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У Ивана Денисовича начинается новый день, день, в который Солженицын постарался вложить все десять лет лагеря. И у него это получилось.

Why are we more likely to forgo the opportunity to sell a Ј100 bottle of wine rather than actually taking money out our wallet to pay for it, when ultimately the "opportunity cost" of doing so is the same? Why would the "endowment effect" mean that we value a free ticket worth hundreds of pounds more than the money we would get from selling it? In this new, ambitious work, Thaler presents his find...

An examination of the economic issues which directly affect day-to-day life in this country, including the rise and fall of prices, the Dollar Gap, international trade, and the wages question

In this paperback of his acclaimed and wide-ranging study. David Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might Shortlisted for the Duke of. Westminster Medal for Military Literature 2013 Navigating the 300 years between the Tudor accession and the loss of the American colonies Leviathan charts one of history's greatest transformations: the rise of Britai...

It's a tough time to be a scientist: universities are shutting science departments, funding organisations are facing flat budgets, and many newspapers have dropped their science sections altogether. But according to Marc Kuchner, this anti-science climate doesn't have to equal a career death knell - it just means scientists have to be savvier about promoting their work and themselves. In...

Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in 1964. First published in 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative is what's known as a "campaign biography."

A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. Containing photographs and map...

Эти биографические очерки были изданы около ста лет назад отдельной книгой в серии «Жизнь замечательных людей», осуществленной Ф. Ф. Павленковым (1839—1900). Написанные в новом для того времени жанре поэтической хроники и историко-культурного исследования, эти тексты сохраняют по сей день информационную и энергетико-психологическую ценность. Писавшиеся «для простых людей», для российской провинции...

Впервые "Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" были опубликованы в Англии в 1889 году. Джером написал уморительно смешную историю трех друзей, от скуки и вымышленных болезней сплавляющихся по Темзе, под впечатлением от собственного свадебного путешествия, проведенного на небольшой лодке. В то время "в моде" были нереалистичные персонажи Конан Дойла, Киплинга и Стивенсона, а обыкновенные и в чем-то даже ...