What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov’s story.Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans. It follows the lives of three generations of women—Katarina, Zora, and Tania—over the last 100 years. It follows countries that dissolved, formed, and reformed. Lands that were conquered and subjugated by Fascists and Nazis and nationalists. Lives lived...

Six million immigrants compose the Russian community in the US and Canada, including 1.6 million in New York and 600,000 in Southern CaliforniaFollowers of the Romanovs (Russian royal family), a group with loyal fans that has resulted in many publicationsPeople interested in exile/refugee issues and current global politicsReaders of Russian literature, e.g., Tolstoy, Solzhenitsin, Chekhov, etc.Fans of memoir, particularly those involving family sagas...

It's 2 a.m. and you can't sleep again. You've had the same argument with your spouse for the third time this month, and you're starting to wonder whether you should still be in this marriage at all.You're not ready to call a divorce lawyer. You're not ready to leave. You just need to know.Diana Romanov has spent more than twenty years inside that question. As a Certified Family Law Specialist and the founder of one of the Bay Area's most respected boutique divorce practices...

When Ivan walks out the door to face Stalin's war, Anna makes him a promise: she will raise their children in faith, no matter what comes.What comes is worse than she ever imagined.Famine strips her family to nothing. A visitor in the night forces her to face the truth about the husband she loved. A wealthy stranger dangles her own daughter in front of her like a bargaining chip. And just when peace seems within reach, her son is taken from her for the crime of reading Scri...

This exegetical analysis of 8:4-6 contributes to the ongoing discussion on Paul's Christology and its role in the developmentof Early Christian thought. Paul's representation of Jesus Christ as the Lord is analyzed in relation to Hellenistic, Roman, and Jewishreligious worldviews in which other figures were also called lords. Implying a correlation between status and function of a particularlord and therefore denoting objective characteristics, 'Lordship' allows the...

This book presents a systematic exposition of the main ideas and methods in treating inverse problems for PDEs arising in basic mathematical models, though it makes no claim to being exhaustive. Mathematical models of most physical phenomena are governed by initial and boundary value problems for PDEs, and inverse problems governed by these equations arise naturally in nearly all branches of science and engineering.The book’s content, especially in the Introduction and Part I, is s...

This book covers whole Europe within its geographical limits, providing not only an overview about biogeography and recent taxonomic status of Charophyte species but also in-depth information about recent knowledge about ecology, ontogenesis, morphology, palaeontology and systematics of this group of algae. This is the first comprehensive treatment of European Charophytes. In addition, the reader for the first time is provided by definitions of terms applied to Charophytes, sorting out sev...

A note from the author: I have written two books under the name Blake Townsend Romanov, which I consider literary soul-mates, Pare My Heart and Draw Me A Spirit, both specializing in an imperfect attempt at meter and or form, mainly Shakespearean Sonnets, also some Petrarchian as well as Villanelles and finally a number of Limericks in addition to metrical or rhyming poems of unnamed form. I say that the meter is imperfect, but also that meter is often imperfect by nature as for instance i...

A note from the author: I have written two books under the name Blake Townsend Romanov, which I consider literary soul-mates, Pare My Heart and Draw Me A Spirit, both specializing in an imperfect attempt at meter and or form, mainly Shakespearean Sonnets, also some Petrarchian as well as Villanelles and finally a number of Limericks in addition to metrical or rhyming poems of unnamed form. I say that the meter is imperfect, but also that meter is often imperfect by nature as for instance i...

This book presents methods to improve information security for protected communication. It combines and applies interdisciplinary scientific engineering concepts, including cryptography, chaos theory, nonlinear and singular optics, radio-electronics and self-changing artificial systems. It also introduces additional ways to improve information security using optical vortices as information carriers and self-controlled nonlinearity, with nonlinearity playing a key "evolving" role. The propo...

Doc Holiday is a book of love poems like my previous books. Like them, it is a book of metrical and rhyming poetry, more or less. The muse this time is Ashley Wednesday, a devout Catholic and a figure of cold and ethereal beauty, shimmering copper hair, skin like fresh milk, and a narrow aristocratic countenance, an antitype to my own broad features and hulking clumsy gait. It is a book that applies mythological characters both from American Hollywood mythology as well as characters from c...

This, The Shapes Of Natural Things, is a book of poems about nature, love, God and the intersection of plant, animal, human and divine things. It is written in rhyme and meter, with the exception of the limerick which is not strictly metrical. The poems in this book are mainly dedicated to one woman, but there are others to and about other friends, as well as about issues that interest me in the realm of religion, philosophy psychology etc. It is the third book I have written under the nam...