Svetlana: 125 books

Anal sex has been a taboo topic, but recent surveys show that almost one-third of heterosexual couples have experimented with back door pleasure. Sex blogger Svetlana Ivanova has written a guide to great anal sex for both anal sex beginners and for couples who are searching for new things to try.

Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities--St....

Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques...

Een hartverscheurend epos over leven en lot na de Sovjet-Unie. Meer dan twintig jaar geleden viel de Sovjet-Unie uit elkaar, ontdekten de Russen de wereld, en ontdekte de wereld de Russen. Even leek een romance in de maak, maar de liefde was snel voorbij. Terwijl men in het Westen nog steeds Gorbatsjov...

“It’s official. That thing that classic art has been missing is a chubby reclining kitty.” —The Huffington Post Internet meme meets classical art in Svetlana Petrova’s brilliant Fat Cat Art. Featuring her twenty-two-pound, ginger-colored cat Zarathustra superimposed onto some of the greatest...

Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in the repertory (some eighty minutes long, with male chorus in the finale). But Busoni was also renowned in his...

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee...

"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In poetic language, Alexievich traces the origins of...

La ganadora del Premio Nobel de literatura, Svetlana Alexiévich, le da vida a las numerosas voces de aquellas mujeres silenciadas por la guerra. Deberíais crecer, niñas... Estáis muy verdes aún... Es uno de los fragmentos del ensayo La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer: un corpus formado...

Svetlana Kim was just twenty-three years old when she left Leningrad Russia for New York City. During a chance encounter in a bread line a former schoolmate offered her a plane ticket from the black market to America. With only a dollar in her pocket and no knowledge of the English language Kim left...

İsveç Akademisi, Svetlana Aleksiyeviç’e Nobel Ödülü verdiğinde yazarın “yeni bir edebi tür” yarattığını belirtmiş, eserlerini de “duyguların ve ruhun bir tarihi” sözcükleriyle betimlemişti. Aleksiyeviç uzun bireysel monologları farklı seslerin duyulduğu bir kolaja dönüştüren...

In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. But his middle school reality is VERY different--math is hard, getting along with friends is hard...Even finding a partner for the class project is a huge problem when you always get picked...

A young girl named Vasilisa has to go to the Queen of Asps to ask for the Brew of Life to save her dying old father. The Queen is not very friendly and tries her best to see the girl dead. Meet the glorious and scary Queen of Asps, pale and mysterious Prince of Asps, thousands-years-old witch with attitude, see magic caves, night forest, snakes dancing by the fire, gypsies... Read the book!

A fast paced fantasy-adventure-in-rhyme! Our main character, Oberon, is a fifteen-year-old orphan. He wants to avoid being drafted into King Ajax's army. After he escapes from recruiters, he is immersed in a world of war, politics, and magic. Dwarves, elves, werewolves, magic, love and combat! Enjoy the ride! Written in a mix of poetry styles by Konstantin McKenna and S. Kovalkova-McKenna.