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The Making of Many Books. Printed Works on Ecclesiastes 1523-1875 (2014)
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Taking advantage of the unprecedented access to books and information that has become available in the last few years, this bibliography identifies and traces the history of hundreds of books and articles on Ecclesiastes published in many different l... Read More about The Making of Many Books. Printed Works on Ecclesiastes 1523-1875.
Soviet Jewish Aliyah: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East (1996)
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This book provides new insights into a period of fundamental change in Israel and the Middle East. It explains how the Israeli government failed to effectively handle the integration of new emigres from the Soviet Union, and how it alienated traditio... Read More about Soviet Jewish Aliyah: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East.
Britain and the Yemen civil War 1962-1965 (2010)
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Between 1962 and 1965 Britain engaged in covert operations in support of Royalist forces fighting the Egyptian backed Republican regime that had seized power in the Yemeni capital Sana’a in September 1962. Covert action was regarded as a legitimate t... Read More about Britain and the Yemen civil War 1962-1965.
Filosofiia tela (Philosophy of the Body) (2006)
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Cries in the New Wilderness: from the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism. (2002)
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Already a cult classic in Russia, this novel takes the form of a secret KGB-sponsored study in which Professor Raisa O Gibaydulina reports on the (imagined) religious and non-religious sects that have mysteriously sprouted up in the late 1980s Soviet... Read More about Cries in the New Wilderness: from the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism..
Vse esse (All Essays, or All is Essay): Vol 1: In Russia, 1970s-1980s; Vol 2: From America, 1990s-2000s. (2005)
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This collection of about 150 essays written in 1977-2003 covers a turbulent period in the history of two civilizations: the rapid transition from the Cold War confrontation to the present political openness and cultural dialogue. The author, a Russia... Read More about Vse esse (All Essays, or All is Essay): Vol 1: In Russia, 1970s-1980s; Vol 2: From America, 1990s-2000s..
Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication. (1999)
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Contemporary processes of globalization have led to radical new modes of cultural interaction, forms not easily understandable in terms of traditional models of discrete national or ethnic cultures. Transcultural Experiments develops new scholarly an... Read More about Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication..
The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto. (2012)
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In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed would emerge in the future: the 'desirable sciences.' M... Read More about The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto..
Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture. (1999)
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The last couple of decades have been decisive for Russia not only in the political sphere; the period has also seen the rise and crystallization of Russian postmodernism. The essays, manifestos, and articles gathered here investigate various manifest... Read More about Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture..
PreDictionary: An Exploration of Blank Spaces in Language. (2011)
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MIKHAIL EPSTEIN "PreDictionary. Experiments in Verbal Creativity". Mikhail EPSTEIN is a literary scholar and critical thinker and Professor of Cultural Theory at Emory University (Atlanta, USA). PreDictionary is a dictionary of would-be words that ar... Read More about PreDictionary: An Exploration of Blank Spaces in Language..
Filosofiia vozmozhnogo. (The Philosophy of the Possible). (2001)
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This monograph studies the significance of modality for philosophy and the whole body of the humanities. According to the author, a professor at Emory University, from the indicative mode of pre-Kantian thought through the imperative mode of post-Kan... Read More about Filosofiia vozmozhnogo. (The Philosophy of the Possible)..