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This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures & disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser...
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of t...
Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.
A writer, reporter, and above all, a good listener, Studs Turkel has spent a career posing provocative questions and actively listening to the answers. In "The Good War", ...
Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award a...
"Австрийская библиотека", ставящая своей целью ближе познакомить российского читателя с культурой старой Австрии, открывается классическим трудом Карла Эмиля Шорске, и бол...
Не часто приходится держать в руках книгу, которая открывает новые миры, в которой сочетаются глубина мысли и блестящая языковая игра; книгу, которой удалось совместить ни...
Эдвард Уилсон является основоположником социобиологии. В своей книге, удостоенной Пулитцеровской премии, он показывает, каким образом самые разнообразные формы социального...
Книга написана американским ученым Карлом Саганом, который популярно рассказывает о том, как современная наука стремится раскрыть тайну происхождения и формирования челов...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing inciden...
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human ex...
The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to...
In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became ...
One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
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"Августовские пушки" - одна из самых значительных исторических работ ХХ века. Она удостоена Пулитцеровской премии, выдержала множество переизданий и переведена на все веду...
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books
One of The New York Times Book Review'...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best bo...
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment...
