Vladimir: 813 books

About This Famous Lenin Writing On the eve of the October Revolution, Lenin wrote an anticrisis program entitled "The Threatening Catastrophe and How to Fight It."What was it about? It was about disorder in transportation and industry, unemployment, and approaching famine. And about the fact...

Кот и любое его изображение свято для Воров в законе и криминалитета. Принято относить кота к воровской масти, именно поэтому тела многих уголовников пестреют изображениями...

Marketing for Small and Medium Enterprises provides 8 important tips for entrepreneurs who have decided to support their business by marketing activities and who want to do it efficiently. Experience shows that too many entrepreneurs waste a lot of money on activities that are supposed to bring...

The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the masters of the stage like Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams...

QUARTA EDIÇÃO revisada e ampliada. Na Primeira Parte, você aprenderá o que é o Evernote e conhecerá suas características, recursos e funções. A Segunda Parte trata do assunto organização eficiente e como o Evernote pode ajudar a atingir este objetivo. E finalmente, na Terceira Parte, há...

“Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World). An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal...

For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy. The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923­­–1924,...

"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime,...

A True Professional From his childhood, Vladimir Tukmakov realized that there was something special about his ability to play chess. He had it all - talent, skill and motivation. After winning many junior and student tournaments, he went on to play in fourteen Soviet championships at a time when these...

The law of reincarnation can explain all situations of life, the good and, of course, the bad. Without reincarnation, we should accept that life is haphazard, groundless and without an ulterior motivation. For this reason, many of us argue that death does not exist as an end, but as a change to another...

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “It was Nabokov’s gift to bring paradise wherever he alighted.” —John Updike, The New York Review of Books Novelist, poet, critic, translator,...

Russia’s rich history is full of secrets: there’s not another country in the world with so many skeletons in its closet. Vladimir Medinskiy’s new book offers the reader the opportunity to get better acquainted with some myths about Russia in an quick, easy and entertaining way. The book covers...

When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died,...

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered...