Olga: 832 books
by Sarina Dorie, Nidhi Singh, Brenda Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Now in our NINTH YEAR! Celebrate the wonderful range of styles within the speculative fiction genres with our newest issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly. From the lighthearted to the heart-pounding, this special double-length issue will delight short fiction fans. In this issue, stories by Brenda...
by Olga B.A. van den Akker
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties. Olga Van den Akker details the psychological adaptation required to continuing changes in public opinion, advances in technologies and new legislations in surrogate motherhood...
by Olga Kisseleva, Barbara Formis
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Russian new media artist, Olga Kisseleva, in her series, Custom Made (1998-2013), explores a wide range of concepts about interactivity and participation in a contemporary global culture and is comprised of many different works in video and new media installations. From her early interactive web work...
by Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Among ancient Chinese monuments Russian researcher Andrey Davydov discovered the Catalog of human population. The title of this ancient source is Shan Hai Jing (translated from Chinese as the Catalog of Mountains and Seas). Official science still does not know for certain the dating of Shan Hai Jing...
The Invisible Sex
Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. Recent archaeological research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. J. M. Adovasio...
Modern Ladino Culture
Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary...
Een schitterend isolement
een familiegeschiedenis
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Ogenschijnlijk is er niet veel verrassends aan de familiestukken die Olga Majeau van haar grootmoeder Elfi erft. Elfi heeft haar van alles verteld over haar beroemde voorouders, het Duitse schrijversechtpaar Bettina en Achim von Arnim. Maar naarmate de familielijn de recentere geschiedenis nadert,...
Strength Training for Women
Training Programs, Food, and Motivation for a Stronger, More Beautiful Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Sculpt and tone your body with fitness training programs and wholesome recipes worthy of the woman you are!
Desk-bound nine-to-five jobs, childbirth, and household duties are tough on a woman’s body, which is why strength training is so important for the modern-day woman. As she juggles multiple...
The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Moses Almosnino and His Readers
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, became renowned for his vernacular books that were admired by Ladino readers across many generations. While Almosnino's works were written in a style...
The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy
Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related...
by Olga Grushin
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Olga Grushins astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores-really, colonizes-the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground...
Blended Learning in Practice
A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness.
Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale,...
Fundamentals of Piano Technique - The Russian Method
Newly Revised by James & Susan McKeever
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
(Piano Instruction). Fundamentals of Piano Technique was developed by Leon Conus (1871-1944) and Olga Conus (1890-1976) during many decades of teaching and performing, and through association with the most prominent Russian musicians of the time including Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Medtner. The exercises...
Valerii Pereleshin
The Life of a Silkworm
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Olga Bakich’s biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913–1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Pereleshin lived for thirty years in China and for almost forty years in Brazil. Multilingual, he...