Most Popular Books by Vladimir

The Blind Musician follows the lives of a young girl, a boy, and a professional musician. All of whom are blind. Korolenko paints a moving, sympathetic and careful psychological portrait of these three characters as he explores the different ways in which they experience blindness. As he attempts to explain the various actions and decisions of these characters, as inherently linked to their disability, Korolenko investigates the power of sight in both a literal and symbolic sense. His realistic, moralistic and mindful approach to such heavy themes is ideal for fans of Tolstoy and unmissable for fans of Russian literature. Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921) was a Russian short-story writer, an open critic of the Tsarist regime, and later an anti-Bolshevik. His writing boasts harsh, hostile and powerful descriptions, as he investigates the simple lives of even simpler people. The most notable of his work is "The Blind Musician" (1886), alongside numerous short stories, mostly based upon his own experience of exile in Siberia.

Ova knjiga je nastala kao proizvod četvorogodišnjeg pisanja tekstova na osnovu spoznaja, vizija i viđenja autora, putem sopstvenih iskustava i duhovnih aktivnosti. Ipak, moramo napomenuti da se ova knjiga ne bavi samo Bogom i duhovnošću već i ljubavnim i seksualnim odnosima čoveka. Svaki čovek, a zatim i svaki čitaoc, koji pročita ovu knjigu, moći će da je praktično primeni i proveri kroz život. Ko sam ja, i šta je svet? Odakle dolazim? Kuda idem? Postoji li Bog? Ako postoji, gde se nalazi? Kakav je? Kako izgleda? Da li je Bog savršen, i da li me savršeno voli? Da li je istina da ne smem imati partnera, dobar seks, novce i lepo jesti i spavati, ako želim dostići sreću i Boga? Ako volim da živim, da li to znači da sam grešan, i da me Bog ne voli? Ima li smisla osuđivati ljude, sebe, Boga? Ima li smisla voleti sebe, ljude, Boga? Kakav je moj put, i koji je moj cilj? Ako sam nesrećan, kako da se izlečim? Ako sam nezadovoljan, koliko je to dobro? Koje je pravo znanje, i kako se ono spoznaje? Postoji još mnogo ovakvih i sličnih pitanja. Ova knjiga se bavi njima. Ova knjiga ne daje samo odgovore na postavljena pitanja. Ona daje smernice čitaocu, da sam, izučavajući ovu knjigu, svesno doživi istinu iznesenu na ovim stranicama. Biljana Obradović iz Valjeva, pesnikinja i pisac više romana govori o knjizi: Vladimir Živković je čovek posvećen izučavanju života duše. Njegovo pisanje odaje mirnoću, doslednost putu ka Bogu, kao jedina svetlost koja hrani unutrašnjost bića. Veoma mi se sviđa što se sa posebnim poštovanjem obraća svima, a posebno devojkama i ženama. Čitajući njegova dela koja se odnose na veru u Boga, a samim tim i u sebe, shvatila sam da je put saznanja težak, ali plodonosan. Shvatila sam i da loše usmeren ego može da uništi i najveće umove, kao i najveće vernike. Vladimir govori o skromnosti života i ravnoteži želja. Tako prenosi znanje i na druge, da se duboko zamisle nad životom koji vode u današnje moderno vreme. Nadam se da će objaviti još knjiga koje rasvetljavaju put umu pravednika i duboko verujućeg čoveka. Uz poštovanje ovog dela, želim ti uspeh i veliku čitanost!

Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which whole families have inherited legendary hatreds. Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set against the foggy backdrop of the Court of Chancery.

This book, now in its third edition, explores how human populations grow, based on their creative abilities. To reconsider the theory of economic growth from a physicist's perspective, the book analyses the concepts of value and utility and their relationship to thermodynamic concepts. This approach allows the author to include characteristics of technology in descriptions of development and to formulate a phenomenological (macroeconomic, no-price fluctuations are discussed) theory of production as a set of evolutionary equations in one-sector and multi-sector approximations. The theory is proved to be useful for describing both national economies and global production in ancient times. This monograph presents the topics in a compact and consistent manner and can be used by students with a background in physics and other natural sciences who wish to specialize in economics. It explains how the growth of production is connected with advances in technology, consumption of labour and energy and makes it possible to analyse past and present social production systems and to build scripts of future progress. The book is of interest to energy specialists engaged in planning and analyzing the production and consumption of energy carriers, and to economists wanting to know how energy and technology affect economic growth. This third edition has been substantially revised and three brand new chapters have been added. Chapter 8 illustrates the robustness of the theory with the aid of statistical historical data from the Russian economy, while Chapter 12 is devoted to a reconstruction of the global production activity in ancient times. Chapter 13 discusses the principles of the organization of social production.

Sardonic story of a man who undertakes the perfect crime - his own murder.

"e;CO-CREATION"e;, the fourth book and centerpiece of the Series, paints a dramatic living image of the creation of the Universe and humanity's place in this creation, making this primordial mystery relevant to our everyday living today.

One of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a Futurist, early Bolshevik, and champion of the avant garde. An early revolutionary, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet society, and three of his plays - all of which were banned until after Stalin's death - reflect his changing assessments of the Revolution. They are collected here with his first, more personal work, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy. This volume includes Mystery Bouffe, a mock medieval mystery play written in 1918 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution; The Bathhouse, a sharp attack on Soviet bureaucracy subtitled "a drama of circus and fireworks"; and The Bedbug, in which a worker with bourgeois pretensions is frozen and resurrected fifty years later, when the world has been transformed into a material paradise. Mayakovsky's first play, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, reveals the poet's propensity for painful self-dramatization and his flair for grotesque imagery. Fresh, inventive, and shot through with zany humor, Mayakovsky's plays represent a radically new kind of theater.

Volume VII of the Ringing Cedars Of Russia Series re-asserts the power of human thought in our lives, in the destiny of planet Earth and in the Universe, and presents ways to consciously control and build up the power of our creative thought. The book sheds further light on humanity s forgotten history, religion, the roots of inter-racial and inter-religious conflict, ideal nutrition, and how a new way of thinking and a lifestyle in true harmony with Nature can lead to happiness and solve our personal and societal problems.

"Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.

This monograph contains original results in the field of mathematical and numerical modeling of mechanical behavior of granular materials and materials with different strengths. It proposes new models helping to define zones of the strain localization. The book shows how to analyze processes of the propagation of elastic and elastic-plastic waves in loosened materials, and constructs models of mixed type, describing the flow of granular materials in the presence of quasi-static deformation zones. In a last part, the book studies a numerical realization of the models on multiprocessor computer systems. The book is intended for scientific researchers, lecturers of universities, post-graduates and senior students, who specialize in the field of the deformable materials mechanics, mathematical modeling and adjacent fields of applied and calculus mathematics.

Iceis at the center of Vladimir Sorokin's epic Ice Trilogy,which is also published by NYRB Classics. Moscow has been hit by a wave of brutal murders. The victims are of both sexes, from different backgrounds, and of all ages, but invariably blond and blue-eyed. They are found with their breastbones smashed in, their hearts crushed. There is no sign of any motive. Drugs, sex, and violence are the currency of daily life in Moscow. Criminal gangs and unscrupulous financial operators run the show. But in the midst of so much squalor one mysterious group is pursuing a long-meditated plan. Blond and blue-eyed, with a strange shared attraction to a chunk of interstellar ice, they are looking for their brothers and sisters, precisely 23,000 of them. Lost among the common herd of humanity, they must be awakened and set free. How? With a crude hammer fashioned out of the cosmic ice. Humans, meat machines, die under its blows. The hearts of the chosen answer by uttering their true names. For the first time they know the ecstasy of true life. For the awakened, the future, like the past, is simple. It is ice. What isIce? A gritty dispatch from the front lines of the contemporary world, a gnostic fairy tale, a hard-boiled parable, a New Age parody, a bitingly funny fantasy in the great Russian tradition that begins with Gogol and continues with Nabokov, a renegade fiction to set beside those of Philip K. Dick and Michel Houellebecq, and the most ambitious and accomplished novel yet by Vladimir Sorokin, the stylistic virtuoso and master of provocation who, in the words ofThe Moscow Times, is “the only living Russian author who can be called a classic.”

A Russian-born professor struggles to cope with American idioms and idiosyncrasies at a university in upstate New York.

The history of Slovakia is part of the rich tapestry of the course of human events at the geographical and strategic crossroads of Europe. Yet, very little contemporary scholarship on Slovak history exists in English or is readily accessible to North American and Western European readers. This title thus fills an important gap in historiography and knowledge of events throughout Central Europe over the last fourteen centuries. -- Attractive, easy-to-read layout and typeface -- Contents and arrangement of the of the work are not duplicated by any currently available English-language text -- Priced to provide better value than any other scholarly work available in English The book consists of two parts: a chronology of Slovak history from the earliest times through the end of 1998 and a lexicon containing 330 subject-matter headwords, including biographical portraits describing the most important events and personages in Slovak history. Appendices provide genealogies and leadership lists for ruling royal dynasties and republican regimes. This book also includes a survey of common Germanic place names located on the territory of Slovakia and a selected bibliography.