Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world--& it doesn't exist. Located 75 miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, it's never been acknowledged b...
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Being a footballer is not just kicking a ball about with twenty-one other people on a big grass rectangle. Sometimes being a footballer is about accidentally becoming best...
This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This...
A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of...
Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most con...
In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brain...
For those fascinated by neurology and for fans of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a powerful exploration of the mind during night time. Here are the mysteries...
The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise
In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and ...
Life-changing opportunities pass us by every day – now we can train our minds to seize them
Self-help books like The Secret promise that we can tap into the 'law of att...
Хосеп Гвардиола - сильнейший тренер современного футбола. То, чего он сумел добиться за четыре года у руля "Барселоны", превосходит все, чего ранее достигли выдающиеся тре...
-Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us.We are the most advanced and most destruct...
The Story of the Human Body brilliantly illuminates as never before the major transformations that contributed key adapations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shif...
To fix a machine, first you need to find out what’s wrong with it. To fix unhappiness, you need to find out what causes it.
That Little Voice in Your Head is the practi...
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to und...
Ostrovsky has spent 15 years reporting from Moscow as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist. The Invention of Russia is his account of Russia’s...
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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(49)In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicid...
Известный востоковед Андрей Ланьков описывает эволюцию повседневной жизни Кореи за последние несколько веков, когда история страны была полна бурных событий и гигантских п...
An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process.
It's e...