Based on new field research by an international team of post-Soviet specialists, this is the first comparative study to examine the complexities of trans-border ethnic groups and state-building in the former Soviet Union.The collapse of the Soviet state transformed internal administrative boundaries[...]

Charles C. Ryrie has served on all sorts of boards and he has thought much about their great opportunities. He notes the problems that can affect a board's effectiveness and shares practical advice on achieving success as a board and as individual members.[...]

'Les Fleurs du mal' (1861) was the first great modern work of poetry and one of the few books of poems to become an international bestseller. This edition contains all of Baudelaire's poetry in verse with Francis Scarfe's scrupulous and inventive prose translations at the foot of the pages. Together[...]

Christian Thomasius' natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke's in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius' "Institutionum Jurisprudentiae Divinae" ("Institutes of Divine Jurispruden[...]

"My Thoughts" provides a unique window into the mind of one of the undisputed pioneers of modern thought, the author of "The Spirit of the Laws". From the publication of his first masterpiece, "Persian Letters", in 1721, until his death in 1755, Montesquieu maintained notebooks in which he wrote and[...]

The essential political writings of Montesquieu - a substantial abridgment of "The Spirit of the Laws", plus judicious selections from "The Persian Letters" and "Considerations of the Romans' Greatness and Decline" - are masterfully translated by Melvin Richter. Prefaced by a new fifty-page introduc[...]

"From the introduction by Michael Hamburger: ""Baudelaire's prose poems were written at long intervals during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. The prose poem was a medium much suited to his habits and character. Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to ill[...]

Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero contains much [...]

The Howell Equestrian Library is a distinguished collection of books on all aspects of horsemanship and horsemastership. The nearly fifty books in print offer readers in all disciplines and at all levels of competition sound instruction and guidance by some of the most celebrated riders, trainers, j[...]

An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's experience in useful and progressively deeper ways. In an effort to aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle[...]

Charles and Frances Hunter describe their own personal encounters with angels and what the Bible tells us about these messengers of God. They report on the different kinds of angels and their roles, how God's messengers can impact your life, and how to experience the presence of God. God uses angels[...]

This title discusses, in depth, the wide range of technologies that are involved in power circuit breaker design by analysing the theoretical and practical problems.[...]

The only work available that covers the entire line of Granville Bros. projects including all models of their sport and racing planes.[...]