Albert Einstein was initially skeptical and even disdainful of the Zionist movement, yet he affiliated himself with this controversial political ideology and today is widely seen as an outspoken advocate for a modern Jewish homeland in Palestine. What enticed this renowned scientist and humanitarian[...]

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On Devil's Night, the night before Halloween, some citizens of Detroit try to burn down their neighborhoods for an international audience of fire buffs. This gripping and often heartbreaking tour of the "Murder Capital of America" often seems lit by those same fir[...]

This momentous work, breathtaking in its scope and detail, reveals the deeper causes of Eastern Europe's turbulent past, and exposes the attempts to subvert the true destiny of the East-Slavic people by materialistic western Brotherhoods, Jesuits, and the occult stream of Bolshevism. Genuine, first-[...]

An International Perspective. This text is essential reading for Tourism, Events, Hospitality and Leisure students taking human resource management-related modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.[...]

Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov's edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as w[...]

This is the first volume of a comprehensive gathering of tales from Russia's equivalent to the Brothers Grimm. The folktales of Alexander Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian equivalent of the[...]