The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb, Feifer George

Автор: Feifer Gregory
Название: The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
ISBN: 140016057X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400160570
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Feifer, Gregory
Название: Russians: People Behind the Power (TPB) Int.
ISBN: 1455573450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781455573455
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 3677.00 р.
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From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today.

RUSSIANS explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that makes them baffling to the West? Using the insights of his decade as a journalist in Russia, Feifer corrects pervasive misconceptions by showing that much of what appears inexplicable about the country is logical when seen from the inside. He gets to the heart of why the world's leading energy producer continues to exasperate many in the international community. And he makes clear why President Vladimir Putin remains popular even as the gap widens between the super-rich and the great majority of poor.

Traversing the world's largest country from the violent North Caucasus to Arctic Siberia, Feifer conducted hundreds of intimate conversations about everything from sex and vodka to Russia's complex relationship with the world. From fabulously wealthy oligarchs to the destitute elderly babushki who beg in Moscow's streets, he tells the story of a society bursting with vitality under a leadership rooted in tradition and often on the edge of collapse despite its authoritarian power.

Feifer also draws on formative experiences in Russia's past and illustrative workings of its culture to shed much-needed light on the purposely hidden functioning of its society before, during, and after communism. Woven throughout is an intimate, first-person account of his family history, from his Russian mother's coming of age among Moscow's bohemian artistic elite to his American father's harrowing vodka-fueled run-ins with the KGB.

What emerges is a rare portrait of a unique land of extremes whose forbidding geography, merciless climate, and crushing corruption has nevertheless produced some of the world's greatest art and some of its most remarkable scientific advances. RUSSIANS is an expertly observed, gripping profile of a people who will continue challenging the West for the foreseeable future.

Автор: Feifer, Gregory
Название: The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
ISBN: 0061143197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061143199
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the 21st century. This title examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. It depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered.

Автор: Miller Jennifer, Feifer Jason
Название: Mr. Nice Guy
ISBN: 1250189888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250189882
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Named one of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2018

From the husband and wife writing duo Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer comes Mr. Nice Guy, a funny and all too real comedy about the pursuit of success in life--and love--in today's working world.

Lucas Callahan, a man who gave up his law degree, fianc e and small-town future for a shot at making it in the Big Apple. He snags an entry-level job at Empire magazine, believing it's only a matter of time before he becomes a famous writer. And then late one night in a downtown bar he meets a gorgeous brunette who takes him home...

Carmen Kelly wanted to be a hard-hitting journalist, only to find herself cast in the role of Empire's sex columnist thanks to the boys' club mentality of Manhattan magazines. Her latest piece is about an unfortunate--and unsatisfying--encounter with an awkward and nerdy guy, who was nice enough to look at but horribly inexperienced in bed.

Lucas only discovers that he's slept with the infamous Carmen Kelly--that is, his own magazine's sex columnist --when he reads her printed take-down. Humiliated and furious, he pens a rebuttal and signs it, "Nice Guy." Empire publishes it, and the pair of columns go viral. Readers demand more. So the magazine makes an arrangement: Each week, Carmen and Lucas will sleep together... and write dueling accounts of their sexual exploits.

It's the most provocative sexual relationship any couple has had, but the columnist-lovers are soon engaging in more than a war of words: They become seduced by the city's rich and powerful, tempted by fame, and more attracted to each other than they're willing to admit. In the end, they will have to choose between ambition, love, and the consequences of total honesty.

"The Devil Wears Prada meets Sex and the City--a page-turner that's part sex diary, part coming-of-age story." --Carolyn Kylstra, editor in chief, SELF

"I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN It totally messed up my week, it messed up my deadlines, but I absolutely loved it." --Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians