Before Barack Obama became a politician he was, among other things, a writer. Dreams from My Father is his masterpiece: a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man ask...
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Клементина Черчилль – первая леди Англии. Книжное обозрение Марины Ефимовой. Разговоры с Хичкоком. Кинообозрение Андрея Загданского. Картинки с выставки. Новый филиал Метр...
Мой ГУЛАГ
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(11)"Мой ГУЛАГ" - это книжная серия видеопроекта Музея истории ГУЛАГа. В первую книгу вошли живые свидетельства переживших систему ГУЛАГа и массовые репрессии. Это вопоминания...
Герои этой книги — люди, которые были в ГУЛАГе, том, сталинском, которым мы все сейчас друг друга пугаем. Одни из них сидели там по политической 58-й статье ("Антисоветска...
1942–1943 гг. Оккупированная немцами Варшава. Молодая полька Ирена Сендлер как социальный работник получает разрешение посещать Варшавское гетто. Понимая, что евреи обрече...
Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-...
In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace’s contemporaries had recognized her research and full...
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific ...
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her medically-important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of h...
Sylvia Earle first lost her heart to the ocean as a young girl when she discovered the wonders of the Gulf of Mexico in her backyard. As an adult, she dives even deeper. W...
This biography of Jane Goodall recounts her early life, desire to travel, life living with and studying chimpanzees, and impact on how the world treats animals. It also en...
Florence Nightingale often took care of sick friends and neighbors as a young girl and decided to become a nurse. After studying nursing, Florence worked in a hospital and...
Urban biologist Danielle Lee busted through barriers of race, sex, and class to earn her Ph.D. in biology. She shares her knowledge with urban children to make science mor...
Daphne Sheldrick is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich varie...
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860
Shteir, Ann B. Shteir
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(0)"In Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science, Shteir weaves intriguing biographies of women botanists into her intricate account of Victorian culture, science, and society. ...
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