Название: The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Автор: Ben Macintyre
Издательство: Crown
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 58 Мб
Язык: английский / English

If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war.

Название: Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
Автор: James Suzman
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 47 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A vibrant portrait of the “original affluent society”―the Bushmen of southern Africa―by the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity. If the success of a civilization is measured by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen of the Kalahari are by far the most successful in human history. A hunting and gathering people who made a good living by working only as much as needed to exist in harmony with their hostile desert environment, the Bushmen have lived in southern Africa since the evolution of our species nearly two hundred thousand years ago.

Название: Помещичья Россия. Очерки истории русской дворянской культуры
Автор: Николай Врангель
Язык: русский
Издательство: Коло
Год: 2007
Страниц: 304
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11,2 Мб

В книгу известного искусствоведа барона Н. Н. Врангеля (1880–1913) вошел цикл статей о художественном быте русской усадьбы периода XVIII — начала XX века, а также ряд более поздних работ автора, посвященных родственным темам. От предыдущих переизданий настоящее отличает, в основном, более широкий иллюстративный ряд; существенно переработаны авторские примечания. Для историков русской культуры, искусствоведов, преподавателей и учащихся, а также широкого круга читателей.

Название: How It Works: Book Of Incredible History - 18th Edition 2022
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Размер: 74,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

How It Works, the magazine that explains everything you never knew you wanted to know about the world we live in. Loaded with fully illustrated guides and expert knowledge, and with sections dedicated to science, technology, transportation, space, history and the environment, no subject is too big or small for How It Works to explain.

Название: Описание Села Царского, или Спутник обозревающим оное
Автор: Илья Яковкин
Язык: русский
Издательство: Коло
Год: 2008
Страниц: 240
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,2 Мб

И.Ф. Яковкин (1764–1836) — выдающийся русский историк, педагог и писатель, автор ряда трудов по истории Императорской Царскосельской резиденции. Благодаря достоверности и уникальности сообщаемых автором сведений, работы его, основанные на материалах Царскосельского дворцового правления, сохранили до сего дня большое научное и культурно-познавательное значение. Этот первый историко-архитектурный путеводитель по Царскому Селу и один из первых отечественных литературных опытов в этом жанре давно стал библиографической редкостью, в XX веке не переиздавался.

Название: The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
Автор: Robert Lacey
Издательство: Crown Archetype
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 321 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The official companion to the Emmy-nominated Netflix drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and starring Claire Foy and John Lithgow, The Crown by Peter Morgan, featuring additional historical background and beautifully reproduced archival photos and show stills. Elizabeth Mountbatten never expected her father to die so suddenly, so young, leaving her with a throne to fill and a global institution to govern. Crowned at twenty-five, she was already a wife and mother as she began her journey towards becoming a queen. As Britain lifted itself out of the shadow of war, the new monarch faced her own challenges. Her mother doubted her marriage; her uncle-in-exile derided her abilities; her husband resented the sacrifice of his career and family name; and her rebellious sister embarked on a love affair that threatened the centuries-old links between the Church and the Crown. This is the story of how Elizabeth II drew on every ounce of resolve to ensure that the Crown always came out on top.

Название: The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
Автор: Susanna B. Hecht
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes.

Название: Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Revivals)
Автор: John M. Jeep, Michael Frassetto, Joan A. Holladay
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138062723
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 969
Размер: 45,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This A-Z encyclopedia, featuring over 500 entries written by expert contributors, will be of key interest to students and scholars, as well as general readers.

Название: Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium
Автор: Emma Stafford, Judith Herrin
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0754650316
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 399
Размер: 33,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts (victory, democracy, war) all appear in human, usually female, form.

Название: Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire
Автор: Kenneth R. Wright, Gordon Francis McEwan, Ruth M. Wright
Издательство: American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN: 0784408513
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 177
Размер: 20,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire reveals the beauty and the ingenuity of this little-known jewel of the Inca Empire. Located down the Huatanay River Valley by the Inca capital of Cusco, Tipon is a 500-acre, self-contained, walled settlement that served as an estate for Inca nobility.