Irina: 231 books
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Dynamic Management of Sustainable Development
Methods for Large Technical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Dynamic management of systems development is a precondition for the realization of sustainable system development. This approach allows for the usage of systems theory methods that take into consideration the interaction of decisions made over time and space. A characteristic feature of this kind...
by Alexander P. Sukhodolov, Elena G. Popkova, Irina M. Kuzlaeva
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This unique book adopts a problem approach to study the Internet economy, which consists in assessing its contradiction to classic economy, analyzing it, and describing how the Internet economy is developing in modern Russia. The authors study its sense and basic principles, identify the factors that...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
by Irina Kleyman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
This textbook is the minimum of what first graders have to know about Mathematics. I try to simplify my smart subject Mathematics the best way I can. I hope this textbook helps students better understand Mathematics.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nizhny Novgorod : (Russia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nizhny Novgorod : (Russia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nizhny Novgorod : (Russia) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Britain Today - a Post-industrial Economy
a Post-industrial Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn, course: Understanding British Business Culture, 25 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction After the World War...
What Happened to Anna K.
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
A mesmerizing debut novel that reimagines Tolstoy's classic tragedy, Anna Karenina, for our time
Vivacious thirty-seven-year-old Anna K. is comfortably married to Alex, an older, prominent businessman from her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens. But a longing for freedom...
by Holger Stark, Ane Schönyan, Cairiel Ari
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2014
„Eine Feder für Wölfe“ ist die gemeinnützige Zusammenarbeit mehrerer Autoren. Jeder von ihnen hat sich bereiterklärt, auf ein Honorar für dieses Werk zu verzichten. Stattdessen geht der Gewinn eines jeden Buches zu 100% an den NABU, um den Wolf in Deutschland willkommen zu heißen. Wir –...
by Irina Wooden Heisey
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
H is for Hunt
Hunt, a very scruffy eight-year-old shelter dog, with mange and hair falling out, is ignored at the animal shelter.
Katie is a compassionate girl. It is her birthday, and her dad is taking her to the shelter to get a dog of her own.
The...
The Art of Understanding Art
A Behind the Scenes Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.
Offers an inquiry—unique among introductory art texts—into the learning process of understanding and appreciating...
by Stephanie Greene, Joanna Henryks, David Livert
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the “ordinary, everyday”...
Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere
Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...
Accounting for Rape
Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about sexual violence....