Author: Stefan Buzar
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: europe, eastern, poverty, energy
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2007-11-15
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754671305
ISBN-13: 9780754671305
One of the consequences of the post-socialist transformation of Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union is the emergence of energy poverty, a condition where households are living in inadequately heated homes. Winter after winter, the world’s media file reports about energy-related humanitarian emergencies: ’Dozens die in Russian cold snap’ in January 2006 being simply the latest as every spell of unusually cold weather brings misery to some countries in the region, as millions are left without heating and electricity. This book provides the first full-length e
Author: Donald Fairbairn
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: eyes, western, orthodoxy, eastern
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2002-09-28
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0664224970
ISBN-13: 9780664224974
Author: Eur
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: asia, central, russia, europe, eastern
Number of Pages: 638
Published: 2002-12-27
List price: $550.00
ISBN-10: 1857431375
ISBN-13: 9781857431377
Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia provides an impartial, up-to-date survey of the countries and territories that make up the region. This general survey offers detailed articles written by leading authorities. Subjects covered include organized crime; the aftermath of the Russian financial crisis; international relations; the economic situation in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States; the environment; social policy; Islamist militancy and the changing geopolitics of the region; and the politics of energy. Individual country surveys provide details on a range of infor
Author: Will Guy
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: eastern, europe, central, roma, future, past
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 2002-04-02
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1902806077
ISBN-13: 9781902806075
Part One is an overall survey covering the historical background, the Communist and post-Communist periods, Romani refugees - the international dimension, Romani nationalism, the role of NGOs and education - the future for the Roma. Part Two consists of separate chapters on the countries in the region to allow comparisons to be made and conclusions drawn. The "contributors" include Romani scholars such as Nicolae Gheorghe, Ian Hancock and Valdemar Kalinin and specialists such as Thomas Acton, Alaina Lemon, Michael Stewart and Donald Kenrick.
Author: Russ Schneider
Publisher: Presidio Press
Keywords: eastern, novel, siege
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2004-10-26
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0345475852
ISBN-13: 9780345475855
The events are real, the characters are fictional, the suffering and sacrifice are authentic–and unforgettableOn January 21, 1942, more than five thousand exhausted German soldiers– fragments of retreating units–found themselves surrounded in the arctic northern Russian town of Cholm. Trapped in an area barely two kilometers wide, the freezing, starving men held out for 105 days, repelling endless infantry attacks and dozens of tank assaults. Fifteen hundred Germans died before relief finally arrived on May 5, but for those still able to fight, an even worse ordeal lay ahead–the siege
Author: Cynthia Barnett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Keywords: eastern, water, vanishing, florida, mirage
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0472033034
ISBN-13: 9780472033034
"In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas’ River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice. Mirage is such a book."—St. Petersburg Times “Never before has the case been more compellingly made that America’s dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of the amazing personalities behind our water wars, the stunning contradictions that allow the wettest state to have the most wat
Author: Simon and Schuster
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Keywords: citizen, world, eastern, armenian
Published: 1997-11-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0788797689
ISBN-13: 9780788797682
Armenian (Eastern): World Citizen Edition Author: Simon and SchusterPublisher: Simon and SchusterBuy New: $239.00as of 11/3/2009 09:26 CST details Seller: anadornMedia: Audio CDISBN: 0788797689EAN: 9780788797682ASIN: 0788797689Publication Date: 1997Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
