One autumn night in the eighties a young Irishman of twenty-seven, who had passed most of his life in Germany, took his place in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera House to play the cello. His name was Victor Herbert. He had just arrived in New York, and from his obscure seat he looked around curiously at the mass of faces glowing weirdly in the vast, dim auditorium. He felt a symbolic force in the crowding immensity of the place, in th ...
Эта книга – еще одна попытка осмыслить проблемы науки и общества на основе собственного и заимствованного опыта и, за некоторыми важными исключениями, без «паучьей серьезности» (по известному выражению Н. В. Тимофеева-Ресовского). Материалом послужили биографии и наследие великих (С. И. Вавилов, А. А. Любищев), не во всем великих (К. Э. Циолковский, А. Л. Чижевский) и совсем не великих ученых (автор книги), а также некоторых деятелей прошлого, н ...
Unmittelbar nachdem sie 1917 den Turken entkommen ist, beginnt Arshaluys Mardigian als eine der wenigen Uberlebenden des Volkermords an den Armeniern, von ihren Erfahrungen wahrend des Genozids zu berichten. Ihr authentischer Augenzeugenbericht wurde seit seiner Erstveroffentlichung 1918 bereits in zwanzig Sprachen ubersetzt und 1919 erfolgreich verfilmt; sie selbst spielte in dem Stummfilm die Hauptrolle. Der Leidensweg des Madchens erscheint ...
A passionate skier since he was a child, Anders Morley dreamed of going on a significant adventure, something bold and of his own design. And so one year in his early thirties, he decided to strap on cross-country skis to travel across Canada in the winter alone.<br><br> <i>This Land of Snow</i> is about that journey and a man who must come to terms with what he has left behind, as well as how he wants to continue livin ...
Richard K. Nelson was the host of the national public radio series, «Encounters» Nelson was an anthropologist who lived with Alaska Native tribes and spoke both Inupiag and Koyukon Based on Nelson’s journals and interviews with Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, and others «He listened to his [Native Alaskan] teachers, immersed himself in their landscapes as a naturalist, and became, without intending to, a great teacher himself.» –Barry Lopez ...
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
