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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Образовательная, прикладная, научно-популярная литература

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging...
Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика

Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner

Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to...
The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Beseiged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy
Публицистика, Экономика

The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Beseiged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy

Автор: Gilder George
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel’s sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he...
Sahara (2002)
География, путевые заметки

Sahara (2002)

Автор: Palin Michael
Язык: английский
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MICHAEL PALIN is a scriptwriter, comedian, novelist, television presenter, actor and playwright. He established his reputation with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as...
How to Be a Carioca
География, путевые заметки, Юмористическая проза

How to Be a Carioca

Язык: английский
Год: 2008
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An international bestseller since 1992, this is a humorous look at what makes up one of the world’s most colorful characters: the Carioca-those charming inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, written by a U.S. native who has made Rio her home for more...
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
Биографии и мемуары, Политика

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West

Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies...