The Lessons of...
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In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson’s original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik...
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The Story of...
Chagas’ disease has become one of the major public-health problems in Latin America. Current estimates are that sixteen to eighteen million people are infected. Caused by a flagellate protozoa carried to humans via the bite of the triatomine or...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Политика
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
A true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents.
Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent--she is candid,...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal
In the fierce winter of 1710, in a North American port, a boat ferried ten shipwreck survivors to the safety of shore. Fourteen Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Island, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter,...
Пособие направлено на формирование и развитие у студентов языковых и речевых навыков и умений использования английского языка в сфере...
What makes a Stalin? Was he illegitimate? Was his mother whore or saint? Was Stalin a Tsarist agent or Lenin’s chief gangster? Was his most notorious heist planned during his stay in London? Was he to blame for his wife’s death? If he really...
Язык: английский
Год: 2005
Статус: Закончена
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Пособие представляет собой сборник наиболее популярных тематических текстов по английскому языку. Для удобства пособие разделено на...