Хайнц Шаффер, командир немецкой подводной лодки U-977, рассказывает о событиях Второй мировой войны, о службе на подводном флоте, не утаивая ее тягот, опасностей и условий быта; о битве за Атлантику и удивительном спасении субмарины, совершившей длительный автономный переход до Аргентины, где команду ждало заключение и обвинение в спасении Гитлера. Приведенная в книге информация особенно ценна тем, что дана с позиции противника СССР в войне.

Хайнц Шаффер, командир немецкой подводной лодки U-977, рассказывает о событиях Второй мировой войны, о службе на подводном флоте, не утаивая ее тягот, опасностей и условий быта; о битве за Атлантику и удивительном спасении субмарины, совершившей длительный автономный переход до Аргентины, где команду ждало заключение и обвинение в спасении Гитлера. Приведенная в книге информация особенно ценна тем, что дана с позиции противника СССР в войне.

Хайнц Шаффер, командир немецкой подводной лодки U-977, рассказывает о событиях Второй мировой войны, о службе на подводном флоте, не утаивая ее тягот, опасностей и условий быта; о битве за Атлантику и удивительном спасении субмарины, совершившей длительный автономный переход до Аргентины, где команду ждало заключение и обвинение в спасении Гитлера. Приведенная в книге информация особенно ценна тем, что дана с позиции противника СССР в войне.

U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific is the famous first-hand account of the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Seawolf a.k.a. the Wolf which patrolled the Pacific during World War 2 and had over a dozen confirmed enemy sinkings. Shoving off the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, Chief Radioman J. (Joseph) M. (Melvin) Eckberg gives the reader a tense and dramatic account of his initial 24-month stint aboard the Seawolf and beyond.

В вашем кармане нечто удивительное — простой и быстрый способ вызвать такси, которое доставит вас куда угодно. В ваших руках что-то столь же удивительное — ранее неизвестная история стремительного взлёта компании Uber и рассказ об огромных, как сама жизнь, амбициях её основателя Трэвиса Каланика. Uber и Каланик вызывают восхищение и зависть конкурентов. Они бросили вызов индустрии, заставили спорить о вопросах эксплуатации водителей, навсегда укоренили в сознании потребителя тот факт, что перед поездкой нужно ознакомиться с личностью водителя. Но это еще не всё. Именно Uber ввёл во все сферы бизнеса глобальное понятие "уберизация", означающий внедрение компьютерных технологий в сделки между покупателями и поставщиками услуг. И сегодня "уберизация" — это не только такси. Такие гиганты как Airbnb и Alibaba Group используют "уберизацию" в своей повседневной работе. Эта книга — взгляд изнутри на глобальную империю Uber, ее прошлое, настоящее и будущее.

Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals – also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his ‘Uncle Tungsten’, whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes – in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.

Capturing for posterity the vanishing world of uranium mining, this candid memoir recounts the author’s adventures and misadventures working underground in 1970s New Mexico, the “Uranium Capital of the World.” Detailed descriptions of the tools, methods and hazards of uranium mining, along with character sketches and entertaining anecdotes, provide a colorful glimpse of a bygone way of life—drilling, blasting and mucking the sandstone of the Grants mineral belt in the San Juan Basin.

From Maria Sharapova, one of our fiercest female athletes, the captivating—and candid—story of her rise from nowhere to tennis stardom, and the unending fight to stay on top.In 2004, in a stunning upset against the two-time defending champion Serena Williams, seventeen-year-old Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon, becoming an overnight sensation. Out of virtual anonymity, she launched herself onto the international stage. “Maria Mania” was born. Sharapova became a name and face recognizable worldwide. Her success would last: she went on to hold the number-one WTA ranking multiple times, to win four more Grand Slam tournaments, and to become one of the highest-grossing female athletes in the world.And then—at perhaps the peak of her career—Sharapova came up against the toughest challenge yet: during the 2016 Australian Open, she was charged by the ITF with taking the banned substance meldonium, only recently added to the ITF’s list. The resulting suspension would keep her off the professional courts for fifteen months—a frighteningly long time for any athlete. The media suggested it might be fateful.But Sharapova’s career has always been driven by her determination and by her dedication to hard work. Her story doesn’t begin with the 2004 Wimbledon championship, but years before, in a small Russian town, where as a five-year-old she played on drab neighborhood courts with precocious concentration. It begins when her father, convinced his daughter could be a star, risked everything to get them to Florida, that sacred land of tennis academies. It begins when the two arrived with only seven hundred dollars and knowing only a few words of English. From that, Sharapova scraped together one of the most influential sports careers in history.Here, for the first time, is the whole story, and in her own words. Sharapova’s is an unforgettable saga of dedication and fortune. She brings us inside her pivotal matches and illuminates the relationships that have shaped her—with coaches, best friends, boyfriends, and Yuri, her coach, manager, father, and most dedicated fan, describing with honesty and affection their oft-scrutinized relationship. She writes frankly about the suspension. As Sharapova returns to the professional circuit, one thing is clear: the ambition to win that drove her from the public courts of Russia to the manicured lawns of Wimbledon has not diminished.Sharapova’s Unstoppable is a powerful memoir, resonant in its depiction of the will to win—whatever the odds.

“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalism—highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.

Joan Didion's unblinking eye and razor-sharp perceptions of the American scene are exhibited in the essays Girl of the Golden West, In the Realm of the Fisher King, and Sentimental Journeys' from After Henry; excerpts from Salvador and Miami; and more.

Action-packed and breathtakingly authentic, Viper Pilot is the electrifying memoir of one of the most decorated F-16 pilots in American history: U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dan Hampton, who served for twenty years, flying missions in the Iraq War, the Kosovo conflict, and the first Gulf War.Both a rare look into the elite world of fighter pilots and a thrilling first-person account of contemporary air combat, Viper Pilot soars—a true story of courage, skill, and commitment that will thrill U.S. Special Forces buffs, aviation and military history aficionados, and fans of the novels of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown.

Семь альбомов, прогремевших на весь мир, восемь наград «Грэмми», 19 номинаций, многотысячные стадионы и километровые очереди очарованных поклонников. Но с чего все это началось?

Живущие по своему сценарию, не признающие законов развития жанра, Coldplay стали самой успешной группой Британии нового тысячелетия!

Автор Мартин Роуч возвращается к истокам создания Coldplay и вместе с вами исследует профессиональную и личную стороны жизни музыкантов, их непреклонность в качестве и контроле своей музыки.

Центральное место в истории Coldplay — это порой взбалмошная личность ведущего вокалиста Криса Мартина. Отмеченная индивидуальностью, искренностью и музыкальным талантом, Coldplay — исключительная и неотразимая история.

Биография группы, которая пришла из ниоткуда и стала одной из величайших в мире, основана на ее внеземной музыке, но в ней есть место и голливудским актерам, и внутренним конфликтам, распрям с акулами музыкальной индустрии и постоянной неуверенности в будущем. Но ничто из этого не помешало музыкантам неоднократно называться одними из величайших спасителей рок — музыки. В чем секрет этого успеха? Насколько справедливо это звание? Смогут ли они удержать этот высокий статус? Читайте в Viva Coldplay!

VZ Дмитрия Быкова — не биография Владимира Зеленского. И это даже не книга о войне.VZ — особенно её третья часть, «Мистерия» — о, возможно, финальной битве архаики и прогресса. О битве, разворачивающейся на наших глазах и с нашим — хотим мы того или нет — непосредственным участием.VZ — главный герой этой книги. Неожиданно для самого себя направивший XXI век по верному пути. Оказавшийся орудием того самого Абсолюта, в существование которого мир уже почти не верил, развращаясь неразличением добра и зла и мифом о всеобщей коррупции. Герой, защитивший нашу человечность.Впрочем, божественный замысел происходящего ещё до конца не ясен...

Роман известного французского писателя Ж. Перека (1936–1982). Текст, где странным и страшным образом автобиография переплетается с предельной антиутопией; текст, где память тщательно пытается найти затерянные следы, а фантазия — каждым словом утверждает и опровергает ограничения литературного письма.

Роман известного французского писателя Ж. Перека (1936–1982). Текст, где странным и страшным образом автобиография переплетается с предельной антиутопией; текст, где память тщательно пытается найти затерянные следы, а фантазия — каждым словом утверждает и опровергает ограничения литературного письма.

“Imagine George Costanza from Seinfeld being sent off to cover the Iraq War… Hilarious.”

(Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

Chris Ayres is a small-town boy, a hypochondriac, and a neat freak with an anxiety disorder. Not exactly the picture of a war correspondent. But when his boss asks him if he would like to go to Iraq, he doesn’t have the guts to say no. After signing a one million dollar life-insurance policy, studying a tutorial on repairing severed limbs, and spending twenty thousand dollars on camping gear (only to find out that his bright yellow tent makes him a sitting duck), Ayres is embedded with a battalion of gung ho Marines who either shun him or threaten him when he files an unfavorable story. As time goes on, though, he begins to understand them (and his inexplicably enthusiastic fellow war reporters) more and more: Each night of terrifying combat brings, in the morning, something more visceral than he has ever experienced—the thrill of having won a fight for survival.

In the tradition of MASH, Catch-22, and other classics in which irreverence springs from life in extremis, War Reporting for Cowards tells the story of Iraq in a way that is extraordinarily honest, heartfelt, and bitterly hilarious.

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.

“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.In these pages, she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump, the mistakes she made, how she has coped with a shocking and devastating loss, and how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterward. With humor and candor, she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet—the rituals, relationships, and reading that got her through, and what the experience has taught her about life. She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age, and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics.She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By analyzing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome, and why Americans need to understand them to protect our values and our democracy in the future.The election of 2016 was unprecedented and historic. What Happened is the story of that campaign and its aftermath—both a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation.

"The most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious, and heartrending of memoirs" (The Telegraph, london) — the story of a celebrated writer's sudden descent into blindness, and the redemptive journey into the past that her loss of sight sets in motion.In 2006 the acclaimed novelist Candia McWilliam began losing her sight, a gradual onset of blindness that seemed like an assault cruelly tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading and writing. Propelled to look inward and into the past, McWilliam embarked on a painful personal voyage through a waste of snows punctuated by shards of ice as she attempted to write her life back. What followed was a flow of memory: her childhood in Edinburgh, her devastating alcoholism, finding and losing her bearings in Cambridge and London, her marriages, her children, and, overshadowing it all, her mother's suicide.A personal story of love and loss, addiction and reclamation, her piercing memoir is also a celebration of friendship, reading, children, and the consolations of landscape. In What to Look for in Winter, McWilliam riffles through her many incarnations to find her true self and discover how she may come to see once more.