Almost two decades after its original publication and more than fifteen years after its author retired from the New York Knicks to become a United States senator, this acc...
Babe Ruth is without a doubt the most famous character ever produced by the sport of baseball. A legendary player, world-famous for his hitting prowess, he transcended the...
On September 28, 1960-a day that will live forever in the hearts of fans-Red Sox slugger Ted Williams stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park. Seizing t...
In his classic tribute to America's pastimenow with a new introductionpolitical commentator, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and lifelong sports enthusiast George F. ...
Through the course of a long and distinguished career in letters, George Plimpton has crafted an art form from participatory journalism, and Paper Lion is his big touchdow...
This may be the high point of American sports journalism. (Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times)
McPhee has produced what is probably the best tennis book ever written. O...
Читатель наверняка удивится, насколько легко читается эта книга, как увлекательно, оказывается, можно говорить о казалось бы сухих проблемах гонки вооружений, как автор - ...
"Mr. Davies knows the arcana of physics the way a plumber knows wrenches, and he can make sense out of quite daunting ideas.... One of the most adept science writers on ei...
Книга представляет собой автобиографию известного польского математика Станислава Улама. Широко известная на Западе, она так и не была переведена на русский язык. Книга на...
Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought (Oxford Paperbacks)
Оливер Сакс - известный британский невролог и нейропсихолог, автор ряда популярных книг, переведенных на двадцать языков, две из которых - "Человек, который принял жену за...
"Периодическая система", как и уже выходившие в России книги "Человек ли это?" ("Текст", 2001) и "Передышка" ("Текст", 2002), принесли итальянскому писателю Примо Леви все...
"Путешествие натуралиста вокруг света на корабле "Бигль"" - первое научное произведение Чарлза Дарвина. В основу этой работы легли дневниковые записи, сделанные молодым уч...
Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extendin...
Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.
When the apartment complex Habitat (Moshe Safdie, architect) appeared fully formed at Montreal's EXPO 67, it was greeted as a victory for humane values within the human ju...
This hugely funny autobiographical memoir that takes into account the crumbling of empires, talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs". Mostly it i...
A collection of stories featuring Rumpole of the Bailey, including "Rumpole and the Younger Generation", "Rumpole and the Alternative Society", "Rumpole and the Honourable...
n this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life.
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