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Tunnel People
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Tunnel People

Автор: Voeten Teun
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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Following the homeless Manhattanites who, in the mid-1990s, chose to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city, this record tells the stories of a variety of tunnel dwellers from the perspective of an award-winning, European...
What Ever Happened to Modernism?
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What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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The quality of today’s literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing — a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist...
An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World

Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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In 1982 William T. Vollmann, one of our most versatile talents, traveled to see the war in Afghanistan. In An Afghanistan Picture Show, his first book-length work of non-fiction, Vollmann paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a...
Predators: The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Публицистика

Predators: The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda

Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIA’s and U.S. military’s most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies,...
Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World

Язык: английский
Год: 2001
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In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to...