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  • The Able Queen

    Memoirs of an Indiana Hump Pilot Lost in the Himalayas

    by Rainy Horvath, Robert Binzer ...
    China. 1944. A downed American pilot. Enemy territory. No map. No radio. Lost in the Himalayan Mountains in a snowstorm.Second Lieutenant Bob Binzer didn't expect to survive the bailout. When his C-47 ran out of fuel over the Himalayas, he and his three-man crew - co-pilot, navigator, and radio operator - had two choices: jump or crash. They jumped - into a blizzard, onto impossible terrain, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legacy of Soviet Dissent

    Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia

    by Robert Horvath ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and published sources, it shows how ideas formulated in the dissident milieu clashed with the original ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution

    Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution

    by Robert Horvath ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book examines the 'preventive counter-revolution,' a programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin's second term as president. Kremlin propagandists hailed this programme as a defence of national sovereignty against Western attempts to foment a 'velvet revolution' in Russia. But this book shows that the Putin regime was reacting to a ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Putin's Fascists

    Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia

    by Robert Horvath ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The Putin regime and its propagandists have long claimed to be fighting the heirs of Nazi Germany. From its crackdown on domestic dissent to its aggression on the international stage, the Kremlin has regularly smeared its adversaries as fascists and fascist collaborators. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Putin claimed would achieve its 'denazification', brought this propaganda to a new level of ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Tacit Knowledge in Professional Practice

    Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives

    Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Joseph A. Horvath ...
    Those responsible for professional development in public and private-sector organizations have long had to deal with an uncomfortable reality. Billions of dollars are spent on formal education and training directed toward the development of job incumbents, yet the recipients of this training spend all but a fraction of their working life outside the training room--in meetings, on the shop floor, ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Optical Manipulation of Arthropod Pests and Beneficials

    by Antoine Abrieux, Joanna C. Chiu, Joseph E. Funderbunk, Daphna Gottlieb, Gábor Horváth, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Un Taek Lim, Xavier Martini, Masami Shimoda, Robert van Tol ...
    Arthropods as pests in crops, vectors of diseases, pollinators, and natural enemies of pests are of huge economic importance. They affect livestock, human health and food supplies around the world. This unique book examines and reviews how light and colour can be used to enhance pest management in agricultural and medical applications by manipulating the optical responses of arthropods. Arthropods ... Read more

    $144.99 CAD

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    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
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    Fiona Hill and other U.S. public servants have been recognized as Guardians of the Year in TIME's 2019 Person of the Year issue.From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West.Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go?The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Frontline Ukraine

    Crisis in the Borderlands

    by Professor Richard Sakwa ...
    The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through ... Read more

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  • And Into The Fire

    Fascist Elements in Post War Europe and the Development of the EU

    by Rodney Atkinson, William Dorich, Edward Spalton ...
    Rodney Atkinson has been a successful linguist and linguistic theorist, was formerly a lecturer at the University of Mainz, Germany and a merchant banker in the City of London. He is the Founder of the Freenations website (visited by individuals and government institutions from over 100 countries) an occasional adviser to MPs and the proprietor of his own commercial property company. He is the ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia's Road to War with Ukraine

    Invasion amidst the ashes of empires

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  • Lonely Power

    Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West is Weary of Russia

    by Lilia Shevtsova ...
    Adapted from the Russian edition, this book analyzes the dominant stereotypes and myths that formed during the Putin presidency and that continue to hamper our understanding of Russia's current situation.Author Lilia Shevtsova explains the origins of such political clichés as Russia is not mature enough for democracy; Capitalism first, and democracy will follow; The humiliation of Russia by the ... Read more

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    The Last Romanian Dictator?

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    Series Book 2 - Nicolae Ceausescu
    “Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.” ―Nicolae Ceauşescu“Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you ... Read more

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