биографии и мемуары
Дональд Трамп – 45-й президент США, бизнесмен. Человек года по версии журнала «Time» (2016).
«Искусство сделки» – гид по разумному подходу к личным финансам. Трамп, имея за плечами огромный предпринимательский опыт, рассказывает о своем видении прави…
Дональд Трамп – 45-й президент США, бизнесмен. Человек года по версии журнала «Time» (2016).
«Искусство сделки» – гид по разумному подходу к личным финансам. Трамп, имея за плечами огромный предпринимательский опыт, рассказывает о своем видении прави…
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets.‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic bi…
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets.‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic bi…
Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists.“For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been prese…
Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists.“For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been prese…
«…Не думал, не гадал, что меня на склоне лет потянет к литературе, в частности к поэзии. Потянуло!.. Выпустил в общей сложности девять поэтических сборников. Но уж чего совсем не предполагал и не ждал от себя, так это — приобщения к музыке…»
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«…Не думал, не гадал, что меня на склоне лет потянет к литературе, в частности к поэзии. Потянуло!.. Выпустил в общей сложности девять поэтических сборников. Но уж чего совсем не предполагал и не ждал от себя, так это — приобщения к музыке…»
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Самолеты Ил-2 нужны нашей Красной Армии как хлеб, как воздух» – эти слова И.В. Сталина, прозвучавшие в 1941 году, оставались актуальны до самого конца войны. Задачи, ставившиеся перед штурмовыми авиаполками, были настолько сложными, что согласно прик…
Самолеты Ил-2 нужны нашей Красной Армии как хлеб, как воздух» – эти слова И.В. Сталина, прозвучавшие в 1941 году, оставались актуальны до самого конца войны. Задачи, ставившиеся перед штурмовыми авиаполками, были настолько сложными, что согласно прик…
Книга посвящена судьбам двух деятелей эпохи коренных преобразований России – Марии Спиридоновой (1884–1941) и Ларисы Рейснер (1895–1926). Едва ли эти женщины лично встречались в бурном потоке революционных событий, вращаясь в разных кругах и по-разно…
Книга посвящена судьбам двух деятелей эпохи коренных преобразований России – Марии Спиридоновой (1884–1941) и Ларисы Рейснер (1895–1926). Едва ли эти женщины лично встречались в бурном потоке революционных событий, вращаясь в разных кругах и по-разно…
Военный врач, хирург Ф. Ф. Грачев в годы войны работал в госпитале в блокадном Ленинграде и оставил уникальные воспоминания, занимающие особое место среди книг о блокаде.
Мемуары Грачева предельно правдивы, в них показаны невероятные условия, в котор…
Военный врач, хирург Ф. Ф. Грачев в годы войны работал в госпитале в блокадном Ленинграде и оставил уникальные воспоминания, занимающие особое место среди книг о блокаде.
Мемуары Грачева предельно правдивы, в них показаны невероятные условия, в котор…
полная версияСело Белогорье. Храм в честь иконы Божьей Матери «Живоносный источник». Воскресная литургия. Молитвенный дух объединяет всех людей. Среди молящихся есть молодой парень в инвалидной коляске, это Максим. Максим большой молодец, ему все дается с трудом:…
Село Белогорье. Храм в честь иконы Божьей Матери «Живоносный источник». Воскресная литургия. Молитвенный дух объединяет всех людей. Среди молящихся есть молодой парень в инвалидной коляске, это Максим. Максим большой молодец, ему все дается с трудом:…
Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father's most exotic 1960 stunt – being cast away on a desert island in the …
Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father's most exotic 1960 stunt – being cast away on a desert island in the …
The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of wom…
The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of wom…
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edm…
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edm…
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British his…
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British his…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs b…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs b…
The living embodiment of The Beatles, a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the senior figure in pop music today. In this authoritative biography, journalist and acclaimed author Howard Sounes leaves no stone unturned i…
The living embodiment of The Beatles, a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the senior figure in pop music today. In this authoritative biography, journalist and acclaimed author Howard Sounes leaves no stone unturned i…
NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned ove…
NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned ove…
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…