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Monograph about peasant riots against Soviet state in Volga region in 1917-1922.

American historian David Hoffmann does not agree with historians who view the USSR as an anomaly of historical development. The book represents the history of the Soviet state in the context of ideas and practices peculiar to many states of the modern period. The study shows that it is impossible to attribute all aspects of Soviet intervention in the life of society to the account of the...

With a deep semantic unity, the prose of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is distinguished by an amazing poetic variety. In the early 1960s, this was felt by the readers of the first published stories of an unexpectedly great, truly new writer: One Day by Ivan Denisovich was followed by strongly dissimilar with him The Case at Kochetovka Station and Matryonin Dvor. Every time new artistic...

In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and...

When we eat, we travel.' So begins The Edible Atlas. Mina Holland takes you on a journey around the globe, demystifying the flavours, ingredients and techniques at the heart of thirty-nine cuisines. What's the origin of kimchi in Korea? Why do we associate Argentina with steak? What's the story behind the curries of India? Weaving anecdotes and history - from the role of a priest in the genesis...

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic...