A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).--

Во второй половине ХХ века закончились три последние диктатуры Западной Европы — режимы Франко в Испании, Салазара в Португалии и «черных полковников» в Греции. Их граждане в конечном счете предпочли демократический строй авторитарному. В своей...

"The story of American from the Chinese American perspective"--

В декабре 2014 года братья Олег и Алексей Навальные были осуждены по «делу «Ив Роше»». Алексей получил три с половиной года условно, Олег — три с половиной года колонии. Европейский суд по правам человека признал приговор произвольным и необоснованным,...

"Technology rules the world, but some tech products succeeded only after failure. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thinking, this hi-lo series makes the case that failure might just be the first step to success"--

"At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When Kunle's younger brother disappears as his country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission behind enemy lines. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt and shame who must go to war to free himself....

The long history of San Jose has accumulated a remarkable amount of ghostly tales, from things that go bump in the night to its most famous haunt, the Winchester Mystery House. Discover the story of a ghostly bride stalking the corridors of the Sainte Claire Hotel and a spectral janitor carrying out his duties at Overfelt High. At the La Forêt Restaurant, long-dead miners from New Almaden are rumored to appear in rooms they once called home. The...

Книга Энн Эпплбаум — это не только полная, основанная на архивных документах и воспоминаниях очевидцев, история советской лагерной системы в развитии, от момента создания в 1918-м до восьмидесятых. Не менее тщательно, чем хронологию и географию ГУЛАГа,...

In early 1920s Canada, drastic circumstances give Valancy, a twenty-nine-year-old unmarried woman resigned to being an "old maid," the courage to defy her controlling family and escape to a life of her own choosing.

Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.