Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook
From Amazon.com: Is there more to Russian cookery than beets, cabbage, and sour cream? Please to the Table, a comprehensive guide that takes readers and cooks from the Baltics to Uzbekistan, should absolutely bury that question. Russia alone is bigger [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
Rambling, but not uninteresting: Dominic Lieven, the historian of Imperial Russia (he is the author a very cogent biography of Czar Nicholas II), has written a long book on a big subject. In spite of the broad title ("Empire"), the book, as [... more]
CDN$22.92
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Russia in Search of Itself
A journey into the soul of Russia: RUSSIA IN SEARCH OF ITSELF is great intellectual work that should be taken seriously. This is a book to read with a serious mindset. It is not easy to understand the trauma and humiliation that the people of the former [... more]
CDN$25.99
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Death and the Penguin
From Amazon.co.uk: The publication of Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov's debut novel, heralds a unique new voice in post-soviet satire. Set in the Ukraine in the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this dark, deadpan tale [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Warrior Class
Solid: Author Dale Brown always writes a solid story, and it is crammed with technical details that most readers will have to actually study in order to follow his story-line. If a reader tries to skim through this one, he will lose most of the feeling, [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Nine Layers of Sky
close to perfect: Sometimes a science-fiction novel comes along which I'd almost swear was written especially for me! Lisa Mason's "The Summer of Love" is one such novel. "Nine Layers of Sky" is another. The setting, the characters, [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Resurrection
From Amazon.com: In his first account of Russia, Lenin's Tomb, David Remnick wrote a history paced like a thriller that recast the common understanding of the last days of the Soviet Empire. While most reporters mouthed the standard lines about the " [... more]
CDN$23.00
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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
Rambling, but not uninteresting: Dominic Lieven, the historian of Imperial Russia (he is the author a very cogent biography of Czar Nicholas II), has written a long book on a big subject. In spite of the broad title ("Empire"), the book, as [... more]
CDN$37.95
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Cruel Romance (Full Screen)
Terribly sad: This is one of the saddest movies that I have ever seen in my life, and I love drama. It is a great story of a love that can never be in a world of Czarist Russia. Wonderfully acted, with some of Russia's greatest actors of that time in [... more]
CDN$79.99
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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
Rambling, but not uninteresting: Dominic Lieven, the historian of Imperial Russia (he is the author a very cogent biography of Czar Nicholas II), has written a long book on a big subject. In spite of the broad title ("Empire"), the book, as [... more]
CDN$35.12
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Alexander Technique Manual
Excellent introduction to the Alexander Technique: This is a great book for anyone who has heard about the many benefits of the Alexander Technique and would like to find out what it is. The Alexander Technique is often described in very mysterious terms [... more]
CDN$22.50
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The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the ...
From Amazon.com: Just the facts, Ma'am. Wouldn't it be nice if we could simply inspect the historical record and resolve the question of whether or not Tibet has traditionally been a part of China? Melvyn Goldstein, anthropologist and Tibet specialist, [... more]
CDN$18.70
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