Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its...
Формат:
только полные версии
Stanislaw Martin Ulam. Adventures of a Mathematician. Preface to the 1991 Edition by William G. Mathews and Daniel O. Hirsch. Note on S. M. Ulam's Mathematics by Jan Mycielski. Postscript by Françoise Ulam.
University of California Press....
Записи в Фейсбуке -июнь-сентябрь...
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa,...
This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw. Having been captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Jim was first sent to work in Burma, to build what has become known as the Death Railway. Unlike many of his...
"Уральская...
Following on from the success of ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust.
Young Hugo longs to be released from the...
The Ghetto...
Зиновій Демцюх – диригент, педагог, Заслужений працівник культури України (з 1992 р.). Народився 7 лютого 1943 р. на Львівщині (с. Великосілки,...
The Sunny Side gathers the best short works by the inimitable A. A. Milne. Written for the satire magazine Punch, these brief stories and essays perfectly capture Milne’s sly humor, beguiling social insight, and scathing wit. From Odd Verses to...