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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $22.95
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Manufacturer: Kodansha Amer Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Galina Dutkina
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Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0947312
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Publication Date: 1996-01
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Reading Level: 238
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Description: This text presents a humorous personal account of the monumental hurdles ordinary people face in Moscow every day - from skyrocketing prices to gang violence.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $19.91
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Greta Lynn Uehling
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.7100494388
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Publication Date: 2004-11-27
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: In the final days of World War II, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population, nearly 200,000 people. Beyond Memory offers the first ethnographic exploration of this event, as well as the 50 year movement for repatriation. Many of the Crimean Tatars have returned in a process that involves squatting on vacant land and self-immolation. Uehling asks how they became willing to die for their national collectivity. She provides a fine-grained analysis of how "memories," sentiments, and dreams of a homeland never seen came to be shared. Uehling suggests the second-generation has a surprisingly instrumental role to play. The way children correct and intervene in parental narratives, dissidents challenge interrogators, and speakers borrow and trade lines index this social aspect of memory.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $9.60
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Manufacturer: Penfield Pr
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pat Martin
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Publisher: Penfield Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 390
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Publication Date: 2003-05
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Reading Level: 40
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Description: "A handful of friends is better than a wagonful of gold." "Happy thoughts are half your health." These are some of the many words of wisdom in this delightful book, which also includes songs, recipes, Christmas customs, and stories about Czech culture.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John K. Cox
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 949.71
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Publication Date: 2002-05-30
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: With the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia in 1991, interest in Balkan history has increased and become emotionally charged. This balanced and engagingly written history of Serbia will help readers to understand the complex web of Serbian history, politics, society, and culture and how the Serbs have dealt with the many political, military, and socioeconomic challenges in their history. It attempts to remove the veil of stereotypes and myths obscuring the significant details and developmental processes in the history of Serbia and in its relations with its neighbors. In addition to examining the political history of Serbia in the context of Central Europe, the author, a specialist in Balkan history, shows how societal and cultural developments affected Serbian history and reflected political and economic events. A timeline of significant events in the history of Serbia and an introductory chapter on Serbia today are followed by 12 chronologically organized narrative chapters that tell the story of this land from the splendor of medieval Serbia to a new beginning after the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. Four historical maps, brief biographies of key figures in Serbian history, a glossary of terms, and a bibliographic essay provide valuable resource material for readers. Every library should update its collection of materials on Serbia with this current history.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $30.02
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Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Roger Gough
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Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Dewey Decimal Number: 943.9053092
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Publication Date: 2006-10-03
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Few political lives have been as dramatic, or as marked by sudden changes of fortune, as that of Janos Kadar. Was Kadar--Hungary's communist leader from 1956 to 1988--an ambitious, ruthless party functionary or a tragic visionary? In this, the first biography in English since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Roger Gough paints a vivid picture of Kadar's personality and career, while analyzing his significance for Hungary and his place in the history of European communism.
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Price: $39.99
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Sale: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Perfect Paperback
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Author: Susanna Lapossy
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Publisher: Trafford Publishing
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Publication Date: 2006-11-22
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Life Behind The Iron Curtain shows the 20th century history through the authoress' life. This historical story begins at her father's birthplace Verecke, where ancient Hungarians conqered and founded Hungary. She spent happy long holidays there for 18 years. It was translated, sent to England by daughter-in-law Christine Diósy to acquintances, whose opinion follows:
Mollie & Fred Green: We were all very interested indeed to read your mother-in-law’s memoires. I must emphasise how enjoyable we’ve found this book. The memories’re fantastic, the descriptions so vivid I fell under its spell and just feel as if I’ve been transported back with her and actually "feeling" the atmosphere and seeing the houses, garden etc.
I'd like to meet the authoress one day. I feel she's a remarkable woman and was very fortunate to belong to such a loving family.She seems to have "taken me right into her family"- it’s incredible!
I’m just reading and reading the next instalment of the most interesting story. We’re all loving it. I wish I was so gifted as she. I can’t read enough about her life. So we're eagerly awaiting the next transcript. To me it's like reading the script on one of those beloved old films we just loved to sit, watch, soft times cry, then we’d walk home, talk about ‘how it was' for days. I just don’t want it to end.
What pleasure reading this book has brought to me. When it arrives in my post box I rush to open it. The description of her mother brought tears to my eyes- she had such overwhelming love. All through her life she’s been surrounded with people who loved her and she returned this.
The world would be a wonderful place if we could all have received and returned love!
We recommend this book to all, who like adventurous, readable, unforgettable books.
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Manufacturer: Zivkovic Tibor
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Zivkovic Tibor
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2000-12
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Reading Level: 151
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.00
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Manufacturer: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark von Hagen
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Publisher: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.482477047
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Publication Date: 2003-04
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Reading Level: 381
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Description: The series of four sessions on the Russian-Ukrainian encounter held alternately at Columbia University and Cologne University from June 1994 to September 1995 had their origin in both the world of great political events and the world of scholarly discussion. Ukraine's declaration of independence, ratified by the referendum of 1 December 1991, and subsequent international recognition were followed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991. These developments made Ukrainian-Russian relations a major international issue. A new, difficult, and uncertain phase in these relations began with the establishment of these two independent neighbouring states. Since Russia would clearly remain a major world power, while Ukraine was the largest and one of the most populous states of Europe, those relations took on more than binational significance. The future of the post-Soviet order depends largely on how these two largely Slavic countries work out their relations. The editors of Culture, Nation, and Identity, representing the Seminar for East European History at Cologne University, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, invited seventy specialists to examine the Russian-Ukrainian encounter in four chronological symposia, from the seventeenth century to the present. The papers on the contemporary period were published in the Harriman Review. The present volume is a selection of sixteen articles developed from presentations on the Ukrainian-Russian encounter from the early modern period to World War II. Historians and Slavists from Canada, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States employ diverse methodologies to examine the many spheres in which Russians and Ukrainians and their identities and cultures interacted. This title consists of sixteen essays, a preface, and an afterword. Contributors include Viktor Zhivov, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, Paul Bushkovitch, Andreas Kappeler, Olga Andriewsky, Serhy Yekelchyk, Dieter Pohl, Yuri Shapoval, and many others.
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Price: $49.00
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Sale: $45.80
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Manufacturer: Mazda Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Mazda Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956.62
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Reading Level: 761
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $26.35
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Manufacturer: Kumarian Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Iveta Silova and Gita Steiner-Khamsi
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Publisher: Kumarian Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 370.958
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Publication Date: 2008-02-24
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: * Critical retrospective on the first decades of the transition from planned to free-market economy in Central Asia
* Contributions from both Eastern and Western scholars
* Includes both theoretical NGO research and practical examples taken from experience
During the important, early years of transition for the post-socialist countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia, the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation was arguably the largest and most influential network in the region. How NGOs React follows the Soros Foundation's educational reform programs there and raises larger questions about the role of NGOs in a centralist government, relationships NGOs have with international donors and development banks, and how projects are adopted and interpreted in different contexts.
Case studies (authored by former or current educational experts of the Soros Network based in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) look at the impact of capacity-building programs, the professional development of teachers, school administrators, government officials, textbook authors, publishers, teacher educators, and university lecturers, among others. Soros's particular focus on capacity-building and how this strategy was adopted across a wide area reveals much that will instruct NGOs working in international education policy. The unique combination of perspectives from Western as well as Eastern scholars based in the region makes this collection an essential retrospective on key processes involved in the transformation of closed societies into open and free ones.
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