Vladimir: 813 books

О чем беззвучно говорим все время. Вот эта область. Этот круг забот. «Кого касаются проблемы смерти». Что мы увидим - «начавши все же двигаться туда». Какой сюжет стоит там непрерывно.

The book is devoted to the ethics of Islam; it contains quotes from the Quran, Sunna and other texts describing the true Islam.

„Ovaj roman je prava bomba, tornado koji se zakovitlao kroz haos naše današnjice, knjiga sa više života nego mačka – a svaki od njih vam budi jezu, i nijedan nije tipičan.“ Širli Hazard, autorka knjige Grin na Kapriju: Memoari „Prelepo i prefinjeno preplitanje priče o...

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its...

Sarebbe difficile, per chi non ne è stato testimone, immaginare oggi la violenza dello scandalo internazionale, per oltraggiata pruderie, che "Lolita" provocò al suo apparire nel 1955. E tale è l’abitudine alla sciocca regola secondo cui ciò che fa chiasso è inevitabilmente sprovvisto...

In ancient times, Indian rishi Patanjali highlighted the principal stages of the ascent to spiritual heights, to the Primordial Consciousness. He distinguished eight major steps of this ascent: yama — niyama — asana — pranayama — pratyahara — dharana — dhyana — samadhi.This book describes these steps.

This book presents the readers with the Teachings about the Path to spiritual Perfection by Avatar Babaji from Haidakhan (India). Babaji is the One Who of His Own Will incarnates on the Earth from age to age to help seekers of the Truth and to edify spiritual leaders of our planet. One of the incarnations...

This book is dedicated to a positive analysis of Agni Yoga Teachings, written by Helena Roerich. The book explains, in particular, such terms as Shambala, Hierarchy, Divine Fire, Infinity, the Heart. The book is addressed to those who seek cognition of God and full spiritual self-realization.

Babaji is one of the well-known Divine Teachers of humanity, a Representative of the Creator.He taught (and continues to teach us now — from His non-incarnate state) how we can walk the Path to Perfection, to cognition of God, to realization of the purpose of our lives.From this book we can learn...

Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel.  In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair.  His memories of...

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic...

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer....

Nikolai Gogol was the most idiosyncratic of the great Russian novelists of the 19th century and lived a tragically short life which was as chaotic as the lives of the characters he created. This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both...