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Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история

Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation

Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Adm. James Holloway describes this book as a contemporary perspective of the events, decisions, and outcomes in the history of the Cold War Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet confrontation that shaped today s U.S. Navy and its principal...
Darwin’s Devices
Биология

Darwin’s Devices

Автор: Long John
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past—we can’t witness the dramatic events that shaped the adaptations we see today. But biorobotics expert John Long has found an ingenious way...
The Siege
Психология

The Siege

Язык: английский
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Elly Park was a beautiful, golden-haired little girl who moved with unusual grape. As a baby she had been undemanding, and later she appeared totally absorbed in her own world. When she was three her parents learned that she was autistic. In...
Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945 [2nd Edition]
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история

Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945 [2nd Edition]

Автор: Stieber John
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents for seven years. In due course, he was called to...
Should the West Engage Putin's Russia?
Политика, Публицистика

Should the West Engage Putin's Russia?

Серия: The Munk Debates
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened...
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Vth Century A.D.
История, Культурология

The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Vth Century A.D.

Автор: Garrod H. W.
Язык: английский
Год: 1912
Статус: Закончена
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Latin poetry begins where almost all poetry begins—in the rude ceremonial of a primitive people placating an unknown and dreaded spiritual world. The earliest fragments are priestly incantations. In one of these fragments the Salii placate...
Geopolitical Exotica
Политика

Geopolitical Exotica

Автор: Anand Dibyesh
Язык: английский
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Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans and the debate over that land’s status with regard to China. Concentrating on specific cultural images of the twentieth century-promulgated by novels, popular...