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  • Moscow Racetrack

    A Novel of Espionage at the Track

    Moscow Racetrack is the story of the disillusioned Teacher, a habitué of the track, who one day lucks into big winnings. The KGB, who already had their eye on the Teacher because of his anti-Soviet essays on Russian history that are circulating in samizdat, sends the lucky winner and his pal to Paris, so they can test their skills on foreign turf and earn some hard currency for the impoverished ... Read more

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    The Climb

    Tragic Ambitions on Everest

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film Everest) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women ... Read more

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  • Babi Yar

    The powerful story of Ukraine’s holocaust, set in Kyiv during the Nazi occupation

    by A. Anatoli ...
    Translated by David Floyd ...
    This is the gripping story of Kyiv during the Second World War told by a young boy who saw it all.'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily MailAnatoli Kuznetsov is twelve years old in September 1941 when the German army enters Kyiv, Ukraine and the killings begin 'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going to ... Read more

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  • The Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets: An Anthology (A Bilingual Edition)

    This anthology reflects a search of the Ukrainian nation for its identity, the roots of which lie deep inside Ukrainian-language poetry. Some of the included poets are well-known locally and internationally; among them are Serhiy Zhadan, Halyna Kruk, Ostap Slyvynsky, Marianna Kijanowska, Oleh Kotsarev, Anna Bagriana and, of course, the living legend of Ukrainian poetry, Vasyl Holoborodko. The next ... Read more

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  • Seeing Through Abstraction

    Literary Encounters with Information in Modern China

    During the first half of the twentieth century, China saw sweeping changes in the material conditions and practices of communication, transforming the volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value of information. Encountering the new abstract matter of information, a generation of Chinese writers faced a crisis of literary identity: What made literature distinct from other informational genres, ... Read more

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  • Children of the Arbat

    This autobiographical fiction of Soviet life just prior to Stalin's Great Purge intertwines the story of Sasha Pankratov, a Russian student unjustly arrested, imprisoned, and exiled, with the story of Stalin's obsession with power. ... Read more

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  • The Climb

    Tragic Ambitions on Everest

    Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ... Read more

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  • Time of the Octopus: Based on the true story of whistleblower Edward Snowden

    A frightening, prophetic vision of our world...In Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, fugitive US intelligence officer Joshua Kold is held in limbo, unable to leave the airport’s transit area. He is on the run, after blowing the lid off the terrifying reach of covert American global surveillance operations. Will the Russian authorities grant him asylum, or will they hand him over the clutches of the ... Read more

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  • Take My Word for It

    A Dictionary of English Idioms

    Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretationsTo pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases every day, but this book is the first truly all-encompassing etymological guide to both their meanings and origins. Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Way Up

    Practical Esoteric Work in Gurdjieff Groups

    Get ready for unique insights into the Fourth Way—ideas never before published. This book offers a deep dive into objective cosmic laws and esoteric practices. It meticulously outlines the law of three and the law of octaves. Here, you will find a revolutionary understanding of the enneagram—the version Gurdjieff initially presented, which starkly contrasts with commonly accepted interpretations ... Read more

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  • High-Speed Digital System Design

    Art, Science and Experience

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book describes for readers the entire, interconnected complex of theoretical and practical aspects of designing and organizing the production of various electronic devices, the general and main distinguishing feature of which is the high speed of processing and transmitting of digital signals. The authors discuss all the main stages of design - from the upper system level of the hierarchy ... Read more

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  • Caro-Kann Defence

    Panov Attack

    The Caro-Kann Defence has a justified reputation for reliability, making it an attractive choice for players with a preference for positional play. However in recent years many new dangerous ideas have been discovered for White which makes a study of the theoretical main lines imperative for competitive players. The Panov Attack against the Caro-Kann, 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4, covered ... Read more

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