История. Политика и социальные науки
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together ...
Настоящая книга, написанная Дэйвом Морганом, служит учащимся и учителям английского языка для понимания жизни и проблем Британии.
“Using Manet's controversial masterpiece as his starting point,” Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times about Olympia, one of her all-time favorite
his is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War.
Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the Reagan legacy shape policy and politics
In the debris of the financial crash of 2008, the principles of John Maynard Keynes—that economic storms are a normal part of the market system, that
In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in the great cities of the European High Middle Ages,
“The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has suddenly become the most celebrated public critic of the nation’s foreign politics. . . .
Noblewoman, vividly documents both the great and the trivial events of her long life. They cover her life from her childhood days, when she witnessed
The text of this book comes from the highly acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History of Britain.
A humanist alternative to massive, encyclopedia-like texts, Using Sociology provides a passionate and focused introduction to sociology and sociologic
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
“Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.”―Kyle Smith, Forbes
When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan.
he Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon’s dramatic last months as president.
Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers
Former state security officer Leo Demidov is struggling to change as the Soviet Union changes around him. The two young girls he adopted have yet ...
When Edward O. Wilson published Sociobiology, it generated a firestorm of criticism, mostly focused on the book's final chapter, in which Wilson ...
"Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day ...
A ... behind-the-scenes account of the Nixon administration and the men who ran it and the country before Watergate brought them down.
David E. Scheim is a director of management information systems. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Assassination Archives and Research Centre ...
A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types of deprivation we once imagined we had consigned ..
How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational ...
Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution
How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at solving our social problem and who pays for them? With so many problems,...
This book exposes the origins of this unsatisfactory situation and suggests an entirely new approach to the relationship between the theory of value..
Who should be educated, when, by whom and how? What purposes should education serve? Why does education matter?
As we enter a new century, with its promise of change, women in Pakistan often emerge as its best face forward. At the same time, a persistent and ...
A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the greatest public intellectual of our times.
“Outline of U.S. History” is a publication of the U.S. Department of State. The first edition (1949-50) was produced under the editorship ...
Describes in chilling, yet affectionate, detail the disintegration of a wealthy Ottoman family, both financially and emotionally.
This book is about reminding the world community that the Russian-Ukrainian war continues, and we must not forget those who are actually defending ...
The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary ...