Ilya: 78 books
Obamasutra
Volume Ii: Aphorisms Vs. Obamism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Fight leftist lunacy with this collection of political aphorisms, written by a man who fled the former Soviet Union and its socialistic paradise only to find that he must resume his fight in the United States.
Elaborating on the themes from the first volume of Obamasutra, author Ilya Katz provides...
Obamasutra
Volume 1: Insults for Special Occasions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Ilya Katz ran thousands of miles to escape a socialist paradise in the former Soviet Union, but he never thought an American president would try to introduce a similar system in his new homeland.
Katz believes that President Barack Obama promotes a dangerous leftist policy that rewards the...
by Martin Eisen, Daniel M. Amos, Dwight C. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
A praying mantis insect faces any danger regardless of its opponent’s size and strength. If you’ve seen their parade of innate fearlessness, it is easy to see why they have inspired the creation of a Chinese martial art style. This anthology assembles the work of four...
Motivation in War
The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate...
Order Out of Chaos
Man's New Dialogue with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis
*Order Out of Chaos *is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya...
by Ilya Kabakov
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the “leader” of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Circle. Throughout this time, he created texts...
Ghostly Paradoxes
Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically, nineteenth-century Russia was also consumed with...
The Grasping Hand
"Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for “public use,” the Court ruled that the transfer...
by Ilya Osipov
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The book describes gamification, virality and retention in the freemium educational online platform. Relationships between virality and retention parameters as measurable metrics are calculated and discussed using real examples. The F-growth factor, which combines both virality and retention, is proposed...
Stillborn Crusade
The Tragic Failure of Western Intervention in the Former Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The triumph of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War was the first great crack in the system of international relations established by the victorious Allies. The presence of a powerful anti-Western Soviet regime not only undermined the liberal values binding the signatories and member states of...
High Performance Browser Networking
What every web developer should know about networking and web performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications—including HTTP 2.0...
by Craig Buckler, Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Giulio Mainardi
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
CSS has grown from a language for formatting documents into a robust language for designing web applications. Its syntax is easy to learn, making CSS a great entry point for those new to programming. Indeed, it's often the second language that developers learn, right behind HTML.
One of CSS's...
by Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Manjunath M, Byron Houwens
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Angular is not just a framework, but rather a platform that empowers developers to build applications for the web, mobile, and the desktop.
This book contains a collection of articles that provide a rapid introduction to Angular, getting you up and running with no fuss. It contains:
Angular...
Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli
Fashion, Femininity and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began.
Examining the idea...