A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
"A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled...
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The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world′s largest and most powerful particle–smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often...
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s...
Collins Cobuild, "Collins Cobuild English Grammar, 3rd Edition"
ISBN: 0007393644
This major new edition of the Collins COBUILD English Grammar is a modern, global and learner-focussed grammar reference, aimed at learners and...
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Based on the evidence of the 4.5-billion-word Collins Corpus, this book is an invaluable guide to the English language as it is written and spoken today, in all areas of the world. It has been thoroughly updated, to take into account recent changes...
This is the most accessible resource for finding the perfect rhyme. Other rhyming dictionaries often use obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order. This resource avoids such...
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.
For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so...
Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, “Columbine” is an award-winning journalist’s definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.
It is driven by two questions: what drove these killers,...
Coming of Age in...
J.-B. Péres, bibliothécaire de la Ville d'Agen, démontra en 1827 que Napoléon n'avait jamais existé. En fait il démontra qu'à force d'acharnement et de suspicion fanatique, on peut toujours trouver des...