Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

The authors examine the problems of socio-economic development of the Caucasus (esp. Central) in the context of globalization. They develop points for making comparative analyses for the countries in region, their connections between each other and other international and political entities.

Reprint edition. Original was published in 1889

Historians Dominique and Janine Sourdel identify a classical period in Islamic civilization, beginning in 622 AD – with the preaching of Muhammad – and ending in the 13th century, the era of the disintegration of the great Islamic empire, which once stretched from Spain to India from west to east and from sub-Saharan Africa to the Black and Caspian Seas from south to north. This great empire is...

Literary research includes notes and discoveries collected during over 40 years of work as a literary critic. Most texts devoted to Turgenev, other subjects are Griboedov, Baratynsky, Goncharov, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and some others.

Third edition of the manual on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's creative work.

Dictionary provides explanations for all psycholocial states that are described in fiction, and philosophic literature.

The author examines the nuclear weapon crises in North Korea and Iran and the challenges the world faces in stopping proliferation.

This book by the renowned political scientist and Americanist A.I. Utkin explores the secret geopolitical, economic, diplomatic, and mystical-religious forces behind the US war against Iraq and Afghanistan, and the situation in the Middle East that emerged after this war. The author analyzes the reasons for the noticeably increased American aggressiveness in the Middle East region and...

The first book by Arkadi Doubintchik, modern Russian-language poet living in America, includes mostly early lyrics, but also contains more recent works of philosophical orientation. Arkadi writes poetry for more than 30 years, was published in periodicals in America, has become one of the winners of the global competition of Russian poets abroad. The book will certainly be interesting to all...