.

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Penguin

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0143038400

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9780143038405

Russian Space Probes

Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions

By: Brian Harvey,Olga Zakutnyaya

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Russian Space Probes

Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions

By: Brian Harvey,Olga Zakutnyaya

Brian Harvey recounts for the first time the definitive history of scientific Russian space probes and the knowledge they acquired of the Earth, its environment, the Moon, Mars and Venus. He examines what Russian Space Science has actually achieved in furthering our knowledge of the Solar System, focusing on the instrumentation and scientific objectives and outcomes, the information gained and lessons learnt. Boxes and charts are used extensively in order to convey in an easily understandable manner for the non-scientific reader the problems and issues addressed and solved by Soviet space science. The book opens with the story of early space science in Russia, which started when the first Russian rockets were fired into the high atmosphere from Kapustin Yar in the late 1940s. Instruments were carried to measure and map the atmosphere and later rockets carried dogs to test their reactions to weightlessness. In order to beat America into Earth orbit, two simpler satellites than originally planned were launched, Sputnik and Sputnik 2, which provided some initial information on atmospheric density, while the following Sputnik 3 carried twelve instruments to measure radiation belts, solar radiation, the density of the atmosphere and the Earth’s magnetic field. The author recounts how, by the 1960s, the Soviet Union had developed a program of investigation of near-Earth space using satellites within the Cosmos program, in particular the DS (Dnepropetrovsky Sputnik), small satellites developed to investigate meteoroids, radiation, the magnetic fields, the upper atmosphere, solar activity, ionosphere, charged particles, cosmic rays and geophysics. Brian Harvey then gives the scientific results from Russian lunar exploration, starting with the discovery of the solar wind by the First Cosmic Ship and the initial mapping of the lunar far side by the Automatic Interplanetary Station. He describes Luna 10, which made the first full study of the lunar environment, Luna 16 which brought soil back to Earth and the two Moon rovers which travelled 50 kms across the lunar surface taking thousands of measurements, soil analyses and photographs, as well as profiles of discrete areas. Chapters 4 and 5 describe in detail the scientific outcomes of the missions to Venus and Mars, before considering the orbiting space stations in Chapter 6. Space science formed an important part of the early manned space program, the prime focus being the human reaction to weightlessness, how long people could stay in orbit and the effects on the body, as well as radiation exposure. Chapter 7 looks at the later stage of Soviet and Russian space science, including Astron and Granat, the two observatories of the 1980s, and Bion, the space biology program which flew monkeys and other animals into orbit. The final chapter looks forward to a new period of Russian space science with the Spektr series of observatories and a range smaller science satellites under the Federal Space Plan 2006-2015.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441981500

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9781441981509

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