A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 19...
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Согласно постулатам современной неолиберальной экономики, нужно соответствовать требованиям свободного рынка: руководствоваться принципами твердой валюты (низкая инфляция)...
Это книга для всех, кто интересуется экономикой и хочет лучше понимать, как устроен мир. Экономист из Кембриджа Ха-Джун Чанг в занимательной и доступной форме объясняет, к...
Must-read для любого гражданина: история экономики в доступной форме.
Иллюстрированная история экономической мысли со Средних веков до современности.
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Этот роман — история жизни одной девушки, глазами которой мы видим события, происшедшие во время корейской войны (1950-1953), которые показывают нам, как люди, составляющи...
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A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angela’s Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American j...
Limerick, 1934. It's cold and it's wet. Frank, his parents and three brothers have just come back from America to start a new life in Ireland. But life in Limerick is even...
Contemporary / American English
When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail a...
Primo Levi, reduce da Auschwitz, pubblicò Se questo è un uomo nel 1947. Einaudi lo accolse nel 1958 nei «Saggi» e da allora viene continuamente ristampato ed è stato trado...
This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin’s childhood in Harlem, is an American classic.
Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountai...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage reade...
Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned preg...
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body...
The social impacts of inequality are now increasingly understood - higher crime, health problems and mental illness, lower educational achievements and life expectancy. Bu...
"L'impresa di cercare di scrivere romanzi 'apocrifi', cioè che immagino siano scritti da un autore che non sono io e che non esiste, l'ho portata fino in fondo nel mio lib...
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring...
The god touches his finger to the arrow's fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air - as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over water. And the arrow flies, ...
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since b...
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