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  • Full Circle

    Learning to Live with Heart and Purpose

    by Larry Holmes ...
    In this compelling and thoughtful memoir, Larry Holmes takes us on a revealing and insightful journey of self-discovery during a time of immense cultural, political, and racial upheaval in America. His engaging tales of transformation into adulthood point to life's insistent call toward change and growth. With wit and wisdom, Larry's adventures offer evidence of the immense importance of receiving ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Resilient Hybrid Electronics for Extreme/Harsh Environments

    Edited by Amanda Schrand, Larry (L.J.) Richard Holmes, Eric MacDonald ...
    The success of future innovative technology relies upon a community with a shared vision. Here, we present an overview of the latest technological progress in the field of printed electronics for use in harsh or extreme environments. Each chapter unlocksscientific and engineering discoveries that will undoubtedly lead to progression from proof of concept to device creation.The main topics covered ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Win or Else

    Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921–1985

    by Larry E. Holmes ...
    In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism.In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football as a bourgeois sport that was injurious to both mind and body. Within that same decade, however, it blew up, becoming the most popular spectator ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stalin's World War II Evacuations

    Triumph and Troubles in Kirov

    by Larry E. Holmes ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, “in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country.” It was an official declared, “one of the greatest feats of the war.” Focusing on the Kirov region, this book offers a different and considerably more nuanced picture of the evacuations than the ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Revising the Revolution

    The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917

    by Larry E. Holmes ...
    The clash between scholarship and politics—between truth and propaganda—was ruthless for historians in Istpart, the Russian Communist Central Committee's official historical department.Istpart was tasked with preserving the documentary record, compiling memoirs, and upholding ideological conformism within the national narrative of the 1917 revolution. In Revising the Revolution, Larry E. Holmes ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revising the Revolution

    The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917

    by Larry E. Holmes ...
    The clash between scholarship and politics—between truth and propaganda—was ruthless for historians in Istpart, the Russian Communist Central Committee's official historical department.Istpart was tasked with preserving the documentary record, compiling memoirs, and upholding ideological conformism within the national narrative of the 1917 revolution. In Revising the Revolution, Larry E. Holmes ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

    Legacies and Prospects

    Edited by Ben Eklof, Larry E. Holmes, Vera Kaplan ...
    Series series Cummings Center Series
    This volume consists of a collection of essays devoted to study of the most recent educational reform in Russia. In his first decree Boris Yeltsin proclaimed education a top priority of state policy. Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow to reformist aspirations, and to the existing school system itself. The public lost faith in school ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power

    The Center, Periphery, and Kirov's Pedagogical Institute 1941–1952

    by Larry E. Holmes ...
    War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power examines the history of the Pedagogical Institute, located in the USSR's Kirov region from 1941 to 1952. Holmes reveals a tangled and complex relationship of local, regional, and national agencies. While it recognizes the immense strength of the center, it emphasizes a contentious diffusion, although not a confusion, of authority. In so doing, it departs ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Interviews with American Composers

    Barney Childs in Conversation

    by Barney Childs, Virginia Anderson, Robert Fink, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Thomas S. Clark, Gayle Sherwood Magee1, Sara Haefeli4, Frances White6, James Pritchett7, Jay M. Arms9, Dave Headlam1, John Schneider2, Ronald Kuivila5, Bruce Quaglia7, Rob Haskins0, Michelle Fillion2, Stuart Dempster4, David Neal Lewis6, Jeffrey Perry8, Peter Gena1, Horace J. Maxile Jr.4 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Go All The Way

    A Literary Appreciation for Power Pop

    by Paul Myers, S.W. Lauden, Michael Chabon, Heather Havrilesky, Larry Karaszewski, Dave Holmes, David Yaffe, Annie Zaleski, Carrie Courogen ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the '70s and '80s to its resurgence in the '90s and '00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. In Go All the Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Whether they love or hate ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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  • Stalin

    Passage to Revolution

    by Ronald Grigor Suny ...
    A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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