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It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household--where everything is so well tended to--and this summer must soon come to an end.

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'…

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests.

Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. One’s “biography”—class status and other associations long in the past—put strict boundaries around one’s individual future. When Lea’s parents spoke of relatives going to “university” or “graduating,” they were speaking of grave secrets Lea struggled to unveil. And when the early ’90s saw Albania and other Balkan countries exuberantly begin a transition to the “free market,” Western ideals of freedom delivered chaos: a dystopia of pyramid schemes, organized crime, and sex trafficking.

With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father; and her staunchly anti-socialist, Thatcherite mother to guide her through these disorienting times, Lea had a political education of the most colorful sort—here recounted with outstanding literary talent. Now one of the world’s most dynamic young political thinkers and a prominent leftist voice in the United Kingdom, Lea offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on the relation between the personal and the political, between values and identity, posing urgent questions about the cost of freedom.

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until…

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before.

As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague…

В средневековом Багдаде нищий предстает перед самым могущественным человеком в мире — калифом, чтобы рассказать ему свою историю. Она начинается прогулкой по базару, но очень скоро превращается в совершенно необычный рассказ, который не похож ни на один из рассказанных в империи калифа. Эта история, в которой не только разыскивают зарытые сокровища и спасаются от шайки разбойников, но и история о тех людях, кто охотится за свои прошлом, и других, кто расставляет капканы на свое будущее, это рассказ не только о любимой жене и таинственной соблазнительнице, но и о том, что длинное путешествие с караваном начинается с простого шага. А кроме того эта история о воле Аллаха и принятие ее, вне зависимости от формы, которую она приняла.

В средневековом Багдаде нищий предстает перед самым могущественным человеком в мире — калифом, чтобы рассказать ему свою историю. Она начинается прогулкой по базару, но очень…

This is an account of certain aspects of the life and career of Henry of Navarre. This volume covers the period 1589-1596, from Henry's accession to his abjuration and coronation, the end of the war with the Catholic league, the war with Spain in 1595 and the negotiation in Rome of his absolution.

This is an account of certain aspects of the life and career of Henry of Navarre. This volume covers the period 1589-1596, from Henry's accession to his abjuration and coronation,…

Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake – the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators – whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.

Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that…

Интриги, борьба за власть и популярность у народа, подкупы и разоблачения, непомерное честолюбие и жажда славы – вот тайные механизмы политической жизни Рима. Судьба одного человека среди этого бурного моря мало что значила, конечно, если этим человеком был не Марк Туллий Цицерон, философ и ритор, гений пиара и непревзойденный политтехнолог, чьи мысли и высказывания цитируются потомками уже второе тысячелетие. Он ходил по лезвию ножа, рисковал и выигрывал, терял друзей, наживал врагов и превращал их в союзников. Он заставил чванливый Рим склониться к своим ногам. Но однажды расклад оказался не в его пользу…

Интриги, борьба за власть и популярность у народа, подкупы и разоблачения, непомерное честолюбие и жажда славы – вот тайные механизмы политической жизни Рима. Судьба одного…