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“Who am I? An alcoholic and a tramp. But I am no white raven. Our alcoholics outnumber the populations of France and Spain combined. And that’s only the men. If you count women you have to add on all Scandinavia and throw in Monaco for good...
On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and embark on a dangerous and...
The land is for those who work it.
—“La tierra es de quien la trabaja.”
One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a ...
It is though a fascinating cold-war era relic. It describes in great detail the doom of America after a full Russian invasion.
This book was part of the huge multi-media effort in the mid-80s to scare the American public into paying for the Reagan...
The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic as it sweeps the American heartland—a timely, moving, very human account of one community’s attempt to battle its way to a brighter future.
Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered...
Политика, Публицистика
The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It
The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before—including during the Great Depression and the Civil War—because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America...
Rachel Carson’s National Book Award–winning classic effortlessly mingles detailed fieldwork and inspiring prose to reveal a deep understanding of the earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean.
With more than one million...
First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter
World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers...
История, Публицистика
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian...