The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models-whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity.The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, ...

Her greatest literary hero is a kickass, take-no-prisoners, seaborne scallywag who binds her breasts and slays devious figures while her bird parrots back lusty things the assassin has said during carnal pursuits. But for Penelope Humberton, while the idea of gunning down monstrous figures gets her heart pumping, her own ambitions are much safer: getting her bookshop and printing press off the ground, expanding her market, introducing more readers to the titillating world of Moxie Breastbi...

There was once a little boy whose name was Lars, and because he was so little he was called Little Lasse; he was a brave little man, for he sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.It was summer time, when the pea shells grew long and green in the garden. Little Lasse crept into the pea bed where the pea stalks rose high above his cap, and he picked seventeen large shells, the longest and straightest he could find.Little Lasse thought, perhaps, that no one saw him; but th...

Bist du bereit, dich selbst aufzugeben, damit andere überleben? Dann lass uns spielen. Wir werden sehen, wie weit du gehst. FBI-Agent Howard Caspar steht unter hohem Druck. Seine Ex-Partnerin ist mit ihrer kleinen Tochter Marcy spurlos verschwunden. Noch bevor die Ermittlungen aufgenommen werden können, findet Howard einen Briefumschlag mit einem Handy. Es beginnt ein Spiel um Leben und Tod, das perfider nicht inszeniert sein kann.

This novel is the second in a projected five-part series called The Second British Protectorate a series of high-concept, story-driven commercial fictions from the viewpoint of alternate history, supposing a sovietised post-war Britain modelled on Cromwell's 17th century Protectorate. The themes are both historical and modern. For instance what shape would a popular rising against such a state have taken? Who would have collaborated with the regime who might have resisted and who might hav...