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Joyful Solitude
2023 || Paperback || Deacon David J.D. Lochbihler || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Joyful Solitude explores both the effects of the global pandemic upon people of faith and how best to respond to the challenges and crises in our lives. The Apostle Paul, a prisoner facing the threat of Roman execution, authored epistles calling the faithful to rejoice despite living amidst the direst circumstances. Combining theological research and sincere storytelling, Deacon David offers a way to experience this joy by immersing ourselves fully into the liturgical and sacramental life of ...
I Want a Baby and Other Plays
2020 || Paperback || Sergei Tretyakov || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
When Sergei Tretyakov’s ground-breaking play, I Want a Baby, was banned by Stalin’s censor in 1927, it was a signal that the radical and innovative theatre of the early Soviet years was to be brought to an end. A glittering, unblinking exploration of the realities of post-revolutionary Soviet life, I Want a Baby marks a high point in modernist experimental drama.
Tretyakov’s plays are notable for their formal originality and their revolutionary content. The World Upside Down, which was ...
Fruit of the Spirit: An Orthodox Anthology
2023 || Paperback || J.D. Deacon David Lochbihler || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Superb storytelling and sound research offer a fun and fascinating glimpse into the Fruit of the Spirit described in Galatians 5:22-23: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The timeless truths of Orthodoxy permeate our everyday lives each and every moment. The author submitted these twelve articles to The Word, the periodical of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, and the magazine published five of his ess...
A Brown Man in Russia - Lessons Learned on the Trans-Siberian
2018 || Paperback || Vijay Menon || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
A Brown Man in Russia describes the fantastical travels of a young, colored American traveler as he backpacks across Russia in the middle of winter via the Trans-Siberian. The book is a hybrid between the curmudgeonly travelogues of Paul Theroux and the philosophical works of Robert Pirsig. Styled in the vein of Hofstadter, the author lays out a series of absurd, but true stories followed by a deeper rumination on what they mean and why they matter. Each chapter presents a vivid anecdote from...
The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics
2020 || Paperback || Ignacy Krasicki || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a sybaritic, cowardly ruler… The Hag of Discord incites a vicious rivalry between monastic orders, which only the good monks’ common devotion to… fortified spirits… is able to allay… The present translation of the mock epics of Poland’s greatest figure of the Enlightenment, Ignacy Krasicki, brings together...
Childrens Fashion of the Russian Empire
2014 || Paperback || Alexander Vasiliev || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Children's Fashion of the Russian Empire is a book of photographs that has been compiled by the famous Russian fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev. The book is all about children's clothing and fashion in Russia in the age of the Tsars, from the 1860s to 1917.Presented in the form of an antique photo-album and featuring over 400 photographs from the author's private collection, Children's Fashion of the Russian Empire is unique in both its content and the way it is presented. The story of ch...
The Final Kingdom
2021 || Paperback || Pyotr Volkov || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Pjotr Volkov (geboren in Uruguay als Diego Daniel García), is antropoloog en historicus met een bijzondere belangstelling voor vroegere en huidige gebeurtenissen in verband met de grote geschiedenis van het Slavische Rijk en het orthodoxe christendom. Gedurende een heel decennium heeft hij gewerkt aan een ambitieus boek waarin het orthodoxe christendom centraal wordt gesteld in alle politieke, economische, filosofische en antropologische overwegingen die onze moderne wereld vormgeven. In dit...
Myths about Russia
2015 || Paperback || Vladimir Medinskiy || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Russia's rich history is full of secrets: there's not another country in the world with so many skeletons in its closet. Vladimir Medinskiy's new book offers the reader the opportunity to get better acquainted with some myths about Russia in an quick, easy and entertaining way.The book covers some of the most interesting, colourful and controversial debates in Russian history and the most popular myths about Russia: vodka and its role in some incredible adventures, Russia's problems (apart fr...
Our Orthodox Holy Family: A Joyful Journey with Jesus and Mary
2023 || Paperback || Deacon David J.D. Lochbihler || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Sacred Scripture quotes Jesus Christ only once during the first thirty years of His life on earth. The twelve-year-old asks two precise and profound questions: “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business (Luke 2:49 NKJV)? Other translations say “about My Father’s house.” Neither the Greek word for “business” nor “house” is found within this pivotal verse. For centuries Biblical scholars delved deeply into this interpretive predicament. De...
Paradoxes of Growth
2017 || Paperback || Sergei Kapitsa || Glagoslav Publications Ltd
In this book, the famous Russian scientist, Sergei Kapitsa, explains complicated theories in an uncomplicated manner that is easily accessible to readers with no specialist knowledge. The author focuses on the processes taking place inside the global demographic revolution and on the destinies of nations, mankind and our planet as a whole.The author cites a number of facts and assessments concerning not only projections for population growth, but also a common view on the causes of the curren...