Search Results: Authors starting with M from Globus Books

Frankfurt: Посев, 1983. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 230, с иллюстрациями Первое издание "Посева". На немецком языке. Перевод с польского издания (1949) В хорошем состоянии.

ibidem Press, 2020. New Book. Paperback. 220 pp. Soviet-era philosopher Merab Mamardashvili developed an original and subtle philosophical system distinct from both his orthodox and dissident colleagues. This volume provides English-speaking audiences with a range of his lectures and writings on ancient philosophy, civil society, the European project, and literature. After many decades hiding in plain sight, he emerges as a Soviet thinker who writes in the double-voiced manner of an ideologically surveilled academic and a potent literary and theoretical innovator independent of his context. Merab Mamardashvili (1930-1990) was born in Soviet Georgia and occupied an atypical socio-political position on the margins of Europe and Russia. Early in his career, he had close contact with European philosophers active in the 1960s, but was banned from travel and visited the West again only at the end of his life, when the Soviet system was collapsing throughout Eastern Europe. From the vantage point of a… Read More

London: Paul Elek, 1977. Binding: Hardcover, dust jacket Pages: 165 Chosen and translated by James Greene. Foreword by Nadezhda Mandelstam and Donald Davie. Very good condition.

New York: Station Hill, 1987. Hardcover, dust jacket, 106 pp. "Tristia" is the book that firmly established Mandelstam as a major Russian poet. This first completed and bilingual edition 1922. His second book, "Tristia" marks the beginning of the poet`s maturity and the culmination of his involvement with the innovative group, the Acmeists. The book is in two languages English and Russian.

New York Review of Books, 2004. New Book. Paperback. 192 pp. Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Mandelstam's last poems, written in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, are an extraordinary testament to the endurance of art in the presence of terror. This book represents a collaboration between the scholar Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America's finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam's "Conversation on Dante," an uncategorizable work of genius containing the poet's deepest reflections on… Read More

Shambhala: Boulder, 1978. New Book. Paperback. 81 pp. Forewords by Nadezhda Mandelstam & Donald Davie.

Great Britain: Angel Books, 1988. Hardcover, dust jacket, 141 pp. Osip Mandelshtam, the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century, died in a Stalinist camp fifty years ago at the age of forty-seven. The survival of many of his poems in desperate hiding-places and in the memories of those closest to him has been described by his widow Nadezhda in her memoirs Hope against Hope. Dense and sonorous, his poetry magnificently merges the European past at its best with Russian experience at its worst. The book is in two languages English and Russian.

Ecco Press, 2012. New Book. Paperback. 128 pp. A new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century Political nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist state. The public recitation of his 1933 poem known in English as The Stalin Epigram led to his arrest, exile, and eventual imprisonment in a Siberian transit camp, where he died, presumably in 1938. Mandelstam's work--much of it written under extreme duress--is an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of art in the face of oppression and terror. Stolen Air spans Mandelstam's entire poetic career, from his early highly formal poems in which he reacted against Russian Symbolism to the poems of anguish and defiant abundance written in exile, when Mandelstam became a truly great poet. Aside from the famous early poems, which have a sharp new vitality in Wiman's versions, Stolen Air includes large… Read More

Saturna Publishing, 2003. Paperback, 196 pp. Condition: very good, minor defects of the book cover. Louise Henriques Mann has lived in Palo Alto and Menlo Park for 94 years, the fifth of nine children born to Julia and Jacob Levin, Russian immigrants to America and the first Jewish family in Palo Alto, California. Determined not to let her memories of her childhood evaporate, this book was originally intended for Louise's Mishpucah, her extended family. As such, it is a warm and loving memoir of her family, right down to her mother's best-loved recipes. But it is also much more than a family history. Because the family grew up alongside Palo Alto itself, readers will also find here some fascinating snapshots of the evolution of the community and its business and cultural life - like the growth of the horse-and-wagon family junkyard into Levin Metals Corporation (when it was sold it was the largest scrap metal business on the West Coast) or the family's central role in the creation of the first… Read More

Oxford University Press, USA, 2018. New Book. Hardcover. 272 pp. 114 illus. and 4 maps, with 89 color halftones Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political hot zone, Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the early eighteenth century C.E. Divided chronologically, it brings into discussion a wide range of media, including architecture, stone sculpture, works in metal, wood, and cloth, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts. Critically, The Art of Armenia presents this material within historical and archaeological contexts, incorporating the results of specialist literature in various languages. It also positions Armenian art within a range of broader comparative contexts including, but not limited to, the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, Byzantium, the Islamic world, Yuan-dynasty China, and seventeenth-century… Read More

Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1929. 184 pp., 1 map. 22x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers with the strict constructivist design. Illustrated throughout including the map of Finno-ugric speaking nations in USSR. Very good, few tears of the spine. The book is printed in Erzya language, spoken in Republic of Mordovia, by nearly 100 000 people nowadays. Extremely rare. No copies according to the Worldcat. Tsentrizdat was the publishing house which full name translates as 'The central publishing house of the peoples of USSR', it existed from 1924 to 1931. Based in Moscow it was formed following Lenin's idea, articulated at the Xth party meeting, 'to help the working masses of the non-Russian nations [i.e. nevelikorusskim narodam] to catch up with the Central Russia, that is ahead'. By 1931 it was printing the periodical and non-periodical editions in 63 different languages, using latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and Chinese scripts. Mordvinic language has been first recorded in the late 17th century, and is now… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1967. Biniding: Hardcover 584pp. with illustrations In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs' lives: Nicholas's political naïveté, Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis's brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history-the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

Mudlark, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 432 pp. Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War - and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime - and Russia itself - at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years' experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as his own family ties to Russia and Ukraine, journalist Owen Matthews takes us through the poisoned historical roots of the conflict, into the Covid bubble where Putin conceived his invasion plans in a fog of paranoia about Western threats, and finally into the inner circle… Read More

New York: Siamese Imports, 1990. Hardcover, Dust Jacket 80 pp. Condition: fine, minor defects of the dust jacket. The first work published in the United States on an important twentieth century art form - Russian Lacquer Miniature Painting. Written by Lucy Maxym, an authority on Russian Lacquer, the book contains a comprehensive discussion of the techniques of the art as well as a history of the four villages where the artists live and work. Nineteen Russian legends and fairy tales, which are the inspiration for a majority of the paintings on the lacquer boxes and panels are illustrated with over one hundred exquisite full-color plates.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991. New Book. Paperback. 64 pp. what a poet and the clear water is thick with bloody blows on its head. I embraced a cloud But when I soared it rained. --Frank O'Hara, "Mayakovsky" (1954) Mayakovsky's is one of the most compelling voices in twentieth-century Russian poetry. Born in 1893, he joined the Futurist movement in 1912 and soon established himself as one of Russia's major poets. In 1917, he rallied to the Russian Revolution and remained the indisputable leader of its artistic avant-garde until his suicide in 1930. Many of the poems in this book are translated for the first time into English. Accompanying the poems are rare drawings and lithographs by Mayakovsky and his circle, found in private collections of futurist books.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 736 pp. Russian painter, explorer, and mystic Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) ranks as one of the twentieth century's great enigmas. Despite mystery and scandal, he left a deep, if understudied, cultural imprint on Russia, Europe, India, and America. As a painter and set designer Roerich was a key figure in Russian art. He became a major player in Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and with Igor Stravinsky he cocreated The Rite of Spring, a landmark work in the emergence of artistic modernity. His art, his adventures, and his peace activism earned the friendship and admiration of such diverse luminaries as Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, H. G. Wells, Jawaharlal Nehru, Raisa Gorbacheva, and H. P. Lovecraft. But the artist also had a darker side. Stravinsky once said of Roerich that "he ought to have been a mystic or a spy." He was certainly the former and close enough to the latter to blur any distinction. His travels to Asia, supposedly motivated… Read More

New York: Paragon House. Binding: Paperback 351 pp. Esenin, the most popular of all 20th century poets in Russia, is known here chiefly as Isadora Duncan's most colorful lover. This is the first objective and thoroughly researched biography of Esenin. Gordon McVay has had access to unpublished material and has conducted interviews with members of Esenin's circle. Esenin lived in an extraordinary historical period, during the years before and after the October Revolution; he is seen here within the framework of his times. Esenin enjoyed early fame, both in the salons of Petrograd in the cafés of Moscow; alcoholic, paranoid, a poet passed his artistic prime, he died, of suicide, at age 30. The product of 12 years of research, McVay's Esenin correlates the facts of Esenin's biography and elucidates some aspects of Esenin's puzzling and unstable personality.

UK: MacMillan Press, 1980. Переплёт: Hardcover, dustjacket Страниц: 335, с иллюстрациями Подробное исследование отношений Исидоры Дункан и Сергея Есенина.

Dover Publications, 2011. New Book. Paperback. 416 pp. Second, Enlarged Edition For ten years, from 1975 to 1885, Anatoly Karpov reigned as World Champion of chess. He was, and is, a tough, deliberate player who seldom makes bad moves. But until the publication of this book, little was known about Karpov himself or his chess. It remained for Edmar Mednis, now an International Grandmaster, to analyze Karpov's style of play and to reveal something of the Russian champion's life and personality. In this newly revised and enlarged second edition, the author focuses on the tactics, strategy, and even psychological approaches employed by Karpov in winning against Bronstein, Smyslov, Browne, Gligoric, Spassky, Korchnoi, and many other greats. It includes 100 games Karpov won, beginning with the Moscow 1971 International Tournament where he attained world class status. Dispensing with long, complicated, exhaustive variations and subvariations, Mr. Mednis focuses on each game, explaining as accurately and… Read More

Harper Perennial, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 699 pp. Soon to be featured in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, premiering on PBS September 18th. A New York Times Notable Book - Winner of the National Jewish Book Award - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award - A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist "A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes that haunt one Jewish family and the greater human family, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written."--Michael Chabon In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic--part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work--that… Read More