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Offering information on 161 different species
Compiled and written by the late Soviet academician and herpetologist Nikolai N. Szczerbak (1927-1998) and with the technical editorial assistance of Michael L. Golubev, Guide To The Reptiles Of The Eastern Palearctic covers the reptile fauna of the Soviet Union, offering information on 161 different species, including their general distribution, type locality, reproduction and growth rates, ontogenetic, sexual, and geographic variation, ecology, behavior, and much, much more. An inset section of color photographs illustrates the professional style text of this solid biological handbook. Guide To The Reptiles Of The Eastern Palearctic is a meticulously prepared, seminal, scholarly addition to both academic, zoological, and professional reptile/herpetology reference collections. ... Read more

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Customer Reviews (3)

Sexy Girlfriends Absolute Amateurs
From a photograpic standpoint, this book is not a 1, but 0. If one merely wants to look at naked women, there are web sites with much better for free. Publishers must be desperate for books.

Underwhelming.
If, like me, you're a fan of Roy Stuart, Jan Saudek, Newton, Mapplethorpe, etc, you might naturally be drawn to this book. However, the photography here is pretty uninspired, the models (perhaps six in all) aren't particularly beautiful or interesting, nor are they doing anything interesting. It's more like a guy with a camera taking stock black and white photos for High Society or Genesis, circa 1984. Pretty boring. The book "Naked In Apartment 7," by Peter Gorman was FAR more engaging, with interesting-looking women, doing interesting things, in interesting places.

The title is very accurate
This is one of the better books I have seen and own in this genre. The photography technically is very good and consistent, and I must say I found all the girlfriends to be VERY sexy. Man my life should be so rough! It might be a bit explicite for some, but if you like provoctive, ...and pretty girls doing the posing, this book is worth the few bucks. It's not porn but it's not lightweight either. Enjoy! ... Read more

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The story behind How It All Began is almost as compelling as that contained within its pages. Of all those in Lenin's inner circle, Nikolai Bukharin stood out as a kinder, gentler sort of revolutionary: a painter, writer, and student of the social and natural sciences who later defended Lenin's liberal New Economic Policy during the '20s. If he hadn't fallen prey to Stalin's maniacal purges, the history of Russian Communism might have turned out quite differently. Instead, Bukharin spent a year in prison writing feverishly and awaiting trial. He finished four books during that hellish year--two books of political theory, a volume of poems, and then this unfinished novel--before being shot in his cell. The resulting manuscript could easily have vanished from the face of the earth. Improbably, it survived in Stalin's personal archives, from whence it was rescued, translated by George Shriver, and offered up as both historical document and genuinely interesting work of fiction--a sort of portrait of the revolutionary as a young man. How It All Began follows the coming of age of one Kolya Petrov, the son of vaguely liberal provincial Russians. Although Bukharin plants all the seeds of the political consciousness to come, this is done with a mercifully light touch, interspersed with character studies, lyrical descriptions of nature, and accounts of young Kolya's education. The book breaks off abruptly when Kolya is only 15, as the country was about to plunge into 1905's failed revolution--and as Bukharin himself was about to be silenced forever. ... Read more

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A brilliant, beautiful work
Bukharin's autobiographical work is a lyrical, moving, story of the life of a young boy in pre-Soviet russia. Unlike Leon Trotsky's autobiography, which is a similar work in content, this is a novel. And a grand one. When you read the touching descriptions of Kolya's then idyllic, then tragic domestic life, you feel helpless, sad, for you know that this boy will eventually be dead, the New World he helped to create corrupted and turned against him. The very existence of this novel is a message of hope, that even under the most tragic and ironic circumstances there can something joyous (Bukharin wrote the novel while in Lubyanka prison). The poignancy of all this is further increased by the included letter by Bukharin, written to his wife Anna Larina and not given to her for 50+ years. This book also stands as a monument (in a medium I belief he would have perhaps preferred) to Nikolai Bukharin, a brilliant scholar, writer, and Revolutionary

A remarkable book, written under remarkable circumstances.
This is a remarkable book. It combines three forms in a single work: 1) a detailed and evocative story of a boy growing up in late 19th century Russia, 2) an informative and moving autobiography of one of the most important Bolshevik leaders, and 3) commentary on the social and economic developments leading up to the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, including (in the tradition of Russian novels) imagined descriptions of important meetings of leaders of state. Most remarkable, though, is that the entire book was written in the nights of Bukharin's confinement in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison while he awaited almost certain execution following his notorious "show trial". The idea of a man who knows he could be shot at any moment writing such detailed, even leisurely descriptions of his childhood in Moscow and Bessarabia is almost beyond comprehension. Indeed, the novel breaks off in mid-sentence. This book should not be missed by anyone interested in 19th and 20th century Russian history, and will be enjoyed by anyone interested in a good coming-of-age novel as well. ... Read more

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