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Mind Reading

Unframed Direct Interior Monologue in European Fiction

By: Vladimir Tumanov

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Mind Reading

Unframed Direct Interior Monologue in European Fiction

By: Vladimir Tumanov

In this book literary interior monologue is considered in relation to extraliterary phenomena, as well as narrative theory. The central question posed by this study is: what makes a particular interior monologue believable, given the unobservable nature of human thought? The discussion revolves around the unobservable counterpart of literary interior monologue, i.e., what is known in psychology as inner speech. Taking various experimental findings and theories from Soviet and American research on inner speech, the author compares them with literary interior monologue and tries to account for similarities and differences. Examples of literary interior monologue are analyzed in comparison with data from the linguistic study of real oral spontaneous discourse (also known as face-to-face communication). In the context of this interdisciplinary framework four examples of literary interior monologue are considered: V.M. Garshin's Four Days (1877), E. Dujardin's Les Lauriers sont coupés (1887), A Schnitzler's Leutnant Gustl (1900) and V. Larbaud's Amants, heureux amants... (1921). The inclusion of data from psychology and research on face-to-face communication makes a unique contribution not only to narrative theory, but also to the understanding of the relationship between literary and extraliterary communication.

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9004657568

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The Black Russian

By: Vladimir Alexandrov

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The Black Russian

By: Vladimir Alexandrov

The “altogether astonishing” true story of a black American finding fame and fortune in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the 20th century (Booklist, starred review). The Black Russian tells the true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, a man born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. But when his father was murdered, Frederick left the South to work as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greater freedom, he traveled to London, then crisscrossed Europe, and—in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time—went to Russia. Because he found no color line there, Frederick settled in Moscow, becoming a rich and famous owner of variety theaters and restaurants. When the Bolshevik Revolution ruined him, he barely escaped to Constantinople, where he made another fortune by opening celebrated nightclubs as the “Sultan of Jazz.” Though Frederick reached extraordinary heights, the long arm of American racism, the xenophobia of the new Turkish Republic, and Frederick’s own extravagance brought his life to a sad close, landing him in debtor’s prison, where he died a forgotten man in 1928. “In his assiduously researched, prodigiously descriptive, fluently analytical” narrative (Booklist, starred review), Alexandrov delivers “a tale . . . so colourful and improbable that it reads more like a novel than a work of historical biography.” (The Literary Review). “[An] extraordinary story . . . [interpreted] with great sensitivity.” —The New York Review of Books

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321

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802193765

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9780802193766

The Last Noble Gendarme

How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian Revolution

By: Vladimir G. Marinich

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The Last Noble Gendarme

How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian Revolution

By: Vladimir G. Marinich

The Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his wife, Sofia. Tsar Nicholas II's last chief of security, Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 1915 he tried to avert the unrest that grew into a revolution replete with mayhem and violence by cautioning his senior government officials about the growing crisis through meetings and written reports. The incompetence and corruption of his superiors caused Globachev's warnings of an impending disaster to be often disregarded, misunderstood, and sometimes rejected flat out. The warnings of Globachev's security and intelligence agency going unheeded helped lead imperial Russia to its cataclysmic destruction—perhaps a metaphor for our times. Following the revolution, Globachev was detained by the new government, but released and forced to flee with his family after the Bolsheviks gained power. Globachev and his family survived the revolution, the subsequent civil war and exile in Turkey. The final chapter of their dramatic adventure was their immigration to the United States, where they became citizens. Now, through their complete biographies, we get to know them as individuals who lived through the most tempestuous and dangerous of times.

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State University of New York Press

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1438486014

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9781438486017

A Normal Totalitarian Society

How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

By: Vladimir Shlapentokh

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A Normal Totalitarian Society

How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

By: Vladimir Shlapentokh

Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power. Foregoing the projection of Western norms and assumptions, he seeks to achieve a clearer understanding of a civilization that has perplexed its critics and its champions alike.

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Taylor & Francis

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131548272X

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9781315482729

The Barefoot Shoemaker

Capitalizing on the New Russia

By: Vladimir Lʹvovich Kvint,Natalʹi︠a︡ Darʹi︠a︡lova

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The Barefoot Shoemaker

Capitalizing on the New Russia

By: Vladimir Lʹvovich Kvint,Natalʹi︠a︡ Darʹi︠a︡lova

A revealing, insightful account of how Russian business works--or does not work. Vladimir Kvint, a leading Russian economist, explains how to understand the Russian mind, how to deal with the rapidly evolving system, and how best to benefit from the boundless natural resources that remain virtually untapped. 16 pages of photos.

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Arcade Publishing

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155970182X

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9781559701822

Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants

By: N. I. Vavilov,Vladimir Filimonovich Dorofeev

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Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants

By: N. I. Vavilov,Vladimir Filimonovich Dorofeev

A collection of all of Vavgilov's works on the origin and geography of cultivated plant species.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521404274

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9780521404273

An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front

The Memoirs of a Russian Officer in the Spanish Blue Division 1941-1942

By: Vladimir Kovalevski

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An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front

The Memoirs of a Russian Officer in the Spanish Blue Division 1941-1942

By: Vladimir Kovalevski

Vladimir Kovalevskii’s memoirs record in graphic detail a remarkable military career. As a soldier, a committed anti-communist and Russian patriot he saw from the inside a series of conflicts that ravaged Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. In the First World War he fought the Germans, as a White Russian he opposed the Bolsheviks. He joined the French Foreign Legion and served in Africa before fighting for Franco in the Spanish Civil War and for Hitler in the Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. His memoirs give a vivid insight into the armies he fought with and the causes he fought for – and they show how eventually the mental toll became so great that he was devoured by his own contradictions and the contradictions of his times. His experiences on the Eastern Front during the Second World War were shocking. He hoped the German campaign in the Soviet Union would liberate the Russian people, but after witnessing the grim suffering inflicted on the civilian population by a brutal occupying army he was deeply disillusioned and tormented by a sense of guilt. In the late 1940s, in order to make sense of his life as a soldier and to document the extraordinary sights he’d seen, he wrote these memoirs in Russian. They were buried in an archive for over seventy years, but they have now been edited, annotated and translated for this first English edition.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1399062107

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9781399062107

Synchrotron Radiation Theory And Its Development, In Memory Of I M Ternov (1921-1996)

By: Vladimir Bordovitsyn

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Synchrotron Radiation Theory And Its Development, In Memory Of I M Ternov (1921-1996)

By: Vladimir Bordovitsyn

This book presents a systematically outlined theory of synchrotron radiation (SR) and the attendant effects.The first part of the book is devoted to fundamental results in synchrotron and undulator radiation theory. This makes it a useful supplement to textbooks on classical and quantum electrodynamics of relativistic particles. The conventional theory is amplified with the recent investigations carried out by the authors. A semiclassical theory of radiation is developed with regard to the influence of recoil effect and radiation of the particle magnetic moment (spin light). Of great interest is a chapter on the astrophysical aspects of SR. All these make the book of great use not only to young physicists who wish to improve their knowledge and deepen their understanding of the fascinating phenomenon of modern physics, but also to experienced theorists and users of SR.The contributors of the book belong to a well-known school of the SR-theory founded by A A Sokolov and I M Ternov. This school is an authority on the development of the theoretical principles of SR, the construction of classical and quantum theory of SR.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813105119

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9789813105119

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

By: Vladimir Nabokov

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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

By: Vladimir Nabokov

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

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706

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Vintage

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0307788091

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9780307788092

Nonlinear Optimization

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 1-7, 2007

By: Immanuel M. Bomze,Vladimir F. Demyanov,Roger Fletcher,Tamás Terlaky

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Nonlinear Optimization

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 1-7, 2007

By: Immanuel M. Bomze,Vladimir F. Demyanov,Roger Fletcher,Tamás Terlaky

This volume collects the expanded notes of four series of lectures given on the occasion of the CIME course on Nonlinear Optimization held in Cetraro, Italy, from July 1 to 7, 2007. The Nonlinear Optimization problem of main concern here is the problem n of determining a vector of decision variables x ? R that minimizes (ma- n mizes) an objective function f(·): R ? R,when x is restricted to belong n to some feasible setF? R , usually described by a set of equality and - n n m equality constraints: F = {x ? R : h(x)=0,h(·): R ? R ; g(x) ? 0, n p g(·): R ? R }; of course it is intended that at least one of the functions f,h,g is nonlinear. Although the problem canbe stated in verysimpleterms, its solution may result very di?cult due to the analytical properties of the functions involved and/or to the number n,m,p of variables and constraints. On the other hand, the problem has been recognized to be of main relevance in engineering, economics, and other applied sciences, so that a great lot of e?ort has been devoted to develop methods and algorithms able to solve the problem even in its more di?cult and large instances. The lectures have been given by eminent scholars, who contributed to a great extent to the development of Nonlinear Optimization theory, methods and algorithms. Namely, they are: – Professor Immanuel M.

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Springer

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3642113397

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9783642113390

Geometry of Müntz Spaces and Related Questions

By: Vladimir I. Gurariy,Wolfgang Lusky

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Geometry of Müntz Spaces and Related Questions

By: Vladimir I. Gurariy,Wolfgang Lusky

Starting point and motivation for this volume is the Müntz theorem. In the first part of the book the Banach spaces notions are introduced and are later on applied for Müntz spaces. They include the opening and inclination of subspaces, bases and boundedapproximation properties and versions of universality.

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196

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540288007

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9783540288008

Sharp Real-Part Theorems

A Unified Approach

By: Gershon Kresin,Vladimir Maz'ya

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Sharp Real-Part Theorems

A Unified Approach

By: Gershon Kresin,Vladimir Maz'ya

This volume contains a coherent point of view on various sharp pointwise inequalities for analytic functions in a disk in terms of the real part of the function on the boundary circle or in the disk itself. Inequalities of this type are frequently used in the theory of entire functions and in the analytic number theory.

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3540695745

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Jayden's Rescue

By: Vladimir A. Tumanov,David Bordeleau

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Jayden's Rescue

By: Vladimir A. Tumanov,David Bordeleau

Alex hates math. No matter how hard he tries, he can never get it right. Until one day he finds a magical book in which an evil wizard king has imprisoned a queen -- and the only way to save her is with math! To rescue her, Alex and his friends must solve 400 mathematical puzzles posed by a menagerie of monster guards -- and before long, Alex is solving riddle after riddle. Will they be able to set Jayden free? An exciting fantasy fiction debut from Canadian author Vladimir Tumanov.

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Scholastic Paperbacks

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0439988640

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9780439988643

Mind Reading

Unframed Interior Monologue in European Fiction

By: Vladimir Tumanov

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Unframed Interior Monologue in European Fiction

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Rodopi

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904200147X

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9789042001473

Mind Reading

Unframed Direct Interior Monologue in European Fiction

By: Vladimir Tumanov

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Unframed Direct Interior Monologue in European Fiction

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Mind Reading

Mind Reading

The Black Russian

The Black Russian

The Last Noble Gendarme

The Last Noble Gendarme

A Normal Totalitarian Society

A Normal Totalitarian Society

The Barefoot Shoemaker

The Barefoot Shoemaker

Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants

Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants

An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front

An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front

Synchrotron Radiation Theory And Its Development, In Memory Of I M Ternov (1921-1996)

Synchrotron Radiation Theory And Its Development, In Memory Of I M Ternov (1921-1996)

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Nonlinear Optimization

Nonlinear Optimization

Geometry of Müntz Spaces and Related Questions

Geometry of Müntz Spaces and Related Questions

Sharp Real-Part Theorems

Sharp Real-Part Theorems

Jayden's Rescue

Jayden's Rescue

Mind Reading

Mind Reading

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