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Книга директора Института социологических исследований АН СССР (1983–1988 гг.) член-корр. РАН В. Н. Иванова приурочена к 50-летию Института социологии РАН. Она повествует о процессе возрождения социологии как самостоятельной науки в СССР в 80-е годы …
Книга директора Института социологических исследований АН СССР (1983–1988 гг.) член-корр. РАН В. Н. Иванова приурочена к 50-летию Института социологии РАН. Она повествует о процессе возрождения социологии как самостоятельной науки в СССР в 80-е годы …
Автор продолжает воспоминания.
В книге читатель встретится с героями ярких событий, участником которых он был; ощутит волнения и пульс жизни поколения, подготовившего демократические преобразования в стране, и, наконец, узнает о становлении автора ка…
Автор продолжает воспоминания.
В книге читатель встретится с героями ярких событий, участником которых он был; ощутит волнения и пульс жизни поколения, подготовившего демократические преобразования в стране, и, наконец, узнает о становлении автора ка…
Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die. She has far too much to live for. But when the time comes, and the pain is so unbearable that she cannot go on, she wants her husband to be by her side, holding her hand until the end; and she wants to know that he w…
Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die. She has far too much to live for. But when the time comes, and the pain is so unbearable that she cannot go on, she wants her husband to be by her side, holding her hand until the end; and she wants to know that he w…
Это повесть об одном мгновении, которое разрушило целую жизнь. Это рассказ о том, как пуля, пробившая череп человека и прошедшая в его мозг, раздробила его мир на тысячи кусков, которые он так и не мог собрать. Это книга о человеке, который отдал все…
Это повесть об одном мгновении, которое разрушило целую жизнь. Это рассказ о том, как пуля, пробившая череп человека и прошедшая в его мозг, раздробила его мир на тысячи кусков, которые он так и не мог собрать. Это книга о человеке, который отдал все…
Эта книга – «непридуманные истории» бойца 56-й десантноштурмовой бригады, воевавшего в Афганистане в 1984–1986 гг. Это – «окопная правда» последней войны СССР. Вся правда о жизни и смерти «за речкой». О том, «какой звук издаёт пуля, врезаясь в песок …
Эта книга – «непридуманные истории» бойца 56-й десантноштурмовой бригады, воевавшего в Афганистане в 1984–1986 гг. Это – «окопная правда» последней войны СССР. Вся правда о жизни и смерти «за речкой». О том, «какой звук издаёт пуля, врезаясь в песок …
Книга рассказывает историю AC/DC, музыкального коллектива и коммерческого колосса, раскрывая некоторые личные и творческие секреты. Джесси Финк предоставляет нам разные версии множества историй, и особенно закулисных. Финк явно обожает AC/DC, но осоз…
Книга рассказывает историю AC/DC, музыкального коллектива и коммерческого колосса, раскрывая некоторые личные и творческие секреты. Джесси Финк предоставляет нам разные версии множества историй, и особенно закулисных. Финк явно обожает AC/DC, но осоз…
Еврейская эмиграция вызванная разрушительной для страны Перестройкой, вот тема повестей и рассказов.
Автор является участником-очевидцем, пережившим весь этот ужас, после которого хотелось бежать куда глаза глядят. Покидая насижанные места, переселен…
Еврейская эмиграция вызванная разрушительной для страны Перестройкой, вот тема повестей и рассказов.
Автор является участником-очевидцем, пережившим весь этот ужас, после которого хотелось бежать куда глаза глядят. Покидая насижанные места, переселен…
Alan Curbishley has spent a lifetime in football both as a fan, player and manager.In his forty years, he has seen the game he loves change beyond all recognition. The money, the media, the celebrity culture, the agents – when Curbishley began his pl…
Alan Curbishley has spent a lifetime in football both as a fan, player and manager.In his forty years, he has seen the game he loves change beyond all recognition. The money, the media, the celebrity culture, the agents – when Curbishley began his pl…
‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea wher…
‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea wher…
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her sha…
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her sha…
Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least we…
Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least we…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl…
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.In 1923, a thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler was in prison after taking part in an u…
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.In 1923, a thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler was in prison after taking part in an u…
The story of international football star Tim Cahill, one of the most admired Australian sportsmen of all time.Tim Cahill was born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and English father. He grew up in the city's western suburbs playing football with his brot…
The story of international football star Tim Cahill, one of the most admired Australian sportsmen of all time.Tim Cahill was born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and English father. He grew up in the city's western suburbs playing football with his brot…
WINNER OF THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS LITERATURE AWARD 2018A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A masterpiece’ Mail on Sunday‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to m…
WINNER OF THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS LITERATURE AWARD 2018A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A masterpiece’ Mail on Sunday‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to m…
With the wit and geniality that has made him so many friends in politics, Webster gives has written the verdict on the character of the senior politicians he has got to know over the decades, the much criticised Westminster Lobby system, revealing th…
With the wit and geniality that has made him so many friends in politics, Webster gives has written the verdict on the character of the senior politicians he has got to know over the decades, the much criticised Westminster Lobby system, revealing th…
The final word on music’s greatest legend, in which Philip Norman reveals a John Lennon the world has never seen. With ground-breaking insight into the pain, beauty and frustration that shaped the genius of modern music, John Lennon: The Definitive B…
The final word on music’s greatest legend, in which Philip Norman reveals a John Lennon the world has never seen. With ground-breaking insight into the pain, beauty and frustration that shaped the genius of modern music, John Lennon: The Definitive B…
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London’s Eas…
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London’s Eas…