LIBROS DEL AUTOR: bykova maria

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  • Haunted Dreams
    Jenny Kaminer / Maria Bykova
    ENG:Through close analysis of prose, drama, television, and film, this book maps how the adolescent hero has become a locus for multiple anxieties throughout the tumultuous years since the end of the Soviet experiment. Kaminer also directly addresses some of the pivotal questions facing scholars of post-Soviet Russia: Have Soviet cultural models been transcended? Or do they con...
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    34,48 €

  • Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture
    Chatterjee Paroma / Bykova Maria
    ENGUp to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book, Paroma Chatterjee offers a new perspective on the topic, arguing that pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine...
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    36,83 €

  • War Stuff
    Joan Cashin / Maria Bykova
    In this prize-winning work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and environmental resources necessary to wage war. This war 'stuff' included the skills of white Southern civilians, as well as such material resources as food, timber,and housing. At first, civilians were willing to help Confederate or Union ...
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    34,07 €

  • Borderwaters
    Brian R. Roberts / Maria Bykova
    Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other country in the world. This watery version of the United States borders some twenty-one countries, particularly in the archipela...
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    42,42 €

  • The Dostoevsky Effect
    Zahlan Albanese Stark N Lorne Tepperman / Maria Bykova
    A team of University of Toronto sociologists examined Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s life to determine the origins of his gambling addiction and draw interesting parallels with the experience of modern day gamblers that they interviewed and took bibliographical accounts from in their study of Toronto area residents. ...
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    38,29 €