Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also...
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Политика, Публицистика
The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It
The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before—including during the Great Depression and the Civil War—because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America...
It is though a fascinating cold-war era relic. It describes in great detail the doom of America after a full Russian invasion.
This book was part of the huge multi-media effort in the mid-80s to scare the American public into paying for the Reagan...
‘I Read Where I Am’ contains visionary texts about the future of reading and the status of the word. We read anytime and anywhere. We read of screens, we read out on the streets, we read in the office but less and less we read a book at home on...
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Политика, Публицистика
Bobby Fischer Goes to War [How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time]
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess...
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Бесконечный тупик Майдана [calibre...
Публицистика, Экономика
The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Beseiged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy
In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel’s sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he...
Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped?
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In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that...
An English language ‘tourist guide’ to life in the ‘caliphate’.
The online book reads like a travel brochure, focussing on life “under the just shade of Islamic law in the Caliphate”. Al Britani describes the street food available...