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Voice and Vision - A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction

In her essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own awful encounters. Solnit emphasized that the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who...

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss ho...

В современном мире, мы, конечно, не нуждаемся в гусиных перьях, восковых табличках и папирусах. В ручках не очень нуждаемся - можно настучать письмо на компьютере или отправить смс. И друг сразу получит - удобно. Но если ты хочешь преподнести удивительный, ни на что не похожий подарок, напиши от руки, да еще на авторской бумаге! Разбираясь с этой "куриной лапой", он узнал много интересных вещей, н...

Шокирующие откровения Сомали Мам, правозащитницы из Камбоджи, члена международной организации, борющейся против детской и женской проституции в Юго-Восточной Азии. Автор пишет о своей трудной судьбе, с болью в сердце говорит о тысячах маленьких девочек, которых каждый год продают в публичные дома. Она призывает людей опомниться, защитить чистые детские души от насилия.

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthoo...

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly ...