The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr I.)(Paperback)

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr I.)(Paperback)

The history of the United Soviet Socialist Republics is a bloody one, especially before and during the time of Stalin. Tens of millions of innocent people were tortured, imprisoned and killed; entire minority populations were targeted. In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn draws a

Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr)(Paperback / softback)

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The

Gulag Archipelago - (Abridged edition) (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr)(Paperback / softback)

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON 'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police,

The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr I.)(Paperback)

The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn'BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY' --TimeThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr)(Paperback / softback)

THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVELThe Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the

Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr)(Paperback / softback)

FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO'Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero' Edward CrankshawAfter years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and

Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics (Perloff Marjorie)(Paperback)

Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components. The 'infrathin' was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet

March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 (Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr)(Paperback)

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel.The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus about the Russian Revolution

The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan (Totman Conrad)(Paperback)

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries. Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan's steeply mountainous woodland has

Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology (Sloterdijk Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time

The First Dragon, 7 (Owen James A.)(Paperback)

Restoring the Archipelago of Dreams comes with a precious price in this final volume of the critically acclaimed Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series. To save the world, Charles, the Grail Child Rose Dyson, and Edmund McGee must travel deep into the past to discover the identity of the

Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education (Dirda Michael)(Paperback)

Surveying the dizzying universe of classic books, Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary essayist, proves himself to be one of the most engaging critics of our time--and great fun to read. Opening with an impassioned critique of modern reading habits, he then presents many of the great,

The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard (Chistyakov Ivan)(Paperback)

In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp.Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1935, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a

Lives of the Artists: Volume 1 (Vasari Giorgio)(Paperback)

In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio

The Revelation of John, Volume 1 (Barclay William)(Paperback)

NOW IN AN ENLARGED PRINT EDITION!In this volume, William Barclay makes the most difficult book in the Bible easier to understand. In his introduction he examines areas such as the characteristics of apocalyptic literature and the nature of Caesar worship. John was, as Barclay shows, 'soaked and

Literary Theory - An Introduction (Eagleton Terry)(Paperback / softback)

First published in 1983, Literary Theory: An Introduction is probably the best-selling work of literary criticism in the world today. It propelled its author to a position of such influence and controversy within the British academy that even Prince Charles once described him as 'that dreadful

Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader (Eagleton Mary)(Paperback)

Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and

The Use of Bodies (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

The final volume in Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben's wide-ranging investigation of the foundations of Western politics and

I Was Reincarnated as the Villainess in an Otome Game But the Boys Love Me Anyway!, Volume 1, 1 (Ataka)(Paperback)

Elegy for Eddie (Winspear Jacqueline)(Paperback)

The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--an investigation into the killing of a local man from Maisie's childhood neighborhood leads the sleuth from her own doorstep to London's halls of power.In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear's acclaimed, bestselling mystery

The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1: A Commentary (Kalligas Paul)(Paperback)

The first volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophy This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus-a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep

Deep Beyond, Volume 1 (Andolfo Mirka)(Paperback)

In an underpopulated future Earth, devastated by the dire consequences of the millennium bug, the survival of mankind--and, maybe, of the planet itself--is handled by a small number of people. These are talented scientists who, despite the adverse situation and the stupid feuds that continue to

Arts Integration in Education (Mardirosian Gail Humphries)(Paperback)

Arts Integration in Education is an insightful, even inspiring investigation into the enormous possibilities for change that are offered by the application of arts integration in education. Presenting research from a range of settings, from preschool to university, and featuring contributions from