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11Through the Looking Glass , Lewis Carroll (2010)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.'In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice… 232 руб12A Hymn Before Battle , John Ringo (2001)
With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans - for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies 607 руб13The Power of Positive Deviance , Pascale Richard T. (2012)
Significant change in groups of any size - from small organizations to large communities to entire societies - has traditionally come about through top-down initiatives such as hiring experts or… 1150 руб14The Picture of Dorian Gray , Oscar Wilde (2011)
The novel's first editor, J. M. Stoddart, excised material - especially homosexual content-he thought would offend his readers' sensibilities. When Wilde enlarged the novel for the 1891 edition, he… 3282 руб15Millennium: A Blaze of Colour Lights up the Dark Ages , Tom Holland (2010)
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the… 1501 руб16Quiet Revolution , Ahmed Leila (2012)
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed… 1304.5 руб17Dead Souls , Nikolai Gogol (2010)
With an Introduction by Tony Briggs. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up dead souls … 216 руб18Dead Souls , Gogol Nikolai (2015)
Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs… 318 руб19Confucianism , Daniel K. Gardner (2014)
To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and… 493 руб20The Russian Revolution , Smith S.A. (2002)
This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a… 493 руб
