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  • The Quiet Limit of the World

    by Carlos Ramet ...
    A poignant exploration of love and identity in a turbulent era.In 1978 San Francisco, Diego Contreras, a recent college grad from an immigrant family, seeks artistic success and something to believe in. He finds himself drawn to Saloma Sevilla, a wealthy Filipino-Chinese graduate student, and their intense relationship navigates the complexities of social class, family expectations, and personal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ken Follett and the Triumph of Suspense

    A Popular Writer Transcends Genres

    by Carlos Ramet ...
    Ken Follett wrote his first international bestseller, Eye of the Needle, when he was 25 years old. He has since been one of the most consistent international best-selling authors, with approximately 130 million copies of his books sold worldwide. His manifold influences on the thriller genre includes the pioneering use of strong female characters in espionage stories and the development of the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    History of Toulouse

    by Henri Ramet ...
    Narrated by Adrian Vale ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 45 min

    Plunge headlong into the heart of Toulouse: this audiobook vividly restores, with captivating precision, the epic of a major Midi city—from its Celtic origins to the Roman era, from Visigothic splendor to the dramas of the Albigensian Crusade, and on to municipal affirmation and medieval intellectual growth. Discover a crossroads city shaped by its Garonne River, ramparts, markets, religious ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Russia & the Soviet Union in Humorous Verse

    by Sabrina P. Ramet ...
    The dramatic history of Russia proves fertile ground for laughter in this volume of humorous verse by the author of Pets of the Great Dictators.Sabrina P. Ramet is a serious academic with a seriously funny side. She has made major contributions to European history with her scholarly work on the former Yugoslavia. But her most unique contribution may be the well-informed and wackily executed poems ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing For Magazines (4th Edition)

    How to get your work published in local newspapers and magazines

    by Adèle Ramet ...
    Written by an experienced author, this practical book shows you how to produce manuscripts to fit a specific slot, advises you on how to adapt your style to suit different markets, and how to utilise research material to write facts and fiction effectively.Contents: 1. Mixing fact and fiction; 2. Constructing an article; 3. Getting articles into print; 4. Researching and filing systems; 5. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Coming in from the Cold War

    Changes in U.S.-European Interactions since 1980

    by Mikhail A. Alexseev, David J. Allen, Cecilia Chessa, Christopher Coker, Paul D'Anieri, Mark Gardner, James Gow, Jolyon Howorth, Michael P. Marks, Sabrina P. Ramet, Patricia J. Smith1 ...
    The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations. The decade began with the death of Yugoslavia's Tito, the birth of Poland's Solidarity trade union, and the U.S. election of Ronald Reagan as president. These key developments, together with the growing financial insolvency of the Soviet bloc and shifts in power in the Kremlin-culminating in the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Creative Writing

    by Adèle Ramet ...
    This book is a first-rate guide for writers who are looking for ways to improve their output. It focuses on: - Fiction writing and the world of genre fiction - science, romance, horror and crime. - Ways of drawing on personal experience in order to write non-fiction articles on a wide variety of topics in a number of different styles. - Writing for children which requires specialist skills that, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Yugoslavia In The 1980s

    by Sabrina Ramet ...
    The opening years of 1980 were difficult for Yugoslavia: Open revolt has occurred in Kosovo province and economic hardship has added to a general crisis of confidence. The system of self-management, once the pride of Yugoslav ideologists, has come increasingly under fire in post-Tito Yugoslavia as proponents of the system search for a new basis of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

    The American Impact on European Popular Culture since 1945

    by Gordana Crnkovic, Steinar Bryn, B Lee Cooper, Laura E. Cooper, Gordana P. Crnkovic, Marianne Debouzy, Herbert J. Eagle, C Anthony Giffard, Giulia Guarnieri, Beth Holmgren, Beverly James, Uta G. Poiger, Sabrina P. Ramet, Rodney Stark ...
    Observing European debates about EuroDisney, McDonald's, Hollywood films and television programs, and other vehicles of alleged 'Americanization,' one might imagine that Europe was in serious risk of losing its distinct cultural identity in the melting pot of American pop culture. The loaded charge of 'kitsch' is a central aspect of the debate, with Disney stories, for example, branded as ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Social Currents in Eastern Europe

    The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation

    by Sabrina P. Ramet ...
    Social Currents in Eastern Europe traces the diverse social currents that have developed alongside and interacted with political and economic forces to bring about change in Eastern Europe. In this second edition—which significantly updates and expands the previous edition to include a new introduction, revisions throughout, as well as five new chapters, including timely material on ethnic war in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics

    by Sabrina P. Ramet ...
    Series series Duke Press policy studies
    Religious organizations in many countries of the communist world have served as agents for the preservation, defense, and reinforcement of nationalist feelings, and in playing this role have frequently been a source of frustration to the Communist Party elites. Although the relationship between governments and religious groups varies according to the particular country and group in question, the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • East Central Europe since 1989

    Politics, Culture, and Society

    by Sabrina P. Ramet, Lavinia Stan ...
    Series series Routledge Open History
    This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, transitional justice, gender inequality, and literature, highlighting the overt functions, latent functions, and side effects associated with each sphere.Communism in East Central Europe had cracks from the beginning, as uprisings in East Germany in 1953 ... Read more

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