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ANYONE who has chanced to pass from Bolkhov District into Zhizdra District must have been impressed by the striking difference between the race of people in the province of Orel and the population of the province of Kaluga. The peasant of Orel is not tall, is bent in figure, sullen and suspicious in...

This volume provides a comprehensive, sharply focused guide to the clinical use of Contextual Therapy as a therapy rooted in the reality of human relationships. The basic principles of Contextual Therapy and their implications for the therapeutic process are examined as well as other essential areas...

The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be...

Hear What the Critics are Saying   "Wow, very inspirational and powerful; everyone must read this book. 8 Great Habits of Extremely Effective Christians is by far one of the best Christian books to have come out in the last decade. A Must Read." -Mary Jones – Valley...

Réunis un soir, des amis se racontent leur premier amour. « J'avais alors seize ans. Cela se passait au cours de l'été 1883. J'étais chez mes parents, à Moscou… » Dans la maison voisine, une princesse, jeune fille à la Tourgueniev, délicieuse, pure et volontaire, s'amuse de ses soupirants...

Un matin, l’assesseur de collège Kovaliov se réveille sans son nez ! À la place, il ne reste qu’une surface lisse et plane. Prêt à avertir la police de cette disparition effroyable, il se retrouve « nez à nez » avec son appendice ! Ce dernier déambule dans les rues de Saint-Pétersbourg...

This little volume contains a translation of what are among the last things written by Turgenev. They are best defined by their title Poems in Prose; for, while their form is that of prose, the subjects, the treatment, the imaginative setting , have all the charm and quality of poetry. This is a must...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend accompanying him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father...

This eBook edition of "Fathers & Sons" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg and returns with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying...

In studying the Russian novel it is amusing to note the childish attitude of certain English men of letters to the novel in general, their depreciation of its influence and of the public's 'inordinate' love of fiction. Many men of letters to-day look on the novel as a mere story-book, as a series...

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Russian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent Mongolian...

Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expanding...