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Nikola Tesla Books

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Reprinted, with grateful acknowledgment to Dr. Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić, from the most recent Newsletter of NASSS, 4 (1): April, 1981 NEW BOOKS AND MATERIALS of interest to our members I. Books currently available through NASSS Nicholas Churchich. The Ethics of Reason in the Philosophical System of Dositej Obradović. His Contribution in this Field to the Age of Reason (London: U. of London, 1976, 274 pp.) Only 16 copies left. Price $9.00 + $1.00 postage. Vasa Mihailovich. Emigranti i druge priče. Short stories (Melburn: Srpska misao, 1980) Price $7.00 +.85 postage (first class). (See also under Kosovo Publishing Co. for other books by Vasa Mihailovich.) Please make your checks payable to Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić, 711 Linden Ave., Wilmette, IL 60091 and mark on your check which book or books you are ordering. II. A selection of new books (Contributed by Robert Gakovich, U. of Wisconsin Memorial Library, Madison, WI). Gakovich, Robert P., and Radovich, Milan M., Serbs in the United States and Canada: A Comprehensive Bibliography. St. Paul, Minn.: Immigration History Research Center of the U. of Minn., 1976. Ifkovic, Edward, The Yugoslavs in America. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1977. Padgett, Deborah Kay, Settlers and Sojourners: A Study of Serbian Adaptation in Milwaukee. Ph.D. thesis, U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1979. Prpic, George J., South Slavic Immigration in America. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978. Radovich, Milan M., and Gakovich, Robert P., American Srbobran: Selective Index, 1906-1976. Pittsburgh: Serb National Federation, 1980. Studies in Ethnicity: The East European Experience in America. Edited by Charles A. Ward, Philip Shashko, Donald E. Pienkos. (East European Monographs, No. 73) 1980. Contains: Brkich, Lazar, "Serbian Fraternal, Social, and Cultural Organization in America"; Matejich, Mateja, "Serbian Writers in America: A Conflict of Identity"; Petrovich, Michael B., "Thoughts on the Eastern Orthodox Experience in America". Wynar, Lubomyr R., Slavic Ethnic Libraries: Museums and Archives in the United States: Guide and Directory. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980. III. Other new books published in the U.S. Note: The addresses of some, frequently quoted publishers are listed at the end of this section. Butler, Thomas, Monumenta Serbocroatica. A Bilingual Anthology of Serbian & Croatian Texts from the 12th to the 19th Century. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan, 1980 XXII + 482. Price $9.50 (hard cover). Ćosić, Dobrica. A Time of Death (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980) 437 pp. $10.95 (cloth). Ćosić, Dobrica. Reach to Eternity (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980) 410 pp. $14.95 (cloth). Ćurčić, Slobodan. Gračanica-King Milutin's Church and Its. Place in Late Byzantine Architecture (University Park: The PenInsylvania State Univ. Press, 1979) 274 pp. 133 ill. $27.50. Doder, Duško. The Yugoslavs (New York: Vintage Books, 1979) 256 pp. $4.95 (paperback). Eekman, Thomas. Thirty Years of Yugoslav Literature: 1945-75 (Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1978) 328 pp. $7.50. Gruenwald, Oscar. The Yugoslav Search for Man: Marxist Humanism Through Tito and After. (New York: J. F. Bergin Publishers, Inc.) 400 pp. $24.95. Knežević, Božidar. History, The Anatomy of Time: The Final Phase of Sunlight. Translated by George V. Tomashevich in collaboration with Sherwood A. Wakeman. Preface by W. Warren Wagar (New York: Philosophical Library, 1980) XVIII + 258 pp.$15.00 (contains major works by B.K., 1862-1905). Lukić, George. Basic Serbo-Croatian Language. (Columbus, OH: Kosovo, 1979) XII + 306 (large format) $10.00 (soft cover). Mihailovich, Vasa D. Bdenja. Pesme u prozi. (Poetic prose.) (Columbus, OH: Kosovo, 1980) 95 pp. (Also available through NASSS $3.95 + 50c mailing.) Schmalstieg, William R. Indo-European Linguistics. (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1980) $16.95. Wheeler, Mark C. Britain and the War for Yugoslavia, 1940-43. (Columbia Univ. Press, 1980) $18.50. Columbia University Press also released the 2nd ed. of Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (NY, 1980) which contains entries on Serbian authors written by Mateja Matejić, Vasa Mihailovich and Nicholas Moravcevich. New from the Slavica Publishers, Inc. R.G.A. de Bray: Guide to the South Slavonic Languages (Guide to the Slavonic Languages, third edition, Revised and Expanded, Part 1), 399 pp. 1980 $24.95 (cloth). Also Part 2: Guide to the West Slavonic Languages, 483 pp. 1980 $27.95 (cloth). And Part 3: Guide to the East Slavonic Languages, 254 pp. 1980 $22.95 (cloth). Henrik Birnbaum & Thomas Eekman, eds.: Fiction & Drama in Eastern & Southeastern Europe; Evolution and Experiment in the Postwar Period. Proceedings of the 1978 UCLA Conference (UCLA Slavic Studies, Vol. 1) ix + 463 pp. 1980 $24.95 (cloth). Also available: American Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists (Zagreb & Ljubljana, Sept. 3-9, 1978) vol. 1: Linguistics& Poetics, Henrik Birnbaum, ed., 1978, 818 pp., $28.95 (soft cover) and $34.95 (cloth). Vol. 2: Literature, Victor Terras, ed., 1978, 799 pp., $28.95 (soft cover) and $34.95 (cloth). Balkanistica: Occasional Papers in Southeast European Studies. Kenneth E. Naylor, ed. Published by Slavica for AASES. Issues No. 1 (1974) and No. 2 (1975) sold out. Issue No. 3 (1976) 154 pp., 1978. $8.95 (soft cover) is devoted to "Peasant Culture and National Cultures in Southeastern Europe". 29 20