Product Description: This book questions the prevalent assumption that ethnicity and nationalist politics had nothing to do with the Cold War and that, far from being 'frozen' until the fall of communism, they remained central to the conflict in Europe...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Featuring more than three hundred color photographs and site plans for twenty-four homes, this guide to building a home on a lake, river, or the ocean covers all the possible angles presented by this tricky construction project. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

An architect provides a beatifully illustrated look at twenty-five homes that are built on or near bodies of water, explaining what makes a design scheme work for such dwellings, offering helpful guidelines for those planning such a home, and furnishing more than three hundred full-color photographs and site plans. 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: "Stalinism in Crisis" looks at recent developments in the world's non-capitalist regimes. It consists of eight separate chapters written by experts in specific fields. Topics addressed include: analysis of Stalinist regimes worldwide; perestoika in the USSR; the relationship between the Soviet bureaucracy, the intelligentsia and the working class in Russia and the republics; developments in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria; China's attempts at economic reform; Stalinism in the Third World; the decline of the European communist parties and the prospects for the future; and the impact of the disintegration of the Societ bloc on international relations...read more