The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous wo...
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The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill a...
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics
The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed th...
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Орхан Памук - известный турецкий писатель, обладатель многочисленных национальных и международных премий, в числе которых Нобелевская премия по литературе за "поиск души с...
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
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On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Togeth...
If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?'
Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs ...
Евгения Гинзбург, историк и журналист, мать знаменитого писателя Василия Аксенова, была репрессирована в 1937 году, провела десять лет в тюрьмах и колымских лагерях и восе...
«Второй пол» Симоны де Бовуар — это важнейшая книга, написанная о Женщине за всю историю литературы. Сочетая кропотливый анализ, острый стиль письма и обширную эрудицию, Б...
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Самюэль Хантингтон, Самюель Хантингтон
4,2
(835)The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Since its initia...
A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author o...