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From Cold War to Cold Peace?

A Comparative Empirical Study of Russian and Western Political Cultures

By: Loek Halman,Peter Ester,Vladimir Rukavishnikov

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From Cold War to Cold Peace?

A Comparative Empirical Study of Russian and Western Political Cultures

By: Loek Halman,Peter Ester,Vladimir Rukavishnikov

The cross-national analyses of Western and Russian political cultures presented in this book are partly based on the 1990 EVS data. Another data source comes from surveys that were conducted since the late 1980s by the Department of Social Dynamics of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPR RAS) This Volume pictures a wide variety of values in the social and political domain and reveals unique insights in Russian culture. It makes clear that, despite many differences, Russian and Westerners have also many things in common as far as basic values are concerned. This is the fourth volume in the series. The first book is The Individualizing Socitey (1993, 1994) edited by Peter Ester, Loek Halman and Ruud de Moor. The second book is Values in Western Societies (1995) edited by Ruud de Moor. A third book is titled Political Value Change in Western Democracies (1996) and is edited by Loek Halman and Neil Nevitte.

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9004665692

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9789004665699

A Meeting about Laughter

Sketches, Interludes, and Theatrical Parodies

By: Николай Эрдман,Vladimir Mass

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A Meeting about Laughter

Sketches, Interludes, and Theatrical Parodies

By: Николай Эрдман,Vladimir Mass

Nikolai Erdman is best known as the author of the plays The Warrant and The Suicide, both written for Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. A tragic victim of Stalin's campaign to control the arts, Erdman never wrote another full-length play. What has remained veiled in obscurity until now is that Erdman, often nominally in tandem with the playwright Vladimir Mass, was also the prolific author of satirical sketches and theatrical parodies. The extraordinary wit, biting satire and lyrical humour of these short works provide both a fascinating glimpse into the creative method of one of Russia's greatest 20th-century playwrights, and an unparalleled panorama of the often mad world in which he lived. In addition to such legendary works as A Meeting About Laughter, the interludes to Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Pugachyov, this volume contains the transcript of a startling discussion of The Suicide at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1930, and the only surviving fragments of what was to have been Erdman's third play, The Hypnotist. It is the first collection of Erdman's short plays ever to appear in any language."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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268

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Psychology Press

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3718655802

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9783718655809

Speak, Memory

An Autobiography Revisited

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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Speak, Memory

An Autobiography Revisited

By: Vladimir Nabokov

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York Times Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. Speak, Memory vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.

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Vintage

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0307787737

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9780307787736

Selected Letters, 1940–1977

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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Selected Letters, 1940–1977

By: Vladimir Nabokov

“Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the author’s career, recording his struggles in the publishing world, the battles over Lolita, and his relationship with his wife, among other subjects, and gives a surprising look at the personality behind the creator of such classics as Pale Fire and Pnin. “Dip in anywhere, and delight follows.” —John Updike

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HMH

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0544106555

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9780544106550

Mikhail Botvinnik: Sixth World Chess Champion

By: Isaak Linder,Vladimir Linder

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Mikhail Botvinnik: Sixth World Chess Champion

By: Isaak Linder,Vladimir Linder

The Patriarch of Soviet Chess From the mid-1930s to the early 1960s, one man towered above all other chessplayers. That was the sixth world chess champion, Mikhail Botvinnik. His calm, deep analytical approach, supplemented by careful attention to his mental and physical conditioning served him well throughout his career. Now, in the sixth volume of the World Chess Champions Series by Isaak and Vladimir Linder, you will learn all about the chess advances and achievements of the Patriarch of Soviet chess, about his life and scholarly pursuit, and his contributions to the various phases of the game – opening, middlegame and endgame. Botvinnik was no less influential when he assumed the role of teacher. Graduates of his school included such powerful players as Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Sergei Tiviakov and Alexei Shirov. This book presents almost 150 of Botvinnik’s best games and endings, with fresh annotations by German grandmaster Karsten Müller, along with crosstables and many archival photographs. We invite you on journey to explore the life and games of one of the greatest and most influential world champions ever.

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SCB Distributors

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1949859177

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9781949859171

Youth, Risk and Russian Modernity

By: Christopher Williams,Vladimir Chuprov

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Youth, Risk and Russian Modernity

By: Christopher Williams,Vladimir Chuprov

Title first published in 2003. This timely and original book is the most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of Russia's risk society to date. Referring to the works of Douglas, Beck and Giddens, it considers a variety of theories of risk and applies them to young people in different risk societies, showing how these youngsters have adapted to cope with risk.

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Routledge

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1351773356

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New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science

Applications and Decision-making

By: Vladimir F. Krapivin,Costas A. Varotsos,Vladimir Yu. Soldatov

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New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science

Applications and Decision-making

By: Vladimir F. Krapivin,Costas A. Varotsos,Vladimir Yu. Soldatov

This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization of global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globalization and sustainable development. In this regard, the crucial global problems concerning the dynamics of the nature-society system are considered and the key problems of ensuring the system’s sustainable development are studied. A new approach to the numerical modeling of the nature-society system is proposed and results are provided on modeling the dynamics of the system’s characteristics with regard to scenarios of anthropogenic impacts on biogeochemical cycles, land ecosystems and oceans. The main purpose of this book is to develop a universal guide to information-modeling technologies for assessing the function of environmental subsystems under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions.

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Springer

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3319139789

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9783319139784

Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Though we know Vladimir Nabokov as a brilliant novelist, his first love was poetry. This landmark collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English. These poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered “Music,” written in 1914, to the short, playful “To Véra,” composed in 1974. Many are newly translated by Dmitri Nabokov, including The University Poem, a sparkling novel in verse modeled on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that constitutes a significant new addition to Nabokov’s oeuvre. Included too are such poems as “Lilith”, an early work which broaches the taboo theme revisited nearly forty years later in Lolita, and “An Evening of Russian Poetry”, a masterpiece in which Nabokov movingly mourns his lost language in the guise of a versified lecture on Russian delivered to college girls. The subjects range from the Russian Revolution to the American refrigerator, taking in on the way motel rooms, butterflies, ice-skating, love, desire, exile, loneliness, language, and poetry itself; and the poet whirls swiftly between the brilliantly painted facets of his genius, wearing masks that are, by turns, tender, demonic, sincere, self-parodying, shamanic, visionary, and ingeniously domestic.

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Knopf

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0307593355

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9780307593351

Lectures on Literature

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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Lectures on Literature

By: Vladimir Nabokov

The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Gustav Flaubert’s Madam Bovary, Marcel Proust’s The Walk by Swann’s Place, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and other works. This volume also includes photographic reproductions of Nabokov’s original notes, revealing his own edits, underlined passages, and more. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers Introduction by John Updike

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547541325

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9780547541327

Letters to Véra

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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Letters to Véra

By: Vladimir Nabokov

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir’s letters to Véra chronicle a half-century-long love story, one that is playful, romantic, and memorable. At the same time, the letters reveal much about their author. We see the infectious fascination with which Vladimir observed everything—animals, people, speech, landscapes and cityscapes—and glimpse his ceaseless work on his poems, plays, stories, novels, memoirs, screenplays, and translations. This delightful volume is enhanced by twenty-one photographs, as well as facsimiles of the letters and the puzzles and drawings Vladimir often sent to Véra. With 8 pages of photographs and 47 illustrations in text

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Vintage

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0307476588

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9780307476586

Nabokov's Butterflies

Unpublished and Uncollected Writings

By: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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Nabokov's Butterflies

Unpublished and Uncollected Writings

By: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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820

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Beacon Press

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0807085405

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9780807085400

Insomniac Dreams

Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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Insomniac Dreams

Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov

By: Vladimir Nabokov

First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.

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Princeton University Press

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0691196907

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9780691196909

Global Environmental Change

Modelling and Monitoring

By: Kirill Y. Kondratyev,Vladimir F. Krapivin,Gary W. Phillipe

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Global Environmental Change

Modelling and Monitoring

By: Kirill Y. Kondratyev,Vladimir F. Krapivin,Gary W. Phillipe

The growing number of published works dedicated to global environmental change leads to the realization that protection of the natural environment has become an urgent problem. The question of working out principles of co evolution of man and nature is being posed with ever-increasing persistence. Scientists in many countries are attempting to find ways of formulating laws governing human processes acting on the environment. Numerous national and international programs regarding biosphere and climate studies contribute to the quest for means of resolving the conflict between human society and nature. However, attempts to find efficient methods of regulating human activity on a global scale encounter principal difficulties. The major difficulty is the lack of an adequate knowledge base pertaining to climatic and biospheric processes as wen as the largely incomplete state of the databases concerning global processes occurring in the atmosphere, in the ocean, and on land. Another difficulty is the inability of modern science to formulate the requirements which must be met by the global databases necessary for reliable evaluation of the state of the environ ment and fore casting its development for sufficiently long time intervals.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540433732

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9783540433736

From Cold War to Cold Peace?

A Comparative Empirical Study of Russian and Western Political Cultures

By: Loek Halman,Peter Ester,Vladimir Rukavishnikov

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A Comparative Empirical Study of Russian and Western Political Cultures

By: Loek Halman,Peter Ester,Vladimir Rukavishnikov

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From Cold War to Cold Peace?

From Cold War to Cold Peace?

A Meeting about Laughter

A Meeting about Laughter

Speak, Memory

Speak, Memory

Selected Letters, 1940–1977

Selected Letters, 1940–1977

Mikhail Botvinnik: Sixth World Chess Champion

Mikhail Botvinnik: Sixth World Chess Champion

Youth, Risk and Russian Modernity

Youth, Risk and Russian Modernity

New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science

New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science

Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov

Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov

Lectures on Literature

Lectures on Literature

Letters to Véra

Letters to Véra

Nabokov's Butterflies

Nabokov's Butterflies

Insomniac Dreams

Insomniac Dreams

Global Environmental Change

Global Environmental Change

From Cold War to Cold Peace?

From Cold War to Cold Peace?

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