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The Lotus Lovers
Культурология

The Lotus Lovers

Автор: Levy Howard C.
Язык: английский
Год: 1992
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Footbinding for women on China was a curious, painful custom that deformed the foot and kept it from growing more than a few inches in length. This practice may have begun in the tenth century as a whim of the Imperial court; by the twelfth century,...
The Joy of Reading
Культурология

The Joy of Reading

Автор: Doren Charles Van
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible." --Mortimer J. Adler This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world--from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to...
The Meaning of Happiness
Культурология

The Meaning of Happiness

Автор: Watts Alan , Уотс Алан
Язык: английский
Год: 1940
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Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking second book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as...
Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
История, Культурология

Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

Автор: Себаг-Монтефиоре Саймон Джонатан
Язык: английский
Год: 2021
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From the author of *The Romanovs* : a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership--as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince...
The World [A Family History of Humanity]
История, Культурология

The World [A Family History of Humanity]

Автор: Себаг-Монтефиоре Саймон Джонатан
Язык: английский
Год: 2022
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs—a magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along...