Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places...
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Усэйн Болт – величайший атлет в мире. Шестикратный олимпийский чемпион и восьмикратный чемпион мира, за время выступлений установил 8...
Биографии и мемуары, Политика
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies...
From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Same River Twice is the second volume from an American literary star. “If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an accomplished and...
In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was introducing economic reform but clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair,...
Биографии и мемуары, Природа и животные
Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts from the Animals of Africa
The cheeky title of Melissa Haynes’s story of adventure in Africa, Learning to Play with a Lion’s Testicles, earned the book some big publicity on NBC-TV/Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on September 4,2013 where it topped the show’s list of...
The African is a short autobiographical account of a pivotal moment in Nobel-Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Cl zio's childhood. In 1948, young Le Clezio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join his father, a...
Эта книга про меня и про вас. Про лихие девяностые и крутые нулевые. О любви и страхе, о королях и капусте и кроличьи норы. О моей жизни,...
В жизни и...
Look at the state of the world right now. It’s a terrible mess, and that’s putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in....