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"As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has been shaped by empires that exploited the nation...
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Pilot Productions
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2013.
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English
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Join Nova Scotia native Zoe D'Amato as she journeys across Eastern Canada. Starting at Cape Spear, the eastern most point of North America; Halifax, to check out a haunted restaurant before heading north to Cape Breton Island. Then to Prince Edward Island, to learn about the Harness Racing; before heading across the eight-mile Confederation Bridge to New Brunswick to do some kayaking and lobster fishing.
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"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone...
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New Europe
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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When the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv -- today the second-largest city in Bulgaria -- was already thousands of years old. Indeed, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels, Amsterdam are all are mere infants compared to Plovdiv. This is just one of the paradoxes that haunts and defines the New Europe, that part of Europe that was freed from Soviet bondage in 1989 which is at once...
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Pulley Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"We Had Our Reasons is a collection of poems created by Ricardo Ruiz in collaboration with other members of his Mexican farm community in Eastern Washington. The poems, vivid and pointed, guide the reader through the thoughts and struggles that come with the decision to leave one's home in Mexico, and travel to this remote, rural community of the United States. Through the book access is provided to readers; stories that have gone untold for generations...
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Northwest geographer volume no. 1
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Northwest Panorama Pub
Pub. Date
[1984]
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English
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12) The painted bird
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The classic novel of a boy's struggle for survival in WWII Poland, from the National Book Award–winning author of Steps and Being There. Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. With sparse prose and vivid imagery, it is a story of mythic proportion and timeless human relevance.
15) The bone mother
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Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind--and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary--they tell their stories and confront their destinies. Eerie and unsettling like the best fairy tales, these incisor-sharp portraits of ghosts, witches, sirens, and seers--and the mortals...
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The Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton Company
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[2022]
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English
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"A photographic journey through the origins and mysteries of a natural treasure of the West. In Beautiful Wounds, Northwestern photographic journalist Timothy Connor combines stunning artwork, historical narrative, and personal experience in this love letter to the Channeled Scablands in southeastern Washington state. Carved and scoured by cataclysmic floods over two million years, the region is remarkable for its harsh beauty and diversity of natural...
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Mencius (also known as Meng Zi, Meng Ke, circa 372-289 BC) was the most prominent Confucian after Confucius, whose teachings were fundamental to Chinese culture for millennia. The book Mencius documented Mencius's conversations with his disciples and other relevant characters and highlighted his philosophy. This book provides a new translation of Mencius in plain and colloquial English, thorough annotations, in-depth commentaries to explain the Confucian...
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