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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Rus...
$25.54
What is the “real Russia” What is the relationship between national dreams and kitsch, between political and artistic utopia and everyday existence Commonplaces of daily living would be perfect clues for those seeking to understand a culture. But all who write big books on Russian life confess the..
Conversations with Choreographers
$9.78
How do choreographers do what they do Where do the ideas come from Is there a technique involved and how do they even begin From the publishers of Conversations in the Wings: Actors on Acting comes another practical inside look at the professional theatre. Svetlana Grody and Dorothy Lister have c..
Intimate Voices from the First World War
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How do you tell the history of a war in which more than nine million combatants and nearly seven million civilians across the world died by bullet, fire, hunger and disease How do you describe the experience of a war that ignited two revolutions, brought down four monarchies, scarred a generation a..
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
$16.25
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON ..
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeent...
$80.90
Examines the influence of culture, science, and technology on the art of Dutch painters, including Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens Author: Alpers, Svetlana Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0226015122 ISBN-13: 9780226015125..
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeent...
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"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dut..
Twenty Letters To A Friend
$10.99
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva 28 February 1926 - 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. In 1967, she caused an international furor when she defected and became a naturalize..
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nucle...
$10.22
Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardOn April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of ..
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
$9.11
Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties and the youth and humanity of many te..