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Author | : Charles King |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817997938 |
The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured.
Author | : Charles King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1999-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780817997984 |
The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, "The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, " illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured.
Author | : Tony Hawks |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1466852275 |
It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis. And with the loser of the bet agreeing to strip naked on Balham High Road and sing the Moldovan national anthem, this one was just too good to resist. The ensuing unpredictable and often hilarious adventure sees him being taken in by Moldovan gypsies and narrowly avoid kidnap in Transnistria. It sees him smuggle his way on to the Moldovan National Team coach in Coleraine and witness (almost) divine intervention in the Holy Land. In this inspiring and exceptionally funny book, Tony Hawks has done it again, proving against all odds that there is no reason in the world why you can't do something a bit stupid and prove all of your doubters wrong. Or at least that was the idea....
Author | : Matthew H. Ciscel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
This book explores the identity of contemporary Moldovans from the perspective of debates about the languages they speak. The result is an image of an emerging nation of bilinguals that is, at once, similar to the experiences of other ex-Soviet states and uniquely complex.
Author | : Matthew H. Ciscel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
This book explores the identity of contemporary Moldovans from the perspective of debates about the languages they speak. The result is an image of an emerging nation of bilinguals that is, at once, similar to the experiences of other ex-Soviet states and uniquely complex.
Author | : Stephen Henighan |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2002-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1770707255 |
Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he’s an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei.
Author | : Iurie Stamati |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2018-12-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004391436 |
In this volume Iurie Stamati analyzes the archaeological discourse on the place of the old Slavs in the medieval history of Moldova of the Soviet period.
Author | : Stuart J. Kaufman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2001-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801487361 |
Kaufman begins by surveying the stories various reporters and analysts have told about the conflict in Yugoslavia. From these stories he unravels some underlying assumptions, then gleans insights from each type of analysis, and combines them into a more comprehensive explanation for the causes of ethnic war. He writes clearly of the complexities, teasing out relationships among the factors of history, symbols, attitudes, leadership, and the economy. Kaufman acknowledges support for this study from the United States Institute of Peace and the University of Kentucky, among other institutions, but his current affiliation is not stated in the book. c. Book News Inc.
Author | : Charles King |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0525432329 |
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world. A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced." What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature. In Gods of the Upper Air, a masterful narrative history of radical ideas and passionate lives, Charles King shows how these intuitions led to a fundamental reimagining of human diversity. Boas's students were some of the century's most colorful figures and unsung visionaries: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is among the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans on the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped civilizations from the American South to the South Pacific and from Caribbean islands to Manhattan's city streets, and unearthed an essential fact buried by centuries of prejudice: that humanity is an undivided whole. Their revolutionary findings would go on to inspire the fluid conceptions of identity we know today. Rich in drama, conflict, friendship, and love, Gods of the Upper Air is a brilliant and groundbreaking history of American progress and the opening of the modern mind.
Author | : Tony Hawks |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2001-03-07 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780312274924 |
Recounts the author's experiences hitchhiking on a bet all the way around Ireland with a small refrigerator, and shares his impressions of the people and places along the way.