RichFaces 4 is a component library for JavaServer Faces, and an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business applications. It lets you quickly develop next-generation web applications based on JSF 2/Ajax. In this definitive RichFaces 4 book, instead of using JBoss Tools,[...]

In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper "Pravda." They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the le[...]

A light, comical exploration by the Russian writer, Ilya Boyashov, of the significance of wandering and wanderers to the human condition. The wanderer in this case is the cat, Muri, displaced by war in 1992 from his village near Sarajevo.[...]

The essential collection for every manga fan - the latest inspirational new manga Here is the second volume of the world's premier annual showcase of international manga. Bursting with energy and imagination, the collection features the most exciting new work by the brightest young talents in the fi[...]

Russian-born conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are among the most celebrated artists of their generation. Known for their pioneering large-scale environments and installations, the artists' work fuses the everyday with the conceptual. Deeply rooted in the visual culture of Soviet society ye[...]

Patricia Green is a middle-class, middle-aged romance novelist with writer's block. William Crowney, aka "Cougar", is a teenage runaway who has been surviving life on London's streets as a rent boy. Their lives couldn't be more different. But when, under extraordinary circumstances, William is invit[...]

Surreal enough to be true, these poems waltz through encounters within families and without. The people depicted are in equal measure brutal and tender, in narratives that are strangely innocent, compelling and convincing. The poems draw on archetype and myth, as well as Russian literary figures[...]