Books

This book explores ideas, beliefs and practices which meet at the boundary of psychology and cosmology, the universe and human imagination. This book addresses this special relationship from a variety of challenging and inspiring approaches.

This classic Russian fairy tale about a cunning Fox and a simple-minded Rooster. The Russian and English texts are printed side-by-side to make reading and listening to this fairy tale both exciting and educational

This Russian fairy tale, written in both Russian and English, tells the story of the adventures of sly Sister Fox, who constantly dupes the simpleton Brother Wolf.

This book documents over 45 sanatoriums and their unconventional treatments. From Armenia to Uzbekistan, it represents the most comprehensive survey to date of this fascinating and previously overlooked Soviet institution.

From Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, New York Times  bestselling author and Russia’s greatest living absurdist, comes an elaborate family drama, social satire, and burlesque of twists, coincidences, and hijinks. 

Celebrate the rich culture of Ukrainian cuisine with these traditional Eastern European recipes infused with a fresh, contemporary approach for today’s home kitchen, from one of today’s most exciting young chefs of Ukrainian cuisine.

Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world’s masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines. 32 pages.

Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world’s masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines. 32 pages.

An astonishing photographic record of a form of wooden architecture rapidly vanishing from the post-Soviet landscape

Soviet Asia explores Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR.

Guzel Yakhina’s outstanding debut ― inspired by her grandmother's childhood memories of being exiled to the Gulag ―has been translated into twenty-one languages, capturing the hearts of readers all over the world.

Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is the untold story of how one man's harrowing journey in 1885 exposed the barbaric Siberian exile system that sent a million Russians into a vast prison without a roof.