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100 Nasty Women of History. Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know
100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world.

These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times, too nasty to be recognised, too nasty to be paid for their work and sometimes too nasty to be allowed to live.

When you learn about women in history, they're often made out to be shining, glittering souls. But when you hear about these Bold-Yet-Morally-Irreproachable Women of History who were 100% Pure and Good, you're probably not being told the best bits of her life. You probably missed the part where she:

Slept around

Wore men's clothes

Crashed planes

Led a revolution

Terrorised the seven seas

Wrote sensual poetry

Punched a Nazi (metaphorically, but not always)

These are the women you've probably never heard of, but should. Take these stories and tell them to your friends, because everyone should know about the nasty women from history who gave zero f*cks whatsoever. These are the 100 NASTY WOMEN OF HISTORY you need to know about.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 781102
ISBN: 9781473671249
Автор: Jewell Hannah

1000 Years of Annoying the French (на английском языке)
Издание полностью на английском языке.

Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?

Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.

Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?

Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.

Was the guillotine a French invention?

Non! It was invented in Yorkshire.

Ten centuries worth of French historical facts bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066...
Год: 2012
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 329086
ISBN: 9780552775755
Автор: Clarke Stephen

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. Two lives, one nation and a century of art under tyranny in China
A family story and the tale of a nation.



Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet.



'Engrossing...a remarkable story' Sunday Times



Here, through the sweeping lens of his own and his father's life, Ai Weiwei tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 years, from the Cultural Revolution to the modern-day Chinese Communist Party.



Here is the story of a childhood spent in desolate exile after his father, Ai Qing, once China's most celebrated poet, fell foul of the authorities. Here is his move to America as a young man and his return to China, his rise from unknown to art-world superstar and international rights activist. Here is his extraordinary account of how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime.



It's the story of a father and a son, of exceptional creativity and passionate belief, and of how two indomitable spirits enabled the world to understand their country.



'A story of inherited resilience and self-determination' Observer



'A majestic and exquisitely serious masterpiece about his China... One of the great voices of our time' Andrew Solomon



'Intimate, unflinching...an instant classic' Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition
Год: 2022
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 923669
ISBN: 9781784701499
Автор: Ai Weiwei

1606. Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare s life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear.



1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, which witnessed the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional one for Shakespeare, unrivalled at identifying the fault-lines of his cultural moment, who before the year was out went on to complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke directly to these fraught times: Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.



Following the biographical style of 1599, a way of thinking and writing that Shapiro has made his own, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear promises to be one of the most significant and accessible works on Shakespeare in the decade to come.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 954111
ISBN: 9780571235797
Автор: Shapiro James

1917. Key to the "Russian" Revolution
It wasn't by chance that the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917, and nor was it the case with the Soviet Union. In both cases a powerful external force initiated Russia's falling apart using villains and fools, who completely destroyed their own country for money and attractive promises. The history of this great catastrophe still holds many mysteries, and there are much more questions than answers here. Germany, which is still blamed for it, was not more than a tool and fell a victim to its own revolution afterwards. February 1917 - this is when the Russian catastrophe of the 20th century started, and we paid too high a price to overcome the damage. However, as soon as we forgot how Russia's geopolitical enemies had destroyed our country, disintegration and chaos came back. In both cases, this force hid behind the smokescreen of an "alliance" and "universal values". And now their conceptual descendants, sufficiently sponsored from abroad, are ready to provoke a new revolution in Russia.

Read this book and learn:

- why Nicholas II and his brother abdicated so easily;

- who and how arranged Lenin's return to Russia in a "sealed" railway car;

- why the British agent Oswald Rayner put a security round into Grigori Rasputin's forehead;

- why the German General Staff never knew they had a spy by the name of Ulyanov;

- why the Provision Government paid for the passage of revolutionaries, who were going to overthrow them;

- why Alexander Kerensky didn't fight Bolsheviks but played a giveaway game with them and tried to hand the power to Lenin.

- Kerensky = Gorbachev = Yeltsin = ...?

Enough of this! There should be no more revolutions in Russia!
Год: 2018
Производитель: Питер
Артикул: 626373
ISBN: 978-5-4461-0485-7
Автор: Starikov Nikolay

1945. Victory in the West
March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final I00 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, village by village, town by town.



This is the extraordinary and gripping story of those final I00 days.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 970117
ISBN: 9781529157734
Автор: Caddick-Adams Peter

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works.

In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including:

There's no such thing as a 'free' market

Globalization isn't making the world richer

We don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet

Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones

Higher paid managers don't produce better results

We don't have to accept things as they are any longer. Ha-Joon Chang is here to show us there's a better way.

'Lively, accessible and provocative ... read this book' - Sunday Times

'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy' - Observer

'The new kid on the economics block ... Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans' - Independent on Sunday

'Lucid ... audacious ... increasingly influential ... will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance' - Guardian

'Important ... persuasive ... an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization' - Financial Times

'A must-read ... incisive and entertaining' - New Statesman Books of the Year

Ha-Joon Chang is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World. Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian, and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 693929
ISBN: 978-0-14-104797-3
Автор: Chang Ha-Joon

40 Thieves on Saipan. The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles
An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky's "40 Thieves" were chosen for their willingness to defy rules and beat all-comers. When two Marines got into a fight, the loser ended up in the infirmary, the winner in the brig. Tachovsky wanted the winner on his team-a brush with military law was a recommendation.

These full-blooded men were trained in a ruthless array of hand-to-hand killing techniques and then thrown into the battle for Saipan-Emperor Hirohito's "Treasure" and the bulwark of the Japanese Empire in the Pacific-where they would wreak havoc in and around, but mostly behind, enemy lines. They witnessed inhuman atrocities; walked into an ambush after the cunning Japanese used wounded Marines as bait; endured body-punishing extremes of heat, hunger, and thirst; fought a relentless enemy who would not surrender; and watched best friends die.

Now Tachovsky's son Joseph tells their remarkable story-a story he didn't even know until after his father's death-reported from an extensive documentary record, including priceless mementos his father kept, and from exhaustive interviews with survivors who served under Lieutenant "Ski."

This is how America won the war in the Pacific, where "uncommon valor was a common virtue." 40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles is true history. It's also an adventure you don't want to miss.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Regnery History
Артикул: 966637
ISBN: 9781684511938
Автор: Tachovsky Joseph, Kraack Cynthia

90-е, страна. Жизнь в фотохронике
Десятилетие в жизни страны - это не так уж много. Но бывают в истории периоды, когда время словно сжимается, вмещая в себя такое множество поистине эпохальных событий, какого с избытком хватило бы на долгие-долгие годы спокойного существования.

Таким бурным выдалось для России последнее десятилетие двадцатого века.

Перестройка, ГКЧП, развал СССР, экономические ре формы, свободные СМИ, приватизация, стрельба из танков по Белому дому, война в Чечне, разгул преступности, митинги протеста, выборы президента, Буденновск, взрывы домов в Дагестане, Волгодонске и Москве, уход с политической арены первого Президента России Бориса Ельцина

Именно он 31 декабря 1999 года поставил в череде этих событий символическую точку, объявив о добровольном сложении с себя президентских полномочий и назвав имя своего преемника. С тех пор мы живем в другой стране.

"90-е. Страна. Жизнь в фотохронике" - это подробный документальный рассказ о России тех лет. На страницах книги - сотни уникальных снимков, запечатлевших политиков и олигархов, журналистов и правозащитников, деятелей науки и культуры, представителей общественных движений и самых обыкновенных людей - шахтеров, учителей, врачей, солдат, пенсионеров - всех тех, кто творил историю нашей страны. Фотографии, собранные в тематические разделы, сопровождаются кратким, но емким и содержательным текстом известной журналистки Людмилы Телень, в 90-е - первого заместителя главного редактора газеты "Московские новости".
Год: 2015
Производитель: Синдбад
Артикул: 485905
ISBN: 978-5-905891-69-4, 978-5-906837-37-0
Автор: Телень Людмила Олеговна