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The audiobook edition of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, read by the author's son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn. With a new foreword written and read by Jordan B. Peterson, and an exclusive Q&A between Jordan B. Peterson and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. The officially approved abridgement of The...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most...

Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology.

Wild Witch Whispers is an offering. This house is built to be a safe space. A place to rest, recharge, rewild and resurge. A room for revelations and revolutions. A mirror for the wild woman that dances within us to emerge fully and recognize herself in her fullest force and truest glory. ​An atmospheric space for quiet meditation, slow breaths, Buddhist reflection, dark history, feminist folklore and mindful self-discovery—set to ambient nature soundscapes.

Wszyscy na wyspie Sodor są podekscytowani nadchodzącym Wielkim Pokazem Kolejowym. Tomek bardzo chciałby wziąć udział w wyścigu, ale pan Szyneczka nie widzi go w tej roli. Tomek wkrótce nauczy się, że każda lokomotywa moze być bardzo użyteczna na swój własny sposób. Serial Tomek i przyjaciele™ został stworzony przez Brittę Allcroft na podstawie Serii kolejowej autorstwa wielebnego W. Awdry'ego. Opowieści o małej niebieskiej lokomotywie i jej przygodach na wyspie Sodor są znane i kochane przez dzieci na całym świecie od 1984 roku.

March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition, horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a Soviet alternative to undermine it.

Fue en 1850 cuando Afanasiev se dedicó enteramente a su pasión de folclorista de la llamada Vieja Rusia, recorrió provincias enteras obteniendo relatos de todas partes de Moscovia. Sus primeros artículos causaron gran impresión en la escuela mitológica rusa de aquella época. Sus principales fuentes fueron los cuentos de la Academia de Geografía rusa y algunas contribuciones de Vladimir Dal.

After the deaths of three undercover cops investigating a drug ring in a seedy strip club in Seattle, Detective Mahir Hussain has been sent to finish the job. He joins the club’s security team in the hopes of finding enough evidence to bust the operation before the men in charge find a reason to put him in a shallow grave.

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and...

Przejmij stery nad swoimi emocjami, łamiąc automatyczne schematy myślowe i budując trwałą psychologiczną odporność. Idealnie sprawdzający się podczas porannych dojazdów czy wieczornego wyciszenia przed snem, ten uspokajający przewodnik uczy, jak uważnie obserwować własne reakcje...

"Det, der gør Onegin fremragende, er dens tidløse indsigt i mennesket: dets forfængeligheder, dets dårskaber, dets katastrofer." – The Guardian Handlingen udspiller sig i 1820’ernes Rusland. Den blaserte og melankolske unge Eugen Onegin arver sin rige onkels gods og forlader sit...

Qual o segredo do Sr. Risus, o maior cômico que o mundo já conheceu? O que ele deseja? Quais são os seus planos? Descubra as respostas neste brilhante conto russo de ficção científica do autor Aleksandr Romanovich Belyaev, no qual os caminhos das...

"...bir öyküyü Rusça okurken duyduğum heyecanı, sürükleyiciliği, Rus insanının Anadolu insanına tıpatıp benzeyen 'kara mizah' yönünü Türkçe çeviriye olduğu gibi taşımaya çalıştım. Bu çevirilerin hiç birine fazla renk katılmamış, içinden renk alınmamıştır. İyi dinlemeler..."

Uma deusa da noite inconformada com o próprio destino decide responder a uma prece. Uma pirata que quer tomar as rédeas do seu futuro planeja um roubo para se libertar. Uma jovem que perdeu o coração em um Carnaval busca o sentido do amor em sua arte. O roubo em três atos é a edição...

Komisarz Kawecki rozpoczyna śledztwo w sprawie zabójstwa właściciela pensjonatu w Otwocku. W ogrodzie otaczającym budynek komisarz odkrywa drugą ofiarę – zamordowano także młodą kobietę. Okazuje się, że zamordowani mieli romans. Podejrzaną o dokonanie zbrodni jest córka zamordowanego, Marta Tetraszewska, która nie akceptowała nowego związku ojca. Trzecia odsłona kryminalnych historii, których akcja związana jest z Otwockiem.

A major literary event: available for the first time in an English language edition, an early autobiographical novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, which chronicles his service and Soviet Russia's ordeals during World War II. Composed primarily in 1948 while he was...

The Bridge Kingdom meets The Cruel Prince in this first book of a new dark fantasy trilogy, in which a merrow princess is betrothed to a fae prince to secure a foothold in the fae court for the coming war but falls for her husband-to-be’s female guard and must decide what she’s willing to...

W mrokach średniowiecza, w czasach wojen i lęku, w epoce wielkich rycerzy dwie kobiety – matka i córka, światło i cień – odkryją moc przeznaczenia. Jest zima 1422 roku, okres panowania Władysława Jagiełły. To niespokojne czasy wojen polsko-krzyżackich, obaw o integralność i przyszłość państwa polskiego. W zimnym późnośredniowiecznym zamku w Mokrsku mieszka młoda i bogata szlachcianka Brygida z córką Barbarą.