To the majority of people Einstein's theory is a complete mystery. Their attitude towards Einstein is like that of Mark Twain towards the writer of a work on mathematics: here was a man who had written an entire book of which Mark could not...
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The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to...
William Shakespeare died 400 hundred years ago, on 23 April 1616 – and to mark the anniversary we’ve created this special edition of BBC History Magazine to commemorate his life and times. The World of Shakespeare features insightful articles...
After the triumph of Maasai, the lavishly produced and highly praised book that records in pictures and words the vanishing culture of his people, Ole Saitoti now gives us, with precision, sensitivity and humor, an enchanting memoir of his own...
In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica. Not all of them would return. Written by...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 - Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America’s pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents
1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a...
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Авторов этой книги – филологов, философов, театроведов, культурологов и историков – объединяет участие в разные годы в работе...
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is...
Written during Olsen's five-month stay at the American Academy in Berlin, There. is part critifictional meditation and part trash diary exploring what happens at the confluence of curiosity, travel, and innovative writing practices. A collage of...
Биографии и мемуары, Религиоведение
There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever...