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Frank Dikötter

Издател: Walker & Company

Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. Access to Communist Party archives has long

Jared Diamond , James A. Robinson

Издател: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has

Robert P. Crease

Издател: W. W. Norton & Company

The Great Equations tells the stories of how these equations were discovered, revealing the personal struggles of their ingenious originators. From "1 + 1 = 2" to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Crease locates these equations in the panoramic sweep of Western history, showing how they are as integral to their time and place of creation as are

Паскал Сален

Издател: Сиела софт енд паблишинг АД

„Книгата на Паскал Сален е важна най-малко по две причини. Първо, това е книга, която носи различие при интерпретирането на днешната глобална криза...В книгата систематично и последователно е

Frank H. Knight

Издател: Liberty Fund

The fifteen essays in this collection, first published in 1947, treat a variety of economic, social, political, and philosophical problems and were written by a legendary professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Professor Knight (1885–1972) wrote from the viewpoint of ethics as well as economics. His own words best describe his