<story><title>The World is Built on Probability (1984)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/lev-tarasov-the-world-is-built-on-probability-mir-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cuttothechase</author><text>MIR publishers (Moscow) published so many high quality books. 
They even had the same elegant style, quality and accessibility even in their translated works.&lt;p&gt;The quality of paper used, the typesetting, the cloth binding and in general the physical attributes of their books were a work of art in itself. One can easily fall in love with the physical book just for the way it was designed, let alone the content.&lt;p&gt;The authors used in their translated works were equally exceptional in their translation.&lt;p&gt;I fondly remember reading their &amp;quot;Physics for entertainment&amp;quot; by Perelman as a translated work in good old days and it actually made me fall in love with the text book physics taught at the school level.&lt;p&gt;Given that this was an artifact when USSR made it even more fascinating. Books were priced a trifle over the shipping cost as they were likely subsidized heavily by the government.&lt;p&gt;It is sad to see that they are no more. They were likely  defunded&amp;#x2F;dissolved when USSR broke up.&lt;p&gt;Thank you MIR for lighting up my childhood.&lt;p&gt;RIP.&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;misha&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;misha&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the-mitr</author><text>I am the curator&amp;#x2F;maintainer of the mirtitles.org blog and the typesetter of the books.&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the comment and putting in the perspective. The project started with the idea of preserving this knowledge about 15 years back. I grew up reading those books, but they were nowhere to be found for others to read by the end of 90s. The collection has been a collaborative effort with people from across the globe contributing to it. Though it will take some time (read years&amp;#x2F;decades), hopefully one day the collection will have all the books published during the Soviet era.</text></comment>
<story><title>The World is Built on Probability (1984)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/lev-tarasov-the-world-is-built-on-probability-mir-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cuttothechase</author><text>MIR publishers (Moscow) published so many high quality books. 
They even had the same elegant style, quality and accessibility even in their translated works.&lt;p&gt;The quality of paper used, the typesetting, the cloth binding and in general the physical attributes of their books were a work of art in itself. One can easily fall in love with the physical book just for the way it was designed, let alone the content.&lt;p&gt;The authors used in their translated works were equally exceptional in their translation.&lt;p&gt;I fondly remember reading their &amp;quot;Physics for entertainment&amp;quot; by Perelman as a translated work in good old days and it actually made me fall in love with the text book physics taught at the school level.&lt;p&gt;Given that this was an artifact when USSR made it even more fascinating. Books were priced a trifle over the shipping cost as they were likely subsidized heavily by the government.&lt;p&gt;It is sad to see that they are no more. They were likely  defunded&amp;#x2F;dissolved when USSR broke up.&lt;p&gt;Thank you MIR for lighting up my childhood.&lt;p&gt;RIP.&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;misha&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mirtitles.org&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;misha&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>Since the linked book is at archive.org: I noticed that it is part of the _Mir Titles_ collection there:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mir-titles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;mir-titles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;IA&amp;#x27;s browser e-reader is pretty nice to use overall, and the Mir titles seem to have been converted into various downloadable formats as well, in addition to what I&amp;#x27;m guessing is the native PDF.&lt;p&gt;Props to the collection maintainer. This brings back some really good memories.&lt;p&gt;Note--It seems like some additional Mir books, in various states of curation, may be accessible via IA through search:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;search?query=Yakov+Perelman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;search?query=Yakov+Perelman&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>