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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Биографии и мемуары

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Автор: Rhodes Richard
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different...
Lost in the Cosmos
История, Критика

Lost in the Cosmos

Автор: Percy Walker
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom,...
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack Since WWII
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Военная история

Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack Since WWII

Автор: White Rowland
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943… April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer....
Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Never before has Gordimer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, published such a comprehensive collection of her nonfiction. Telling Tales represents the full span of her works in that field-from the twilight of white rule in South...
19 with a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика

19 with a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola

Автор: Korff Granger
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the ‘standard’...
Chekhov: A Biography
Биографии и мемуары

Chekhov: A Biography

Автор: Pritchett V. S.
Язык: английский
Год: 1988
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V. S. Pritchett, "Chekhov: A Biography" ISBN: 144820092X | 1988 | | 220 pages | V.S. Pritchett explores the connections between Chekhov's life and art, showing how Chekhov (1860-1904) often based his fiction on experiences of his...