Bing Crosby was enormously talented, but with an indolent and irresponsible bent. He was also intelligent and cunning, and created for himself an enchanting image and a le...
Вошедшие в эту книгу сборники Бруно Шульца "Коричные лавки" (1934 г.) и "Санатория под Клепсидрой" (1937 г.) - шедевры мировой литературы. Являя собой неуловимые реляции и...
From 1940 to 1944, the French people adapted in a variety of ways to life under the domination of Nazi Germany. This book offers the definitive study of the choices made b...
This book contains a series of essays on various important personages of history. Includes discussions relative to the following: Frederick the Great; Baron Vom Stein; Bis...
Как работают творческие люди? Как им удается построить свой день так, чтобы повседневная рутина стала частью творческого процесса? Когда на задуманное не хватает времени, ...
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her ...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary s...
There is a revolution underway in biology. It is based on a new perception of bodies and genes, in which the former are the end product of the latter within the continuum ...
In 1733, the lovely, intelligent, and married Marquise du Châtelet commenced her romance with one François-Marie Arouet, a philosophe who had made a name for himself as "V...
Американский писатель, критик, сценарист, беллетрист. Марио Пьюзо родился 15 октября 1920 в Нью-Йорке, в семье итальянских иммигрантов (Italian-American). Учился в Нью-Йор...
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global uphe...
Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal wa...
"Felix Holt" is set, like "Middlemarch", in the Midlands at the time of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. The novel brings social and political history vividly to life with i...
Генри Киссинджер написал книгу о стране, которую хорошо знает и которой помог сформировать отношения с Западом.
Автор изучает ключевые моменты китайской внешней политики ...
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a "...
(The Civil War Trilogy #2)
July 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robert E. Lee has made this daring and massive move with se...
Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is “a fundamental book, essential i...
A psychologist from the Beverly Hills, Calif., school system addresses a unique constituency in this parenting guide, offering advice for "avoiding the pitfalls and challe...
""Мастер короткой фразы и крупной формы…"" - таков Сол Беллоу, которого неоднократно называли самым значительным англоязычным писателем второй половины XX века. Его талант...
Полицейские расстреляли невинного человека. Специалисты за год исследований не смогли установить поддельность статуи. На пост президента США в 1921 году был избран Уоррен ...