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Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Downtown Leningrad written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Bidlack
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300110294
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 written by Richard Bidlack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the three year siege of Leningrad during World War II, focusing on the city's inhabitants, the inner workings of the Communist Party and secret police, and the people's will to survive.
Author : Daniel Brook
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308924X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A History of Future Cities written by Daniel Brook and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] inspired tour of the post modern city…Invigorating." —Mark Kingwell, Harper’s Hailed as an “original and fascinating book” (Times Literary Supplement), A History of Future Cities is Daniel Brook’s captivating investigation of four “instant cities”—St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai—that sought to catapult themselves into the future by emulating the West.
Author : Denis Gibbons
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525508059
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Hockey written by Denis Gibbons and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hockey My Door to Europe details the author’s personal - sometimes harrowing - experiences covering international hockey, especially behind the Iron Curtain, including the start of youth hockey exchanges between Canada and communist countries. The book also provides an in-depth view of the following events: - The author’s detainment by the Czechoslovak secret police in 1983; - The nuclear plant explosion in Chernobyl, which occurred during the 1986 World Championship in Moscow; - The defection of Soviet hockey star Alexander Mogilny following the 1989 World Championship in Stockholm; - The fall of the Berlin Wall, which took place in November of 1989 while the author was in Moscow; - The uprising in Kiev, Ukraine, which occurred during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, leading to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Author : Mark Hertsgaard
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307484084
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Earth Odyssey written by Mark Hertsgaard and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning nineteen countries. Now, in Earth Odyssey, he reports on our environmental predicament through the eyes of the people who live it. From the gilded boardrooms of Paris to the traffic-clogged streets of Bangkok, we travel from the deep human past to our still unfolding future. Much of the story revolves around people like Zhenbing, Hertsgaard's charismatic interpreter in China, whose desire to escape poverty leaves him indifferent to his country's horrific air and water pollution. We also meet Garang, a proud Dinka tribesman whose response to Sudan's famine shows the difficulty of building an environmentally sustainable future without bridging the gap between rich and poor. Drawing on interviews with Václav Havel, Al Gore, Jacques Cousteau, and numerous other prominent figures, Hertsgaard offers fresh insight into such complex issues as humanity's growing addiction to the automobile, the insidious spread of nuclear technology, and the inevitable tension between unfettered capitalism and the health of the biosphere. Earth Odyssey is a vivid, passionate narrative about one man's journey around the world in search of the answer to the most important question of our time: Is the future of the human species at risk? Combining first-rate reportage with irresistible storytelling, Mark Hertsgaard has written an essential--and ultimately hopeful--book about the uncertain fate of humankind.
Author : Sergey Grechishkin
Publisher : Inkshares
ISBN 13 : 1942645910
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Everything is Normal written by Sergey Grechishkin and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is Normal offers a lighthearted worm’s-eye-view of the USSR through the middle-class Soviet childhood of a nerdy boy in the 1970s and ’80s. A relatable journey into the world of the late-days Soviet Union, Everything is Normal is both a memoir and a social history—a reflection on the mundane deprivations and existential terrors of day-to-day life in Leningrad in the decades preceding the collapse of the USSR. Sergey Grechishkin’s world is strikingly different, largely unknown, and fascinatingly unusual, and yet a world that readers who grew up in the United States or Europe during the same period will partly recognize. This is a tale of friendship, school, and growing up—to read Everything is Normal is to discover the very foreign way of life behind the Iron Curtain, but also to journey back into a shared past.
Author : Thor Hanson
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0465055990
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Seeds written by Thor Hanson and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment, and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the Fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat. In nature and in culture, seeds are fundamental—objects of beauty, evolutionary wonder, and simple fascination. How many times has a child dropped the winged pip of a maple, marveling as it spirals its way down to the ground, or relished the way a gust of wind(or a stout breath) can send a dandelion’s feathery flotilla skyward? Yet despite their importance, seeds are often seen as a commonplace, their extraordinary natural and human histories overlooked. Thanks to Thor Hanson and this stunning new book, they can be overlooked no more. What makes The Triumph of Seeds remarkable is not just that it is informative, humane, hilarious, and even moving, just as what makes seeds remarkable is not simply their fundamental importance to life. In both cases, it is their sheer vitality and the delight that we can take in their existence—the opportunity to experience, as Hanson puts it, “the simple joy of seeing something beautiful, doing what it is meant to do.” Spanning the globe from the Raccoon Shack—Hanson’s backyard writing hideout-cum-laboratory—to the coffee shops of Seattle, from gardens and flower patches to the spice routes of Kerala, this is a book of knowledge, adventure, and wonder, spun by an award-winning writer with both the charm of a fireside story-teller and the hard-won expertise of a field biologist. A worthy heir to the grand tradition of Aldo Leopold and Bernd Heinrich, The Triumph of Seeds takes us on a fascinating scientific adventure through the wild and beautiful world of seeds. It is essential reading for anyone who loves to see a plant grow.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U.S./U.S.S.R. Urban Transportation Team
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Transportation and the Urban Environment written by U.S./U.S.S.R. Urban Transportation Team and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xenia A. Cherkaev
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150177025X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Gleaning for Communism written by Xenia A. Cherkaev and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a household, with guaranteed rights to a commons of socialist property, rather than private possessions. Starting with former Leningrad workers' everyday stories about smuggling industrial scrap home over factory fences, Xenia Cherkaev traces collectivist ethical logic that was central to this socialist household economy, in theory and practice: from its Stalin-era inception, through Khrushchev's major foregrounding of communist ethics, to Gorbachev's perestroika, which unfurled its grounding tension between the interests of any given collective and of the socialist household economy itself. A story of how the socialist household economy functioned, how it collapsed, and how it was remembered, this book is haunted throughout by a spectral image of the totalitarian state, whose jealous political control over the economy leads it to trample over all that which ought to be private. Underlying this image, and the neoliberal state phobia it justified, is the question of how individual interests ought to relate to the public good in a large modern society, which, it is assumed, cannot possibly function by the non-private logics of householding. This book tells the story of a large modern society that did.
Author : Vladimir JD. McMillin
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 193668845X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Stationed for Good ... in Moscow written by Vladimir JD. McMillin and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, Stationed in Moscow...For Good - A Tale of Love and Peril in the Cold War depicts the dramatic defection of Sgt. James McMillin, a young man who gave up his family, country, career, and identity to be forever branded a traitor in 1948. It begins with the passionate and totally committed love of his life, Galina Dunaeva. This amazing spy story, filled with compassion, romance, and suspense set during a most tense and sinister period of the "Cold War" illustrates the trappings of the dreaded NKVD/KGB and how it affected life in Moscow--and the USSR--for everyone. The aftermath of U.S. Sgt. McMillin's defection as told in this book will complete the story of what became of James McMillin after slipping behind the Iron Curtain, never to return.
Author : U.S./U.S.S.R. Urban Transportation Team
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transportation and the Urban Environment, Traffic in the Centers of Large Cities written by U.S./U.S.S.R. Urban Transportation Team and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanford Levinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004347
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Written in Stone written by Sanford Levinson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate “heroes” have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless confrontation over the symbolism attached to public space. This twentieth anniversary edition of Written in Stone includes a new preface and an extensive afterword that takes account of recent events in cities, schools and universities, and public spaces throughout the United States and elsewhere. Twenty years on, Levinson's work is more timely and relevant than ever.
Author : Benjamin Paloff
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134152
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Lost in the Shadow of the Word written by Benjamin Paloff and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary Scholarship Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the early twentieth century—a veritable revolution in both physics and philosophy that has been characterized as precipitating an “epistemic trauma” around the world. In this wide-ranging study, Benjamin Paloff contends that writers in Central and Eastern Europe felt this impact quite distinctly from their counterparts in Western Europe. For the latter, the destabilization of traditional notions of space and time inspired works that saw in it a new kind of freedom. However, for many Central and Eastern European authors, who were writing from within public discourses about how to construct new social realities, the need for escape met the realization that there was both nowhere to escape to and no stable delineation of what to escape from. In reading the prose and poetry of Czech, Polish, and Russian writers, Paloff imbues the term “Kafkaesque” with a complexity so far missing from our understanding of this moment in literary history.
Author : Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820478272
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (782 download)
Download or read book The European's Burden written by Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook
Author : Herman Knell
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306811693
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book To Destroy A City written by Herman Knell and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German survivor of the Allied air campaign in World War II provides a unique and thought-provoking perspective on strategic, wide-area bombing
