During a time of revolution, Nikolay Stavrogin, a brilliant but alienated young aristocrat, becomes a criminal, a degenerate, and an exploiter of women because of his inability to feel genuine emotion. Dostoyevsky hoped, in this novel, to rally the Russian upper classes to turn away from their own nihilistic self-absorption and identify with the ...
Presented here are twelve revised and annotated stories, based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translations (except "Aloysha the Pot", translated by Michael Katz), including "A Prisoner in the Caucasus", "Father Sergius" and "After the Ball". "Backgrounds and Sources" presents two Tolstoy memoirs as well as entries from his "Diary for 1855" and ...
Here is an employee's ultimate resource tool--the only book of its kind to rate the best companies on pay, benefits, job security, opportunity for advancement, and work ambiance.
The new, 3rd Edition of this popular clinical reference previously edited by Drs. Calkins, Ford and Katz presents practical, state-of-the-art guidance on geriatric care and on issues affecting the aging population. It discusses elderly care in todays full range of settings in the hospital, nursing home, out-patient office, and at home. The books ...
One of two novels written by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940), a key figure in the Zionist movement. This semi-autobiographical tale follows the fates of five siblings of an assimilated upper-middle-class Jewish family living in turn-of-the-century Odessa.
This volume makes available two Russian classics never before translated into English. Aleksandr Druzhinin's most important work, deals with arrange marriages, fidelity, and the position of women in upper-class Russian society in the 1840s.
This witty and irreverent guide reveals the human face beyond the corporate logo, giving an no-holds-barred portrait of the people, products and peculiarities that distinguish each firm's unique personality.
"Antonina" is a segment of a four-volume work first published in 1851. It tells the story of Antonina Stein, a young Russian whose life is shaped by the cruelty of her parents, her unhappy marriage, and the doomed love affair she enters into with a sensitive but weak young man.
Motors use more than half of all electricity. This book outlines an approach for increasing motor and motor system efficiency through high-efficiency motors, optimized controls, improved component sizing and repair, better transmission hardware, and more comprehensive monitoring and maintenance. In addition to explaining technical opportunities in ...
A novel that marks not only the frontier between 19th- and 20th-century literature but the divide between two centuries' notion of the self. This highly philosophical work was the beginning of Dostoyevsky's serious literary career.
A new translation of this Russian novel that should be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the course of Russian history and the political debate over democratization taking place in Russia today.
This memoir by Vladimir Pecherin (or Petcherine) (1807-85) is a story of the life of a rebel against any form of despotism. Shortly after his appointment as Professor of Classics at Moscow University, Pecherin fled from Russia in 1836 to pursue radical politics in Europe. He was the first Russian political emigrant. In 1840, he suddenly and ...
In addition to offering fresh editions of well-known works, "Northwestern World Classics" will also reintroduce to a new generation 'lost classics', such as Ivan Shcheglov's 1896 "The Dacha Husband" ("Dachnyi muzh"). Despite being considered the most interesting writer of the late 1800s by no less a writer than his onetime collaborator Anton ...
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