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  • My Life in Propaganda

    Language and Totalitarian Regimes

    by Magda Stroinska ...
    Series series Reflections
    My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings; socialist realist art and film; and Radio Free Europe and Voice of America and their role in shaping her generation ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era

    The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China

    by Matthew H. Ciscel, Fengyuan Ji, Ekaterina Levintova, Andrejs Plakans, Marek Skovajsa, Norina Solomon, Magda Stroinska, Cosmina Tanasoiu, Rossen Vassilev, Marius Dragomir ...
    This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the new, presumably democratically-minded political elites in post ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma

    Edited by Magda Stroinska, Vikki Cecchetto, Kate Szymanski ...
    How does a trauma survivor communicate «what can’t be said out loud» to others? In what form? How can we – readers, listeners, viewers – recognize the pain and suffering hidden behind words, pictures, or other artifacts produced by trauma survivors? This volume presents a possible response by bringing together the «expressions of the unspeakable» by trauma survivors and the interpretation of ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Alfred Tarski on Scientific Semantics

    by David Hitchcock, Magda Stroińska ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book tells the story of the landmark event in modern logic whereby Alfred Tarski became “the man who defined truth”. Alfred Tarski’s classic monograph on truth became known internationally in 1935, when he presented its ideas in German at an international conference and collaborated in preparation of its German translation.This book provides the first English translation of the Polish version ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    The Little Book: Story Reader for a Free Ukraine

    by Mykola Matwijszuk, Volodymyr Shyba ...
    Narrated by Volodymyr Shyba, Lorene Shyba ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    Publisher proceeds from the book go to humanitarian aid for Ukrainian people displaced by Russian aggression.The Little Book was originally published in 1932 and made a vital contribution to the curriculum for Canadian-Ukrainian children in prairie schools. The book features charming parables and poems to help children from kindergarten to grade 9 to understand Ukrainian language and culture. This ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    My Life in Propaganda

    Language and Totalitarian Regimes

    by Magda Stroińska, PhD ...
    Narrated by Lorene Shyba, PhD ...
    Series series Reflections

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings; socialist realist art and film; and Radio Free Europe and Voice of America and their role in shaping her generation ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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    'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the twentieth century. It played a fundamental role in the development of analytic philosophy, and its philosophical ideas ... Read more

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