253 results for 'kuznetsov maxim'

"[A] masterpiece . . . Babi Yar [is] every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness [such as] Anne Frank's diary . . . Wiesel's Night . . . Solzhenityn's Gulag Archipelago." —George Packer, The...

Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what...

An NPR “Best Book of the Year” “Eerily atmospheric, keep-you-up-late suspenseful.” ―Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle In this haunting novel about the end of the frontier dream, a man tries...

This highly illustrated book takes young readers behind the scenes to discover exactly how an airport works. Airports reveals the busy and complex world of an international airport to discover...

A classic secular history of the prophet Muhammad that vividly recreates the fascinating time in which Islam was born.Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the...

A new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside...

The indispensable lexicon you need to face authoritarianism―from the country that’s been surviving it for centuries. America is not the first country to experience the stirring of tyranny; in Russia,...

“[The] Ukrainian American heroine of this sweet-bitter debut is a wisecracking fatalist who can be counted on to say the inappropriate thing, a tendency that becomes more pronounced as doomed crushes...

A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and...

Recent years have seen a welcome growth of interest in the history of early Rome. Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: the Origins of the Annalistic Tradition contributes important information on this...