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On the Margins. Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia
      Estonia is perhaps the only country in Europe that lacks a comprehensive history of its Jewish minority. Spanning over 150 years of Estonian Jewish history, On the Margins is a truly unique book. Rebuilding a life beyond so-called Pale of Jewish Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Jewish cultural autonomy in interwar Estonia, and the trauma of Soviet occupation of 1940–41 are among the issues...
      $60.00
      On the Margins. Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia
          Estonia is perhaps the only country in Europe that lacks a comprehensive history of its Jewish minority. Spanning over 150 years of Estonian Jewish history, On the Margins is a truly unique book. Rebuilding a life beyond so-called Pale of Jewish Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Jewish cultural autonomy in interwar Estonia, and the trauma of Soviet occupation of 1940–41 are among the issues...
          $60.00
              $40.00
              Piroska and the Pantokrator
                  $40.00
                  Piroska and the Pantokrator
                      Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople. This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118. Now called the Zeyrek Mosque, the second largest Byzantine religious edifice after Hagia Sophia still...
                      $40.00
                      Piroska and the Pantokrator
                          Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople. This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118. Now called the Zeyrek Mosque, the second largest Byzantine religious edifice after Hagia Sophia still...
                          $40.00
                          Practices of Coexistence. Constructions of the Other in Early Modern Perceptions
                              The essays in this book provide interesting contributions to the ongoing debate concerning the representation of differing cultures, i.e., the “image of the Other” in the early modern period . They deal with images, projections, and perceptions, based on various experiences of coexistence. Although the individual contributions contain sources and references of iconography, this is not just...
                              $65.00
                              Practices of Coexistence. Constructions of the Other in Early Modern Perceptions
                                  The essays in this book provide interesting contributions to the ongoing debate concerning the representation of differing cultures, i.e., the “image of the Other” in the early modern period . They deal with images, projections, and perceptions, based on various experiences of coexistence. Although the individual contributions contain sources and references of iconography, this is not just...
                                  $65.00
                                  Remembering Communism. Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in S
                                      Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology,...
                                      $79.95
                                      Remembering Communism. Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in S
                                          Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology,...
                                          $79.95
                                          The Apocalyptic Complex. Perspectives Histories Persistence
                                              The thirteen essays in this volume focus on the dimensions, consequences and transformations of Apocalypticism. The authors explore the everyday relevance of the apocalyptic in contemporary society, culture, and politics, side by side with the various histories of apocalyptic ideas and movements. In particular, they seek to better understand the ways in which perceptions of the apocalypse...
                                              $69.95
                                              The Apocalyptic Complex. Perspectives Histories Persistence
                                                  The thirteen essays in this volume focus on the dimensions, consequences and transformations of Apocalypticism. The authors explore the everyday relevance of the apocalyptic in contemporary society, culture, and politics, side by side with the various histories of apocalyptic ideas and movements. In particular, they seek to better understand the ways in which perceptions of the apocalypse...
                                                  $69.95
                                                  Transition in Post-Soviet Art. The Collective Actions Group Before and After 198
                                                      The artistic tradition that emerged as a form of cultural resistance in the 1970s changed during the transition from socialism to capitalism. This volume presents the evolution of the Moscow-based conceptual artist group called Collective Actions, proposing it as a case-study for understanding the transformations that took place in Eastern European art after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Esanu...
                                                      $59.95
                                                      Transition in Post-Soviet Art. The Collective Actions Group Before and After 198
                                                          The artistic tradition that emerged as a form of cultural resistance in the 1970s changed during the transition from socialism to capitalism. This volume presents the evolution of the Moscow-based conceptual artist group called Collective Actions, proposing it as a case-study for understanding the transformations that took place in Eastern European art after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Esanu...
                                                          $59.95
                                                          Berlin Wall. Berlin Wall Memorial Exhibition Catalog
                                                              The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.
                                                              $45.00
                                                              Berlin Wall. Berlin Wall Memorial Exhibition Catalog
                                                                  The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.
                                                                  $45.00
                                                                  Na vsvode. Bitva za Uber [Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber]
                                                                      Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.
                                                                      $24.95
                                                                      Na vsvode. Bitva za Uber [Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber]
                                                                          Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.
                                                                          $24.95
                                                                              $16.00
                                                                              Khirosima [Hiroshima]
                                                                                  $16.00
                                                                                  Khirosima [Hiroshima]
                                                                                      Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows...
                                                                                      $16.00
                                                                                      Khirosima [Hiroshima]
                                                                                          Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows...
                                                                                          $16.00
                                                                                          Predannaia revoliutsiia [The Revolution Betrayed]
                                                                                              ‘The Revolution Betrayed’ is one of Trotsky’s most famous works; the author himself even called this book ‘the main thing in his life.’ Written during forced seclusion in Norway, the book is devoted to an analysis of the Soviet political regime and a forecast of its further development. Without mincing words, Trotsky, in a fierce and categorical manner, settles scores with his main opponent...
                                                                                              $14.50
                                                                                              Predannaia revoliutsiia [The Revolution Betrayed]
                                                                                                  ‘The Revolution Betrayed’ is one of Trotsky’s most famous works; the author himself even called this book ‘the main thing in his life.’ Written during forced seclusion in Norway, the book is devoted to an analysis of the Soviet political regime and a forecast of its further development. Without mincing words, Trotsky, in a fierce and categorical manner, settles scores with his main opponent...
                                                                                                  $14.50
                                                                                                  LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen [LTI: Notebook of a Philologist]LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen [LTI: Notebook of a Philologist]
                                                                                                      LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Victor Klemperers Analyse der Sprache des Nationalsozialismus und ihrer Wirkungsmacht ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung. Zugleich ist es ein historisches Dokument ersten Ranges von der Selbstrettung eines Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftlers in hoffnungsloser Zeit. Die Ausgabe von Elke Fröhlich erschließt den Text, seinen zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund...
                                                                                                      $23.50
                                                                                                      LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen [LTI: Notebook of a Philologist]LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen [LTI: Notebook of a Philologist]
                                                                                                          LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Victor Klemperers Analyse der Sprache des Nationalsozialismus und ihrer Wirkungsmacht ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung. Zugleich ist es ein historisches Dokument ersten Ranges von der Selbstrettung eines Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftlers in hoffnungsloser Zeit. Die Ausgabe von Elke Fröhlich erschließt den Text, seinen zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund...
                                                                                                          $23.50
                                                                                                          Chornobyl. Istoriya yadernoyi katastrofy [Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe]
                                                                                                              In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic...
                                                                                                              $25.95
                                                                                                              Chornobyl. Istoriya yadernoyi katastrofy [Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe]
                                                                                                                  In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic...
                                                                                                                  $25.95