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19/05/14 07:35 Filed in: Writing
A Record of Interesting Choices: Tales of a Post-Soviet Man in the West [Print Edition]
23/04/14 09:21
A Record of Interesting Choices: Tales of a Post-Soviet Man in the West [Kindle Edition]
15/04/14 09:18
“A Record of Interesting Choices: Tales of a Post-Soviet Man in the West” is a collection of entertaining and irreverent stories from a Russian immigrant living in the US. With his characteristic sarcasm and at times warm tone, Jigoulov writes on religion in America, the importance of German erotica in the Soviet space, the world of espionage, and the secrets of the Russian soul.
Jigoulov reminiscences on growing up in the Soviet Union, his experiences in the Soviet intelligence services, and his involvement with American religious groups in Russia and the US. He also shares his humorous anecdotes of survival as an immigrant. After living in the US for over twenty years, the author reflects back at his life in the Soviet Union as a Westerner and writes about it in the language that would appeal to American readers.
The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires (BibleWorld)
31/03/10 09:10 Filed in: Writing
The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires (BibleWorld)
Even though the Persian period has attracted a fair share of scholarly interest in recent years, as yet no concerted effort has been attempted to construct a comprehensive social history of Phoenician city-states as an integral part of the Achaemenid empire. This monograph explores the evidence from Persian-period literary (both ancient Jewish and classical), epigraphic, and numismatic sources, as well as material culture remains, in order to sketch just such a history. This study examines developments in Persian-period Phoenician city-states on the three levels: that of the individual household, the city-state, and the administrative unit of the Persian empire. These three societal levels are analyzed within the contexts of economic competition between and among the Phoenician city-states, their burgeoning economic ties with the outside world, and their interaction with the Persian imperial influence in the Levant.
