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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the
История, Публицистика

A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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The “War Against Drugs”: who started it, and why? What are its consequences in real terms, not mere statistics, for the people most affected by it? One hundred thousand deaths later — with the vast majority of those killed innocent...
#GIRLBOSS
Биографии и мемуары

#GIRLBOSS

Автор: Amoruso Sophia
Язык: английский
Статус: Закончена
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The founder of Nasty Gal offers a sassy and irreverent manifesto for ambitious young women At seventeen, Sophia Amoruso decided to forgo continuing education to pursue a life of hitchhiking, dumpster diving, and petty thievery. Now, at...
By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring

Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Tahar Ben Jelloun’s By Fire, the first fictional account published on the Arab Spring, reimagines the true-life self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, an event that has been credited with setting off the Tunisian revolt. The novella...
Little Labors
Критика, Публицистика

Little Labors

Автор: Galchen Rivka
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book—a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book — contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list? Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted...
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
Критика, Публицистика

The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language

Автор: Manea Norman
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of the...
Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia
Биографии и мемуары, Путешествия и география

Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia

Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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Without aiming to be a survival guide, romance or autobiography, Sunbathing in Siberia manages to be all of them and none. Told completely from the Trans-Siberian and a series of Russian jets, this is the story of a young British poet, who, after...