The origins of the modern world and traces the chronologies and histories of peoples and countries. The main centers of influence and forces that shape the world in which we live...

This collection of short writings depicts different aspects of ordinary life: work, love, friends, family, sex, as well as language identity, immigration to the Wonderland, and nostalgia for the lost home. Often ironic about herself and her characters, Mima plays with genres to create a loosely-connected narrative throughout different stories. Her collection of “short” stories about the everyday include horror stories, a turnip tale, and a dictionary of unfamiliar words, among others, and...

Pjotr Volkov (geboren in Uruguay als Diego Daniel García), is antropoloog en historicus met een bijzondere belangstelling voor vroegere en huidige gebeurtenissen in verband met de grote geschiedenis van het Slavische Rijk en het orthodoxe christendom. Gedurende een heel decennium heeft hij gewerkt aan een ambitieus boek waarin het orthodoxe christendom centraal wordt gesteld in alle politieke, economische, filosofische en antropologische overwegingen die onze moderne wereld vormgeven. In dit...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, 1908, a young Kyivan, Klym Koshovy miraculously flies the coop and escapes from persecution by tsarist police to Lviv. However, even here he is arrested - near the corpse of a well-known local lawyer Yevhen Soyka. The deceased had dubious friends and powerful enemies in the city. Suicide or murder? The search for truth leads Koshovy through the dark labyrinths of Lviv's streets. On his way - facing pickpockets, criminal kingpins and Russian terrorist...

I learned about the Blessed Virgin Mary as a child attending a superb Roman Catholic grade school and as a teenager studying at an excellent Catholic high school. My friendship with Our Lady was nurtured at the University of Notre Dame and deepened throughout my adult life. Later as a Wesleyan pastor, I missed the Virgin Mary as an intimate and important part of my life. Finally coming home, called in significant part by my yearning for Our Lady, I fell in love with the Theotokos as a Deacon ...

Mebet concerns a man of the taiga, a hunter, in a moving narrative that blends ethnographic detail, indigenous mythology, and the snowy landscapes of the Arctic.