Books: Culture
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American researcher of the Ukrainian origin Dr. Marko Andryczyk offers a profound analysis of the cultural explosion that engulfed Ukraine in the first decade of the period of its independence. The 1990-ies were a period of great creative enthusiasm, experiments and release of the Ukrainian culture...
| Domestic price: 236.60UAH,
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The manual contains examples of modern common and specialized documents describing the requirements for their execution; it highlights the common linguistic issues: complicated cases of usage and inflection of words, the ethics and aesthetics in language, information on the history of language, the concept of functional styles, and more.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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"The only greater happiness than writing is the happiness of not writing. To read, watch, listen and to not be obliged to express one's invaluable thoughts on every occasion, not to miss a single great opportunity to remain silent." Olexander Boychenko
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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50 selected texts by the author in the story-based journalism genre. Therefore characters of the texts are strictly 50 percent real, and 50 fictional. The same applies to the stories narrated here: by 50 percent they are literary ones, and by 50 journalistic, 50% of them are comic, the other 50 not that much. The book is intended for 50 percent of readers.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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In his book, Boychenko presents biographies and specific features of works by his favorite foreign authors. This collection may be helpful to those who have already learned to read, but are still learning to understand what they have read. To representatives of other age, social, and professional groups the author does not guarantee enjoyment or benefit.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Vaclav Havel reminds us about importance of history, freedom, conscience, personal responsibility and joint action, and although the texts were written about different times and different society, it will be surprisingly easy for Ukrainians to recognize in them the problems that we have not yet fully overcome.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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This time Valery Haydabura is the first one in the national theater studies to address the task of generalizing the years of practice of the post-war theater of the Ukrainian Diaspora and its interpretation as an integral part of the comprehensive history of the twentieth century national art.
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
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Knowing differences among the concepts of "ethnic group", "people", "nation" is essential not only for understanding events of the past, but also to realize the logic of contemporary political and social processes. In the book, the reader will find answers to the questions that often arise in everyday life not only among ordinary citizen...
| Domestic price: 138.60UAH,
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Memoirs by outstanding Ukrainian artist Oleksa Hryshchenko about Constantinople in 1919-1921. They can rightly be seen as a work of literature so rich and imaginative the artist's language is, and his thoughtful observations immerse the modern reader into the exotic atmosphere of the ancient Oriental culture and that of the mystical Byzantium.
| Domestic price: 278.60UAH,
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..It's first translation into Ukrainian was done by Stefan Zabuzhko, the father of writer Oksana Zabuzhko. This second edition is complemented with Oksana Zabuzhko's autobiographical research story, that for the first time reveals unknown pages in the history of the Ukrainian 1960's activism for the reader and helps to take a fresh look at our recent past.
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...this is a true textbook for skeptical Europeans. An invitation to travel in the continent that is more unexplored and more controversial than those who keep lecturing about it suspect.
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This book is a result of a comprehensive research into a number of poetry works by Shevchenko that arose at the intersection of two cultural discourses the sacral (biblical/Christian) and profane (actually, artistic) ones. Particular attention is paid to the aspect of genre and style specifics of Shevchenko's works.
| Domestic price: 278.60UAH,
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"The Dream Doctrine" is a constellation of knowledge, experience, and the historical tragedy. The subtle understanding of the Ukrainian mentality, psychological characteristics and flaws, analysis of the key events and people all of that allowed the author to synthesize the Ukrainian choice landmark. What are we and our thoughts like?..
| Domestic price: 236.60UAH,
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The core of the book are photographs of the DAKH theatre, which was created by the prominent Ukrainian art director Vladyslav Troitskyi. The DAKH is an open area for the creative work, and its history is primarily the story of people who formed it. The book contains unique texts on the theatre and the individuals who contributed to its creation.
| Domestic price: 978.60UAH,
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The collection commemorated to the 80th anniversary of Ivan Dziuba's birth includes research papers and essays by known Ukrainian and foreign humanitarians focused on culture and history of the twentieth century, as well as the current political situation in Ukraine.
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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The collection "The Retold" consists of eleven chapters. Each of them is a commentary and a variation on themes of famous fairy tales and other literary works. They include examples of folklore and folk narratives, the myth and the duma, a parable for first-graders and a passage from the Bible, and even a modern novel.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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"The Globe of Karl Marx" is an unexpected book among the author's literary and essay works. It is dedicated to current processes in the changing contemporary world and covers the overarching themes of social inequality and civilizational chances of the transitional society under the conditions of global challenges.
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
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The archive findings, documents, letters, and memoirs collected in this book make it possible to see Olexander Dovzhenko's biography and work in a new light. A Petlyurist or Stalinist, a revolutionary romantic or rational pragmatist, a Soviet spy in Germany or Ukrainian diplomat defending interests of Ukraine?..
| Domestic price: 432.60UAH,
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Lesia Ukrainka's complex and deeply dramatic relations with Christianity, which form the core of her mature work, have never been the subject of professional theological analysis. Until today, when the Primate of the UGCC Sviatoslav Shevchuk and writer Oksana Zabuzhko meet to exchange views on works by Lesia Ukrainka based on stories from the evangelical and early Christian history..
| Domestic price: 1188.60UAH,
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..It is the first work in which philosophy of the national idea is considered as an independent intellectual flow that goes far beyond the political science to questions about the essence and sense of the national existence.
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This book introduces the story of long-term friendship of one of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century, the leading emigrant thinker, critic and cultural studies expert Professor of Colombia University in New York Yuriy Shevelyov-Sherekh (1908-2002) and the writer Oksana Zabuzhko.
| Domestic price: 558.60UAH,
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This volume contains the most important essays by Oksana Zabuzhko in the last two decades focused on the figures and events that the author considers culturally significant in the context of the current era of a crisis of humanism..
| Domestic price: 390.60UAH,
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From EuroMaidan to the ATO, from November 2013 to the summer of 2014 this book traces the change of attitudes and deep psychological transformation in the Ukrainian society. The collective portrait of the" birth of the nation" that within a few months passed the way from peaceful protest to the national liberation war...
| Domestic price: 558.60UAH,
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What is still the reason of the ever enigmatic absoluteness of the figure of Shevchenko in the Ukrainian spiritual culture? On which self-image did he program Ukraine with his myth, in the New Time culture the closest typologically to that of Dante? What metaphysical senses of earthly history remain encoded in Shevchenko's text?..
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Who are we Ukraine or Small Russia? Europe or Russia? Is Ukrainian religion the same thing as Byzantine orthodoxy? Where did Templar knights come from to the Dnipro banks? What secret were "secret communities" of Small Russia nobility of the 19th century keeping? Were from the Grail legend appeared encoded in the "Forest Song"? How and are Ukrainians actually a "peasant nation"?
| Domestic price: 516.60UAH,
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The ethnographic bestseller "The Female Body..." continued! What were the canons of male beauty and health for Ukrainians in the 19th-20th centuries? What are the security and protective magic and life-affirming powers of the erotic and humor traditions in funeral rites?..
| Domestic price: 278.60UAH,
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The book consists of three sections: interviews, essays, and journalism. There are a lot of photos that depict the author in her various personas. Irena Karpa is a writer, singer (the front person of the band Qarpa), journalist, traveler, and public figure.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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In 1960, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Carlos Castaneda, visits Mexico for a research purpose and accidentally he gets to know a shaman of the Yaqui tribe, Juan Matus. This book tells us about the first five years of Castaneda's discipleship with the mysterious American Indian, who introduced him to secrets of shamanism..
| Domestic price: 334.60UAH,
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Eight literary portraits those of Petrov (Domontovych), Shevelyov, Lutsky, Paradzhanov, Dziuba, Sverstiuk, Kotsyubynska, and Zalyvaha. The book speaks about the people who became key figures of the Ukrainian culture in the twentieth century under the conditions of the communist system. All of them balance among different moral imperatives, ups and down...
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Joanna Olczak-Ronikier recreates the story of life of the Doctor based on the autobiography sketch contained in the Diary by Janusz Korczak, weaving it into a story about the destiny and choice of Polish Jews.
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It is the first time when a publication presents a complete collection of literary anecdotes about famous Ukrainian writers, artists, politicians, art and socio-political events of the 1920-30s. They are organically supplemented with cartoons and caricatures from Lviv humorous and satirical magazines of 1921-1939..
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According to a number of clear criteria, UNESCO has identified 7 main natural and cultural sites of Ukraine and included them in the World Heritage List. In addition, there is a list of candidates for inclusion in the World Heritage List in Ukraine there are 17 such sites. The guidebook will tell about all of them.
| Domestic price: 432.60UAH,
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How do men see themselves and how do others see them, what is expected and required of them, why can we now talk about a crisis of masculinity Tamara Martsenyuk offers answers to these and lots of other questions..
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Based on the inter-disciplinarity principle, the book highlights a number of theoretical problems relating to the history of jazz, its aesthetics and philosophy, jazzification of literature, and the text as a jazz performance. The publication is illustrated with jazz-themed paintings, graphics, and photographs by Ukrainian artists.
| Domestic price: 446.60UAH,
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The anthology contains texts by Polish political thinkers of the 1890s-1980s focusing on Ukrainian-Polish relations, the problem of Ukrainians' and Poles' coexistence in lands of the ethnic borderland, the issue of Ukraine's independence and possible scenarios for development of relations between Ukraine and Poland as independent states.
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In these days, when even poetry is perceived hastily and in a hurry, as if in the pop music rhythm, the author reminds us about other music, another approach unhurried and thoughtful reading and experiencing of the poetic text. Poetry for Moskalets is a wonder, and above all a mystery that requires not a clue but involvement...
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...The significance of these essays and literary criticism is due to their return to the direct, immediate vision that respects uniqueness, individuality of everything living and encourages to reflect on the universal laws of the universe, leading to appreciation of every moment of life.
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Moskalets as a literary critic writes in a non-standard manner. The essays contained here are about the skill of living here and now, seeking, realizing oneself, and cultivating one's own continuity.
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The publication is intended for readers interested in the controversial view of the Ukrainian history, politics, and culture. The book "Maidan" is a kaleidoscope combining candid and critical perspectives of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2013-2014, emotions without cuts, and the details that were left off media screens.
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All of these articles share the same theme Galicia. In his works, the author consistently advocates the theory of mental and cultural "separateness" of Galicia and refers to the imaginary Galician people.
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In this book, Halyna Pahutyak, being a thoughtful essay writer/philosopher, makes an accurate diagnosis for development of the modern society and, while deeply reflecting on the most pressing topics of today, she seeks ways to rescue the human from total cruelty and indifference.
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What is death? How does it come and what usually accompanies it? How to accept inevitability of its coming? This (and not only) is what the collection of stories and essays by Ukrainian writers, bloggers, and public figures, "Parasol", is about..
| Domestic price: 194.60UAH,
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..The author attempts at reconstructing the cultural discourse in which this poetry emerged, tracing its key features, as well as philosophical and aesthetic trends. The monograph is distinguished due to its prudence of interpretative approaches and readability. For those who appreciate true modern poetry in general and works by Oleh Lysheha in particular.
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Many of the love stories described here do not take place in real life, but rather in fantasies of actively corresponding individuals. These are stories of infatuation and renunciation, impulses and restraint, ardent passion and dead silence. A character of one of these novels is Marko Vovchok..
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Plyusch and Shevelyov are very different in age and experience, cultural background and way of thinking. Behind their body of letters are not only brilliant ideas or interesting discussions, not only a slice of the day or a dialogue of different environments, but also a school of thinking, lessons in polemics and the art of argumentation.
| Domestic price: 488.60UAH,
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An autobiographic memoir by one of the most famous dissidents in the USSR Leonid Plyusch belongs to the golden fund of the anti-totalitarian resistance literature. Analyzing his life path, Plyusch develops an invaluable panoramic portrait of the entire generation of those of the sixties..
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The fundamental research offers a radically new perspective of both Khvyliovy's works and our 1920s in general. The reader is invited for an exciting philological journey through the magical worlds of Rudolf Steiner, and most importantly a journey through pages of the no less magical texts by Khvyliovy..
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This book deals with imaginary geography, symbolic cognition of space by means of culture based on the example of analysis of works by Sofia and Yuriy Andrukhovych, Zhadan, Lys, Rafeenko, Shklyar. The literary topography of the terrain is presented in three projections: memorial location images; the war in its hybrid aspect; the phenomenon of "non-places"..
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The artistic publication "Hmyrya and Shostakovych" is the result of a research of creative and human relations between Hmyrya and Shostakovych, the two genii artists of the 20th century. The study is based on a rich archive material and is represented as a bio-memoir, historical and musical, as well as and sources expert publication.
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The second book from the series of the scientific and philosophical teaching "Living Ethics". The "Living Ethics" books are prepared for publication and published by Nikolay and Elena Roerich in the 1920-30s based on diary entries reflecting conversations between E.I. Roerich and Himalayan Teachers.
| Domestic price: 256.20UAH,
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In 1926, under extremely complicated circumstances, three Roerichs brought to Moscow Mahatma's message to leaders of the Soviet Union the so-called letter of warning offering assistance, as well as the book "Community" from "Agni Yoga series. However, the help was rejected. The country began rapidly slipping into totalitarianism.
| Domestic price: 256.20UAH,
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The first book from the series of the scientific and philosophical teaching "Living Ethics". The "Living Ethics" books are prepared for publication and published by Nikolay and Elena Roerich in the 1920-30s based on diary entries reflecting conversations between E.I. Roerich and Himalayan Teachers.
| Domestic price: 256.20UAH,
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The book of essays by one of the most intellectual representatives of the New York group for the first time in Ukraine presents his extremely bright and significant elaborations in the field of literary studies. This book is a fascinating intellectual journey into the mysterious world of the Ukrainian poetry and the Ukrainian spirit.
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The well-known writer and journalist, author of several bestselling intellectual books acts in a role somewhat unusual and unexpected for him as a narrator of jokes. Yet, as the author himself notes, the term "anecdote" is used here in its original ancient Greek meaning...
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A large illustrated premium edition. This treatise is a guidebook for lots of famous military leaders and politicians. The tips of the old commander have not lost their relevance today, as we learn to make decisions and achieve the set goals.
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
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..a dialog book, where women well-known in Ukraine and abroad mothers and daughters speak about important moments, recall significant people and events that left a trace in their life. Oksana Zabuzhko, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Sofia Maydanska, Bohdana Pavlychko, and Marjana Savka speak about the dearest ones..
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...you will learn about outstanding capacities of the young Tesla, about his work on himself, first attempts and greatest achievements, as well as about his thoughts of the world and development of the civilization. You will discover here some interesting predictions about the future, some of them have only just begun to come true.
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Who Larysa Kosach was friends with, what she was upset about and what she dreamed about, how ideas for her works arose... First published without exceptions, preserving the author's spelling, Lesya Ukrainka's correspondence offers readers the opportunity of a new way of seeing one of the brightest figures of the Ukrainian culture of the 19th-20th centuries.
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The book offers a broad and multifaceted perspective of the Ukrainian studies centered around the events after 1991, critical and nodular for Ukraine. At the same time, it is an attempt to determine the trajectory of its further development in the nearer and distant future..
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The great prosaist Bruno Schulz was doomed by time and circumstances to death by a Gestapo bullet and oblivion. However, the Polish poet and literary researcher Jerzy Ficowski saved the memory about the genius resident of Drohobych, during 60 years tirelessly searching for his earthly traces and interpreting his literary, graphic, epistolary and critical inheritance...
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Is love a feeling that anyone can master? Or is it a sophisticated art, which can only be attained by a mature individual? Is it true that love is an outcome of fruitful work and great efforts? The book touches upon even the tiniest spiritual problems of a human being and explores different forms of manifestation of feelings..
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The papers collected in the book are a result of a comprehensive research of a number of Shevchenko's lyrical pieces. Particular attention is paid to the artistic organization of the poetic text, especially at the highest structural levels an issue that is poorly explored in the literary theory.
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"Sheptytsky from A to Z" is a kind of an ABC that reveals to its readers the major milestones of the great Metropolitan's life, tells them about his family, his formation as a human and a spiritual mentor of his contemporaries. Readers will find out where Metropolitan Andriy was born and studied, how he followed the calling of his heart..
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Bruno Schulz, who all through his life lived in Drohobych and died there in the hands of Nazis during the Shoah, was an outstanding epistolographist. His letters were often an impetus for future short stories, they are a great examples of the prose of magical realism. "Book of Letters" is a collection of all surviving letters to friends, colleagues and partner...
| Domestic price: 278.60UAH,
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