Libraries in Open Society: Proceedings of the Fifth International Slavic Librarians' Conference

Libraries in Open Society: Proceedings of the Fifth International Slavic Librarians' Conference Review

Libraries in Open Society: Proceedings of the Fifth International Slavic Librarians' Conference

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Learn how libraries have risen to the challenges created by the fall of Communism and the rise of information technology!

How do librarians and researchers face war, social upheaval, and other challenges after the fall of Communism and the rise of digital technology? Libraries in Open Societies offers fascinating answers to this and many other questions while providing an overview of this rapidly changing arena. An international panel of authors who know the specialized concerns of libraries in Eastern Europe and the former USSR addresses topics that include the difficulty of preserving and acquiring materials, the importance of international cooperation, and the benefits and pitfalls of electronic media.

This book also discusses the rise of the Internet in Russia, the movement of international bibliographies onto the Web, and other features of the digital revolution. Libraries in Open Societies, itself an example of the value of international cooperation in the modern world, will be an important addition to your bookshelves! Other absorbing topics in Libraries in Open Societies include:

• reconstruction of libraries in Bosnia
• the role of the Polish émigré press in Great Britain
• guidelines for developing Slavic literature collections
• the creation and restoration of digital archives throughout the region
• electronic information delivery in the United States and abroad
• journals in Slavic and East European librarianship
• Baltic collections in North America and Western Europe
• the role digital technologies have played in restoring Bosnian printed heritage materials lost during the 1992–1995 warYou will not be disappointed with Libraries in Open Society: Proceedings of the Fifth International Slavic Librarians' Conference

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Claude Simon: Writing the Visible (Cambridge Studies in French)

Claude Simon: Writing the Visible (Cambridge Studies in French) Review

Claude Simon: Writing the Visible (Cambridge Studies in French)

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This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. Simon is a complex figure: for all that he writes in a distinctively modern fictional tradition (exemplified by Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet), his novels contain strong elements of visual representation alongside a very different king of free-floating, anti-realist writing. This combination and tension between vivd representation of experience and the free play of language is a focus of Dr Britton's book. She exposes the limitations of literary theory in dealing with Simon's novels and reveals how concepts from psychoanalysis can illuminate this problematic juxtaposition of vision and text.You will not be disappointed with Claude Simon: Writing the Visible (Cambridge Studies in French)

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Contemporary One-Act Plays: With Outline Study of the One-Act Play and Bibliographies (1922)

Contemporary One-Act Plays: With Outline Study of the One-Act Play and Bibliographies (1922) Review

Contemporary One-Act Plays: With Outline Study of the One-Act Play and Bibliographies (1922)

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Originally published in 1922. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.You will not be disappointed with Contemporary One-Act Plays: With Outline Study of the One-Act Play and Bibliographies (1922)

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An Eye for Hitchcock

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An Eye for Hitchcock

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Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films are extraordinarily famous and have been seen––and misunderstood––countless times: North by Northwest and Vertigo. Two others, Marnie and Torn Curtain, have been mostly disregarded by viewers and critics or considered to be colossal mistakes, while two others, Spellbound and I Confess, have received almost no critical attention at all.

In An Eye for Hitchcock, these movies are seen in a striking new way. Pomerance takes us deep into the structure of Hitchcock’s vision and his screen architecture, revealing key elements that have never been written about before. Pomerance also clearly reveals the link between Hitchcock’s work and a wide range of thinkers and artists in other fields, thereby offering viewers of Hitchcock’s films the rare opportunity to see them in an entirely new light.

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Complete Plays of John Galsworthy, Volume 2

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy, Volume 2 Review

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy, Volume 2

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.You will not be disappointed with Complete Plays of John Galsworthy, Volume 2

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Closet Red: A Marxist's Adventures Inside the Ruling Class

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Closet Red: A Marxist's Adventures Inside the Ruling Class

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CLOSET RED, A Marxist's Adventures Inside the Ruling Class, is the historical (and sometimes hysterical) documentation of writer, Bernard Livingston's life within the employ of some of America's wealthiest and most powerful families, to whom he quite often became a friend and confidant. Unaware of his "red aroma" Bernard Livingston was able to "snoop around Camelot" and he now recounts the adventures with and insights into some of the key families associated with the American political machine such as the Kennedys, the Whitneys and many others.You will not be disappointed with Closet Red: A Marxist's Adventures Inside the Ruling Class

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Soviet-American Relations, 1953-1960: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange During the Eisenhower Presidency

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Soviet-American Relations, 1953-1960: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange During the Eisenhower Presidency

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Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev presided over a pivotal period in Soviet-American relations. The ongoing Korean War and the lack of an American ambassador in Moscow illustrate the strain in Soviet-American relations at the start of Eisenhower's presidency, but things changed after Stalin died only 44 days later. Stalin's successors began to liberalize both domestic and foreign policy in what became known as the Thaw. There was an increase in diplomatic exchanges, including the first modern summit conferences. Of even greater importance, the Soviet leaders began to reestablish the scientific, cultural, and tourist contacts that had been broken under Stalin. Because political and ideological tensions remained and there were still restrictions on contacts, the Soviet overtures can best be described as a half-offered hand of friendship, and perhaps it was less of a thaw than the end of a blizzard. Nevertheless, these contacts began a process which would help end the Cold War three decades later. This history of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Eisenhower and Khrushchev administrations explores political, social and cultural exchanges, and assesses their impact upon the two countries. Besides diplomatic documents, memoirs from Americans and Soviets, and works of history, it relies upon eyewitness accounts by journalists, tourists and others to paint a detailed picture of the era. Notes are included for each chapter, and there is a bibliography and an index.You will not be disappointed with Soviet-American Relations, 1953-1960: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange During the Eisenhower Presidency

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