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  • The Anthems of East-Central Europe

    Reflections on the History of a National Symbol

    by Csaba G. Kiss ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book juxtaposes national anthems of thirteen countries from central Europe, with the aim of initiating a dialogue among the peoples of East-Central Europe.We tend to perceive a national anthem as a particular mirror, involuntarily reflecting an image of nation and homeland; but how does it represent the community for whom it sounds? To answer this question, the book deploys a comparative ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Mirror

    by Steve Taylor, Csaba Lázár ...
    Translated by Veronika Salacz, Ádám László Kiss ...
    You know, there are people who love to annoy each other. We may also say that they dig holes for their fellow-men and they laugh at them when they fall into. They simply don’t realize that one day they can also fall into one of these holes and no one will help them. In other words, helping your friends makes the world go round. It’s like the festival Krishna believers observe every year. They’re ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The NASA Kepler Mission

    by William Borucki, John Troeltzsch, Jessie Christiansen, Susan Mullally, David Ciardi, Calen Henderson, Andrew Vanderburg, Fergal Mullally, Rachel Street, David Summers, Henri Scars Struck, William Chaplin, J. J. Hermes, Ann Marie Cody, Elliott Horch, Rachel Matson, Steven Kawaler, Paula Szkody, George Jacoby, Csaba Kiss, Laszlo Molnar, Andras Pal, Krista Smith, Armin Rest, Peter Garnavich, Dennis Teusch, Chris Stewart, Chris D. Miller, Roger Lapthorne, Dustin S. Putnam, Kipp A. Larson, Doug Wiemer, Katelynn McCalmont-Everton, Colin Peterson, Professor Stephen R Kane ...
    Series series
    The NASA Kepler and K2 missions have made fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science. While known for their breakthrough discoveries in exoplanets – especially small rocky worlds orbiting in the habitable zone of their host suns – these missions have also continued to make numerous scientific advances in solar system science, stellar ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

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    Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

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    **“Sweeping and replete with alluring detail . . . [a] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania.”—Alison Smale, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and ... Read more

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  • Russia and the Golden Horde

    The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

    by Charles J. Halperin ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest "infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations" ( History).In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Caucuses. Though it would hold power into the 15th century, the influence of the Mongolian Empire ... Read more

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  • Natasha's Dance

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  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

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  • The Russian Idea

    by Nikolai Berdyaev ...
    Translated by R. M. French ...
    Series series Library of Russian Philosophy
    In this powerful, moving book, first published in 1946, Berdyaev is not so interested in the empirical details of Russian history as he is in "the thought of the Creator about Russia." The "Russian idea" is thus a mystical notion. Religion and philosophy--not economics or politics--determine history and society.Berdyaev begins his story in the nineteenth century, tracing the lineage of such ... Read more

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  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
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