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Taras Bulba
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Explore a fascinating period in history through the eyes of renowned Russian literary realist Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. This historian-turned-fiction-writer had a lifelong interest in the culture of the Ukranian Cossacks, the community at the center of the tale "Taras Bulba" and several of the other stories brought together in this engrossing... more...
The Inspector-General
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much more than that. Famed Russian writer Nikolai Gogol intended it to be a veiled but pointed satire of the ineptitude, corruption, and greed that exemplified the Russian bureaucracy in the nineteenth century. The witty play was later used... more...
Variational methods in optimum control theory
Elsevier Science 1968; US$ 82.00Variational methods in optimum control theory more...
Fluorinated Heterocyclic Compounds
Wiley 2009; US$ 145.00A thorough survey of synthetic methods, chemistry, and applications of major classes of fluorinated heterocycles Merging organic, heterocyclic, and fluoroorganic chemistry, fluorinated heterocyclic compounds have distinctively desirable properties suitable for use in pharmaceuticals and agrichemicals, especially their ability to penetrate the cell... more...
Coarse-to-Fine Natural Language Processing
Springer 2011; US$ 84.99The impact of computer systems that can understand natural language will be tremendous. To develop this capability we need to be able to automatically and efficiently analyze large amounts of text. Manually devised rules are not sufficient to provide coverage to handle the complex structure of natural language, necessitating systems that can automatically... more...
Dead Souls
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.99Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy. Set in Russia before the emancipation of serfs in 1861, the "dead souls" are dead serfs still being counted by landowners as property, as well as referring to the landowners' morality. Through surreal and often dark comedy, Gogol criticizes Russian society after the Napoleonic Wars. He intended... more...
The Mantle
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Explore the Russian creative movement known as literary realism through the work of writer Nikolai Vassilievitch Gogol, whom many critics regard not only as one of the foremost practitioners of this style, but also as one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. This exquisitely translated collection brings together several... more...
Lyotropic State of Matter: Molecular Physics and Living
CRC Press 1999; US$ 179.95Written for liquid crystal scientists, membranologists and for experts in these fields, this monograph presents both theory and experiment and provides an overview of the state of the art in this exciting area of study more...
International Science Between the World Wars
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 186.00What is international science and how does it function? This book answers these questions through a detailed study of international congresses on genetics held from 1899 to 1939. It presents a portrait of international science as a product of continuous interactions that involved scientists and their patrons within specific political, ideological,... more...
Packed Bed Columns
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 305.00Packed bed columns are largely employed for absorption, desorption, rectification and direct heat transfer processes in chemical and food industry, environmental protection and also processes in thermal power stations like water purification, flue gas heat utilization and SO2 removal. These Separation processes, are estimated to account for 40%-70%... more...









