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Virtual Politics
Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World
States like Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of stuffing the ballot box, cowing the population and imprisoning the opposition–or not obviously. But a...
Dressed to Rule
Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II
Throughout history rulers have used clothes as a form of legitimization and propaganda. While palaces, pictures, and jewels might reflect the choice of a monarch’s predecessors or advisers, clothes reflected the...
Siberia
A History of the People
Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M....
Russian Music and Nationalism
from Glinka to Stalin
Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music—its ineffable “Russianness”—Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera A Life...
Mozart’s Operas: A Companion
Up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible, this is the best Mozart opera guide available This wise and friendly guide to Mozart’s operas encompasses the full range of his most popular...
C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid
Arms and the Exile
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) is best remembered as a literary critic, essayist, theologian, and novelist, and his famed tales The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters have been read by millions. Now, A. T....
Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an Unusual Theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana
50th Anniversary Edition
John H. Ostrom’s expeditions to the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana in the 1960s resulted in discoveries and research that would change long-held concepts in paleontology. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his now...
Russian in Use
An Interactive Approach to Advanced Communicative Competence: With Online Media
Russian in Use: An Interactive Approach to Communicative Competence is a four-skill language textbook intended for advanced students of Russian. The book focuses on high-frequency, nonliterary topics of general...
The Rise of Thomas Cromwell
Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534
How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell’s early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life...
Character Text for Chinese Dialogues
Students and teachers using Fred Wang's romanized text, Chinese Dialogues, are here provided with a parallel character version which presents the dialogues of each lesson in traditional character format. To suit the...