Alamut (Bartol Vladimir)(Paperback)

Alamut (Bartol Vladimir)(Paperback)

Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful of elite fighters who are to become his 'living daggers.' By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled

Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach, Global Edition (Bartol Curt)(Paperback / softback)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Mayakovsky Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Teaching Classics with Technology (Natoli Bartolo)(Paperback)

The impact of ICT on the teaching of classical languages, literature and culture has not until now been extensively described and evaluated. Nevertheless, educational technology has made a huge difference to the ways in which Classics is taught at junior, senior and college level. The book brings

Under Different Stars (Bartol Amy A.)(Paperback)

Winner of four 2014 UtopYA Awards, including Best Book of the Year and Best Sci-Fi Book of the YearKricket Hollowell never wished upon stars. She was too busy hiding in plain sight, eluding Chicago's foster care system. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, she now eagerly anticipates the day

The Rehearsals (Sharov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Blizzard (Sorokin Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

The Annotated Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Propp Vladimir Yakovlevich)(Paperback)

Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian

Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John

Cinderella and Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli (Hoelterhoff Manuela)(Paperback)

A wickedly funny look at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes

Divine Sophia: The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov (Solovyov Vladimir Sergeyevich)(Paperback)

The founder of modern Russian philosophy, Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) is widely considered its greatest practitioner. Together with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, he is one of the towering intellectual figures in late-nineteenth-century Russia, and his diverse writings influenced much of the non-Marxist

Nabokov's Dozen - Thirteen Stories (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Day of the Oprichnik (Sorokin Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Dersu Uzala (Arsenyev Vladimir)(Paperback)

A memoir by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, covering his trips in 1902, 1906, and 1907 as the first European to explore remote portions of Siberia. Dersu Uzala was his native guide on these trips. The book describes their adventures deep in the wilderness. It is the source for the Kurosawa

Speak, Memory - An Autobiography Revisited (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in

Russian School of Piano Playing Book 1 (Nikolaev Vladimir)(Paperback)

Russian School of Piano Playing Book 2 (Nikolaev Vladimir)(Paperback)

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2) (Pushkin Aleksandr)(Paperback)

Vladimir Nabokov's famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin When Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov's witty and exhaustive commentary. Presented here in its

Letters to Vera (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in

Enchanter (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul

Henri Bergson (Jankelevitch Vladimir)(Paperback)

Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jank l vitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives

Lampedusa - Gateway to Europe (Bartolo Pietro)(Pevná vazba)

The moving and essential testimony of an Italian doctor who has worked for twenty-five years on the front line of perhaps the largest mass migration in human