Коллектив. — 3th Edition. — Future, 2024. — 116 р. We might all have different ideas of what is meant by an ‘adventure’, but can probably all agree that an adventure is something that excites us or moves us in some way. Perhaps it’s something that’s been on your bucket list for many years, or maybe it’s something you stumble across and the spontaneous nature of it makes it...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 28 с. В данной книге описаны советы как создавать мультяшных персонажей с помощью программы Adobe Photoshop.Adobe Photoshop — многофункциональный графический редактор, разрабатываемый и распространяемый компанией Adobe Systems. В основном работает с растровыми изображениями, однако имеет некоторые векторные инструменты.
М.: Права человека» 1998. — 236 с. — ISBN 5-7712-0096-4 В сборник вошли доклады и выступления участников конференции, посвященной 30-летию работы А. Д. Сахарова «Размышления о прогрессе, мирном сосуществовании и интеллектуальной свободе».
СПб.: Маматов, 2023. — 216 с. — ISBN 978-5-91076-268-2 Издание посвящено истории создания и роли в жизни и экономике города Перми предприятий военно-промышленного комплекса. В книге рассказывается об истории 17 предприятий, представляющих различные отрасли от порохового производства до авиадвигателестроения. В издание включены очерки по истории предприятий, их роли в экономике...
Headway, 2023. — 108 p. 50 Must-Read Bestsellers in Infographics How to manage time? How to increase productivity? How to reach happiness? How to boost emotional intelligence? How to become smarter? How to be more creative? Read a visualized bestseller in 5 minutes Gain more knowledge in less time Learn hundreds of the world’s best insights Get actionable tips for everyday life...
3-е изд. — Иерусалим: Библиотека Алия, 1990. — 218 с. — ISBN 965-320-187-5. Представ здесь перед вами, Судьи Израиля, дабы вести обвинение против Адольфа Эйхмана, я не один стою. Со мной вместе в этот час — шесть миллионов обвинителей. Но они не могут встать, указать обвиняющим перстом на сидящего на скамье подсудимых и воскликнуть: «Я обвиняю!». Их пепел развеян по холмам...
London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 302 p. — ISBN 978-1-349-28689-8 Iran's long history and complex cultural legacy have generated animated debates about a homogenous Iranian identity in the face of ethnic, linguistic and communal diversity. The volume examines the fluid boundaries of pre-modern identity in history and literature as well as the shaping of Iranian...
Routledge, 2015. — 305 p. — ISBN 0-7656-1496-0 This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes profiles of leading Pakistani militant groups with details of their origins, development, and capabilities. The author begins with...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 326 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-27119-5 The first account of the new Taliban—showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan—a scenario few Western commentators anticipated. But after a twenty-year-long bitter war against the Republic of...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 296 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-17884-5 In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliban government, scattering its remnants across the country. But...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 966 р. — ISBN 978-06-91-243-368 The discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory revealed that, despite its reputation for certainty, mathematical truth is not immutable, perfect, or even perfectible. Beginning in the last century, a handful of adventurous playwrights took inspiration from the...
Celadon Books, 2023. — 404 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-86503-8 We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there’s another way? Dr Ali Abdaal – the world's most-followed productivity expert – has uncovered an easier and happier path to success. Drawing on decades of psychological research, he has...
Vintage Books, 2022. — 469 p. — ISBN 9781761044601 Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a dynamic, optimistic, naïve, youthful grass-roots organiser and oil rig worker before she found herself taking on the heft of the Australian political and media establishment, unintentionally. From her new home in Europe she brings her characteristic warmth, clarity and inquisitive nature to...
Zed Books, 2018. — 325 p. — ISBN 978-1-78699-351-9 In 2018, Palestinians mark the seventieth anniversary of the Nakba, a mass eviction that saw more than 70,000 people uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the...
New York: Penguin Books, 2020, — 194 р. — ISBN 978-014-3-134-930 The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 257 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-45336-7. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the domestic and foreign politics of Iran, focusing on its complex nature from political, social and cultural perspectives. It has adopted a multidisciplinary approach, combining comparative politics and intellectual and modern history with international relations. It analyses...
Tawakkol Karman Foundation, 2020. — 354 p. This book is designed to provide a comprehensive approach to the events in Yemen between 2011 and 2020. These articles comply with all academic standards and offer multiple perspectives on this highly complex issue, analyzing the key concerns, tracking developments and repercussions, and identifying possible solutions. By examining...
Orbit, 2022. — 975 p. — (The Sandsea Trilogy. Book 1) — ISBN 9780316368964. Neither here nor there, but long ago... Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding...
Wednesday Books, 2023. — 473 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-85132-1 Remy Kobata has always wished she was destined to be with her best friend, Cam Yasuda. All the way from being neighbors from birth to mixing up magical prank potions together to their “just friends” homecoming date during their senior year in high school, nothing’s a secret between Remy and Cam―except for how much she is...
Routledge, 2016. — 298 p. After the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the former USSR and Yugoslavia, it has widely been assumed that socialist federations have become a thing of the past. Ethiopia’s ethnic federal system however is essentially a socialist federal system based on the notion of the ’right to self-determination of nationalities’ and a...
Translated and annotated by Michael Abdalla and Łukasz Kiczko. — Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 272 p. — ISBN 978 1 4744 4752 2. The task of determining the geographic location of many of the settlements the author describes has proven to be quite a challenge; some of these towns and villages in particular bear other names today than those that were known when the text was...
Page Street, 2023. — 408 р. — ISBN 978-1-64567-663-8 With this one-stop guide to fiscal literacy in your back pocket, the five-star vacation you’ve been dreaming of is wholly within reach. Known everywhere for his innovative travel hacking tips, Zachary Burr Abel is here to offer his best counsel for navigating airline loyalty programs, credit card promotional deals, and hidden...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7425-5705-5 Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the...
I. B. Tauris, 2004. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978 1 86064 970 7 Under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE) Persia adopted Shi'ism as its official religion. Rula Abisaab explains how and why this specific brand of Shi'ism--urban and legally-based--was brought to the region by leading Arab 'Ulama from Ottoman Syria, and changed the face of the region until this day. These emigre scholars furnished...
Anqa Publishing, 2014. — 201 р. — ISBN: 978 1 905937 53 0 The present work followed two articles I wrote on two important Sufi figures that influenced Ibn al-ʿArabī: ‘Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Attitude toward al-Ghazālī’, and ‘Ibn al-ʿArabī and Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī’. I owe thanks to Brepols Publishing for giving me permission to publish the first article in the present volume. My thanks...
Macmillan Business, 2023. — 504 р. — ISBN 978-1-0350-2498-8 Stanford lecturer and host of the #1 business podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams, reveals the secrets to finding the right words when it counts. Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with these essential...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 316 p. — ISBN 978-1-108-41562-0 America is turning away from support for democrats in Arab countries in favor of 'pragmatic' deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism. For too many policymakers, Arab democracy is seen as a dangerous luxury. In Realism and Democracy, Elliott Abrams marshals four decades of experience as...
Atria Books, 2023. — 593 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-9926-5 Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from...
Ann Arbor: The University Michigan Press, 1998. — 193 p. — ISBN 0-472-09591-9 This book is the product of a long but sporadic collaboration, for the two authors have been working together off and on for over a quarter of a century. We met at a conference on political socialization in Ann Arbor in the summer of 1967. That meeting led to ajointly authored article, which was...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 372 p. For beauty, precision and strength, nothing has ever matched the combination of form and function found in the armour of the samurai. For a samurai, the consummate warrior, his suit of armour was so much more than 'just' protective equipment that could save his life in the heat of battle - it was the embodiment of his personality, social status...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. — 756 p. — ISBN 978-146-685-6165 Since the death of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 there has been no ideology to capture the imagination of the Arab world except Islamic fundamentalism. Any sense of completely secular Arab states ended with him and what we see today happening in the Middle East is a direct result of Western opposition to...
Public Affairs, 2023. — 554 р. — ISBN: 9781541702530 A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear: progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity. The wealth generated by technological...
Ecco, 2023. — 532 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-320726-4 Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her...
Routledge, 2010. — 253 p. — ISBN 0-203-86143-4 Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures have gained their political autonomy, it is long past time that non-Western voices had a higher profile in debates about international relations, not just as disciples of Western schools of...
Penguin Press, 2022. — 365 p. — ISBN 9780593492048 Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict....
Frances Lincoln, 2022. — 436 p. — ISBN 978-0-7112-8152-3 Think of the colors of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone, and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Or the gradations of yellows, violets, and blues that shimmer on the Thames at sunset—reflecting the incandescent light of a city...
Macmillan, 2012. — 527 p. — ISBN: 0230706401; ISBN13: 9780230706408. Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the...
Сост. Е. Н. Струкова, Б. И. Беленкин, при участии Г. Г. Суперфина; Государственная публичная историческая библиотека России; Международное историко-просветительское, благотворительное и правозащитное общество «Мемориал». — М., 2015. — 332 с. — ISBN 978-5-85209-366-0 Во втором выпуске альманаха собраны работы исследователей самиздата и пограничных сюжетов новейшей истории,...
Baker Books, 2022. — 198 р. — ISBN 978-1-4934-3932-4 When Jon Acuff's book Soundtracks, came out, one reaction surprised him. Parents across the country all said the same thing: "Do you have a version for teenagers? If I knew how to change my mindset when I was that age, my entire life would have been different." Why did they say that? Because truth grows like compound...
MJF Books, 2004. — 184 р. — ISBN-13: 978-1-56731-735-O In Chance, celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory — the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical applications. What is commonly called luck has mathematical roots and in Chance,...
Hachette Books, 2022. — 424 p. — ISBNs: 9780306925207 We can’t always plan for what’s next—that’s been made more and more clear in the past few years. The truth is that life is never predictable, especially as parents. What is possible is your unlimited capacity for compassion, and caring—for yourself and for your children. As you navigate the uncertainty with openness and...
University of Hawaii Press, 2006. — 305 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-2999-5 Art as Politics explores the intersection of art, identity politics, and tourism in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Based on long-term ethnographic research from the 1980s to the present, the book offers a nuanced portrayal of the Sa'dan Toraja, a predominantly Christian minority group in the world's most populous...
Routledge, 2013. — 291 p. — ISBN13 978-0-415-62823-5. This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging con- ceptions of an “ecological citizenship” advocating something other than nationalism or an “exclusionary ethics of place.” Co-editors Adamson and Rui n recover underrecognized fi...
New York; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. — 212 p. Tempering Medieval Food Terence Scully Sorting through the Titles of Medieval Dishes: What Is, or Is Not, a "Blanc manger" Constance B. Hieatt Interreginal Influences in Medieval Cooking Johanna Maria van Winter The Evolution of Culinary Techniques in the Medieval Era Barbara Santich Some Remarks on Medieval Cooking:...
The Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021. — 477 p. — ISBN: 978-1-68134-182-8 After civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991, thousands of families fled the country and sought asylum all over the world. Many Somali women carried the responsibility through this catastrophic time for finding safe passage and new homes for their families. Minnesota now holds the largest number of...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 493 p. — ISBN 978-0-8014-5525-4 Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and...
Tom Doherty Associates books, 2022. — 488 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-81390-9 As a Witness for the Dead, Thara Celehar can speak to the recently departed: see the last thing they saw, know the last thought they had, experience the last thing they felt. It is his duty to use that ability to ascertain the intent of the dead and to find the killers of the murdered. Celehar’s time in the...
Park Row Books, 2022. — 530 p. — ISBN-13: 978-036-97204-05 Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is...
Manchester University Press, 1984. — 343 p. — ISBN : 071-901-083-7 Origins and birth 1880-1920 Apprenticeship 1921-33 Maturity the Popular Front Trials the acid test of war 1939-1945 Rise and fall from ministers 1945 to cold Into battle the PCF against the Gaullist Fifth In the colours of France 1969-78 Coming of age from Cominform to EuroCommunism Trials the acid test of war...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 313 p. — ISBN 978-1-4742-5429-8 The first survey of the Pan-African movement this century, this book provides a history of the individuals and organisations that have sought the unity of all those of African origin as the basis for advancement and liberation. Initially an idea and movement that took root among the African Diaspora, in more recent...