Die Brüder Grimm »schauten dem Volk aufs Maul« und notierten getreulich, was die Märchenfrau erzählte. So stellen sich viele die Entstehung der Märchen vor. So war es aber nicht. Die Grimms griffen oft radikal in die Texte ein, glätteten, bauten um und aus.

This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today's globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern Europe,

An examination of the idea of 'utopia' and how the idea of it was evolving in the history of the US, USSR, the Third Reich, and in the epoch of postmodern thought.

The seminal work of the French Sociologist Roger Caillois, a translation of Les jeux et les hommes (1958). It is an influential book on the sociology of play and games, or rather in Caillois' terms sociology derived from play. Caillois sees many of the structures in society as elaborate forms of games and many behaviours as forms of play.

The author of many books, a famous collector of legends and myths about St. Petersburg, Naum Aleksandrovich Sindalovsky, presents a unique collection of St. Petersburg folklore, which, like a magic mirror, reflected 300 years of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. It began with the curse of Marina Mniszech. But this long journey was not only marked by tragedies; many sparkling witticisms, funny...

Culture as a factor of the state security. The author is a professor and the Moscow State University, vice-president of Academy of the Russian Literature.

Russians at the first sight. What is appropriate and not appropriate among Russians. Advanced reader will help students have better understanding of the Russian character.

Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the XX century.

This book is a large-scale study of successful Russian films that have worked for several decades to strengthen the ideology of the Putin regime. You have probably seen many of them and even loved them. But what values do these films convey? How do they teach us to look at the past and what myths do they create? Why are Danila Bagrov and Sasha Bely national heroes in Russia? And why are...

Despite the huge number of books and articles devoted to the civilization of Ancient Egypt, it retains its mysterious appeal in the eyes of modern man. Its colossal monuments, its centuries-old power structure, its literature, which describes in detail and dispassionately the complex relationships between the living and the dead, gods and people - all this interests not only specialists, but...