Boris: 660 books
Notes from the Pianist's Bench
Second Edition, Multimedia Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A master class on piano performance and pedagogy from the world-renowned concert pianist
In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, recording artist, and teacher Boris Berman addresses virtually...
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Ensayo político
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Un ensayo pequeño para entender la importancia de la democraciaLas mentiras o la pereza intelectual de los economistas, de los Estados, de la justicia, crean una legalidad de fachada, pudiendo ser considerada como un engaño; sustituir el poder del monarca por gobiernos que aplican leyes más o menos...
National Geographic Kids Chapters: Hoops to Hippos!
True Stories of a Basketball Star on Safari
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
NBA star Boris Diaw of the San Antonio Spurs takes young readers on safari as he explores his off-court passion: wildlife photography! Join Diaw as he escapes from stampeding wildebeests, comes face-to-face with lions, and discovers why you should never come between a hippo and its watery home. Through...
Cosmic Shift
Russian Contemporary Art Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Features a strong line-up of the country’s most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians.
Featuring: pioneers of the Moscow Conceptualism movement Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; Bart De Baere, Russia’s foremost curator; art critic and theorist Boris Groys;...
Introducing Levi-Strauss
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Introducing Lévi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Lévi-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of women between...
by Boris Polevoi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The story of downed WWII Soviet fighter pilot (and Hero of the Soviet Union) Alexiei Maresyev, who with both feet amputated because of frostbite returns to combat flying. The author was practically everywhere during the war. Boris Polevoi parachuted several times into the enemy's rear, served in Stalingrad,...
Not just a mirror. Looking for the political theatre today
Performing Urgency 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Der englischsprachige Band Not Just a Mirror setzt sich mit grundlegenden Fragen des politischen Theaters in der Gegenwart auseinander und stellt künstlerisch-politische Strategien und Praktiken von Theatermachern aus aller Welt vor - u. a. Chto Delat, Milo Rau, Kretakör, Faustin Linyekula, Public...
The KGB's Poison Factory
From Lenin to Litvinenko
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“A cracking good read” and a chilling true story of Russia’s assassination program begun more than a century ago and which continues today (Tennent H. Bagley, former CIA chief of Soviet Bloc counterintelligence).
In late November 2006, Alexander Litvinenko—a former lieutenant colonel...
by Boris Vian
Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Videur dans une boîte de nuit, Dan ne vit que pour Sheila, sa femme, et l'enfant qu'il a eu avec elle. Un enfant que la société acceptera parce que sa peau est blanche. Dan, lui, est noir, d'origine, sinon de peau... Toute son existence repose sur ce secret. L'irruption de Richard, son frère,...
by Boris Fausto, Sergio Fausto
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy...
God in Pain
Inversions of Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism...
Talk, Inc.
How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Conversation-powered leadership
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the magic”-the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement-that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more...
The Competitive Advantage of Regions and Nations
Technology Transfer Through Foreign Direct Investment
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The importance of technology transfer for the competitive advantage of companies and the economic success of nations cannot be overstated. Technology is a determining element for firms and nations to increase productivity, to compete, and to prosper. In The Competitive Advantage of Regions and Nations,...
1 Euro Before You Vote
Political Pamphlet
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
More than a legal obligation, voting is our right as citizens and defines our democracies.The lies or intellectual laziness of our economists, administrations, and judicial systems creates a façade of legality, which could be considered fraudulent: replacing the power of a Monarchy by that of a Government...