June. Национальный бестселлер 2009 Winner

Степные боги
Андрей Геласимов
Геласимов – провозвестник подлинного гуманизма. Его новый роман – это тонкое, лирическое обращение к нашей истории, ко времени конца Второй мировой войны.
Без спекуляций и патриотических истерик, спокойно и благородно автор языком классического русского романа рассказывает о современнике Великой победы – Забайкальском мальчишке Петьке.
В котором отразилась вся противоречивость той эпохи. С ее жестоким стремлением к героизму и невероятной нежностью и теплотой обыкновенных человеческих отношений. Подвергнутых испытаниям военного режима.
Но «Степные боги» – это не просто история, это динамичный триллер. Глубокие урановые рудники вблизи Аргуни, пленный врач-японец, который один знает их тайну, чудовищные мутации степных трав, приводящие к гибели десятков людей… как если бы Марк Твен написал «Код да Винчи» и при этом Диккенс отредактировал бы это в пользу победы добра.
Никогда еще современный русский роман не был столь искренним и захватывающим!

June. Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009

Winner
Leviathan: Or, the Whale
by Philip Hoare
A book about a life long obsession with whales inspired by the literary classic Moby-Dick has won the UK’s most prestigious non-fiction prize.
'A superb book...This is the book [Philip Hoare] was born to write, a classic of its kind', Rachel Cooke wrote in The Observer.
'In Hoare's hands, whales are almost limitlessly strange and interesting', noted the Sunday Times.

Nominee
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
From an expert with a mail-order PhD to debunking the myths of homeopathy, Ben Goldacre talking the reader through some notable cases and shows how to you don't need a science degree to spot "bad science" yourself. Independent
His book aims to teach us better, in the hope that one day we write less nonsense. Daily Telegraph
For sheer savagery, the illusion-destroying, joyous attack on the self-regarding, know-nothing orthodoxies of the modern middle classes, "Bad Science" can not be beaten. You'll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin.'Trevor Philips, Observer
Unmissable!laying about himself in a froth of entirely justified indignation, Goldacre slams the mountebanks and bullshitters who misuse science.
Few escape: drug companies, self-styled nutritionists, deluded researchers and journalists all get thoroughly duffed up. It is enormously enjoyable. The Times

June. Critic's picks. The Times

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes
‘vividly conveys the compelling fusion of art and science in the 18th century...this is a book to linger over, to savour the tantalising details of the minor figures...The Age of Wonder allows readers to recapture the combined thrill of emerging scientific order and imaginative creativity’ Lisa Jardine, Financial Times
‘If ever there was an argument for a biographical analysis of complex scientific and technological history, this is it...well paced and rich in detail...Heartbreaking accounts of hope and fears, ambitions and disappointments dance along the pages. Even the choice of pictures gives us new insights into old favourites...There is no dry page in this visceral, spirited and sexy account’ The Times
‘Holmes triumphantly shows the Romantic age was one of symbiosis rather than opposition...no biographer is better than Holmes at evoking the thrill of the chase....elegant ....fascinating...entrancing’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Romanticism and Science are justly reunited in Richard Holmes's new book....a revelation....thrilling’ Independent

June. Critic's picks. Лучший науч-поп. "Афиша"

Физика невозможного
Митио Каку
Еще совсем недавно нам трудно было даже вообразить сегодняшний мир привычных вещей. Какие смелые прогнозы писателей-фантастов и авторов фильмов о будущем имеют шанс сбыться у нас на глазах?
На этот вопрос пытается ответить Митио Каку, американский физик японского происхождения и один из авторов теории струн.
Рассказывая простым языком о самых сложных явлениях и новейших достижениях современной науки и техники, он стремится объяснить основные законы Вселенной. Из книги «Физика невозможного» вы узнаете, что уже в XXI веке, возможно, будут реализованы силовые поля, невидимость, чтение мыслей, связь с внеземными цивилизациями и даже телепортация и межзвездные путешествия.

June. Пополнение коллекции. Philosophy, History of science

Логика, или Искусство мыслить (1662)
Антуан Арно, Пьер Николь
Эта книга, больше известная под названием "Логика Пор-Рояля", была задумана как учебное руководство по логике, но ее место в истории логики оказалось гораздо более значительным. Авторы книги создали логическое учение, развивающее методологические принципы Р.Декарта и Б.Паскаля. "Логика" написана живым и доступным языком и хорошо отражает философские, научные, религиозные представления XVII в

June. Пополнение коллекции. Architecture, History of art

The Tyranny of Taste Politics of Architecture and Design in Britain, 1550-1960
by Jules Lubbock (Professor of Art History, University of Essex)
How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? In this study, Jules Lubbock answers this question by focusing on Britain, with its characteristic terraced houses, Georgian squares, postwar slab blocks and Victorian floral ornamentation. Lubbock traces the fierce debates over consumerism, good design and town planning that have raged in Britain since the Elizabethan period, investigating how the design of buildings and possessions - domestic as well as official - becomes an issue of public policy and controversy.
Lubbock discusses the ideas, policies and motivations of designers and commentators from 1550 to the present, including such figures as Charles I, Inigo Jones, Joseph Addison, Pope, Hogarth, Pugin, Dickens, Ruskin and Le Corbusier. He describes the growing public awareness that taste and beauty, are related to economic growth, that there is what he calls a political economy of design. He shows, for example, that London was shaped by a desire to control its expansion in order to maintain social stability in the face of the developing industrial and commercial revolution; that Puritans believed that the high consumption of luxury goods essential to prosperity could be made morally acceptable through good design; and that the court of James I consciously adopted classicism as the appropriate style for the newly joined kingdoms of England and Scotland.
Lubbock shows the different ways in which architecture, design, planning and style were believed to contribute to a "Good Society." He suggests that the political economy of design was not only viable in the past but can also provide an essential framework for the future

June. Пополнение коллекции. Lee Kuan Yew

From Third World to First : The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew
In this memoir, the man most responsible for Singapore's astonishing
transformation from colonial backwater to economic powerhouse
describes how he did it over the last four decades. It's a dramatic story,
and Lee Kuan Yew has much to brag about. To take a single example:
Singapore had a per-capita GDP of just $400 when he became prime
minister in 1959. When he left office in 1990, it was $12,200 and rising.
(At the time of this book's writing, it was $22,000.) Much of this was
accomplished through a unique mix of economic freedom and social
control. Lee encouraged entrepreneurship, but also cracked down on
liberties that most people in the West take for granted--chewing gum, for
instance. It's banned in Singapore because of "the problems caused by
spent chewing gum inserted into keyholes and mailboxes and on
elevator buttons." If American politicians were to propose such a thing,
they'd undoubtedly be run out of office. Lee, however, defends this and
similar moves, such as strong antismoking laws and antispitting
campaigns: "We would have been a grosser, ruder, cruder society had
we not made these efforts to persuade people to change their ways.... It
has made Singapore a more pleasant place to live in. If this is a 'nanny
state,' I am proud to have fostered one."

June. Пополнение коллекции. Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man
Michael D. Barr
This book deserves to be read by all those who wish to deepen their understanding of Singapore. - Asian Affairs
This study by Michael Barr on Singapores strongman Lee Kuan Yew is by far the best available political biography of Lee. - Pacific Affairs Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister, is a figure whose international stature far exceeds that of the tiny island over which he presided for thirty years. Lee is the principal architect of Singapore's political stability and its economic development throughout Asia. Yet the continuing interest in the man several years after his retirement from the prime ministership derives mainly from his contributions on the greater world stage.
This first book ever to analyze the origin and substance of Lee's ideas is timely and relevant, as well as provocative, and will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, not just of Singaporean history but all the way from political science to semiotics. It is a compelling and lucid study, which is vindicated by the fact that the dissertation on which it is based won the Asian Studies Association of Australia President's Award