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National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade b……続きを見る

Masha Gessen schreef met De man zonder gezicht een onthullende biografie over Vladimir Poetin, de machtigste man van Rusland dat bij vlagen leest als een spionageroman. Nu met een nieuw voorwoord Al……続きを見る

From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the famil……続きを見る

Nicht nur Russland, Ungarn oder die Türkei sind autokratische Staaten. In den USA werden täglich demokratische Prozesse missachtet, korrodieren Rechtsystem und kulturelle Normen, verfallen Bürger de……続きを見る

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finni……続きを見る

1930-tal. Krig och förföljelse råder i Europa och två judiska kvinnor kämpar för sin överlevnad. Den ena är polskan Ester, som kommer från en stad där hela den judiska befolkningen har skickats till……続きを見る

For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russ……続きを見る

**WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 20……続きを見る

Nel 1929 il governo sovietico individuò un’area scarsamente popolata nell’Estremo Oriente dell’ex-impero russo. Questo luogo desolato e insalubre al confine con la Cina, flagellato da piogge torrenz……続きを見る

Em uma reportagem reveladora, Masha Gessen faz um retrato implacável da ascensão de Vladimir Putin ao poder quase absoluto O homem sem rosto é o relato aterrorizante de como um agente mesquinho do b……続きを見る

Här tecknar den prisbelönta journalisten Masha Gessen ett skrämmande porträtt av ett Ryssland som inom loppet av en generation återskapat en totalitär stat. Putin har demonterat valsystemet, tagit k……続きを見る

In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasu……続きを見る

کتاب دمحمحیسم اثر نیما شهسواری بخشی از متن کتاب در زمانهای بسیار دور در نزدیکی روستایی کم بضاعت و کمجمعیت دختری در خانوادهای مذهبی زندگی میکرد او در خانوادهای چشم به جهان گشوده بود که بیشتر زمان عمر……続きを見る

This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Contrary to conventional understandings, Mashaw demonstrates tha……続きを見る

In the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistanーthe online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggersーand depicted it as a liberatory si……続きを見る

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a tragic novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on th……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

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When Thomas Hamilton set out to write this detailed history of the Peninsular campaigns, the great struggle for Portugal and Spain was still fresh in the minds of his intended audience. It was also ……続きを見る

When Thomas Hamilton set out to write this detailed history of the Peninsular campaigns, the great struggle for Portugal and Spain was still fresh in the minds of his intended audience. It was also ……続きを見る

This is the first history of Stockholm’s development from the city’s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. While the city’s planne……続きを見る

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When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extend……続きを見る

Do not worry because you cannot follow the course exactly to the letter. Do what you can of it, adapt it to your life, and do the best you can in present circumstances. The principal thing is to get……続きを見る

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a……続きを見る

The title-page discloses the sources from which this abridgment is made, and shows them all to be authentic, and reliable,ーwell known to the public, and sanctioned by resolves of Congress. Of the l……続きを見る

This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Contrary to conventional understandings, Mashaw demonstrates tha……続きを見る

HarperCollins is pround to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive edu……続きを見る

Every year since 1933 many of the world's leading intellectuals have met on Lake Maggiore to discuss the latest developments in philosophy, history, art and science and, in particular, to explore th……続きを見る