Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
ISBN: 978-9929-687-90-5

A stack of five old books in worn leather bindings with decorated spines.

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Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Orwell and King in a list of ten authors

Top 10 most published writers in Russia in 2024, according to the statistics of the Russian Book Chamber:. 1. Anna Jane 2. Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. Mikhail Bulgakov 4. Alexander Pushkin 5. Erich Maria Remarque 6. Jane Austen 7. Leo Tolstoy 8. George Orwell 9. Mike Omer 10. Stephen King

Textbook page with a portrait of Stalin and a drawing of children with flags and flowers marching under a banner in a May Day procession.

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1946 German language textbook with a portrait of Stalin and May Day slogans

Who is it that always tells us: be prepared!? Who is our teacher in all times? Long live Comrade Stalin, long live May Day! From a German-language textbook for the 3rd and 4th forms, 1946, by Witfogel, Monigetti and Petrenko

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Belinsky on the tragic in folk poetry and a folklore tale of Masha and Echo

Frightful Russian folklore. Masha has lost her way in the forest; Echo answers her and tells her that if his father-in-law is struck dead by thunder and his mother-in-law burnt up by lightning, then he will drench his wife in tears and dry her out with

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Perhaps this is what we seek in life, only this: unbearable pain, so as to become ourselves before we die

"Journey to the End of the Night", Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In the photograph, Céline in front of his house in Meudon in 1955

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Listening with rapt attention, alongside @dukaliti, to Svetlana Sidorova's lecture on Pushkin marking the 200th anniversary of the first chapter of "Eugene Onegin", naturally at a gala dinner in the Café Pushkinъ

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“The Angel of the Chronicles” (The Recording Angel): William Blake's illustration to the Divine Comedy, 1827

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French Author Vincent Delacroix's Book on Illegal Migrants, "The Little Boat", Longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature

French author Vincent Delacroix's book on illegal migrants, "The Little Boat", has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature. Vincent Delacroix, winner of the Académie Française's Grand Prix du Roman in 2009, examines the tragic deaths of illegal migrants who try to

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Since there are no significant political forces opposing the transformation of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is a struggle to preserve one's humanity in an ever more artificial world

Julius Evola

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Fourteen old blini recipes with explanations of words no longer in use

Pancakes from Elena Molokhovets's Legendary Cookery Book "A Gift to Young Housewives" Fourteen key old recipes for pancakes: buckwheat blini, buckwheat blini made half and half with wheat flour, plain wheat blini, buckwheat blini with eggs, Lenten buckwheat blini, "amateur" blini, red blini, milk

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From the Memoirs of Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam

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Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, an eleventh-century book

The rider on the pale horse is Death. Exhibition at the National Library of France

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One of the most unusual manuscripts submitted for the new season of the Hypertext Prize is a work by the writer and science journalist Sergei Korostelev, "Earth — Venus: The Two Lives of Leonid Xanfomalidi"

It is a large-scale biography of the distinguished Russian astronomer and space researcher Leonid Vasilyevich Xanfomalidi (1932–2019). A Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, he led experiments on the Soviet automatic stations that explored Mars, Venus and Halley's Comet. Venus played a special part in Xanfomalidi&