From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

The book, written by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is dedicated to the Elixir of Happiness and is one of al-Ghazali's later works. Unlike earlier writings, this was his first in Persian. The book contains scanned images of the Persian text and a parallel Russian translation.

This monograph presents—for the first time in domestic scholarship—a systematic study of the inaugural addresses delivered by Russian presidents, as well as their addresses to the Federal Assembly. The analysis is conducted primarily from cognitive and rhetorical perspectives. The author focuses on elements of the schematic and thematic structure of discourse, as well as on linguistic phenomena...

Comedy in Russian dramatic art at the end of XX - the beginning of XXI century. In the center of attention is a comedy and its versions. The textbook includes theoretic part, reviews, information about play writes and plays.

The Commandant of the Kremlin is a unique position in the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russian Federation. The author, a military historian, examines the men who filled this position from 1918-1953 - from the rise to power of Lenin to the death of Stalin.

The book seeks to analyze international conflicts and offers theoretical and practical suggestions to regulate conflict.

Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov, (1869 - 1957) was a Russian trial lawyer and liberal parliamentary orator, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party and Russian Freemasonry, notable for his advocacy of a constitutional Russian state. His brother Nikolay Maklakov served as Russia's Interior Minister in 1912-15.

PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied World War II convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, the Arctic convoys suffered a significant defeat when Convoy PQ 17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships during a series of heavy enemy daylight attacks which lasted a week.

Published by the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, this book examines the causes and character of the war and the process in which a local conflict is escalated into an international conflict. Of particular interest to the author is the role and activities of the United Nations.