Irina: 231 books
Croatia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
The New Nobility
The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service.
While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political...
by Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the...
"Who, What Am I?"
Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
"God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do..." Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although...
Causes of terrorism by 'the Arabs' against 'the West'
Politics, religion, and/or money?
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: A, OSCE Academy, course: 'The world community and transnational terrorism', language: English, abstract: My assumptions are the following: the true causes of terrorism by 'the Arabs' against 'the West'...
A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages
Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the...
by Maria Arbatova, Irina Muravyova
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of free speech (and publishing), Russian women have become a force in the world of letters. Where in the past they were known chiefly as literary widows or devoted wives, occasionally as poets or critics, and only very rarely as novelists, today they...
by Irina Flach
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 1,0, Fachhochschule Gießen-Friedberg; Standort Gießen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das deutsche Gesundheitswesen steht vor großem Umbruch und die Rahmenbedingungen ändern sich grundlegend, so dass es für jedes Krankenhaus...
by Irina Markova
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Länderstudien, Note: 1,3, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Veranstaltung: Investmentbanking/Finanzmarktanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mitte 1986 hat Michail Gorbatschow ein Prozess zur Umbau und Modernisierung der sowjetischen...
by Irina Markova
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Allgemeines, Note: 2,0, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Veranstaltung: Investmantbanking/Finanz- und Bankwirtschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die im Sommer 2007 am US-Immobilienmarkt ausgelöste Subprime-Krise führte zu erheblichen Unsicherheiten...
by Irina Haverkamp
Language: German
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: German
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich BWL - Recht, Note: 1,0, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 24 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Handelsbeziehungen zwischen den Ländern unserer Welt haben sich über viele Jahre zu ihrer heutigen Form entwickelt. Der ständige...
Socialist Revolutions in Asia
The Social History of Mongolia in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Contemporary Mongolia is often seen as one of the most open and democratic societies in Asia, undergoing remarkable post-socialist transformation. Although the former ruling party, the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (the MPRP), has fundamentally changed its platform, it holds leadership...
by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
As the foundation of the Microsoft Business Intelligence Strategy, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services provides users with faster access to data and even more tools for managing and analyzing data across multidimensional objects (databases, dimensions, cubes). Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...