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 The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom By Tracy Dennison 2011 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 0521194482 | PDF | 2 MB Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse behaviour often attributed to Russian peasants. On the contrary, the Russian rural population was as integrated into regional and even national markets as many of its west European counterparts. Serfdom was a loose garment that enabled different landlords to shape economic institutions, especially property rights, in widely diverse ways. Highly coercive and backward regimes on some landlords' estates existed side-by-side with surprisingly liberal approximations to a rule of law. This book paints a vivid and colourful picture of the everyday reality of rural Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.  The Idea of Russia: The Life and Work of Dmitry Likhachev By Vladislav M. Zubok 2017 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1784537276 | PDF | 7 MB Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999) was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century. His life spanned virtually the entire century - a tumultuous period which saw Russia move from Tsarist rule under Nicholas II via the Russian Revolution and Civil War into seven decades of communism followed by Gorbachev's Perestroika and the rise of Putin. In 1928, shortly after completing his university education, Likhachev was arrested, charged with counter-revolutionary ideas and imprisoned in the Gulag, where he spent the next five years. Returning to a career in academia, specialising in Old Russian literature, Likhachev played a crucial role in the cultural life of twentieth-century Russia, campaigning for the protection of important cultural sites and historic monuments. He also founded museums dedicated to great Russian writers including Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Pasternak. In this, the first biography of Likhachev to appear in English, Vladislav Zubok provides a thoroughly-researched account of one of Russia's most extraordinary and influential public figures.  Christopher R. J. Holmes, Michael Allen, Scott R. Swain, "The Holy Spirit" English | 2015 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0310491703 | EPUB | 0,7 mb Who is the Holy Spirit and how does the Spirit come to be in relation to the Father and the Son? What is the mission of the Spirit and where does it come from?  The Staff of The Undefeated, "The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World" English | ISBN: 1328940624 | 2019 | 96 pages | EPUB | 34 MB A dynamic collective biography that presents 44 of America's greatest Black movers and shakers, from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Barack Obama, written by ESPN's TheUndefeated and illustrated with dazzling portraits by Rob Ball.  Idrees Mousa Mohammed, "The Emergence of the State: A Comparative Analysis of Kosovo and South Sudan" English | ISBN: 3658402857 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 1387 KB Introduction.- Statehood, stateness problem, and state's survival and partition.- The stateness problem: the case of kosovo.- The outcome of the stateness problem: the case of kosovo.- The stateness problem: the case of south sudan.- The outcome of the stateness problem: the case of south sudan.- The emergence of kosovo and south sudan: a cross-case analysis.  Andrea Elizabeth Shaw, "The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies" English | 2006 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 0739114875, 0739114867 | PDF | 6,9 mb Despite the West's privileging of slenderness as an aesthetic ideal, the African Diaspora has historically displayed a resistance to the Western European and North American indulgence in "fat anxiety." The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety. Author Andrea Shaw explores the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how both fatness and blackness interact on literary cultural planes, this book also offers a diasporic scope that develops previously unexamined connections among female representations throughout the African Diaspora.  The Earth Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to Our Planet by Dorling Kindersley English | 2022 | ISBN: 0744065054 | 80 pages | True EPUB | 34.18 MB  Franz Kafka, "The Diaries of Franz Kafka " English | ISBN: 0805243550 | 2023 | 704 pages | EPUB | 9 MB An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries-a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.  W. B. Lord, "The Corset and the Crinoline: An Illustrated History " English | ISBN: 0486461866 | 2007 | 240 pages | EPUB | 12 MB Ever since Eve's first blush, clothes have girded, graced and transformed the female physique. Fascinating and insightful, The Corset and the Crinoline is an illustrated history of clothing's attendant underpinnings - especially those that whittled the female waist to its most slender proportions. Reproduced from a rare 1868 fashion publication, each page reveals how the use of wood, whalebone, steel, hoops, and tight laces had a gripping influence on shaping the figures of women from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century Vienna.  Gary Null Ph.D., "The Complete Guide to Health and Nutrition: A Sourcebook for a Healthier Life" English | 1986 | pages: 600 | ISBN: 0440506123 | EPUB | 2,4 mb The ultimate sourcebook from America's leading alternative health expert. |
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