Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that film-makers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences alike recognize Ukrainian cultural difference. ...

Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema – yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture broke with Soviet realism, it caused Paradjanov to be blacklisted soon after its release.This book is the first full-length companion to the film. In addition to a synopsis of the plot and a close analysis of the many levels of symbolism in the film, it offers a history of the ...

The city of Ur—now modern Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq, also called Ur of the Chaldees in the Bible—was one of the most important Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic Period in the first half of the third millennium BCE. The city is known for its impressive wealth and artistic achievements, evidenced by the richly decorated objects found in the so-called Royal Cemetery, which was excavated by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania from 1922 until 193...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicole Blanchard comes a second chance military romantic suspense!One night with a hero.It was only supposed to be a fling with my brother’s best friend. The same man I’ve loved since he gave me my first kiss. I knew he was about to leave for a year, but I couldn’t let him go without showing him how I felt.One lie that could tear us apart.Our path...

"First and Goal: Faith and Football Fundamentals" invites you to step onto the gridiron, where the roar of the crowd meets the quiet strength of faith. Football is more than just a game; it's a powerful metaphor for life's challenges, triumphs, and spiritual growth. Every play, every down, every touchdown echoes the battles we face in our daily walk with God. In the huddle, on the line, and in the end zone, there are lessons to be learned about discipline, teamwork, perseverance, and trust...

There are two overlapping themes which serve as the focus of Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries : (a) “reception” of the apostle Paul in subsequent Christian traditions, and (b) the hypothesis that while Paul himself continued to think as a Jew, he was subsequently re-interpreted by non-Jews in non-Jewish and anti-Jewish ways: the so-called “Paul within Judaism” school.The distinctive focus of this volume is on the dynam...

The true story of the first California cult scandal In 1891, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove, a utopian spiritualist community in northern California. Chevaillier accused the colony's leader, the poet and prophet Thomas Lake Harris, of perverting the teachings of the Bible to promote a “new sexology” that was “worse than Mormonism.” She insisted that Harris used magical powers of hypnosis to take s...

Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological make-up. James Garfield enjoyed jumping on the bed with his kids. FDR's children, on the other hand, had to make appointments to talk to him.In a lively narrative, based on research in archives around the...

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty ...

This version has been thoroughly edited and updated to reflect the most recent equipment’s used in Anaesthesia Practice. A must-have for anesthetists, the book is extremely comprehensive, educational and practical with pictorial representations for anesthesia trainees, Contemporary Anaesthetic Equipment’s. An Aid for Healthcare Professionals is a priceless resource for all those who work with anaesthetic equipment, including anaesthetic and intensive care nurses and operating department pr...

**Book Description** Build fast, safe, and reliable software with **Rust**, one of the world's most innovative programming languages. **Rust for Practical Software Development** is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that takes you from the fundamentals of the language to building real-world applications with confidence. Designed for beginners and experienced programmers alike, this book explains Rust's unique ownership model, memory safety, error handling, collections, traits, generics, concu...

This book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups are “within Judaism,” as well as exploring how rabbinic Jews, Christians, and Muslims have negotiated and renegotiated what Judaism is and is not in order to form their own identities. Belief in Jesus as the Messiah was seen as part of first-century Judaism, but by the fourth or fifth century, the boundaries had...