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  • Uncertain Archives

    Critical Keywords for Big Data

    Edited by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D'Ignazio, Kristin Veel ...
    Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability.This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • After the Stasi

    Collaboration and the Struggle for Sovereign Subjectivity in the Writing of German Unification

    by Annie Ring ...
    Why did so many citizens of the GDR agree to collaborate with the Stasi?Reading works of literature since German unification in the light of previously unseen files from the archives of the Stasi, After the Stasi uncovers how writers to the present day have explored collaboration as a challenge to the sovereignty of subjectivity. Annie Ring here interweaves close analysis of literary fiction and ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The Lives of Others

    (Das Leben der Anderen)

    by Annie Ring ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress lover.Annie Ring analyses the film's cinematography, mise-en-scène and editing, tracing connections with Hollywood movies such as ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Red Famine

    Stalin's War on Ukraine

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Gorbachev

    On My Country and the World

    by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
    The last president of the Soviet Union discusses Communism, the Cold War, and bringing democracy to Russia in this sweeping political memoir.Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev shares his illuminating perspective on Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Beginning with the October Revolution of 1917, he notes how much Vladimir Lenin and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Berlin 1945

    The Final Reckoning

    by Karl Bahm ...
    In April 1945, the final dramatic act of World War II in Europe was played out in Germanys capital city. Berlin 1945: The Final Reckoning is a comprehensive history of the last battle of Nazi Germany, which would see the virtual destruction of a city, and the eventual suicide of Adolf Hitler.Berlin 1945: The Final Reckoning begins with a study of the background to the battle and a description of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ukrainian Armies 1914–55

    by Peter Abbott, Eugene Pinak ...
    Series Book 412 - Men-at-Arms
    A detailed, illustrated study of the Ukrainian armed forces, their weapons, dress and equipment from the First to the Second World War and beyond.There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

    Edited by Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, Peter Ruggenthaler ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the "Prague Spring" reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially reluctant to use military force and tried to pressure his counterpart in Czechoslovakia, ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Czech Legion 1914–20

    by David Bullock ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war.Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope for Czech national independence, they were amongst the most motivated and steadfast of the Allied forces. After the Bolshevik Revolution, they fought their way across ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • El Servicio Secreto Soviético

    Geopolítica, #25

    by H Cookridge ...
    Series Book 25 - Segunda guerra mundial
    De vez en cuando acontecimientos dramáticos, tales como los procesos judiciales contra los "espías atómicos", la deserción de Petrov en Australia, Gouzenko en Canadá y Khokhlov en Berlín, miembros estos de la M. V. D., o el descubrimiento de actividades de espionaje soviético en la Gran Bretaña u otros países occidentales, arrojaron cierta luz acerca de los alcances del servicio secreto soviético. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Romanian Battlefront in World War I

    by Glenn E. Torrey ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Winner: Norman B. Tomlinson Book PrizeDespite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania intervened in World War I in August 1916. In return, it received the Allies’ formal sanction for the annexation of the Romanian-inhabited regions of Austria-Hungary. As Glenn Torrey reveals in his pathbreaking study, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD