В США во время Первой мировой войны радиевую краску использовали для изготовления светящихся циферблатов армейских часов. Тысячи девушек раскрашивали стрелки и цифры — это была простая, но престижная работа (и помощь солдатам) с высокой оплатой труда. Фабричные работницы облизывали кисточки, чтобы заостренным кончиком точнее наносить краску на циферблаты и мелкие детали. Страшно представить, сколько радия таким образом попадало в их организм! Помимо этого, ради шутки они подкрашивали себе ногти и зубы, чтобы похвастаться перед друзьями и родственниками. Никто не мог себе даже представить, что такая перспективная работа вкупе с искренним желанием помочь солдатам в военные годы приведет к страшной трагедии, которая впоследствии вызовет огромный общественный резонанс и забастовки. Смелость и упорство молодых девушек привели к изменению стандартов охраны труда, исследованиям в области производства атомных бомб и спасению тысяч жизней.
Уолтер Айзексон4.5 Автор книг о Джобсе и Эйнштейне на сей раз обратился к биографии титана Ренессанса — Леонардо да Винчи. Айзексон прежде всего обращает внимание на редкое сочетание пытливого ума ученого и фантазии художника. Свои познания в анатомии, математике, оптике он применял и изобретая летательные аппараты или катапульты, и рассчитывая перспективу в “Тайной вечере” или наделяя Мону Лизу ее загадочной улыбкой. На стыке науки и искусств и рождались шедевры Леонардо. Леонардо был гением, но это еще не все: он был олицетворением всемирного разума, стремившегося постичь весь сотворенный мир и осмыслить место человека в нем.
Дэвид Гранн4.2 Племени осейджей повезло уцелеть, когда белые колонизовали Америку. И еще им повезло очутиться на богатых нефтью землях Оклахомы. На старте нефтяной лихорадки двадцатых пресса наперебой сообщала о сказочном обогащении "краснокожих миллионеров". На этом везение индейцев закончилось, потому что их стали методично убивать: по одному и целыми семьями. Справиться с криминальным террором Эдгар Гувер, поставленный во главе только что организованного ФБР, поручает техасскому рейнджеру Тому Уайту…
Захватывающее расследование, названное лучшей книгой года по версии Amazon, Wall Street Journal и еще полутора десятка американских изданий первого ряда. Национальный бестселлер в США и бестселлер "Нью-Йорк таймс".
Джулия Бейрд0.0 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00RKO3UMY
The extraordinary story of the world's most influential, intriguing and surprising ruler, Queen Victoria.
When Alexandrina Victoria was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 20 June 1837, she was 18 years old and barely five feet tall. Her subjects were fascinated and intrigued; some felt sorry for her. Writer Thomas Carlyle, watching her gilded coach draw away from the coronation, said: 'Poor little Queen, she is at an age at which a girl can hardly be trusted to choose a bonnet for herself; yet a task is laid upon her from which an archangel might shrink.'
Queen Victoria is long dead, but in truth she has shaped us from the grave. She was a tiny, powerful woman who reigned for an astonishing 64 years. By the time of her Diamond Jubilee Procession in 1897, she reigned over a fourth of the inhabitable part of the world, had 400 million subjects, and had given birth to nine children. Suffrage, anti-poverty and anti-slavery movements can all be traced to her monumental reign, along with a profound rethinking of family life and the rise of religious doubt. When she died, in 1901, she was the longest reigning monarch in English history. Victoria is truly the woman who made the modern world.
A fascinating, provocative and authoritative new biography of Queen Victoria which will make us see her in a new light, from one of Australia's most admired and respected journalists and commentators, Julia Baird.
Люси Уорсли4.4 Эта новая биография Джейн Остин отличается от прочих особой погруженностью в эпоху, чрезвычайно бережным и точным воссозданием атмосферы, в которой жила и творила автор любимых миллионами читателей произведений.
Дочь сельского пастора, Джейн никогда не имела собственного дома и всю жизнь была вынуждена переезжать с места на место, иногда пользуясь гостеприимством богатых родственников, а временами ютясь в съемном жилье.
Историк английского быта Люси Уорсли ведет читателя по связанным с жизнью и творчеством великой соотечественницы адресам, знакомя читателя с миром окружавших ее вещей и воссоздавая атмосферу ее повседневной жизни.
Написанная на основе огромного фактологического материала — писем и воспоминаний современников, газетных публикаций, литературных произведений той поры, сочинений самой Джейн Остин, — эта «биография сквозь призму быта» помогает понять, почему в ее творчестве такое большое значение придается дому, который воспринимается то как уютное гнездышко, то как место заточения, то как недостижимая мечта.
Джеффри Клугер4.4 В августе 1968 г. НАСА приняло смелое решение: запустить первый обитаемый космический корабль к Луне. Всего год назад три астронавта погибли в пожаре во время испытаний, и с тех пор программа «Аполлон» терпела одну неудачу за другой. Тем временем СССР выигрывал космическую гонку, холодная война становилась все жарче с каждым месяцем, и обещание президента Кеннеди отправить человека на Луну к концу десятилетия казалось несостоятельным. Но когда Фрэнка Бормана вызвали на секретную встречу и предложили его экипажу опасную миссию, он без колебаний согласился.
Эта книга — первая подробная история «Аполлона-8». Джеффри Клугер предлагает читателю захватывающую историю о миссии, которая была столь рискованной, что воспринималась почти как лотерея, но, увенчавшись успехом, ознаменовала начало новой эры в освоении космического пространства.
Рональд Черноу0.0 Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments. A biographer at the height of his powers, Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is a masterpiece, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had been dismal, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War, he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in the Civil War, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee after a series of unbelievably bloody battles in Virginia. Along the way Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. His military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff. All the while Grant himself remained more or less above reproach. But, more importantly, he never failed to seek freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him 'the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race." After his presidency, he was again brought low by a trusted colleague, this time a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, but he resuscitated his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre.
With his famous lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero." His probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of America's finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary.
Мелисса Флеминг0.0 Emotionally riveting and eye-opening, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is the incredible story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit. Melissa Fleming shares the harrowing journey of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee in search of a better life.
Doaa and her family leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life.
After four days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men shouting threats and insults. With no land in sight and surrounded by bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child’s inflatable water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck. Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not lose hope.
Michael Lewis4.3 Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.
The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield—both had important careers in the Israeli military—and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.
Тимоти Снайдер3.8 Эта книга изучает проблему тирании со всех возможных сторон, опираясь на примеры истории XX века, необычайно богатой на материал подобного рода. Какой правитель становится тираном и кто в этом виноват, почему миллионы людей, наделенных свободой выбора, начинают вдруг послушно подчиняться чужой воле и безропотно выполняют любые приказы, даже если это ставит под угрозу их жизнь и жизни их близких, можно ли предугадать появление тиранов и почему важно защищать общественные институты, какую опасность таят в себе слова и символы, где проходит грань между демократией и диктатурой, как бороться против тирана и имеет ли это смысл. Но главное – эта книга приводит двадцать конкретных выводов, которые мы должны сделать из жестокого урока истории, чтоб не повторить ошибок прошлого.
Тимоти Тайсон4.0 This reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves “the Emmett Till generation” launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till’s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.
Jeff Guinn5.0 By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre—the largest murder-suicide in American history.
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California. He became involved in electoral politics, and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader.
In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the fraught decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading to the fatal day in November, 1978 when more than nine hundred people died—including almost three hundred infants and children—after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink.
Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case, including material released during the course of his research. He traveled to Jones’s Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people never previously interviewed, and uncovered fresh information from Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered on Jones’s orders. The Road to Jonestown is the definitive book about Jim Jones and the events that led to the tragedy at Jonestown.
Дженнифер Райт4.5 A humorous book about history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio—and the heroes who fought them
In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. In late-nineteenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome—a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary and led to historic medical breakthroughs.
Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they've suffered from. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history, as well as stories of the heroic figures who fought to ease their suffering. With her signature mix of in-depth research and upbeat storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history’s most gripping and deadly outbreaks.
Джайлс Милтон4.2 Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine
In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.
The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men--along with three others--formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.
Крис Уиппл0.0 The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country.
What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States--as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others. The chiefs of staff, often referred to as "the gatekeepers," wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUS's agenda, and--most crucially--enjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world. Each chief can make or break an administration, and each president reveals himself by the chief he picks.
Through extensive, intimate interviews with all seventeen living chiefs and two former presidents, award-winning journalist and producer Chris Whipple pulls back the curtain on this unique fraternity. In doing so, he revises our understanding of presidential history, showing us how James Baker's expert managing of the White House, the press, and Capitol Hill paved the way for the Reagan Revolution--and, conversely, how Watergate, the Iraq War, and even the bungled Obamacare rollout might have been prevented by a more effective chief.
Filled with shrewd analysis and never-before-reported details, The Gatekeepers offers an essential portrait of the toughest job in Washington.
Дональд Стрэттон0.0 THE FIRST MEMOIR BY A USS ARIZONA SURVIVOR: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers a "powerful" and "intimate"* eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight
At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan’s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor’s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart.
In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona—ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight.
Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates—approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors’ advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America’s Second World War.
As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable—and remarkably inspiring—memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years.
Марк Боуден0.0 The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.
In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. Within hours the entire city was in their hands save for two small military outposts. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the Front’s presence, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II.
With unprecedented access to war archives in the U.S. and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. Hue 1968 is a gripping and moving account of this pivotal moment.
Майк Дункан4.8 The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 BCE, Rome grew from an unremarkable Italian city-state to the dominant superpower of the Mediterranean world. Through it all, the Romans never allowed a single man to seize control of the state. Every year for four hundred years the annually elected consuls voluntarily handed power to their successors. Not once did a consul give in to the temptation to grab absolute power and refuse to let it go. It was a run of political self-denial unmatched in the history of the world. The disciplined Roman republicans then proceeded to explode out of Italy and conquer a world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings.
But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing. The republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome ruled. Bankrolled by mountains of imperial wealth and without a foreign enemy to keep them united, ambitious Roman leaders began to stray from the republican austerity of their ancestors. Almost as soon as they had conquered the Mediterranean, Rome would become engulfed in violent political conflicts and civil wars that would destroy the Republic less than a century later.
The Storm Before the Storm tells the story of the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic--the story of the first generation that had to cope with the dangerous new political environment made possible by Rome's unrivaled domination over the known world. The tumultuous years from 133-80 BCE set the stage for the fall of the Republic.
The Republic faced issues like rising economic inequality, increasing political polarization, the privatization of the military, endemic social and ethnic prejudice, rampant corruption, ongoing military quagmires, and the ruthless ambition and unwillingness of elites to do anything to reform the system in time to save it--a situation that draws many parallels to present-day America. These issues are among the reasons why the Roman Republic would fall. And as we all know, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Билл О’Рейлли0.0 Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain’s King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O’Reilly and Dugard recreate the war’s landmark battles, including Bunker Hill, Long Island, Saratoga, and Yorktown, revealing the savagery of hand-to-hand combat and the often brutal conditions under which these brave American soldiers lived and fought. Also here is the reckless treachery of Benedict Arnold and the daring guerilla tactics of the “Swamp Fox” Frances Marion.
Линн Олсон0.0 An engrossing account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a refuge for the governments and armed forces of six occupied nations — Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia, and Poland — who escaped there to continue the fight. So, too, did General Charles de Gaulle, the self- appointed representative of free France. As the only European democracy still holding out against Hitler, Britain became known to occupied countries as ‘Last Hope Island’.
In this epic, character-driven narrative, acclaimed historian and New York Times–bestselling author Lynne Olson takes us back to those perilous days when the British and their European guests joined forces to combat the mightiest military force in history and restore order to a broken continent.
Темное вещество, гравитация, возможность межгалактических полетов и Теория Большого взрыва… Изучение тайн Вселенной подобно чтению захватывающего романа. Но только если вы хорошо понимаете физику, знаете, что скрывается за всеми сложными терминами и определениями. В самых головоломных вопросах науки вам поможет разобраться Нил Деграсс Тайсон — один из самых авторитетных и в то же время остроумных астрофизиков нашего времени. Он обладает особым даром рассказывать о сложнейших научных теориях понятно, интересно и с юмором.
Новая книга Нила Тайсона — это очередное захватывающее путешествие в мир современной науки. Вы узнаете о самых последних открытиях, сможете проследить секунда за секундой рождение Вселенной, узнаете новейшие данные о темной материи и происхождении Земли. И чтобы понять все это, вам не понадобится никакого специального образования: достаточно даже слегка подзабытого курса средней школы и любопытства. А закрыв эту книгу, вы поймете, что астрофизика не так сложна, как казалось! Это полезное и увлекательное чтение для всей семьи. Читайте, чтобы не отстать от научно-технического прогресса.
Анджела Сайни3.7 From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.
Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered. She explores what these revelations mean for us as individuals and as a society, revealing an alternative view of science in which women are included, rather than excluded.
Cет Cтивенс-Давидовиц3.7 Автор книги, специалист Google по Data Science, провел исследование, опираясь на науку о больших данных (Big Data), а также данные, которые может предоставить исследователю Интернет. В результате он получил сенсационные результаты, полностью переворачивающие современные представления об обществе, в котором мы живем. Как часто мы на самом деле занимаемся сексом? Почему, вопреки общественному мнению, на президентских выборах США победил Трамп? Что мы в действительности думаем о людях другой расы? Социологические исследования и опросы, как оказалось, не в состоянии ответить правдиво на эти и многие другие важные вопросы. Поэтому автор, специалист Google по Data Science, обратил свой взгляд на данные, которые не могут врать, а именно Big Data, а также всю ту информацию, которую может предоставить Интернет. Получились не просто интересные, а сногсшибательные результаты, раскрывающие всю правду о современном обществе.
Хорхе Чэм, Дэниел Вайтсон4.7 Любопытство в тренде! Хотите знать, как образовалась Вселенная и что ждет нас в будущем? Понять, откуда взялись время и пространство? Выяснить, одиноки ли мы во Вселенной? Тогда вам не сюда. Эта книга для тех, кого интересуют более любопытные вещи. Она о том, чего мы не знаем о Вселенной: о реально сложных вопросах, ответы на которые вопреки распространенному мнению нам неизвестны. С помощью наглядной инфографики, остроумных комиксов и смешных каламбуров авторы берутся выяснить, какие темы на самом деле волнуют современных физиков.
«Мы вовсе не хотим, чтобы вы расстраивались из-за своего невежества; наоборот, мы предполагаем, что вас должна воодушевить огромная, не нанесенная на карту территория, которую предстоит исследовать. Для каждой неразрешенной загадки космического масштаба мы покажем, какое значение для человечества может иметь разгадка и какие невероятные сюрпризы может таить неизведанное. Мы научим вас иначе смотреть на мир – осознав, чего именно мы не знаем, мы поймем,то будущее полно удивительных возможностей. Итак – пристегните ремни, устройтесь поудобнее и приготовьтесь исследовать глубины нашего невежества!» (Хорхе Чэм, Дэниел Уайтсон)
Дэн Эган0.0 The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
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