The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. In this highly original and controversial book, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. Exploring the writings, poetry, and art of representative individuals including Cath...(展开全部)

Views American democracy, revolution, and capitalism in the light of Western history.

Colonial powers in China and northern Indochina employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of colonial power, a tool in the mission to civilize, a recreation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work for the colonizers and the colonized. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture...(展开全部)

Colonial powers in China and northern Indochina employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of colonial power, a tool in the mission to civilize, a recreation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work for the colonizers and the colonized. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture...(展开全部)

Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced topin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But asthe KGB and the CIA watch in horror, the rescue of aUkrainian freedom fighter from the Black Seaunleashes savagery that endangers peace--and plungesleaders from Washington to Moscow into a web ofoverwhelming intrigue, terror, and suspense. Only twolovers can save the world from nucleard...(展开全部)

Each of the seven liberal arts -grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy arts is discussed in an individual essay written by a specialist in the field. These essays examine the establishment of the medieval concept of the arts in the post-classical writings of the Latin encyclopedists, briefly treat their history from the eighth through the Twelft...(展开全部)

'Whichever option I choose, men are going to die'. When the entire Soviet Union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvation. The USA is quick to offer assistance. They devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the Russians in exchange for sensitive political information. But the Politburo has other ideas: the invasion of W...(展开全部)