Клементина Черчилль – первая леди Англии. Книжное обозрение Марины Ефимовой. Разговоры с Хичкоком. Кинообозрение Андрея Загданского. Картинки с выставки. Новый филиал Метр...
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Biographies & memoirs to read in a lifetime. Всяческие мемуары и биографии.
אסתר בן-קוהלת688 книг
אסתר בן-קוהלתBiographies & memoirs to read in a lifetime. Всяческие мемуары и биографии.
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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The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most ...
Marie Tharp was the first scientist to map the ocean floor, discover the Middle Atlantic Ridge mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean, and prove Continental Drift. A fearle...
From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the New York Times-bestselling story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own.
On the fi...
A sumptuous monograph tracing the life and legacy of fashion luminary Oscar de la Renta. In October 2014 one of the fashion world’s champions, Oscar de la Renta, passed aw...
Мемуары Андре Леона Тэлли, одного из самых влиятельных и известных фигур мира моды – не просто рассказ о его сложном пути, а откровенная исповедь человека, чья карьера вне...
In Jennifer Lopez's first ever book, "True Love", she explores one of her life's most defining periods-the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mothe...