Why are we more likely to fall in love when we feel in danger? Why would an experienced pilot disregard his training and the rules of the aviation industry, leading to the deadliest airline crash in history? Why do we...
In these tales of ordinary madness, Charles Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture, from prostitutes and the philosophy of Kant to despair and classical music, to create his modern dystopia. Inspired by DH...
The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything
Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons are square? The...
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
This collection of short stories propels the reader into the lowlife of America`s underworld, rail of drunks, bums and gamblers, where sex and violence are everywhere and the most beautiful woman in town drinks and...
Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova....
Что такое ислам. История и действительность
Чарует узор арабского письма, волнуют взор персидские миниатюры… Но за этой волшебной вязью кроются чеканные формулы догматов. Таков и сам ислам: внешне он привлекателен, экзотичен и заманчив, но сущность его строга и...
