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Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic
Биографии и мемуары, Морские приключения

Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic

Автор: Вудс Стюарт
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Here is a refreshingly different sort of yachting book — not the memoirs of some super-tough global adventurer or seawise master mariner, but an account of how one of the most demanding of all sea voyages, the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic...
Bobby Fischer Goes to War [How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time]
Политика, Публицистика

Bobby Fischer Goes to War [How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time]

Автор: Эдмондс Дэвид , Айдиноу Джон
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess...
Building the H Bomb: A Personal History
Биографии и мемуары, Образовательная, прикладная, научно-популярная литература

Building the H Bomb: A Personal History

Автор: Ford Kenneth William
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with—and relaxed with—scientific giants of that time such as...
By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring

Автор: Джеллун Тахар Бен
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Tahar Ben Jelloun’s By Fire, the first fictional account published on the Arab Spring, reimagines the true-life self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, an event that has been credited with setting off the Tunisian revolt. The novella...