During the years of World War II many people despite the jeopardy to their own lives rescued thousands of humiliated and persecuted citizen of their country, Jews doomed by Nazi regime only on account of their ethnic descent. Those people are called Righteous among the nations. This title was granted to 2515 citizens of Ukraine. There is no region or a town in our country where there are no such people. The book is about them. The list of the Righteous is enriches with the names of people who were granted this title after 2008.
The exhibition is held in Shimla Art Gallery of the Lalit Kala Academi (National Academy of Art, New Delhi) and in the International Roerich Memorial Trust (the Roerichs’ Estate in Naggar) within the framework of the international exhibition project by the International Centre of the Roerichs and the International Roerichs’ Heritage Preservation Committee, initiated on April 2, 2012 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Выставка проходит в Галерее искусств в Шимле при Национальной академии изящных искусств (Академии Лалит Кала, Нью-Дели) и в...
Across the world, we see cultural heritage under attack, from Mali to Iraq and Syria. Extremists vandalize museums and historic sites, forbid girls to go to school and kill members of the media – all symbols that embody freedom of thought and respect for cultural diversity. These assaults strike at the heart of human identity and endeavour. Signed in 1935, the Roerich Pact paved the way for landmark international legal instruments devoted to the protection of cultural property, both in peacetime and during war – including the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Confl ict and its two (1954 and 1999) Protocols. The UNESCO World Heritage Convention, adopted in 1972, builds on the spirit on...
The book talks about the ancient migratory movements of the Romanic peoples after they left their original Indo-European home, the southern region of the Ural steppe, the Black Sea.
Полный вариант заголовка: «The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by 140 engravings, in which are represented most of the popular diversions : selected from ancient paintings / by Joseph Strutt ; a new edition, with a copious index, by William Hone».
Полный вариант заголовка: «The secret history of the court of Berlin : Vol. 1 : or the character of the present King of Prussia, his ministers, generals, courtiers, favourites, and the Royal family of Prussia : with numerous anecdotes of the potentates of Europe, aspecially of the late Frederic II. and interesting picture of the state of politics, particularly in Prussia, Russia, Germany, and Holland : in a series of letters, translated from the French : a posthumous work / to which is added a memorial, presented to the present King of Prussia, on the day of his accession to the throne by count Mirabeau».
Полный вариант заголовка: «The secret history of the court of Berlin : Vol. 2 : or the character of the present King of Prussia, his ministers, generals, courtiers, favourites, and the Royal family of Prussia : with numerous anecdotes of the potentates of Europe, aspecially of the late Frederic II. and interesting picture of the state of politics, particularly in Prussia, Russia, Germany, and Holland : in a series of letters, translated from the French : a posthumous work / to which is added a memorial, presented to the present King of Prussia, on the day of his accession to the throne by count Mirabeau».
Ukrainian publisher presents the essay "The system of theatrical improvisation”, a result of ten-year experience of actor Stanislav Hlushko in the "Black Square" theater, Kyiv. Improvisation by itself is not a novelty. It is known from performances of the antiquity by strolling comedians, Commedia dell\'arte performers in Italy. Stanislavsky wrote about improvisation, Michael Chekhov and Meyerhold applied improvisation, but in all these cases it was about structural improvisation where the actors are forbidden to depart from the script and guidelines of the design director. A myth was created that improvisation should be prepared, and there is no other way. In the middle of the last century, Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone began to...
The book is devoted to a play which became on its appearance a turning point in Russian, and later world, art. A vast amount has been written about the play. However, “The Seagull” still attracts producers, actors and critics; they read it every time as if for the frst time. This book attempts the same. It is addressed to all those who are interested in Chekhov’s work and the “eternal questions” of his “strange” play, “The Seagull”.
What is the social merit or purpose of all those bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines? Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, ever since Antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, the economy and the corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zest of humour. And the tinier lingerie gets,...
A Brief History of the Second World War. You want to put together the past in order to manage the present and the future. Then this book is prepared for you.Everything was so.
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This book examines Policies for Development in Korea and explores the opportunities and challenges faced by Korea in harnessing technology for economic growth. A central goals of this book is to share practical cases from South Korea for those aspiring to become global professionals who contribute and resolve remaining challenges of developing countries. Topics covered include export-oriented industrialization, smart cities, government reforms, green growth, land and capital markets.
Here we report the establishment of a family relation system between the species of African bipedal primates observed in deposits from 6.2 to 0.9 million years ago (mya). For this purpose, the author presents a single method of assigning diagnostic “weight” when conducting character assessment of fossilized remains and has also formulated several equations and ratios that make use of morphometric measurements and can be used to predict the crucial parameters of paleontological individuals, such as body weight, endocranial volume, and cerebral index, and identify their diet. Having simultaneously considered all the morphometric descriptions of the bone remains of bipedal primates and, by a single method of character evaluation, having...
Slavic peoples are based on Slavic languages that belong to the Indo-European language family. Modern Slavs are divided into 3 groups: eastern, southern and western. Slavic languages are especially close to the group of Baltic languages, even a special Slavic-Baltic community (2—1 millennia BC) stands out. In even more ancient times, Slavic languages (4—3 millennia BC) were most likely closely associated with Iranian languages.
Полный вариант заголовка: «The theological and philological works of the late Mr. John Toland : being a system of Jewish, Gentile and Mahomatan Christianity».
Полный вариант заголовка: «The true intellectual system of the universe : wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated : with a discourse concerning the true notion of the Lord\'s supper, and two sermons, on 1 John II. 3, 4 and 1 Cor. XV. 57 : in 4 vol. Vol. 1».
Полный вариант заголовка: «The true intellectual system of the universe : wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated : with a discourse concerning the true notion of the Lord\'s supper, and two sermons, on 1 John II. 3, 4 and 1 Cor. XV. 57 : in 4 vol. Vol. 2».
Полный вариант заголовка: «The true intellectual system of the universe : wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated : with a discourse concerning the true notion of the Lord\'s supper, and two sermons, on 1 John II. 3, 4 and 1 Cor. XV. 57 : in 4 vol. Vol. 3».
Полный вариант заголовка: «The true itellectual system of the universe : Vol. 4 : wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated : with a discourse concerning the true notion of the Lord\'s supper : and 2 sermons, on 1 John ii. 3,4. and 1 Cor. xv. 57 : in 4 volumes / by Ralf Cudworth ; with references to the several quotations in the intellectual system; and an account of the life and writings of the author by Thomas Birch».
Полный вариант заголовка: «The treatises of Aristotle, on the heavens, on generation and corruption, and on meteors / translated from the Greek, with copious elucidations, from the commentaries of Simplicius on the first, and of Olympiodorus on the last of this treatises by Thomas Taylor».
Моя книга “Теория всего, чего нет” на английском языке, может быть, будет интересна англоязычным читателям. Кое-что из текста изъято – с учётом контингента.
Великий русский писатель А. П. Чехов (1860–1904) на Западе известен прежде всего как автор пьес. Такие его драматические произведения, как «Чайка», «Вишневый сад», «Дядя Ваня» и другие, ставятся на сценах разных стран и неизменно пользуются успехом. Предлагаем вниманию англоязычных читателей одну из самых известных пьес Чехова «Три сестры», написанную в 1901 году.