Search Results: Titles starting with F from Globus Books

isolarii, 2020. New Book. Condition: fine, the color of the dust jacket slightly faded, a small crease in the corner of the book cover. F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry, an anthology edited by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky and Ainsley Morse, with original poems by Lolita Agamalova, Oksana Vasyakina, Elena Georgievskaya, Egana Dzhabbarova, Nastya Denisova, Elena Kostyleva, Stanislava Mogileva, Yulia Podlubnova, Galina Rymbu, Daria Serenko, Ekaterina Simonova and Lida Yusupova; translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse, Helena Kernan, Kit Eginton, Alex Karsavin, Kevin M. F. Platt, and Valzhyna Mort. F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry collects the work of a dozen women poets and feminist and LGBTQ+ activists associated with the Russian online platform F pis'mo. Galina Rymbu, its founder and co-editor, picked the poems and, after insistent requests by the English-language editors (us), added two of her own pieces. Rymbu is an exceptionally talented, deep-thinking, protean, and… Read More

Moscow: Zhurgazob'edinenie, 1938. 16 pp.: ill. 29x21,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Slightly rubbed, ink note on back cover, few minor ink stains on front cover, otherwise mint. An issue of the periodical published in 1929-1940. It was the organ of the All-Union organization 'Osoaviakhim' (The Society for the Assistance of Defense, Aircraft and Chemical Construction). It was the successor of Soviet airplane and chemical voluntary societies and located branches all over the country. Through this organization, mass military training was provided for Soviet people starting from the pre-school classes. On October 29, 1932, the Presidium of the Central Council of Osoaviakhim of the USSR approved the creation of the honorary title "Voroshilov Shooter", and on December 29, 1932, the badge "Voroshilov Shooter". Women were equally engaged in military training. Millions of Soviet women got the title and badge of Voroshilov Shooter meaning those women were able to shoot accurately. This issue was… Read More

London: Unicorn, 2018. Hardcover. 278 pp. Few artists are as well-known as Carl Fabergé (1846-1920)-his name alone conjures up images of his brilliantly ornate egg artworks. Wherever his works are shown, whether at exhibitions or in auction rooms, they delight and awe viewers. ;This book tells the story of Fabergé and his work as jeweler to the Russian imperial court-but it goes beyond that. To make his incredibly ornate creations, Fabergé required support-lots of it. Without countless other people working behind the scenes, including designers, master goldsmiths, and silversmiths, Fabergé's business could not have flourished. Fabergé: His Masters and Artisans lifts these craftsmen into the limelight, not only because their work deserves our attention, but because the captivating stories of their lives and careers add appreciably to what is known of the working processes at Fabergé's studio. Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm also explores jewelry manufacturing methods, touches on the company's well… Read More

Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2008. New Book. Paperback. 130 pp. In English and Belarusian. Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic young poet who writes in Belarusian at a time when efforts are being made to reestablish the traditional language in the aftermath of attempts to absorb it into Russian. Known throughout Europe for her live readings, Mort's poetry and performances are infused by the politics of language and the poetry of revolution, where poems are prayers and weapons. when someone spends a lot of time running and bashing his head against a cement wall the cement grows warm and he curls up with it against his cheek like a starfish . . . "Mort...strives to be an envoy for her native country, writing with almost alarming vociferousness about the struggle to establish a clear identity for Belarus and its language." -The New Yorker "(Mort) is most characterized by an obstinate resistance and rebellion against the devaluation of life, which forces her to multiply intelligent questions,… Read More

Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 128 Компактный планер с точечной разметкой формата А6. Внутри - 64 листа молочно-белой бумаги плотностью 120 г/м². Обложка из дизайнерской плотной бумаги. Полюбившийся всем блокнот с точечной разметкой - в новом компактном формате! Как и его предшественник, он внимателен ко всем - от проектировщиков интерфейсов до поклонников bullet-journaling'a. А еще это отличный вариант для тех, кто ведет планер и ценит свободу действий - но при этом нуждается в ненавязчивой разметке. Из технических подробностей - 64 листа белоснежной бумаги и надежное… Read More

New Book. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 128 Планер с точечной разметкой формата А5. Внутри - 64 листа молочно-белой бумаги плотностью 120 г/м². Обложка из дизайнерской плотной бумаги. Функциональный и удобный планер с точечной разметкой, открытый к вольным интерпретациям - каждый из 64 листов можно расчертить самому. Обложка из плотной дизайнерской бумаги с серебряными точками. Лучший выбор для тех, кто хочет проектировать интерфейсы, рисовать абстрактные композиции или опробовать метод bullet-journaling. Приятная деталь - надежное клеево-швейное крепление, которое… Read More

Penguin Books, 2014. New Book. Paperback. 400 pp. In tracing the roots of this family--his own family--Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. The Family is a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history. A century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife raised six children in a yeshivatown at the western fringe of the Russian empire. Bound by their customs and ancient faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to carry family traditions into future generations. But the social and political crises of our time decreed otherwise. The torrent of history took the scribe's family down three very different roads. One branch immigrated to America and founded the fabulously successful Maidenform Bra Company; another went to Palestine… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. Hardcover, dust jacket, 214 pp. Fantastic Stories is a collection of six short stories written by Soviet author Andrei Sinyavsky under the pseudonym Abram Tertz between 1955 and 1961, first published by Pantheon Books in 1963. The stories are titled "At the Circus", "The Graphomaniacs", "The Tenants", "You and I", "The Icicle", and "Phkents". All of the fantastic tales are written in the style of "fantastic realism", which combines phantasmagorical art with socialist realism.

Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. Paperback 316 pp. The three novellas of Farewell, Aylis take place over decades of transition in a country that rather resembles modern-day Azerbaijan. In Yemen, a Soviet traveler takes an afternoon stroll and finds himself suspected of defecting to America. In Stone Dreams, an actor explores the limits of one man's ability to live a moral life amid conditions of sociopolitical upheaval, ethnic cleansing, and petty professional intrigue. In A Fantastical Traffic Jam, those who serve the aging leader of a corrupt, oil-rich country scheme to stay alive. Farewell, Aylis, a new essay by the author that reflects on the political firestorm surrounding these novellas and his current situation as a prisoner of conscience in Azerbaijan, was commissioned especially for this Academic Studies Press edition.

University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. New Book. Hardcover, 328 pp. The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary habits. In Russia, this ethos soon became a key facet of the Bolsheviks' shared vision for the future. In the aftermath of the revolution, glorification of exercise persevered, pointing the way toward a stronger, healthier populace and a vibrant Socialist society. With interdisciplinary analysis of literature, painting, and film, Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades! traces how physical fitness had an even broader impact on culture and ideology in the Soviet Union than previously realized. From prerevolutionary writers and painters glorifying popular circus wrestlers to Soviet photographers capturing unprecedented athleticism as a means of satisfying their aesthetic ideals, the nation's artists embraced sports in profound, inventive ways. Though athletics were used for doctrinaire purposes,… Read More

Translit Publishing, 2010. New Book. Paperback. 110 pages. As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persikov discovers an amazing ray that drastically increases the size and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious plague wipes out all the chickens in the Soviet republics. The government expropriates Persikov's untested invention in order to rebuild the poultry industry, but a horrible mix-up quickly leads to a disaster that could threaten the entire world. This H. G. Wells-inspired novel by the legendary Mikhail Bulgakov is the only one of his larger works to have been published in its entirety during the author's lifetime. A poignant work of social science fiction and a brilliant satire on the Soviet revolution, it can now be enjoyed by English-speaking audiences through this accurate new translation. Includes annotations and afterword.

Penguin Group, 2009. New Book. Paperback. 336 pp. Turgenev's timeless tale of generational collision, in a sparkling new translation. When Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his eager, naïve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought home with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father with his criticisms of the landowning way of life and his determination to overthrow the traditional values of contemporary society. Vividly capturing the hopes and fears, regrets and delusions of a changing Russia around the middle of the nineteenth century, Fathers and Sons is Ivan Turgenev's masterpiece. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and… Read More

New York Review of Books, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 112 pp. Slyly funny, inventive, and virtuosic, this new collection from a Russian-American master challenges poetic convention and explores themes of alienhood, translation, and human emotion. In Eugene Ostashevsky's The Feeling Sonnets - his fourth collection of poems - words, idioms, sentences, and poetic conventions are dislodged and defamiliarized in order to convey the experience of living in a land, and a language, apart. The book consists of four cycles of fourteen unrhymed, unmetered sonnets. The first cycle asks about the relationship between interpretation and emotion, whether "we feel the feelings that we call ours." The second cycle, mainly composed of "daughter sonnets," describes bringing up children in a foreign country and a foreign language. The third cycle, called "Die Schreibblockade," German for writer's block, talks about foreign-language processing of inherited historical trauma, in this case the siege of Leningrad from… Read More

Москва: Госзнак, 1994. Переплет: мягкий Страниц: 12. С иллюстрациями И.Билибина. Retold in English by Irina Zheleznova Русская народная сказка - "Пёрышко Финиста ясна сокола", иллюстрации Ивана Яковлевича Билибина (1876 -1942). Билибинскому стилю свойственна красота узорного рисунка и изысканная декоративность цветовых сочетаний. BOOK IN ENGLISH!

USA: Amazon crossing, 2013. New book. Binding: Paperback 168 pp. Translated by Halyna Hryn Called "the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence," Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international phenomenon when it shot to number one on the Ukrainian bestseller list and remained there throughout the 1990s. The novel is narrated in first-person streams of thought by a sharp-tongued poet with an irreverently honest voice. She is visiting professor of Slavic studies at Harvard and her exposure to American values and behaviors conspires with her yearning to break free from Ukrainian conventions. In her despair over a recently ended affair, she turns her attention to the details of her lover's abusive behavior. In detailing the power her Ukrainian lover wielded over her, and in admitting the underlying reasons for her attraction to him, she begins to see the chains that have defined her as a Ukrainian woman - and in doing so, exposes and calls into question… Read More

New York: Vintage, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 528 pp. Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the complete arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one single type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia and all walks of life, including landowners, peasants, soldiers, farmers, teachers, students, hunters, shepherds, mistresses, wives, and children. Taken together, they demonstrate how Chekhov democratized the form. Included in this volume are tales translated into English for the first time, including "Reading" and "An Educated Blockhead." Early stories such as "Joy," "Anguish," and "A Little… Read More

London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Binding: Paperback Pages: 457 The Film Factory provides a comprehensive documentary history of Russian and Soviet cinema. It provokes a major reassessment of conventional Western understanding of Soviet cinema. Based on extensive research and in original translation, the documents selected illustrate both the aesthetic and political development of Russian and Soviet cinema, from its beginnings as a fairground novelty in 1896 to its emergence as a mass medium of entertainment and propaganda on the eve of World War II. First edition. Thorough study of the Russian cinema in its prime years. Good condition.

New York: Harcourt, 1969. New Book. Paperback. 279 pp. Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein's film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Jay Leyda; Index; photographs and diagrams.

TASCHEN, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 520 pp. At the intersection of the visual, graphic, and cinematic arts, film posters are a unique and thrilling record of a particular cultural Zeitgeist. This book brings together 250 posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s to explore the energy and invention of this period, before Soviet Realism became the official art doctrine. Drawn from the private collection of connoisseur Susan Pack, the selection includes the work of 27 different artists. From bold figuration to architectural elements, each artist displays a distinct style and aesthetic, as much as they collectively eschew the glamour of Hollywood for more stark, striking, even challenging images, often marked by unusual angles, dynamic compositions, and startling close-ups.

Москва: Эксмо, 2022. New Book. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 960 Оригинальный текст и перевод на страницах одной книги - это эффективный способ усовершенствовать знание английского языка. От матери в наследство Фрамбуаза получила альбом с кулинарными рецептами - негусто, если учесть, что ее брату Кассису досталась ферма, а старшей сестре Рен-Клод - винный погреб со всем содержимым. Но весь фокус в том, что на полях альбома, рядом с рецептами разных блюд и травяных снадобий, мать записывала свои мысли и признания относительно некоторых событий ее жизни - словом,… Read More