Biographies and memoirs

Who doesn’t know Sony, Honda, Apple Computer, Microsoft today? What do we know about the people who created them? How do geniuses differ from ordinary people...

Who doesn’t know Sony, Honda, Apple Computer, Microsoft today? What do we know about the people who created them? How do geniuses differ from ordinary people...

Who doesn’t know Sony, Honda, Apple Computer, Microsoft today? What do we know about the people who created them? How do geniuses differ from ordinary people...

Pearl Buck began writing her mother's biography immediately after the death of Caroline Stalting (Kerry) in 1921, and she did not initially plan to publish i...

About the Soviet economic leader, director of the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant named after Ilyich in 1949-1957.

The book tells about the life and work of the educator Vasily Alekseevich Levshin (1746–1826), comrade-in-arms and like-minded person of N. I. Novikov.

In the early morning of September 1, 2004, a detachment of 31 men and two women set out from a grove on one of the hills of the Sunzhenskaya ridge. Came out ...

In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, and painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all read...

“Zhilka” was a small “state within a state” with its own “institutions,” recalls Alexey Snezhinsky, who was released on July 26, 2016, and has a series of co...

“Don’t swear off scrip and prison,” says a Russian proverb. Indeed, how often do young people, out of ostentatious bravado or for other reasons, become crimi...