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January 2011Vitali Vampir und die verborgene Schatzkammer
Wir lesen zusammen
by Kaup, Ulrike / Illustriert von DiFranco, Lilli
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March 2021Die weißen Tage von Minsk
Unser Traum von einem freien Belarus
by Alekseenok, Vitali / Vorwort von Mort, Valzhyna
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April 1991Magische Räume
Arbeiten auf Leinwand und Papier 1981–1990
by Walter Schmögner, Walter Schmögner, Ludwig Fels, Joachim Riedl, Christoph Vitali
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Humanities & Social Sciences2021Ukraine. Food and History
by Olena Braichenko, Maryna Hrymych, Ihor Lylo, Vitaly Reznichenko
This book tells the story of Ukrainian cuisine by placing it in its cultural context and presenting Ukrainian cooking as part of the intangible cultural heritage of Ukraine. The publication also explores the potential of cultural diplomacy and includes recipes that will make you fall in love with Ukraine.
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April 2022Fritz, the Gorilla
Biography of a Fascinating Ape
by Jenny von Sperber
When Jenny von Sperber first met Fritz, the gorilla didn’t let her out of his sight. He was already over 50 years old then, but he was still extremely charismatic. One thing matters for the journalist: she wants to find out everything about Fritz’s life. Born in 1963, he was captured in the wild and came from Cameroon to Germany in 1966. At that time, apes were still regarded as a curiosity in zoos. When a ban was declared on the wild gorilla trade, Fritz was already a father of many youngsters. This fascinating gorilla-family saga not only recounts the eventful life of Fritz, but also shows the development in European zoos in handling wild animals. Nowadays, things have certainly improved. But there are still questions, for example, what does it do to us when we marvel at our closest relatives behind glass? And is it even still current to confine apes ... was it ever?
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureDecember 2017Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions
by Carmelo Rapisarda, Giuseppe E Massimino Cocuzza, Tsedeke Abate, Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Miguel A. Altieri, Salvatore Bella, Danny Coyne, Mieke S. Daneel, Fábio Maximiano DE ANDRADE SILVA, José Gilberto De Moraes, Thomas Dubois, Odair A Fernandes, François-Régis Goebel, Shoil M. Greenberg, Devid Guastella, Abdelhaq Hanafi, Norman Kamarudin, Fred Kanampiu, Nitin Kulkarni, James Legg, George Mahuku, Zulkefli Masijan, Ramle Moslim, Urbano Nava-Camberos, Clara I. Nicholls, Amin Nikpay, Joshua Okonya, Megha N. Parajulee, Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Alexandre Specht, Edison R. Sujii, Mohd. Basri Wahid, Vitalis Wafula Wekesa, Everlyne Wosula
This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the research and application of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in tropical regions. The first section explores the agro-ecological framework that represents the foundations of IPM, in addition to emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods that are core to pest control in tropical crops. The second section follows a crop-based approach and provides details of current IPM applications in the main tropical food crops (such as cereals, legumes, root and tuber crops, sugarcane, vegetables, banana and plantain, citrus, oil palm, tea, cocoa and coffee) and also fibre crops (such as cotton) and tropical forests. Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions: · Explores the techniques aimed at controlling pests in agro-ecosystems sustainably while reducing secondary effects on the environment and on plant, animal and human health · Contextualizes IPM within our current knowledge of climate change and the global movement of organisms · Covers integrated strategies to contains pests in major tropical food crops, fibre crops and trees · Discusses options and challenges for pest control in tropical agriculture
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Travel writingVitali's Ireland
Time Travels in the Celtic Tiger
by Vitali Vitaliev
Vitali’s Ireland offers a unique perspective on 21st century Irish cultural identity, delivered in a style rich with his typical sardonic wit. Ukrainian-born Vitali Vitaliev, an award-winning travel writer and journalist, uses his outsider’s perspective to recount his Irish adventures. A renowned cultural observer, he muses on the nation’s quirks and stereotypes, whilst his reference to mid-19th century guide books provides an insightful historical comparison. The result is an affectionate if slightly perplexed portrait of a nation in transition.
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Literature & Literary StudiesLife as a Literary Device
Writer’s Manual of Survival
by Vitali Vitaliev
“We're both interested in the history of the 20th century, but he's lived it, and I've been a spectator.” Clive James -- 31 January 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Vitali Vitaliev’s defection from the Soviet Union to the West. In Life as a Literary Device Vitaliev offers readers not only a glimpse into how literature has affected his life, but also a survival manual for the Western world, a way of life much removed from that lived in the USSR. At once a highly entertaining account of a life that has encompassed roles as diverse as “Clive James’ Moscow man” to researcher and writer for QI and many newspapers, Life as a Literary Device is also a serious treatise on the power of literature. The 20th anniversary of Vitaliev’s defection highlights his profound insight into the differences of life in the West and in the Soviet Union (indeed, Vitali claims that life in the West is in many ways harsher than life under the Soviet regime) and also offers a personal lens through which to view the USSR and its eventual collapse in 1991. Life As A Literary Device is both a summation and a new beginning for Vitaliev – an analysis of how literature has helped him to survive in the modern, and Western, world.From the author: “Life as a Literary Device has neither beginning nor end; nor does it fit in with any existing literary genre: partly a memoir, partly a novel, partly a meditation, partly a poem, partly a diary, partly a dream, partly a survival kit, partly one extended metaphor…” for writer's life, i.e. indeed a 'literary device'. I keep looking back at my life: at the places I visited, the pieces I wrote and the people I met. Memory is like a scrap book – a cut-andpaste job.”
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Travel writingPassport to Enclavia
Travels in Search of a European Identity
by Vitali Vitaliev
What does it mean to be European? The answer lies in Europe's forgotten enclaves - tiny fragments of one country cut off and completely surrounded by another, stuck between two different cultures, currencies and sometimes even languages. Vitali explores the idiosyncrasies of these enclaves, just as a uniform European identity - the Euro - was being imposed by Brussels. An acclaimed investigative journalist, Vitali was able to uncover the roots of the current EU crisis ten years ago, just when the Euro was being introduced. This makes his book extremely topical and surprisingly up-to-date.
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September 2015Borders Up!
Eastern Europe through the bottom of a glass
by Vitali Vitaliev
One would assume that with the collapse of Communism, East Europeans would drink much less than before: a democratic society should surely be able to provide many more means of escape than alcohol. The reality, however, is very different. Borders Up! is Vitali Vitaliev’s sharp and sardonic travelogue, an attempt to find out why drinking in post-Communist Eastern Europe has increased dramatically since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Informative and very, very funny.
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January 2021The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels
Thirty Years of Globe-Trotting (1990 – 2020)
by Vitali Vitaliev
Award-winning writer Vitali Vitaliev has been exploring the world and writing about his experiences for thirty years. Now you can read some of his very best work, collected into one volume. The sheer scope of Vitali’s wanderings is amazing, and The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels: Thirty Years of Globe-Trotting (1990 – 2020) will take you to all five continents and to hundreds of places. The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels explores Vitali’s passion for travel – his ‘dromomania’ – from his first trip outside the USSR, when he took a train from Moscow to Britain, to a final trip to a Slovenian/Italian town just as lockdown started to shutter Europe in March 2020. During his career he filed reports and travel features for various newspapers and magazines from America, Australia, South East Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern and Southern Ireland, and numerous islands, including the Falklands. He visited enclaves and micronations, got lost and nearly froze to death on a Swiss mountain, narrowly avoided being caught up in a pub shootout in Northern Ireland, wrote about the drinking habits of Eastern Europeans, and visited locations significant to authors that he loves. All this is included in the Bumper Book. Vitali also writes about his favourite places – and his worst ever journey – and gives some advice for those wishing to follow in his footsteps and become a travel journalist.
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June 2015Little is the Light
Nostalgic travels in the mini-states of Europe
by Vitali Vitaliev
Four years after his escape from the Soviet Union in 1990, award-winning journalist and author Vitali Vitaliev went in search of surviving pockets of freedom, autonomy and self-government. He found eleven countries, each with a population of less than half a million, each one of them beautiful and each one described in this book with sparkling humour, wisdom, and an unmatchable sense of irony. His travels take him to Liechtenstein, San Marino, Mount Athos, the Isle of Man, Luxembourg, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Andorra, Malta, Monaco and Seborga, and for some of his journey he is accompanied by his teenage son, who has his own perspective on the countries they visit. ‘Little is the light will be seen far in a murky night’ reads a proverb the author finds relevant. He talks about the ‘little light of freedom that kept us alive and warm in the murky totalitarian night… a light, even if small, means hope, and a little hope is better than no hope at all.’ This book is his exploration of the small lights shining from Europe’s mini states.
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September 2018Out of the Blu
A Science-Fiction Comedy Thriller
by Vitali Vitaliev
Viktor and Katherine Petroff return from a short holiday in Majorca to find somebody is in their house. Meanwhile, Victor and Catherine Petrov return from a short holiday in Majorca and on the way home suffer a minor traffic collision. At the same time, Victor and Katherine Petrovas are involved in a major car crash and are killed outright. Three near identical couples. Two have slipped through the cracks from other universes. Trapped in a world which is almost – but not quite – like their own, they must work together to figure out how they travelled the multiverse to become stranded in a strange land. The underlying theme of Vitali Vitaliev’s new science-fiction comedy thriller, however, is not so much the multiverse as that eternal question: how well do we know our loved ones? Relationships are strained, new attachments are formed and the beautiful little differences that make each of us unique are examined closely.
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)Granny Yaga
by Vitali Vitaliev
On a drab winter evening, an apparition of a flying old woman is spotted in Bloomsbury, an area of London well-known for its magical, masonic and shamanism associations. This is followed by the arrival of Yadwiga, alias Baba Yaga, one of the most interesting characters of East European folklore – an ambiguous witch, a sorceress and an unlikely super-heroine. She has come to London as part of the struggling Sablins family – recent migrants from a fictitious East European country. It is here that their phantasmagorical adventures really begin.Yadwiga joined the Sablins when life in the forest, where she had been dwelling inside a hut on hen’s legs for over a thousand years, became impossible due to “deforestation” and the invasion of over-curious visitors (Baba Yaga can’t take being asked questions, for each question makes her a bit older – a curse imposed on her by her former partner and now sworn enemy, Koshchei the Deathless, the incarnation of all the world’s evil). Telling the story of her life for the last 600 or so years to her long-lost sister Melissa, Yadwiga has to slow down time in Bloomsbury.The story takes the reader on a fascinating excursion through the history of Slavic and British folklore juxtaposed on the vicissitudes of modern Western life.In the first book of the series, Yadwiga is helping the Sablins to settle down in the UK and to come to grips with their new existence in the West. It will also look back at what had made them take the decision to leave their home country.The plot is riddled with revealing and funny happenings. “Granny Yaga” and her best friend and protégé Danya Sablin, a boy of 11, will have to deal with school bullies and football fans, thieves and oligarchs, politicians and policemen in their attempt to overcome injustice and to create a better world, where miracles and magic are part and parcel of everyday life.Unlike most of Baba Yaga’s folklorist portrayals, Yadwiga in "Granny Yaga" is modern, positive, witty and selfless, with all her character traits based on meticulous research of fables, history, paganism and occultism.Among other characters are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Carl Yung, students, pickpockets, ticket inspectors, British Museum curators - as well as classical literary characters and personages from East European (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish etc.), and British (Welsh, Scottish, English) folklore tales. The Writer and the book itself are also parts of the story. The main message of "Granny Yaga" is the importance and the magical power of literature.
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April 2021BEARD STORIES
by Lena Anlauf (stories), Vitali Konstantinov (illustrations)
The beard as a symbol of body positivity – 26 amazing beard stories from A to Z, each illustrated by the convinced beard wearer Vitali Konstantinov.Artists, emperors, hipsters, extremists, pharaohs, philosophers, prophets, priests and revolutionaries - they all have one thing in common: their facial hair is not just a freak of nature. It is a confession or a protest, a sign of belonging or of demarcation. Beards and non-beards symbolise epochs.This book offers a smorgasbord of entertaining anecdotes on the subject of beards: the authors introduce us to the American playoff beard, the pirate Blackbeard, the failed CIA assassination attempt "Un-beard Fidel Castro", the Russian beard tax, the "Beard Liberation Front" and the band "The Beards". Bearded women like Saint Wilgefortis and Instagram star Harnaam Kaur are not left out either.
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So it is written
by Vitali Konstantinov
Carve patterns on stones, shells and bones, drawings in the sand and messages on birch barks: Our ancestors already had the desire to use simple or even complicated characters to communicate with each other . An we imitate them until today! In an entertaining comic style, this book follows the development of over 100 writings from around the world, from the very beginning up to the digital age: from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to the Greek alphabet all the way to today's emoji's and invented languages like Klingon. From the table of contents: Speaking – Drawing – Writing Writing Coding Script systems The origins of writing The world's first writings Cuneiform Ancient Egyptian scripts Central American scripts Danube script (Vinča symbols). European Bronze Age Origin of the alphabet Greek, Coptic, Nubian Latin alphabet Runes and Székely-Hungarian Rovás German script Arabic script 3. Script inventors Mongolian alphabet Korean script African scripts Cherokee, Osage Invented languages and scripts Scripts from Middle Earth Scripts from outer space
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True stories of heroism, endurance & survivalMay 2020Stalin's Mountaineers
by Cédric Gras
The unpublished story of the Abalakov brothers, two mountaineers working for the glory of the Soviet regime. Vitali and Evgeni were Siberian orphans who enjoyed rock climbing before becoming expert mountaineers. They carried out many expeditions between Caucasus and Central Asia, culminating in the 1930s with their ascents of the impressive “Stalin Peak” and “Lenin Peak” in the name of power. In a culture where mountaineering was dictated by the ideology of a new world, by conquering new territories and war, Vitali Abalakov would still become a victim of the Great Terror and the purges in 1938. He was eventually released. Despite having lost several fingers to a high-altitude snowstorm, he returned to mountaineering and achieved elite status again, heading up Spartak. His brother Evgeni meanwhile was found dead in 1948 when he was preparing to climb Everest.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionJune 2009Justice Interrupted
Historical Perspectives on Promoting Democracy in the Middle East
by Elizabeth F. Thompson
Elizabeth F. Thompson, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, was a Jennings Randolph fellow at USIP in 2007–08. This report, drawn from her forthcoming book, Seeking Justice in the Middle East, builds bridges between two worlds that have remained separate in recent years: academic history of the Middle East and foreign policymaking in the region. The author thanks USIP for its support, Meagan Bridges for her research assistance, and commentators on previous drafts: Nathan Brown, David Edelstein, Melvyn Leffler, Jeff Legro, William Quandt, Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Barbara Slavin, Bob Vitalis, David Waldner, and audiences at the History Department at Catholic University of America, the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University, the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, all in Washington, D.C.
