Orwell’s moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his...
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During China's Great Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the famous "Little Red Book", officially known as Quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong, was a must-have item for the Chinese. It is estimated that during those years altogether 5 billion...
During China's Great Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the famous "Little Red Book", officially known as Quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong, was a must-have item for the Chinese. It is estimated that during those years altogether 5 billion...
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying...
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The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study
This landmark study—which Dr. Andrew Weil calls “a remarkable achievement with surprising conclusions”—upends the advice we have been told about how to live to a healthy old age.
We have been told that the key to longevity involves...
![The Lost World / Затерянный мир [litres]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/the-lost-world-zateryannyj-mir-litres_648889.jpg)
Автор: Конан Дойл Артур , Положенцева Д. В.
Серия: Легко читаем по-английски
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
В предлагаемую книгу вошел текст научно-фантастического романа Артура Конан Дойла «Затерянный мир», повествующего об опасной, но...
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The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters
In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8’s first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and Other Clinical...
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The Matrix and “The Matrix” — two opposites. (On the recipe of obtaining “freedom” in the movie “The Matrix”)
Язык: английский
Статус: Закончена
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Many, especially from among the youth, have already seen the movie "The Matrix". There are different opinions about the film, but its popularity is undebatable. Even in V. Putin’s book "From the first person..." there is mention of the film by...
The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and...