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“adele barker”

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  • Not Quite Paradise

    An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka

    by Adele Barker ...
    A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportageAdele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island—its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Consuming Russia

    Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev

    Edited by Adele Marie Barker ...
    With the collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s, the Russian social landscape has undergone its most dramatic changes since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, turning the once bland and monolithic state-run marketplace into a virtual maze of specialty shops—from sushi bars to discotheques and tattoo parlors. In Consuming Russia editor Adele Marie Barker presents the first book-length ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Dialogues/Dialogi

    Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women

    by Susan Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, Maya Koreneva, Ekaterina Stetsenko ...
    Co-authored by Russian, Ukrainian, and American critics, Dialogues/Dialogi is the first fully collaborative and comparative study of American and (ex)Soviet women writers. Truly a dialogue, the book juxtaposes fiction by American and Soviet women from the 1960s to the present to reveal their similarities and differences and to show how questions of gender, race, and ethnicity are enacted in the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
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  • The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

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  • Survival Tagalog

    How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)

    by Joi Barrios ...
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    This practical Tagalog phrasebook puts all the most important Tagalog words and phrases in the palm of your hand.It includes tips for handling situations you'll encounter on a daily basis in the Philippines, making it the most useful Tagalog language book you can buy when traveling! Romanized words are given for each Tagalog word, ensuring that you know how to pronounce each word correctly. Manga ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Possessed

    Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

    by Elif Batuman ...
    One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearFrom the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted—Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!—to the Russian Classics.No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Java: Includes Yogyakarta, Borobudur and Solo

    by Paul Dixon ...
    Series series Footprint Focus
    Hike along one of Asia’s most stunning volcano chains before spending a relaxing evening at one of the nearby hill resorts. Visit one of the world’s great Buddhist monuments, the Borobudur, and prepared to be overwhelmed by the size of this giant pyramid-like shrine adorned with over 500 Buddha statues. From the crowded, bustling streets of Jakarta to the art deco architecture of Bandung, ... Read more

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  • Deathride

    Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945

    by John Mosier ...
    Originally published as Deathride, this is the true story of the Eastern Front in World War II, emphasizing how close Germany came to winning and the USSR to losing; the severity of the Soviet losses, which have been minimized due to Soviet propaganda; and the importance of the Allied invasions of North Africa and Sicily, among other factors, in forcing Hitler to re-deploy troops, saving the ... Read more

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  • The Resurrection of the Romanovs

    Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery

    by Greg King, Penny Wilson ...
    The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of ... Read more

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    by Jose Villa Panganiban ...
    This is a convenient and travel-sized English to Tagalog DictionaryOver ten million Filipinos speak Tagalog, the official language of the Philippines. This dictionary addresses the growing need for a concise, reliable, and inexpensive English-Tagalog dictionary. It is ideal for teachers, students, businesspeople, travelers, and others who are interested in studying Tagalog. The key to ... Read more

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