Search Results: Titles starting with S from Globus Books

Wildsam Field Guides, 2013. New Book. Paperback. 144 pp. "San Francisco has always hosted those who would defy gravity. The Gold Rush was that. The Beats were that. The Summer of Love was that. The dot-commers were that. Unbound to the earth, the Ginsburgs and Twains and Joplins and Keseys and Milks floated up into lives inconceivable elsewhere." CHRIS COLIN LOCAL STORIES, TRAVEL INTEL AND MODERN LORE, INCLUDING: - Master Baker Chad Robertson on his craft - A timeline of Bay Area technology - Where famous chefs love to eat - Why the Golden Gate Bridge is red - A secret bike path to avoid those hills - Inspiring words from Harvey Milk - A map of the city's best vistas - Words from Mark Twain and Jack London - The one burrito to try in the mission - A simple explanation to the fog.

Москва: Синдбад, 2022. New Book. Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 520, с иллюстрациями Сто тысяч лет назад Homo sapiens был одним из как минимум шести видов человека, живших на этой планете, - ничем не примечательным животным, которое играло в экосистеме роль не большую, чем гориллы, светлячки или медузы. Но около семидесяти тысяч лет назад загадочное изменение когнитивных способностей Homo sapiens превратило его в хозяина планеты и кошмар экосистемы. Как человек разумный сумел покорить мир? Что стало с другими видами человека? Когда и почему появились деньги, государства и… Read More

Moscow: Imazhinisty, 1921. [12] pp. 22,5x17 cm. In original printed wrappers. In a very good condition, pale stains and small tear of the front cover. First publication of the legendary Imaginist poem 'Ispoved' khuligana', as well as earlier poems 'Khuligan' (without title) and 'Sorokoust'. Sergey Yesenin (1895-1925) moved to Moscow in the 1910s and gained a reputation as an unreliable young man due to close relations with Bolsheviks. After the Revolution, he "enthusiastically worked and participated in demonstrations", collaborated with a short-lived avant-garde collective 'Segodnia' (Today). In 1918, Yesenin met Anatoly Marienhof, visited a literary studio of the Moscow Proletkult, as well as a literary evening of futurists Vasilii Kamenskii and Vadim Shershenevich. In the fall of 1918, Marienhof initiated the creation of the Imaginism movement and established the Order of Imaginists gathering Yesenin, Shershenevich, R. Ivnev, B. Erdman and N. Erdman, G. Iakulov, A. Kusikov, M. Roizman, I.… Read More

Moscow: GLAZKINOPLAKAT, 1943. 63x80 cm. In a good/very good condition with some creases, minor tears and losses at the poster's margin. One of 3500 copies. Poster design by Kashcheev. A Soviet poster for the notorious film by Michael Curtiz. It was 'one of three pro-Soviet films made in Hollywood' by The House Committee on Un-American Activities. Although at that time the film was made in the USA and USSR were allies in the early 1950s, the creators were called up to Congress to explain why such a film was made. The film was the first Hollywood picture shown to Soviet audiences in movie theatres. Only a few films were shown during 1943-1945 before the relationship between two countries became hostile again. Extremely rare. Only 3500 posters were printed as the film screening was limited.

[Kharkiv]: Ditvidav TsK LKSMU, 1939. 12 leaves of autolithographs in the folder. 31x41 cm. In the original cloth portfolio with the photograph inset to the front board. Extremely rare. One of 1500 copies. A very important edition of capturing the peak moment of the cult of personality in the context of the propaganda aimed at children and young families, showing the idyllic image of Stalin, 'the friend of all children', in warm embraces with multi-ethnical children of the USSR. The collected portraits depict Stalin receiving honors and accolades from children who are by turns presenting him with flowers, receiving his autograph, discussing his work in a reading group. Each portrait was completed in Socialist realist style by artists associated with the Kharkov Art Institute - the full list include Gavril Pustovoit, O. Rubanov, S. Besedina, Daitsa Ji, A. Devnianin, M. Zhevago, V. Kasiian, V. Kriukov, V. Mironenko, V. Nevskii, E. Solov'ev, M. Khazanovskii. The book is also important from the point… Read More

T8 Russian Titles, 2020. Binding: Paperback В этот сборник вошли две работы, посвященные проблемам теории романа, которые рассматриваются в ракурсе исторической стилистики жанра Слово в романе и к предыстории романного слова. Исследование проведено на широчайшем материале всемирной литературы. Тексты работ снабжены комментариями С. Г. Бочарова. В книгу также включена статья М. Л. Гаспарова о Бахтине.

Must Have Books, 2021. New Book. Paperback 256 pages Safe Conduct is Boris Pasternak's first and best autobiography, penned after the great success of Dr. Zhivago. Here translated by Alec Brown and Lydia Pasternak-Slater, and written when he was forty, Safe Conduct puzzled many readers in Russia and when it appeared in English, because its isolated sharp impressions and juxtapositions seem to deny chronology, but at least one critic recognized it as "the most original of autobiographies, employing a new technique of great important.

Alma Books, 2019. New Book. Paperback. 528 pp. In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates. Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the exposé, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

Interlink Books, 2022. New Book. Paperback 240 pp. Salt & Time will transform perceptions of the food of the former Soviet Union, and especially Siberia--the crossroads of Eastern European and Central Asian cuisine--with 100 inviting recipes adapted for modern tastes and Western kitchens, and evocative storytelling to explain and entice. Why not try the restorative Solyanka fish soup (a famous Russian hangover cure), savor the fragrant Chicken with prunes or treat yourself to some Napoleon cake. In Alissa Timoshkina's words: "Often we need distance and time, both to see things better and to feel closer to them. This is certainly true of the food of my home country, Russia--or Siberia, to be exact. When I think of Siberia, I hear the sound of fresh snow crunching beneath my feet. Today, whenever I crush sea salt flakes between my fingers as I cook, I think of that sound. In this book, I feature recipes that are authentic to Siberia, classic Russian flavor combinations and my modern interpretations.… Read More

Kyle Books, 2021. New Book. Hardcover. 224 pp. Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinary stamp. This book is a love letter to Central Asia and the Caucasus, containing personal travel essays and recipes little known in the West that have been expertly adapted for the home cook. An array of delicious dishes introduce the region and its different ethnic groups - Uzbek, Tajik, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Caucasian and Jewish - along with a detailed introduction on the Silk Road and a useful cupboard of essential ingredients. Chapters are divided into Shared Table, Soups, Roast Meats & Kebabs, Warming Dishes, Pilavs & Plovs, Accompaniments, Breads & Doughs, Drinks and Desserts. 100 recipes are showcased, including Apricot & Red Lentil Soup, Chapli Kebabs with Tomato Relish, Rosh Hashanah Palov with Barberries, Pomegranate and Quince, Curd Pancakes with Red Berry Compote and the all-important breads… Read More

Москва: Синдбад, 2022. New Book. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 512 Сто тысяч лет назад Homo sapiens был одним из как минимум шести видов человека, живших на этой планете, - ничем не примечательным животным, которое играло в экосистеме роль не большую, чем гориллы, светлячки или медузы. Но около семидесяти тысяч лет назад загадочное изменение когнитивных способностей Homo sapiens превратило его в хозяина планеты и кошмар экосистемы. Как человек разумный сумел покорить мир? Что стало с другими видами человека? Когда и почему появились деньги, государства и религия? Как… Read More

Москва: Синдбад, 2022. New Book. Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 248, с иллюстрациями Немного смят один из уголков Это ошеломляющая история о том, как ничем не примечательное млекопитающие стало человеком, который научился расщеплять атом, летать на Луну, манипулировать генетическим кодом и обрел абсолютную власть над планетой. В этом захватывающем дух путешествии в глубокие дебри истории вашим гидом будет Юваль Ной Харари, а компанию вам составят Первобытный Билл, доктор Фантазия и детектив Лопес. Иллюстрированный формат позволит взглянуть на события… Read More

New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1972. Used. Excellent condition.. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 179 pp. First Edition Marc McMann, a thirty-five-year-old textbook editor, wants to marry twenty-year-old Laura, who, if a bit bubble headed, is quite beautiful. Unfortunately, if he does so his mother will disinherit him. Another problem is that although he himself is a sensualist on a grans scale, it seems to him only right and proper that he should marry a virgin, so Laura remains inviolate, very much against the poor girl's will. Marc decides that while he does want to marry Laura, he does not want to be disinherited, and that the only logical thing to do is bump off mama before she has a chance to bump him out of her will. And off we go on one of funniest, most bizarre would-be mama-killer.

New York: Random House, 1989. Hardcover, Dust Jacket 404 pp. Condition: very good, minor defects of the dust jacket. From Publishers Weekly "This lengthy new release by the well-known emigre writer ( In Search of Melancholy Baby ) is an exuberant high-spirited farce that makes pointed jabs at every aspect of Soviet society. Max Ogorodnikov, the "star" of the novel, is a larger-than-life character, a famous photographer on his sixth and seventh wives, whose wit and courage make him a special target of the KGB. When he and his fellow "new wave" circle of friends put together an uncensored photo album called "Say Cheese," the KGB immediately tries to suppress it. Max escapes to New York, where the album is released and becomes an international sensation. Returning home, he finds his KGB "handlers" have stepped up their efforts to harass him and his wife; Max finally considers emigration. The novel ends with a rousing call for Soviet solidarity. Although not always master of his own plot (characters… Read More

Letchworth: Bradda Books, 1975. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 44 For Intermediate Russian Learners. With introduction, vocabulary and notes.

Letchworth: Bradda Books, 1975. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 67 For Intermediate Russian Learners. With introduction, vocabulary and notes.

Random House, 2017. New Book. Paperback. 496 pp. A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work as "a history of emotions--a history of the soul." Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation. In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes… Read More

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

Москва: Текст, 2021. New Book. Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 432 В эту двуязычную книгу вошли лучшие образцы американской поэзии от XVII века до современности. В числе двадцати представленных здесь имен Генри Лонгфелло, Эдгар По, Уолт Уитмен, Эмили Дикинсон, Стивен Крейн, Роберт Фрост, Эзра Паунд, Уистен Оден и другие прославленные поэты, а также поэты, ранее почти неизвестные в России. Составитель - известный поэт, переводчик и исследователь англоязычной поэзии Г.М. Кружков, ему же принадлежат все переводы, вошедшие в сборник.

Bloodaxe Books, 1987. New Book. Paperback 162 pages During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941. This comprehensive selection of Tsvetayeva's poetry includes complete versions of all her major long poems and poem cycles: Poem of the End, An Attempt at a Room, Poems to Czechia and New Year Letter. It was the first English translation to use the new, definitive Russica text of her work. It also includes additional versions ascribed to F.F. Morton which first appeared in The New Yorker: these rhyming translations are actually the work of Joseph Brodsky (who lived at 44 Morton Street in New York).