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101The Cultural Revolution , Richard Curt Kraus (2012)
China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese… 493 руб102The Reagan Revolution , Troy Gil (2009)
They called it the Reagan revolution, Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and… 493 руб103Malthus , Winch Donald (2013)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short… 493 руб104Letters Concerning the English Nation (2009)
Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's… 616 руб105Massacre Pond , Paul Doiron (2014)
On an unseasonably hot October morning, Mike Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Moore, a wealthy… 258 руб106Chaim Soutine , Klaus H. Carl (2015)
Chaim Soutine, the unconventional and controversial painter of Belorussian origin, combines influences of classic European painting with Post-Impressionism and Expressionism. As a member of the… 1319 руб107Roman Polanski: A Retrospective , James Greenberg (2013)
Roman Polanski: A Retrospective is the definitive tribute to one of the world's most prolific and influential film directors. Editor and film critic James Greenberg takes readers chronologically… 2810 руб108The Phonology of English as an International Language , Jenkins Jennifer (2000)
This book advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching, in which the goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers, rather than imitating native speakers. It will be of interest to… 2909 руб109Reproductive Politics , Solinger Rickie (2013)
Reproductive politics is a term coined by feminists in the 1970s to describe contemporary, Roe v. Wade-era power struggles over contraception and abortion, adoption and surrogacy, and other satellite… 821 руб110Applied Linguistics , Cook Guy (2003)
This work investigates real-world problems involving language. As such it has the difficult task of mediating between academic expertise and lived experience, attempting to reconcile opposed… 1556 руб
