From the time the word kulrsquo;tura entered the Russian language in the early nineteenth century; Russian arts and letters have thrived on controversy. At any given time several versions of culture have coexisted in the Russian public sphere. The question of what makes something or someone distinctly Russian was at the core of cultural debates in nineteenth-century Russia and continues to preoccupy Russian society to the present day.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very good introductory guide to ecohouse deisgnBy Belluzzi AlessandroVery good introductory guide to ecohouse deisgn. I would definitely recommend this book to someone who is completely new to the topic; as a first book worth exploring.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Its not great but I dont know any other one that is better....By Mike_brazilI bought this book after attending an exposition on ecohouses at the National Building Museum in Washington; which deeply inspired me. First of all I must say that I am not an architect or an engineer. Given that; the thing that annoyed me most about this book is the lack of depth in certain areas (I am a MD with a MSc in Toxicology and a PhD in Bioinformatics). I know that the book was written for a broad public but I expected to find more formulas and better explanations concerning the construction tecniques used for energy reduction. The book is too soft in some areas and does not explain in detail others (or is too confuse on the areas that it tries to go deeper). Also; the pictures dont have good legends and some times the reader is on its own when trying to interpret them. The chapter on ventilation has a lot of informations but I felt that it did not connected the dots very well. The chapter "Building-in soul"; which has some kind of hollistic views on building ecohouses (in my point of view) is very obvious and mostly unecessary. In spite of that; I deeply enjoyed reading it and I would recommend the book. In the next edition I would like to see better diagrams; more technical information (formulas; tecniques; comparison tables etc). The examples at the end of the book could also be analyzed in more depth and using (as much as possible) homogeneous methods and the same parameters. More information on the additional cost to build ecohouses in relation to convetional ones would also be interesting.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Above quotation is misleadingBy Martin HolladayIn the editorial reviews section above; a sentence from the review in Energy Design Update has been edited in a way to favor the book. One of the sentences in the long review (February 2006 issue of EDU) noted; "The book; though flawed; is a valuable introduction to green building principles." The reference to flaws was fleshed out over the next two and a half pages. Whoever created the blurb for this page conveniently snipped out the clause; "though flawed."
