But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself? Jane Smiley's beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom. Please click here to download the monograph: Download file The Sources of Soviet Perestroika by John Lenczowski Active Measures Journal Articles Books. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live in seclusion. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the vegetable market. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthair pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians.
She's dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and-she's a curious filly-wanders all the way to the City of Light. Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. 5, pp.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals-and a young boy-whose lives intersect in Paris Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. If this hypothesis is correct, then it has ramifications for the permanence and stability of perestroika, and for the analysis of Soviet policy. In turn, the principal reason for that inadequacy is the rate of development of information technology and the resulting shift of comparative advantage from hierarchical economic systems to market based economic systems. Perestroika is fundamentally a first order consequence of preceived in adequacy in the traditional mechanisms for structuring Soviet economic activity. Affiliations: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Rosary College, River Forest, IL 60305, USAĪbstract: This article presents the hypothesis that perestroika, the restructuring of the Soviet economic system, and perestroika's companion glasnost, or openness, are primarily a consequence of the development of information technology.
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