Ivan: 1319 books

Ophthalmic Surgery, edited by Drs. George Spaeth, Helen Danesh-Meyer, Ivan Goldberg, and Anselm Kampik, provides the detailed, full-color, step-by-step guidance you need to master essential ophthalmic surgery procedures. The international team of expert editors and contributors present coverage of...

What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors’ miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds...

The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled...

AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY HARDCOVER CLASSIC. Ivan Goncharov’s 1859 masterpiece—a magnificent farce about a gentleman who spends the better part of his life in bed—brilliantly employs humor to explore the absurdities and injustices of an outmoded social order. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is...

Based on a novel by the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, this dramatic comedy features his eponymous hero, Oblomov. A young man of considerable decency and kindness (with a "soul as clear as crystal"), Oblomov has fallen into such a state of lethargy that he resists even getting out of bed,...

The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized...

In this fascinating and controversial collection of essays Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken challenge the power and mystery of professions. Why do we put so much resource into medicine, education and the law with so little apparent result? Why do we hold...

The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...

When an old danger surfaces, everything in Sheri Vernon’s life turns upside down.  She doesn’t know who she can trust—except former fiancé, Nate Blackwell, the man whose heart she broke when she walked away. A key member of Carpenter Security’s elite team, Nate Blackwell loves...

Are you a survivor, looking to rebuild society with as little contact with the Tainted world as possible?Are you a new human, a shaman holding no grudge with the spirits of men, one who wants to find what the purpose of the Question is?Are you a nobleman of one of the newly erected houses of the Unchainable,...

-- Price Updated! -- This unnamed boy woke up in what could possibly the worst fear of most of us. What if you wake up to a world seemingly familiar, yet, so strange to you? Wouldn't it be worse if you wake up and not know about anything at all? Your life, your name, your identity, everything!...

The countdown is on. Forty-five minutes is all Agent Ellie has to stop a disaster. She's fifteen and unfearing, about to penetrate a classified military installation in the heart of the Mexican mountains where the New Confederation works on their latest secret weapon planning to defeat the Northerners...

Décryptez Claude Gueux de Victor Hugo avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de Claude Gueux, le roman engagé dénonçant la peine de mort ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment...

Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent Since the inception of the “War on Terror,” Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towards the Palestinians. A key ideological weapon...