A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what...
Формат:
только полные версии
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety.
We...
![Summerfolk [A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/summerfolk-a-history-of-the-dacha-1710-2000_670218.jpg)
Summerfolk [A History of the Dacha,...
![The Age of Faith [The Story of Civilization 4 of 11]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/the-age-of-faith-the-story-of-civilization-4-of-11_610038.jpg)
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Story_of_Civilization#/IV._The_Age_of_Faith_(1950)
The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader.
The series was...
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often...
Acclaim for Alain de Botton's
THE ART OF TRAVEL
“[Refreshing and profoundly readable. … Thanks to de Botton's detailed and thoughtful writing, coupled with his clever curiosity, The Art of Travel hzs the potential to enrich not only our...
Путеводитель по истории американского романа, выполненный учёными Колумбийского университета.
Designed as a companion to The Columbia Literary History of the...
In Ancient Greece or Rome, philosophers were seen as natural authorities on the most pressing questions. However, since then, the idea of finding wisdom from philosophy has come to seem bizarre. Enter a university department today and ask to...
Другая религиозная литература, Культурология
The Global Community and The Need for Universal Responsibility
As the twentieth century draws to a close, we find that the world has grown smaller and the world's people have become almost one community. Political and military alliances have created large multinational groups, industry and international...
Другая религиозная литература, Культурология
The Global Community and The Need for Universal Responsibility
As the twentieth century draws to a close, we find that the world has grown smaller and the world's people have become almost one community. Political and military alliances have created large multinational groups, industry and international...