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  • Troublesome Words

    A Cultural History of Russian

    by Simon Franklin ...
    Series series Language Worlds
    Language can be a battleground of ideas, and nowhere is this more vivid than in the Russian context. Across 350 years, Russian has been shaped by competing visions of what it should be, from early grammarians defining a literary standard to digital-era debates about slang, obscenity and online identity. Simon Franklin traces how tradition and disruption have continually reshaped the language, ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • The Emergence of Rus 750-1200

    by Simon Franklin, Jonathan Shepard ...
    Series series Longman History of Russia
    This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass between the Carpathians and Urals of a political, economic and social nexus (underpinned by a common culture and, eventually, a common faith), out of which would emerge the future Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The authors explore every aspect of ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Byzantium - Rus - Russia

    Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture

    by Simon Franklin ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original. The essays in this volume start from the premise that neither view is adequate. The history of culture - even of a self ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Information and Empire

    Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854

    by Simon Franklin, Katherine Bowers ...
    From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change?Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850

    by Simon Franklin ...
    The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of production, in social structures, in fashion and taste. The graphospheric environment can be public or private, monumental or ephemeral. This book explores a new approach to the study of writing, with a focus on Russia during its 'long early modernity' from ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature

    Edited by Simon Franklin, Rebecca Reich, Emma Widdis ...
    This is the essential new guide to Russian literature, combining authority and innovation in coverage ranging from medieval manuscripts to the internet and social media. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral narrative but as multiple parallel histories. Each of its four strands tells a story of Russian ... Read more

    $147.19 CAD

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    The Haunting of Lamb House

    by Joan Aiken ...
    Narrated by John Franklyn-Robbins, Davina Porter, Simon Prebble ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    Aiken makes use of the hallmark of Gothic fiction-the haunted house-in this story of three authors whose lives become inextricably tied to Lamb House, a Georgian mansion situated in the town of East Sussex, England: Toby Thomas, who lived there in the 18th century; followed by Henry James, who discovered Toby's mysterious diary a century later; and ending with E.F. Benson, who struggled to put the ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Silence of Herondale

    A missing child, a deserted house, and the secrets that connect them

    by Joan Aiken ...
    Narrated by Lizza Aiken ...
    Series Audiobook 730 - Murder Room

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    A child in danger, an isolated house in the depths of winter - and a killer on the loose...'Don't miss ... guaranteed unputdownable' ObserverSnow-covered fields and moors stretch away on all sides of Herondale House. Despite rumours of an escaped killer on the run, Deborah Lindsay knows that she must control her fear - she has a young charge, 13-year-old prodigy Carreen, to care for.But the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Reimagining Europe

    Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World

    by Christian Raffensperger ...
    An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus’ was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, in which Rus’ is understood as part of medieval Europe, and East is not so neatly divided from West. ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • A History of the Russian Church to 1488

    by John L. Fennell ...
    The Russian church is central to an understanding of early Russian and Slav history, but for many years there has been no accessible, up-to-date introduction to the subject in English - until now. The late John Fennell's last book, is a masterly survey of the development, nature and role of the early Church in Russia from Christianization of the country in 988, through Kievan and Tatar poeriods to ... Read more

    Was $101.99 CAD Now $90.68 CAD

  • The Unknown Europe

    How Eastern Europe Got That Way

    by James R. Payton Jr. ...
    The fascinating history of Eastern Europe includes highs of soaring cultural achievement and lows of almost unimaginable repression. But we in the West don't know much about Eastern Europe or its history--this book helps us see why. We got interested when the region became a threat during the Cold War, but what we learned focused on the Communist period after World War II--not Eastern Europe ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe

    A History

    by Norman Davies ...
    From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook