Putin’s Praetorians contains the stories of some of the people involved in a unique movement to debunk those who would demonize Russia in general and Putin in particular. The “confessions” of those labeled as “Kremlin Trolls” reveal the...
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Публицистика, Путешествия и география
Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia [aka Couchsurfing in Russia]
“Journalist Orth delivers a jaunty description of his travels… [that] armchair travelers will enjoy.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Funny, insightful, and mind-bendingly entertaining. Stephan Orth is a fearless and fabulous tour guide to...
This collection of notes and essays on Kipling’s world travels reveals a man bursting with self-deprecating wit, keen observational powers, and an intelligent awareness of his own cultural biases and prejudices. First published in 1899, this...
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 - Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolaño wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of...
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in...
"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " –from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living...
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on...
Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost—the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia’s oil rigs to move north....
"Disneyland with the Death Penalty" is an article about Singapore written by William Gibson. His first major piece of non-fiction, it was first published as the cover storyfor Wired magazine's September/October 1993 issue (1.4).
The...
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза
An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World
In 1982 William T. Vollmann, one of our most versatile talents, traveled to see the war in Afghanistan. In An Afghanistan Picture Show, his first book-length work of non-fiction, Vollmann paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a...