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Автор книг о Джобсе и Эйнштейне на сей раз обратился к биографии титана Ренессанса — Леонардо да Винчи. Айзексон прежде всего обращает внимание на редкое сочетание пытливо...
Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Тами Олдхэм-Эшкрафт, Саси Макгерхарт, Susea McGearhart
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(251)Picture yourself in a tropical climate, sailing out to sea with your fiancé. Life is perfect; you're young and in love. Then picture everything going horribly wrong. You i...
The contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters – stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns – hold up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War.
The...
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside down?
When her husband of more than 20 years ...
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively read...
Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year an...
Psychological chronicle and tragic comedy fuse in this story of three days in the life of George Caldwell, a small-town high-school teacher, and his fifteen-year-old son, ...
Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination ...
She's a tomboy. He's the boy next door…
Charlie Reynolds can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn't know t...
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Robert Wright
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(14)In Why Buddhism is True, Wright leads readers on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the...
The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the unive...
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions of people vis...
This book is about my own personal favourite puzzles and conundrums in science, all of which have famously been referred to as paradoxes, but which turn out not to be para...
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprou...
Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe.
PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have t...
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and pro...
'milk and honey' is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, a...
