Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss — it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson...
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Биографии и мемуары, История
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, From Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister
The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics.
Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher’s...
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The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
Why flawed logic puts us all at risk, and how critical thinking can save the world.
It may seem a big claim, butknowing how to think clearlyand criticallyhas literally helped save the world. In September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the...
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands—their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Военная история, История
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World [Метод Джакарты: антикоммунистический крестовый поход Вашингтона и программа массовых убийств, сформировавшая наш мир]
Американский журналист Винсент Бевинс обнаружил, что между 1945 и 1990 годами США тайно поощряли программы массовых убийств коммунистов,...
Jagdgeschwader 26 was one of only two German units to remain on the Western front for the entire war. Its rise and fall mirrors the history of the German Air Force. This book gives a chronology of the unit's activities, using documentary sources,...
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Times hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, revealing how it connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art, business, even pop culture in ways we never...
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Зарубежная классическая проза, Лингвистика
The Jungle Book / Книга джунглей. Книга для чтения на английском языке [litres]
Предлагаем вниманию читателей «Книгу джунглей» знаменитого английского писателя и поэта Редьярда Киплинга. Ее герои – «человеческий...
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and—as a result—a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first...