Noted author Roy Medvedev examines the growth and development of Kazakhstan during the Post-Soviet years, from an area of instability to one of stability and growth, driven by its exploitation of its natural resources.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Evgeny Ivanovich Fokin served in a reconnaissance company from May 1943. He repeatedly participated in capturing enemy prisoners (‘languages’) at the front lines and in the enemy's rear. A special chapter in the author's military biography is his participation in a daring operation by a special detachment to save crucial facilities in Krivoy Rog in February 1944. E.I. Fokin vividly and...

The author describes not only the air battles of the Second World War, but also investgates the development of strategy and tactics in the air war for fighters, bombers and close air support.

Illustrated with multiple black and white photographs this book reveals the history fo Petrograd's criminalily in 1917-1922. Author provides much of evidence to suggest that the Red Terror came as a result of fighting criminality.

A revisionist look at Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin and Stalin's terror.

Proceedings of a conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of V P Grigorev, held the 19th-22nd of May, 2005.

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.