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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
These 4 items are available as a set for $79 including shipping,
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Alexievich, Svetlana. Voices from Chernobyl, The Oral History of
a Nuclear Disaster. Picador USA, 2006. These powerful eyewitness
accounts include ordinary citizens, firefighters and politicians.
For her fearlessness and masterful writing, Alexievich won the 2015
Nobel Prize in Literature. (PAPER, 236 Pp., $16.00, Item
RUS434)
Plokhy, Serhii. The Gates of Europe, A History of Ukraine.
Perseus, 2015. Plokhy ushers readers through over 2,500 years of
Ukrainian history, focusing on the nation’s struggle for collective
identity and sovereignty, showing that Ukraine’s present-day
conflict with Russia is, in fact, history repeating itself. (HARD
COVER, 416 Pp., $29.99, Item UKR24)
Evans, Andrew. Bradt Guide Ukraine. Bradt Publications, 2013.
This guide in the popular British series features comprehensive
practical information and provides a short section on the country’s
history and culture. With over 30 maps. (PAPER, 440 Pp., $26.99,
Item UKR12)
ITMB. Ukraine Map. ITMB, 2015. A map of Ukraine at a scale of
1:1,000,000. (MAP, Pp., $12.95, Item RUS86)
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MAPS & GUIDEBOOKS
Freytag & Berndt. Kiev Map. Freytag & Berndt, 2012. A
detailed street map (1:15,000). (MAP, Pp., $12.95, Item UKR17)
Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet Ukrainian Phrasebook. Lonely Planet
Publications, 2014. This handy pocket phrasebook includes
pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (PAPER, 292
Pp., $9.99, Item UKR19)
HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION
Leatherbarrow, Andrew, and Elizabeth Petrey. Chernobyl 01:23:40.
Ingram Publisher Services, 2016. On April 26th, 1986, Chernobyl was
permanently evacuated, an event that devastated the Soviet Union
and resulted in the death of thousands. This is the most recent
account of the nuclear disaster and its aftermath, written after
five years of research and personal investigation. Includes 45
pages of photographs and diagrams. (PAPER, 256 Pp., $16.99, Item
UKR25)
Reid, Anna. Borderland, A Journey through the History of
Ukraine. Perseus, 2000. Reid, the former Kiev correspondent for The
Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in
this vivid portrait of the region and its people. With chapters on
Kiev and Odessa. (PAPER, 272 Pp., $17.00, Item RUS84)
Wilson, Andrew. The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation. Yale
University Press, 2015. An outstanding guide to modern identity,
politics and history in Ukraine, highly recommended for an
understanding of the geopolitics of the region and, especially,
uneasy relations with mother Russia. (PAPER, 416 Pp., $23.00, Item
RUS125)
TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Blackwell, Andrew. Visit Sunny Chernobyl. St. Martins, 2013.
With biting humor, Blackwell sets off to visit the most polluted
places on the planet, starting with Chernobyl and working his way
through lands ravaged by oil processing in Northern Alberta and
Port Arthur, Texas, checking out deforestation in the Amazon and
heading down India’s dirtiest river. (PAPER, 306 Pp., $15.99, Item
RUS586)
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Muhling, Jens. A Journey into Russia. Haus Publishing, 2015. For
this empathetic glimpse into the Russian soul, award-winning
journalist Jens Muhling travels far from the bright lights of
Moscow and into Ukraine and the Russian heartland. His personal
encounters provide a deeply human portrait of the vast nation.
(HARD COVER, 275 Pp., $24.95, Item RUS569)
Savage, Ania. Return to Ukraine. Texas A&M University Press,
2000. An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a
journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage
interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote. (HARD
COVER, 272 Pp., $29.95, Item RUS126)
LITERATURE
Akhtiorskaya, Yelena. Panic in a Suitcase. Riverhead Books,
2015. A thoughtful novel that explores the relationship between the
American Dream and the contemporary immigrant experience through
the lives of a migrant family in Brighton Beach and the one member
who stayed behind in Odessa to become a famous poet. (PAPER, 307
Pp., $16.00, Item UKR23)
Bulgakov, Mikhail, and Marian Schwartz (Translator). The White
Guard. Yale University Press, 2008. Set on the eve of war in Kiev
in 1918, the royalist Turbin family is at the center of Bulgakov’s
first novel, newly translated. (PAPER, 352 Pp., $22.00, Item
RUS58)
NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD GUIDES
Dean, Cornelia (Editor) and Neil Degrasse Tyson (Foreword). The
New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy, More Than 100 Years
of Covering the Expanding Universe. Sterling, 2013. Selected by
former science editor Cornelia Dean, this collection of 125
articles chronicles a century of important scientific advances and
setbacks. (HARD COVER, 557 Pp., $24.95, Item SCI357)
Medvedev, Zhores A. The Legacy of Chernobyl. Lightning Source,
1992. Medvedev, a Russian scientist, exposes the catastrophe at
Chernobyl from its origins to the horrific events of April 26, 1986
to its aftermath in this powerful, well-documented polemic. (PAPER,
352 Pp., $23.00, Item RUS447)
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Johnson, George. Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the
Search for Order. Vintage Books, 1996. George Johnson explores the
relationship between science and religion in attempt to answer
questions such as: are there really laws governing the universe? Is
what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA and
information fill the role once occupied by gods? (PAPER, 402 Pp.,
$17.95, Item SCI354)
Johnson, George. The Cancer Chronicles. Vintage Books, 2014.
Science writer Johnson’s elegant scholarship is both personal and
educational, compiling everything we know -- and don’t know-- about
cancer in this poignant chronicle. (PAPER, 284 Pp., $15.95, Item
SCI353)
Johnson, George. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments. Vintage
Books, 2009. With a novelist’s flair, Johnson collects 10 of the
most groundbreaking experiments in history, recounting each in
engaging detail. Includes Galileo, Isaac Newton and Ivan Pavlov.
(PAPER, 192 Pp., $15.95, Item SCI352)