ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Elena Popova - Official Site for the Author</title> <meta name="keywords" content="intercultural, immigration, emigration, prejudice, family, religion, Russia, Moscow, America"> <meta name="keyphrases" content="elena popova, elena popova book, social studies, cultural differences, communication styles, gender roles, intercultural organizations, intercultural marriges"> <meta name="description" content="Elena Popova's book Through Alien Eyes: a View of America and Intercultural Marriages is a collection of humorous essays about the amusing and amazing oddities of American life."> <meta name="author" content="Elena Popova"> <meta name="robots" content="all"> <meta name="copyright" content= "2009"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css"> </head> <body link="#999933" alink="#660000" vlink="#808000"> <table border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td> <img src="name.jpg" width="920" height="84" alt="Elena Popova"> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="920" border="2" frame="void" rules="cols"cellpadding= "4" cellspacing="0" align="center" id="navigation"> <tr> <th><a href="index.html">home</a></th> <th><a href="about.html">Through Alien Eyes</a></th> <th><a href="inside.html">read excerpts</a></th> <th><a href="author.html">about the author</a></th> <th><a href="russian.html">@CAA:89</a></th> <th><a href="cart.html">buy the book</a></th> </tr> </table> <table width="920" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10" align="center"> <tfoot> <tr> <td colspan="2" id="footer">&copy; Elena Popova, 2009. <a href="mailto:through_alien_eyes@yahoo.com ?subject=Website feedback">Contact the author.</a> Photo of the author by <a href="http://www.lousapienza.com/" target="_blank">Lou Sapienza</a></td> </tr> </tfoot> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <br> <img src="elena.jpg" width="250" height="434" alt="Elena Popova, photo by Lou Sapienza"> <br> <br> <img src="motto.gif" width="250" height="100" alt="If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, overwise they'll kill you. Oscar Wilde (or George Bernard Shaw)"> </td> <td valign="top"> <br> <center><b>About <i>Through Alien Eyes</i>:</b></center> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp; "A RUSSIAN-BORN journalist, Ms. Popova shines a blinding light on some of the amusing and amazing oddities that are revealed when an outsider takes a blunt look at how we live.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; With the eye of a modern Tocqueville, the author humorously highlights inconsistencies and ambiguities in our culture. This is a land that the natives have not seen for themselves."<br><i>&nbsp; &nbsp; Algora Publishing</i></p> <hr size="2" width="50%" align="center"> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp; "ELENA POPOVA created a clever piece of introspection of her own 'Russian soul' while examining her new American home with a fresh eye, biting wit, and a good nose for satire about it all."<i><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Constance E. Richards, co-author "St. Petersburg (Bloom's Literary Places)"</i></p> <hr size="2" width="50%" align="center"> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp; "BASED ON TRAVELS around the country, a collection of humorous essays <i>Through Alien Eyes</i> is accessible to the general reader and will have particular appeal to those in intercultural organizations and professions, students, travelers, and educators specializing in cultural differences in expectations, communication styles, religion, and gender roles."<br><i>&nbsp; &nbsp; BOOK NEWS, Inc.: SciTech Book News</i></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="25%"> <br> <br> <img src="frcover_sm.jpg" width="166" height="215" alt="Through Alien Eyes: a View of America and Intercultural Marriages"> <br> <p><b>Available online from</b></p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Through-Alien-Eyes-Intercultural-Marriages/dp/0875866395/ref=ed_oe_o/" target="_blank"><img src="amazon_logo.jpg" width="110" height="24" alt="amazon.com" border="0"></a> <br> <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Through-Alien-Eyes-A-View-of-America-and-Intercultural-Marriages/Elena-Popova/e/9780875866390/?itm=1/" target="_blank"><img src="bn_logo.jpg" width="100" height="20" alt="barnesandnoble.com" border="0"></a> <br> <div class="ISBN"> <p><b>Format:</b> Soft Cover, <br> 280 pages<br> <b>Price:</b> USD 22.95<br> <b>ISBN:</b> 978-0875866390 (0875866395)</p> <p><b>Format:</b> Hard Cover, <br> 280 pages <br> <b>Price:</b> USD 32.95<br> <b>ISBN:</b> 978-0875866406 (0875866409)</p> <p><b>Format:</b> Ebook<br> <b>Price:</b> USD 13.77<br> <b>ISBN:</b> 978-0875866413</p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>