1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793875803321

Titolo

21 : Russian Short Prose from the Odd Century / / edited by Mark Lipovetsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

9781644690550

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 318 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm

Collana

Cultural Syllabus

Soggetti

Russian prose literature - 21st century

Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Lipovetsky, Mark -- 1. Nikolai Baitov -- 2. Evgeny Shklovsky -- 3. Vladimir Sorokin -- 4. Nikolai Kononov -- 5. Leonid Kostyukov -- 6. Sergei Soloukh -- 7. Margarita Khemlin -- 8. Elena Dolgopyat -- 9. Kirill Kobrin -- 10. Pavel Pepperstein -- 11. Aleksandr Ilichevsky -- 12. Stanislav Lvovsky -- 13. Valery Votrin -- 14. Linor Goralik -- 15. Aleksey Tsvetkov Jr -- 16. Lara Vapnyar -- 17. Polina Barskova -- 18. Arkady Babchenko -- 19. Denis Osokin -- 20. Maria Boteva -- 21. Marianna Geide -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities. Their authors live not only in Russia, but also in Europe and the US. Short stories in this volume display a vast spectrum of subgenres, from grotesque absurdist stories to lyrical essays, from realistic narratives to fantastic parables. Taken together, they display rich and complex cultural and intellectual reality of contemporary Russia, in which political, social, and ethnic conflicts of today coexist with themes and characters resonating with classical literature, albeit invariably twisted and transformed in an unpredictable way. Most of texts in this volume appear in English for the first time. 21 may be useful for college



courses but will also provide exciting reading for anyone interested in contemporary Russia.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910346859903321

Autore

Michaelides Silas

Titolo

Remote Sensing of Precipitation: Volume 2 / Silas Michaelides

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783039212880

3039212885

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (318 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Precipitation is a well-recognized pillar in global water and energy balances. An accurate and timely understanding of its characteristics at the global, regional, and local scales is indispensable for a clearer understanding of the mechanisms underlying the Earth's atmosphere-ocean complex system. Precipitation is one of the elements that is documented to be greatly affected by climate change. In its various forms, precipitation comprises a primary source of freshwater, which is vital for the sustainability of almost all human activities. Its socio-economic significance is fundamental in managing this natural resource effectively, in applications ranging from irrigation to industrial and household usage. Remote sensing of precipitation is pursued through a broad spectrum of continuously enriched and upgraded instrumentation, embracing sensors which can be ground-based (e.g., weather radars), satellite-borne (e.g., passive or active space-borne sensors), underwater (e.g., hydrophones), aerial, or ship-borne.