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Taras Grescoe Three-Book Bundle: The Devil's Picnic, ...

Taras Grescoe Three-Book Bundle: The Devil's Picnic, ...

Taras Grescoe

Award-winning journalist Taras Grescoe has written books that have changed how we look at illicit food and other substances (The Devil’s Picnic), how we think about the world’s seafood (Bottomfeeder), and how we as commuters hit the ...
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution "I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe.
Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe

Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe

Ray Taras

European anti-Muslim attitudes: the voice of public protest against out-of-touch elites?
Democracy in Poland

Democracy in Poland

Ray Taras

At the same time Poland is frequently identified as the most successful example of a transition from communism to capitalism, having led this series of world-changing transitions.
The Devil's Picnic: A Tour of Everything the Governments of ...

The Devil's Picnic: A Tour of Everything the Governments of ...

Taras Grescoe

Never in history have we seemed to have such global freedom, such an opportunity to indulge our wildest tastes. We think we live in a time of unprecedented choice. But as Taras Grescoe discovers, this is just an illusion.
Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity

Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity

Ray Taras

Yet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the countries examined in this book.
Postcommunist Presidents

Postcommunist Presidents

Ray Taras

This book, first published in 1997, offers a comparative analysis of the role of presidents in postcommunist states.
Europe Old and New: Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia

Europe Old and New: Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia

Ray Taras

Throughout, this interdisciplinary work provides a comprehensive, hard-hitting, and unabashed review of how enlarged Europe embraces contrasting understandings of its political home and of who belongs and who does not.
Russia's Identity in International Relations: Images, ...

Russia's Identity in International Relations: Images, ...

Ray Taras

Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West.
Consolidating Democracy in Poland

Consolidating Democracy in Poland

Ray Taras

A comprehensive analysis of politics in a young European democracy, this book describes the principal features of Poland’s democratic system--the political institutions, parties, elections, and leaders that have shaped the transition from ...
National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe: ...

National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe: ...

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Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995 Ray Taras. published in Great Britain PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and ...
Dead Seas: How the fish on our plates is killing our planet

Dead Seas: How the fish on our plates is killing our planet

Taras Grescoe

In Dead Seas we follow acclaimed journalist Taras Grescoe on a year-long, round-the-world trip, as he eats his way from the top to the bottom of the food chain with one purpose in mind: to find out whether he can continue to eat such ...
Ideology in a socialist state: Poland, 1956-1983

Ideology in a socialist state: Poland, 1956-1983

Ray Taras

This book describes the changes in the ideology of Poland's rulers from the October events of 1956 to the lifting of martial law in 1983.
Consolidating democracy in Poland

Consolidating democracy in Poland

Ray Taras

Karol B. Janowski, "PZPR — od monolitu i monopolu do agonii (analiza przypadku)," unpublished paper, Warsaw, April 1990, p. ... 14, my translation. 39. Żakowski, Rok 1989, p. 16, my translation. 40. Żakowski, Rok 1989, p. 54. 41. Żakowski ...
Handbook of X-Ray Spectrometry, Second Edition,

Handbook of X-Ray Spectrometry, Second Edition,

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"Updates fundamentals and applications of all modes of x-ray spectrometry, including total reflection and polarized beam x-ray fluorescence analysis, and synchrotron radiation induced x-ray emission.
Rachael Ray: From Candy Counter to Cooking Show

Rachael Ray: From Candy Counter to Cooking Show

Shaina C. Indovino

IN BOOKS Abrams, Dennis. Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. Keedle, Jayne. Rachael Ray: People We Should Know. New York: Gareth Stevens, 2009. Ray, Rachael. Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30Minute ...
Market Research Handbook

Market Research Handbook

ESOMAR

Ray Poynter e-mail: [email protected] Ray Poynter is Director of Virtual Surveys (a UK based market research agency specialising in the Internet) and principal of The Future Place. Ray has spent the last 25 years at the interface  ...
Childhood Days: A Memoir

Childhood Days: A Memoir

Satyajit Ray

Frank and funny, these stories written originally for the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh, are an essential read for all Ray enthusiasts as well as those who want to know Ray, the writer and film-maker, better.
Doctor Who Episode By Episode: Volume 2 Patrick Troughton

Doctor Who Episode By Episode: Volume 2 Patrick Troughton

Ray Dexter

Ray Dexter ... A Spinderella Paperback First published in Great Britain in 2012 By Spinderella 2 3 4 5 6 789 10 1112 Copyright © Ray Dexter 2015 The right of Ray Dexter to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them ...
Indiana Ditchweed and the Politics of Ray

Indiana Ditchweed and the Politics of Ray

Aric Heintzelman

That was a bit too private for Ray to stomach, but he could hear old Ed “Gravel” Washington was starting to warm up his vocals. Ray could easily prod ... “Not much, but it's worth its weight in nonexistent sugar beets. Pretty much overrun with ...
Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Satyajit Ray

Spanning forty years of Ray's career, these essays, for the first time collected in one volume, present the filmmaker's reflections on the art and craft of the cinematic medium and include his thoughts on sentimentalism, mass culture, ...
Centenary volume, 1955

Centenary volume, 1955

Presidency College (Calcutta, India)

... in these fixtures more or less regularly in the last few years may be mentioned Sailajaranjan Ray, K. L. Ray, Niren De, P. B. Datta, P. Sen, Nirmal Chattopadhyay, Dhruba Das, Siddharta Ray, A. Dasgupta and Amal Chattopadhyay.
Rapid Ray: The Story Ray Lewis

Rapid Ray: The Story Ray Lewis

John Cooper

Throughout his long life – he is now in his nineties – Ray Lewis has fought discrimination not only in sports, but in every walk of life. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur

Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur

Dennis Abrams

Food Entrepreneur Dennis Abrams. 3. Rachael Ray, 30-Minute Meals. New York: Lake Isle Press, 1998, p. 130. 4. Jacobs, “Just Say Yum-O!” 5. Ibid. 6. Keel, “ Recipe for Success.” 7. “Rachael Ray,” Chefography. 8. Rachael Ray, “My Journey ...
The Cinema Of Satyajit Ray

The Cinema Of Satyajit Ray

Chidananda Das Gupta

This is a comprehensive study on Satyajit Ray, a filmmaker of intrnational repute and his his films, this book besides providing a critical commentry on each of his films also discusses the many influences on Ray, eastern and western, the ...
Exploring the X-ray Universe

Exploring the X-ray Universe

Frederick D. Seward

Plate16 Optical and X-ray emission from η Carinae. The field size is 1.6 × 1.3. Chandra observations are shown in red and yellow overlaid on a blue HST picture. The central pointlike X-ray source is at the centre of the optical nebula and is ...
Complete Adventures of Feluda

Complete Adventures of Feluda

Satyajit Ray

Puts together 16 gripping tales of suspense and mystery featuring Satyajit Ray's inimitable detective Feluda.All of the Feluda stories that Ray wrote are now available together in a two volume set, of which this is the first.

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