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AN AWARD WINNING HILARIOUS CHILDRENS ADVENTURE WITH A COOL FACTOR THATS OFF THE SCALE!  

Sir Sydney Dinkum is a story WORTH CHEERING FOR which is filled with LAUGHTER & ADVENTURE. 

The page turning tale features masterful and brilliant full color illustrations.  People of every age can appreciate the fun and charming adventures of Sydney and that folks, is guaranteed!

 

Can you imagine Crocodile Dundee as an animal? Paddington Bear in shining armor? Or Winnie the Pooh on a noble steed? Meet Sir Sydney Dinkum a rascally koala bear from the Outback of Australia who believes he can be The World's Next Big Hero. Like Dr. Doolittle he has the super power to talk to all animals, including humans! Like Don Quixote, he believes it's his job to right the wrongs of the world! But is this just an Impossible Dream? Can a koala really be dubbed knight? Can a little marsupial armed with a boomerang make a difference in the world? Or will Sydney make a mess of things, as usual?

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A Minimalist Perspective on Clause Chains, Converbs and Asymmetric Coordination

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This monograph explores the different types of clausal relations in the worlds languages. In the recent literature, there have been claims that the strict dichotomy of subordination and coordination cannot be maintained since some constructions seem to be in between these two categories. This study investigates these constructions in detail.  The first part is concerned with clause chaining constructions, while the second is concerned with different cases of asymmetric coordination in English. In both parts, it is shown that the different tests to distinguish clausal relations indeed yield different results for the specific constructions. This poses a severe challenge for the established theories of clausal relations. However, as it is argued, recent analyses of coordination provide for the possibility to map a subordinate structure onto a coordinate one by means of regular transformational rules. It is shown that a single movement step derives all the peculiar properties of the phenomena in question.  This book thus provides the first comprehensive solution for a long-standing problem in theoretical syntax.

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Al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, Commentary on Aristotle "De generatione et corruptione"

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This book contains a new edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Aristotle written in Arabic and preserved to this day, together with an extensive commentary. It is a compendium on the treatise De generatione et corruptione, written by the Imamite theologian and heresiographer Hasan b. Musa al-Nawbakhti (fl. ca. 900). To this day, apart from the title of more than forty works and numerous fragments-taken mainly from his magnum opus, the Book of the Doctrines and Religions (Kitab al-ara wa-al-diyanat)-only a single treatise of his, the Book of Shii Sects (Kitab firaq al-shia), was known to us. The text sheds new light in several ways: firstly, on the the Arabic philosophical tradition, since it was composed during the obscure period between al-Kindi and al-Farabi (roughly, the 2nd half of the 9th c.); secondly, on the Greek tradition, since the author makes extensive use of Alexanders lost commentary on De generatione; thirdly, on the formative period of shiism, since it helps us to reconstruct how the author borrowed from the Aristotelian tradition the tools necessary to build up a new anthropology compatible with the doctrine of the Occultation which he inaugurated at the time.

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Die Mensch und Computer ist eine vom Fachbereich Mensch-Computer-Interaktion der Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) initiierte und seit 2001 jahrlich stattfindende Fachtagungsreihe zu Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. Hier treffen sich Personen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, um neueste Forschungsergebnisse zu diskutieren, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und neue Produkte und Methoden kennen zu lernen. Die Tagung bietet Einblicke in Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Usability, User Experience, Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work und Gestaltung interaktiver Medien. Die Mensch und Computer 2015 in Stuttgart steht unter dem Motto "Gemeinsam - Arbeit - Erleben". Dieses Motto greift die Entwicklungen auf, dass sich die klare zeitliche Trennung zwischen Arbeit und Freizeit aufzulosen beginnt. Deshalb werden in Zukunft Benutzungsschnittstellen und Systeme erforderlich die Erlebnisse in allen Lebenslagen unterstutzen. Im Bereich Mensch und Computer spielt aber nicht nur die Interaktion eines oder mehrerer Benutzer mit einem Computer eine Rolle, sondern auch die Nutzung von Computersystemen zur Unterstutzung der Kommunikation zwischen Menschen (Mensch-Computer-Mensch-Interaktion). Manche Anwendung bleibt in Gerate integriert quasi unsichtbar, mit anderen muss bewusst unter Nutzung vielfaltiger Ein- und Ausgabemedien interagiert werden. Der wissenschaftliche Teil der Tagung Mensch und Computer nimmt diese technologischen Entwicklungen und Anforderungen zum Anlass, Beitrage von Forschern der Fachdisziplinen Mensch-Computer-Interaktion sowie Rechnergestutzte Gruppenarbeit (CSCW, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) und Social Computing zur Entwicklung von neuen Interaktionskonzepten vorzustellen und kritisch zu diskutieren.  Der Tagungsband beschreibt vielfaltige Systeme und Anwendungen, die Arbeits- und Lernprozesse unterstutzen, die Freizeit begleiten und unterhalten, Kommunikation und Koordination ermoglichen und verbessern.

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Martin Pielot, Sarah Diefenbach, Niels Henze

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Arbeitskreis der Hochschullehrer fur Messtechnik

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In der linguistischen Theorie spielen Situationsargumente als Komponenten der lexikalisch-semantischen Reprasentation im Bereich verbaler Kategorien eine zentrale Rolle. Die Beitrage des Sammelbandes erweitern das Postulat eines Situationsarguments auf den Bereich deverbaler Wortbildungsprodukte. Sie thematisieren den Status von Situationsargumenten anhand nominaler Einheiten mit einem verbalen Bestandteil. Die zentrale Frage dabei ist, wie und mit welchen syntaktischen und semantischen Reflexen ein (verbales) Situationsargument auf Wortebene kompositional in eine nominale Gesamtbedeutung eingehen kann. Anhand der fur die verbalen Kategorien etablierten Diagnostiken werden in den einzelnen Beitragen differenzierte Analysen zur Integration und Interpretation des Situationsarguments deverbaler Kategorien entwickelt. Dabei werden zugleich die unterschiedlichen Formen nominaler Strukturbildung (Derivation, Komposition, Konversion) abgedeckt. Der Band umfasst einen ersten Teil zu Nomen mit verbalem Bestandteil und in einen zweiten Teil zu Partizipien in adjektivischer Distribution. Zur Einfuhrung ist ein Uberblicksartikel vorangestellt, der die formalen Grundlagen fur eine syntakto-semantische Erfassung von Situationsargumenten skizziert.

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Christian Fortmann, Anja Lübbe, Irene Rapp

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Noch vor kurzem erschien es kaum denkbar, dass in der westlichen Welt Konflikte entstehen konnten, die an langst vergangene Religionskriege erinnern. Der langere Zeit aus dem Theoriegesprach verschwundene Begriff der Toleranz hat sich hier als ein Konzept angeboten, mit dem nach einem Ausgleich der kulturellen Gegensatze gesucht werden kann. Hier wird nicht selten nach einer Begriffsbestimmung mit groerer historischer Reichweite gesucht. Eine historische Vergewisserung ist notwendig, da Ansatze zur Losung der sich gegenwartig stellenden Probleme noch immer in der auf die Fruhe Neuzeit zuruckgehenden naturrechtlich-politischen Diskussion und Begriffsgeschichte zu finden sind. Die Kriterien zur Rechtfertigung von Toleranz lassen sich aus den Konzeptionen entwickeln und an den Argumenten prufen, die seit der Reformation die Auseinandersetzung uber die Duldung fremder Konfessionen bestimmt haben. Auch die Grenzen der Toleranz und die mit dem Begriff verbundenen Paradoxien lassen sich vor diesem Hintergrund erortern, wie die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage zeigen.

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Oliver Bach, Michael Multhammer, Friedrich Vollhardt

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Die Mensch und Computer ist eine vom Fachbereich Mensch-Computer-Interaktion der Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) initiierte und seit 2001 jahrlich stattfindende Fachtagungsreihe zu Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. Hier treffen sich Personen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, um neueste Forschungsergebnisse zu diskutieren, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und neue Produkte und Methoden kennen zu lernen. Die Tagung bietet Einblicke in Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Usability, User Experience, Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work und Gestaltung interaktiver Medien. Die Mensch und Computer 2015 in Stuttgart steht unter dem Motto "Gemeinsam - Arbeit - Erleben". Dieses Motto greift die Entwicklungen auf, dass sich die klare zeitliche Trennung zwischen Arbeit und Freizeit aufzulosen beginnt. Deshalb werden in Zukunft Benutzungsschnittstellen und Systeme erforderlich die Erlebnisse in allen Lebenslagen unterstutzen Der Workshopband zur Tagung Mensch-und-Computer dokumentiert die weiterfuhrenden Tutorials die vertiefend zu den Tagungsvortragen in Workshops statfinden. Es werden Case Studies aufgezeigt und Ubungen durchgefuhrt.

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Anette Weisbecker, Michael Burmester, Albrecht Schmidt

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Mensch und Computer 2015  Usability Professionals

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Die Usability Professionals wurde 2003 von der German UPA e.V.  dem Berufsverband der Deutschen Usability und User Experience Professionals  initiiert. Sie findet seitdem jahrlich im Rahmen der Mensch und Computer statt und wird in Kooperation mit dem Fachbereich Mensch-Computer Interaktion der Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) ausgerichtet. Im Rahmen der Konferenz treffen sich Personen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, um neueste Forschungsergebnisse zu diskutieren, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und neue Produkte und Methoden kennen zu lernen.Die Tagung bietet Einblicke in Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Usability, User Experience, Mensch-Computer Interaktion sowie Gestaltung und Evaluation interaktiver Medien.Der vorliegende Tagungsband enthalt Beitrage zu den auf der Tagung prasentierten Fachvortragen, Kurzberichten, Workshops, Tutorien und Demonstrationen. Es liefert Perspektiven aus den Bereichen Forschung und Praxis, die zusammen ein Kaleidoskop an Ideen, Theorien, Methoden und Losungsvorschlagen bilden.

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Anja Endmann, Holger Fischer, Malte Krökel

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Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide (Third Edition)

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Current and authoritative, from a top scholar in the field.
Media Politics encourages students to take a critical look at the relationship between media and politics by analyzing how the media influences American politics and how politicians use the media to get elected, stay in power, and achieve policy goals. Drawing on recent research on topics students care aboutincluding new digital and social media and the polarization of politicsand the authors specially curated online video archive, Media Politics remains the most current text for the course.

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Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming - Second Edition

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Learn effective C++ network programming with Boost.Asio and become a proficient C++ network programmer

About This Book

* Learn efficient C++ network programming with minimum coding using Boost.Asio
* Your one-stop destination to everything related to the Boost.Asio library
* Explore the fundamentals of networking to choose designs with more examples, and learn the basics of Boost.Asio 

Who This Book Is For

This book is for C++ Network programmers with basic knowledge of network programming, but no knowledge of how to use Boost.Asio for network programming.

What You Will Learn

* Prepare the tools to simplify network programming in C++ using Boost.Asio
* Explore the networking concepts of IP addressing, TCP/IP ports and protocols, and LAN topologies
* Get acquainted with the usage of the Boost libraries
* Get to know more about the content of Boost.Asio network programming and Asynchronous programming
* Establish communication between client and server by creating client-server application
* Understand the various functions inside Boost.Asio C++ libraries to delve into network programming
* Discover how to debug and run the code successfully

In Detail

Boost.Asio is a C++ library used for network programming operations.
Organizations use Boost because of its productivity. Use of these high-quality libraries speed up initial development, result in fewer bugs, reduce reinvention-of-the-wheel, and cut long-term maintenance costs. Using Boost libraries gives an organization a head start in adopting new technologies.
This book will teach you C++ Network programming using synchronous and asynchronous operations in Boost.Asio with minimum code, along with the fundamentals of Boost, server-client applications, debugging, and more.
You will begin by preparing and setting up the required tools to simplify your network programming in C++ with Boost.Asio. Then you will learn about the basic concepts in networking such as IP addressing, TCP/IP protocols, and LAN with its topologies. This will be followed by an overview of the Boost libraries and their usage.
Next you will get to know more about Boost.Asio and its concepts related to network programming. We will then go on to create a client-server application, helping you to understand the networking concepts. Moving on, you will discover how to use all the functions inside the Boost.Asio C++ libraries. Lastly, you will understand how to debug the code if there are errors found and will run the code successfully.

Style and approach

An example-oriented book to show you the basics of networking and help you create a network application simply using Boost.Asio, with more examples for you to get up and running with Boost.Asio quickly. 

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Rafe Atherton, the Duke of Devonshire, has managed to muck up his life, and rather grandly. A dalliance with the wrong woman has put him at the center of a scandal that could bring down the next prime minister of England. Desperate to remove the threat to his peer  and to himself by way of being skewered by said peer, he agrees to disappear from London life. Begrudgingly, he accepts his friends suggestion to act the part of a butler at the fellows cousins country estate.

Lady Isabella FitzHugh is nothing if not a practical, logical, orderly young woman. Having her lifelong butler just retire and being informed by her cousin, surely in an attempt to help, that she was to host a butler-in-training, is beyond annoying. A small, self-contained estate needs no ripples to mar the necessary smooth waters. But, when the new butler, one Easton, arrives, her home and her emotions become one stormy mess. And Isabella finds herself breaking all the rules and happily opens her heart to the chaos of love.

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For centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the ability to write and speak pure Latin was the mark of the true scholar. But although such skill was esteemed in medieval times, the language of ancient Rome was as various as the styles of slaves and masters.

Latinity and Literary Society at Rome reaches back to the early Roman empire to examine attitudes toward latinity, reviewing the contested origins of scholarly Latin in the polemical arena of Roman literature. W. Martin Bloomer shows how that literature's reflections on correct and incorrect speech functioned as part of a wider understanding of social relations and national identity in Rome.

Bloomer's investigation begins with questions about the sociology of Latin literaturewhat interests were served by the creation of high style and how literary stylization constituted a system of social decorumand goes on to offer readings of selected texts. Through studies of works ranging from Varro's De lingua latina to the verse fables of Augustine's freeman Phaedrus to the Annals of Tacitus, Bloomer examines conflicting claims to style not simply to set true Latin against vulgarism but also to ask who is excluding whom, why, and by what means.

These texts exemplify the ways Roman literature employs representations of, and reflections on, proper and improper language to mirror the interests of specific groups who wished to maintain or establish their place in Roman society. They show how writers sought to influence the fundamental social issue of who had the power to confer legitimacy of speech and how their works used claims of linguistic propriety to reinforce the definition of "Romanness."

Through Bloomer's study latinity emerges as a contested field of identity and social polemic heretofore unrecognized in classical scholarship. With its fresh interpretations of major and minor texts, Latinity and Literary Society at Rome is a literary history that significantly advances our understanding of the place of language in ancient Rome.

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Inflation is an economic phenomenon that has profound implications for lawyers and jurists, because the great bulk of our laws and legal doctrines have been formulated on the assumption that the value of money remains relatively stable. Inasmuch as such an assumption is no longer tenable in much of the world, it threatens the operation of our most basic legal institutions.

In this book, Keith Rosenn shows how inflation affects legal documents like contractshow it distorts credit transactions, suits for damages, and laws of taxationand he tells how current economic practices can be adapted to reduce or eliminate the impact. He explores the possibility of using a comprehensive indexation scheme for coping with inflation. Although Rosenn recognizes the deficiencies of price indexes, he considers the practical and theoretical implications of indexation. His analysis is firmly grounded in a detailed examination of the experience of countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, and Italy in adapting their legal institutions to the fact of inflation.

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Andrew Samuels has established an international practice as a political consultant, working with senior politicians, political parties and activist groups. His lectures and workshops on the application of 'therapy thinking' to social and political issues attract wide interest. His previous books in this area, such as The Political Psyche and Politics on the Couch, have been widely appreciated. Now, in a long-anticipated tour-de-force that is both compassionate and intellectually stimulating, this book deepens in a new and innovate style his engagement with themes such as economics, ecopsychology, leadership, aggression and violence, the role of the individual in progressive politics, and sexuality and spirituality in political contexts.  The reader is encouraged to move beyond conventional professional or academic discourse by the inclusion of experiential exercises in the text. In this way, activism and analysis, public and private, therapeutic and more-than-personal are all brought together in a satisfying yet challenging synthesis.Samuels is open about the problems with trying to apply therapy thinking to discussion about pressing political, social and economic questions, and to the loss of a sense of meaning and purpose in personal and collective life. Although there is a long history in the psychotherapies of aspiration to achieve this, and therapists invited the world into their consulting rooms, the 'client' did not show up for its first session. In the book, Samuels discuss why this has been the case, accepting that there is a very bad historical record to own, ranging from Jung's anti-semitism to psychoanalytic homophobia and heteronormativity. There is also the problem of therapists' uncontrollable desire to prove their theories correct.

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This book is a world-class report by the Asia Competitiveness Institute, updated annually to analyse Indonesia's competitiveness at the provincial level. With 104 indicators covering four environments, the study's unique methodology incorporates comparative strengths and weaknesses. Apart from scores and rankings, what-if policy simulations offer various provinces practical prescriptions to improve overall competitiveness to accelerate economic growth and development in a balanced, fair and sustainable way. Such qualitative and quantitative analyses in collaboration with various stakeholders generate an exciting pathway for Indonesia to attain its rightful place in both the Asian region and global contexts.

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Khee Giap Tan, Nurina Merdikawati, Mulya Amri, Blake Harley Berger

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This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch-Austrian-German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energy is thermonuclear fusion, and also made a number of other important contributions to cosmochemistry and geochemistry. In 1935, Houtermans, a German communist, in an attempt to save his life from Hilter's Gestapo, fled to the Soviet Union. He took up an appointment at the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute, working there for two years with the Russian physicist Valentin P Fomin. In the Great Purge of 1937, Houtermans was arrested in December by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police, KGB's predecessor). He was tortured, and confessed to being a Trotskyist plotter and German spy, out of fear of threats against his wife Charlotte. However, Charlotte had already escaped from the Soviet Union to Denmark, after which she went to England and finally the USA. As a result of the Hilter-Stalin Pact of 1939, Houtermans was turned over to the Gestapo in May 1940 and imprisoned in Berlin.The second part consists of two essays that narrate the life story of Yuri Golfand, one of the codiscoverers of supersymmetry, a major discovery in theoretical physics in the 20th century. In 1973, just two years after the publication of his seminal paper, he was fired from the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow. Because of his Jewish origin he could find no job. Under such circumstances, he applied for an exit visa to Israel, but his application was denied. Yuri Golfand became a refusnik and joined the Human rights movement, along with two other prominent physicists, Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov. To earn his living, he had to do manual work, repeatedly being intimidated by KGB. Only 18 years later, shortly before the demise of the Soviet Union, did he obtain permission to leave the country, emigrating to Israel in 1990.These personal life stories of two outstanding theorists are interwined with the tragedies of the 20th century and make for compelling reading.

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When Alex gets his birthday wish, he cant wait to show of his new lion friend at
school. But when Alex tries to get his lion to do tricks, the lion is reluctant to be fierce.
Alex realizes he needs to rely on his own strengths, and find his inner lion to impress the crowd.

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Battles, blood, and psychological collapse! A young boy is nearly burned alive in a church as steel-wielding English troops assault his town. Within these pages is the story of Thomas Ancroft, who grows up trying to be noble, but cannot shake the trauma he endured. The man responsible for the harm done to him, Admiral Constantyne, feels the wrath strike back in the way of a kidnapped daughter and a torched home. Now, all is sacrificed, fury kindled, and great seas crossed. This aging master of the sea now lives only to bring his daughter back and to drain the life out of Thomas. Always on the edge of annihilation, you will be taken along with this pseudo-hero through numerous adventures that will cause you to doubt him at times, though likely you will also be struck by him, as his companions are. Either his ability to overcome the most hopeless of obstacles is due to miracles as he claims, or is the greatest series of coincidences championed by a lunatic.

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The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume II

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Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanasev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikovs edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number. This second volume of 140 tales continues the work started in Volume I, also published by University Press of Mississippi. A third planned volume will complete the first English-language set.

The folktales of A. N. Afanasev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanasev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanasev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best-known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection, he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes; a collection of mildly obscene tales, Russkie zavetnye skazki; and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were stylistic, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are generally not included in this volume.