Название: In the Shadow of the Moon
Автор: Amy Cherrix
Издательство: Balzer + Bray
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An exhilarating dive into the secret history of humankind's race to the moon, from acclaimed author Amy Cherrix. This fascinating and immersive read is perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin's Bomb and M. T. Anderson's Symphony for the City of the Dead. You've heard of the space race, but do you know the whole story? The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War--Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country--and your textbooks probably never told you. Von Braun became an American hero, recognized the world over, while Korolev toiled in obscurity. These two brilliant rocketeers never met, but together they shaped the science of spaceflight and redefined modern warfare. From Stalin's brutal Gulag prisons and Hitler's concentration camps to Cape Canaveral and beyond, their simultaneous quests pushed science--and human ingenuity--to the breaking point.

Название: Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
Автор: J. Randy Taraborrelli
Издательство: St Martin's Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 25 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period―as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library―Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. “I have three lives,” Jackie told a former lover, “public, private and secret.” In this revealing biography, readers will become intimately familiar with all three.

Название: Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind
Автор: Katherine MacInnes
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The men of Captain Scott’s Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the Empire they served by reaching the South Pole. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. For the first time, the story of the race for the South Pole is told from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it, five women who offer a window into a lost age and a revealing insight into the thoughts and feelings of the five heroes. Kathleen Scott, the fierce young wife of the expedition leader, campaigned relentlessly for Scott’s reputation, but did her ambition for glory drive her husband to take unnecessary risks?

Название: The Illustrated Ramayana: The Timeless Epic of Duty, Love, and Redemption
Автор: DK
Издательство: DK
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Размер: 214 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Discover the Ramayana -one of India's most celebrated epics, and a story that transcends time itself. The tale of Rama, the exiled prince of Ayodhya who battles the evil Ravana, the king of Lanka, and rescues his abducted wife, Sita, is about much more than the eternal battle of good versus evil. It is a tale of love, friendship, loyalty, devotion, righteousness, and deliverance. Ramayana and Rama, whose journey is told in the epic, are embedded in India's cultural consciousness, but they transcend borders. Various versions of the Ramayana can be found across the Indian subcontinent and in parts of southeast Asia. Created in consultation with distinguished economist, scholar, and translator Dr. Bibek Debroy, The Illustrated Ramayana draws from one of its earliest composers, the celebrated sage and poet Valmiki. It uses a combination of text and stunning images drawn from a variety of sources-historic and contemporary artifacts, paintings, photographs, and performances-to tell Rama's story as he walks the path that destiny creates for him.

Автор: Родионов К. С.
Название: Интерпол: миф и действительность
Издательство: «Международные отношения»
Год: 1982
Страниц: 160
Размер: 6.2 Мб; 2.5 Мб
Формат: pdf (ClearScan); djvu
Качество: хорoшее (600 dpi)
Язык: русский
Рост преступности в капиталистических государствах, появление так называемой «международной преступности» побудили правительства стран Запада создать международную организацию для координации и взаимодействия национальных полицейских служб в деле розыска, опознания и задержания опасных уголовных преступников. Деятельности Международной организации уголовной полиции (Интерпол) посвящена данная книга.
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Название: История упадка и крушения Римской империи
Автор: Гиббон Эдуард
Издательство: ОЛМА-ПРЕСС
Год: 2001
Страниц: 704 с.: 420 ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10 mb
Качество: отличное (оригинал-макет)

«История упадка и крушения Римской империи» Э. Гиббона — самая знаменитая книга по истории позднего Рима. Она до сих пор не утратила ценности серьезного и исчерпывающего исторического труда, ее отличают тонкий анализ, живые и образные портреты, замечательный литературный язык.

Название: Минное поле политики
Автор: Евгений Примаков
Издательство: Молодая Гвардия
Год: 2023
Страниц: 480
Формат: pdf
Язык: русский
Размер: 10,5 Мб

Евгения Максимовича Примакова совершенно справедливо называют политическим «тяжеловесом». Его деятельность на государственном поприще впечатляет и своей многогранностью, и масштабом. Талантливый ученый-востоковед и экономист, блестящий аналитик и мудрый прагматик, он выполнял очень сложные дипломатические миссии во время острейших конфликтов на Ближнем Востоке и был востребован на высокие государственные посты в кризисных ситуациях в трудный, драматичный период реформирования страны.

Название: Пути истории. От древнейшего человека до наших дней
Автор: Дьяконов И.М.
Издательство: М.: КомКнига
Год: 2007 - изд. 2-е, исправ.
Cтраниц: 384
Формат: pdf
Размер: 53 мб
Язык: русский

Вниманию читателей предлагается краткий очерк всемирной истории, принадлежащий перу одного из крупнейших отечественных историков-востоковедов.

Название: Who Was Galileo?
Автор: Patricia Brennan Demuth
Издательство: Grosset & Dunlap
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 55 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name. A name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He invented a telescope with which he was able to observe the heavens. From there, not even the sky was the limit! He turned long held notions about the universe topsy turvy with his support of a sun-centric solar system. Patricia Brennan Demuth offers a sympathetic portrait of a brilliant man who lived in a time when speaking scientific truth to those in power was still a dangerous preposition.

Название: Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism
Автор: Tom Holm
Издательство: Twelve
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes—a Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along with five other Marines, was captured in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of raising the stars and stripes on Mount Suribachi during the battle for the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. The photograph was the inspiration and model for the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington. Between the time he helped raise that flag and his death—and beyond—he was the subject of more newspaper columns than any other Native person.