This book is intended to fill the need for up-to-date material on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard texts. In addition, the book will be regularly revised and updated to take account of rapidly changing events. Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus have brought together Western analyses, as well as Soviet documents and commentary, dealing with developments in the USSR's politics, economy, society, culture and foreign policy since 1985. The collection covers a wide range of views - sceptical and enthusiastic, ideological and pragmatic - offered by journalists, politicians, observers and participants. Introductory and concluding material by the editors provides the essential context to help students understand the myriad opinions put forth on the vast changes in the USSR and where its future may lie.

The Soviet System in Crisis

History

Alexander Dallin

Gail W. Lapidus

Europe

Westview Press

Hardcover. 8vo. 110pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine and device to upper board. b&w illustrations, index, gold end pages. David Curwen [Lapidus] (1893-1984) was one of the most mysterious personalities of modern alchemysticism, and one of the very few practicing laboratory alchemists residing in the United Kingdom during the latter half of the 20th century. Of this volume the publisher says: "For decades students of alchemy have believed that "In Pursuit of Gold" - which was written by Curwen under the nom de plume Lapidus - constituted the sole alchemical text penned by the enigmatic alchemist Lapidus. The truth is that Curwen wrote a second text which, unknown to most, he secreted away with at least one trusted Brother in the Art. Throughout the intervening years this remarkable book, The Pass-Keys to Alchemy, has passed through just a few select and trusted hands. Each of the chapters of The Pass-Keys to Alchemy details one pass-key to the successful confection of the Philosophers' Stone, as identified by Lapidus. Drawing upon the writings of Eirenæus Philalethes and Ali Puli, The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus the Great, Bendictus Figulus' A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature's Marvels, Sir Edward Kelly's Book of St. Dunstan, and Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens among other canonical texts, this lost alchemical masterpiece includes the kind of profound insights into alchemical theory, laboratory processes and practical methods that only derive from a lifetime of quiet alchemical work. A rare alchemical gem in print for the first time, The Pass-Keys to Alchemy also includes an introductory essay by Tony Matthews, grandson of Lapidus, and 16 of Theodor de Bry's masterful engraved emblems from Atalanta Fugiens with accompanying commentary by Lapidus. Import.

The Pass-Keys to Alchemy. The Lost Book of Lapidus (Modern Magistery series)

Salamander and Sons

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