This extensively researched book shows the birth of a new breed of passive resistance in this country, in front of the backdrop of the 1960s and earlier. An essential text for anyone interested in the 1960s. (Also a great research paper resource . . .)

Written by an expert in the field of British pollution control, this little book starts by explaining the structure and legal processes of the European Community and goes on to explain what is the Doctrine of Direct Effect and its impact on British regulation of discharges of dangerous substances. After a discussion of the direct effect of European Community Law on the control of hazardous substances, it concludes with case studies of British industries and recommendations which serve as an excellant guide for those interested in environmental law.

DISAPPEARANCE was first published in 1987, six years after Yury Trifonov's death. It's an unfinished novel that is nonetheless magistral. The novel describes some events that shook the life of the Boiakine family during the 1925-1943 period approximately. This period was marked by the irresistible political rise of Joseph Staline and the first purges organized by the communist party of the late Soviet Union.

But these tragic political events are seen through the eyes of members of the Boiakine family, losing all their historical impact but gaining an emotional dimension one would hardly find in socio-political studies. When a friend of the Boiakine family is arrested in the middle of the night, everybody try to remember on which occasion this friend has betrayed the political line of the communist party. Soon even the old 1917 revolutionaries are arrested and Nicolai Grigoriévitch, the head of the Boiakine family, is beginning to have some doubts about the reality of the guiltiness of his friends.

Most of the events described in DISAPPEARANCE are told by Goric, the youngest child of the Boiakine family, from his school days to his arrival in Moscow in the middle of the german invasion. He has a privileged relation with old people who, by explaining to him how was the past, let him have a rather objective opinion about what happens in his life.

DISAPPEARANCE has this melancholic tone one admires so much in the russian literature of the XXth century and I strongly recommend this novel to those of you who still believe that russian literature has died with Boulgakov.

A book for your library.

Cobble has written an invaluable history book about a large segment of the twentieth century workforce that would have otherwise been overlooked and forgotten. Waitresses have been ubiquitious and invisible at the same time. This book speaks to gender, class, ethnic, and work issues. It is written in a style that is informative AND interesting throughout. The historical research and organization of the book is superb. If you didn't know you were interested in this topic, the minute you start reading Cobble's book you will find out otherwise.

I found this book to be well organized and informative, especially for anyone beginning to study the Civil War. The authors are able to present, in a very readable form, a great deal of information, not limited to facts, dates and battle strategies. This book offers the reader an overview of the times, dealing with the personalities and motivations of the leaders, generals, soldiers, slaves and general population, as well as economic and political implications beyond the North American continent. The book reads like a novel and the illustrations and photographs are good. Read this book and you'll want to lean even more.

This series of legal documents, decrees, orders, instructions or live accounts describes better than any litterary form the progression in horror which our Jewish parents, brothers, sisters, nieces, and nevews had to suffer from April fools' day of 1933 when waring the David star was enforced to this community until the end of the second world war in mid 1945.

As a Christian I was surprised to discover that the trauma resulting from the horrifying murders is so deep in the Jewish community that, for most, its members if they do know about the holocaust, actually don't have a real view of it. Naturally the massive and sadistic aggresion against the Jewish people screens, in this book, the fate of the ones who shared their fate for having protected them or for having fought the Nazis.
After all Jewish people suffered between two third and three quarter of the enormous human non-military losses under surrealistically inhuman conditions.

This book should be handled with the respect normally due to religious books: it represents the steps of the martyrdom of the Jewish families under Nazi madness.

The content of the book should be remembered in details by every western culture including Israel's right wing (after all "Nazi" represents the danger of mixing nationalism and socialism...) Americans should learn from this book that being more powerful doesn't mean being better. Europeans could find in it how non elected "public servants" laugh at democratically elected representatives (elected ones disappear over the time, bureaucrats remain and never have to respond for diffused results).

For the content of this book to be fully meaningful, it should be enlightened by Milgram's explanation of how "Obedience to authority" made it possible for these horror to happen.

A major book which supplies everything Jewish and non Jewish need to know. A reedition with a lot of proper photographs of the murders by the Einsatzgruppen, of the Gettos and of the concentration camps conditions would be welcome.

Doktor Zhivago was rejected by the Soviet journal Novyi Mir so it was published in Russian in Milan in 1957, after being smuggled abroad. Only some poetical excerpts appeared in Moscow. The book was banned in the USSR for three decades - for "nonacceptance of the socialist revolution"...
It's one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and to fully realize it, you should read it in Russian. It's one of the most moving novels about the meaning of life.

One of the best ways to get to know a people is to learn what they believe, value, love, honor, and what they fear, loathe, and seek to avoid. One of the best guides to these attitudes and beliefs is what they do; this is the work they looked to to find out what to do. To learn it in their own words, articulately expressed and classically framed is a treat. To find it in a book that generations of a nation kept as their practical handbook for daily life is a marvel. It's like a combination of Emily Post, Betty Crocker, and the Old Farmer's Almanac, with elements of the Book of Common Prayer thrown in. You won't find critical analysis, postmodern theory, contextualization or anything condescending here -- just their own values and rules for living, as they held them. It ain't everything, but it sure is a leg up on knowing what even modern Russians are about. And it is intensely amusing. Communism, Maffia and modernity have taken their toll, but old Orthodox Slavic values are alive especially among some more traditional emigrees. You will find their prescription for living here, flatfooted, naive, often amiable, occasionally hilarious, and sometimes enough to make a genteel modern person cringe. Whether you want to revive it, analyze it, critique it, or just understand it, this gives enormous insight into a tradition we need to know about. It is of the nature of "source material," unless you are a Russian in search of a reference work for life. But it is well done, an important work to have translated. For anyone planning to visit Moscow during the rule of Ivan Grozny, this is almost the first thing to pack in your time machine--maybe right after your kaftan, axe, Slavonic Prayer Book and "prazdniki"-- travelling icon. It is well enough translated and introduced, but the text itself is its own best reason to be and be read. Pouncy does well to let it be in a good, accessible form, in our language, in our alien world.

I'm from Argentine, and I have the same last name like Konstantin. I would like to know him or his family or how can I get Him or someone of his family

This is a book of romance and forbidin love. I recomend this book to anyone who loves to read. You can find your own way to realate to this book no matter what type of book or lititure your in to. I would have to say that this book is for a higher reading level. To end my review I give this book a 5 star rating!