Когда крохотный Сингапур в 1965 году получил независимость, никто не верил, что ему удастся выжить. Однако он не просто выжил, а превратился в процветающую столицу Азиатского региона с лучшим в мире аэропортом, крупнейшей авиалинией, ключевым торговым портом, заняв четвертое место в мире по уровню дохода на душу населения.Об этом чуде в своих мемуарах рассказывает бывший премьер-министр Сингапура Ли Куан Ю. Он оживляет перед читателями историю, анализирует основные стратегические решения современности, пишет о том, как из года в год направлял сложные отношения США, Китая и Тайваня, служа для руководителей этих государств и доверенным лицом, и вестником, и экспертом.
новое издание. Манн, Иванов и Фербер, ISBN 978-5-91657-624-5; 2013 г.
Постепенно мы привыкаем жить в новом мире, в котором, даже выходя на улицу, мы ориентируемся при помощи социальных сетей, а наше положение зачастую известно не только нашим родителям и близким, но, по большому счету, всем желающим. Вместе с новой социальностью, организованной по лекалам социальной сети, в ткань современности постепенно вплетаются существа под названием «роботы». Будущее началось незаметно — с билбордов, рекламирующих роботов-уборщиков. Дальше — больше. О том, чем это больше может стать для нас, можно узнать из книги бывшего вице-президента компании Apple, профессора Северо-Западного университета Дональда Нормана «Дизайн вещей будущего». Норман размышляет о «переходном периоде», когда у машин еще не появилось сознание, и они походят больше на животных, чем на революционеров и терминаторов. Повествование занято вопросами, касающимися возможных отношений между такими переходными формами, как, например, думающий автомобиль, выполняющий фактически инстинктивные функции, и сознающий водитель и т.п. Все это вопросы, в принципе, уже давно нетривиальные — даже без этого футуристического оттенка. Хотя их осмысление требует пересмотра представлений о границах человеческого.
Вниманию читателей предлагается книга русского историка и правоведа Н.С.Суворова, посвященная исследованию развития университетов в Средние века. В работе рассказывается о том, что собой представляли средневековые университеты, как и при каких исторических условиях они возникли, на каких основах утверждалась и в каких формах проявлялась их жизнь и деятельность, в каком отношении они находились к церкви. Рассматривается устройство университетов, структура учебных занятий и принципы преподавания, ученые степени и правила их получения. Описываются дотации, которые получали университеты от государства, церкви или частных лиц, а также привилегии, которые они имели. 
In Brokering Empire, Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and diplomatic interpreters. In their sustained interactions across linguistic, religious, and political lines these trans-imperial subjects helped to shape shifting imperial and cultural boundaries, including the emerging distinction between Europe and the Levant.
Demands for national independence among ethnic minorities around the world suggest the power of nationalism. Contemporary nationalist movements can quickly attract fervent followings, but they can just as rapidly lose support. In Constructing Grievance, Elise Giuliano asks why people with ethnic identities throw their support behind nationalism in some cases but remain quiescent in others. Popular support for nationalism, Giuliano contends, is often fleeting. It develops as part of the process of political mobilization—a process that itself transforms the meaning of ethnic identity. She compares sixteen ethnic republics of the Russian Federation, where nationalist mobilization varied widely during the early 1990s despite a common Soviet inheritance. Drawing on field research in the republic of Tatarstan, socioeconomic statistical data, and a comparative discourse analysis of local newspapers, Giuliano argues that people respond to nationalist leaders after developing a group grievance. Ethnic grievances, however, are not simply present or absent among a given population based on societal conditions. Instead, they develop out of the interaction between people's lived experiences and the specific messages that nationalist entrepreneurs put forward concerning ethnic group disadvantage.
Профессор Роберт Такер, возможно, самый влиятельный американский исследователь истории марксизма и его советских особенностей, — один из тех авторов, чье мнение в данном случае можно выслушать. Правда, его в некоторой степени можно причислить и к инсайдерам: в конце 1940-х Такер жил в Москве, поэтому закат сталинской империи смог познать изнутри. Но как раз эта часть сталинской биографии так и не была написана: профессор скончался, не успев завершить свой монументальный труд. В той книге, что посвящена непосредственно годам правления, Такер делает упор на психологические аспекты личности Сталина и выстраивает политическое повествование, основываясь на этих аспектах. В такеровской книге Сталин в первую очередь личность и только потом вождь, диктатор.
The United States recognized the independence of Armenia, Azerbai-jan, and Georgia when the former Soviet Union broke up at the end of 1991. The United States has fostered these states’ ties with the West in part to end their dependence on Russia for trade, security, and other relations. The United States has pursued close ties with Armenia to encourage its democratization and because of concerns by Armenian Americans and others over its fate. Close ties with Georgia have evolved from U.S. contacts with its pro-Western leadership. Successive Administrations have supported U.S. private investment in Azer-baijan’s energy sector as a means of increasing the diversity of world energy suppliers. The United States has been active in diplomatic efforts to resolve regional conflicts in the region. As part of U.S. global counter-terrorism efforts, the U.S. military in 2002 began providing equipment and training for Georgia’s military and security forces. Troops from all three regional states have participated in stabilization efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The regional states also have granted transit privileges for U.S. military personnel and equipment bound to and from Afghanistan.
The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Michigan holds the largest and most representative gathering of Armenian art and artifacts outside Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, rugs and carpets, sacred vessels and vestments, textiles and embroidery, ceramics, metalwork, paintings, coins, and objects from the ancient kingdom of Urartu. A Legacy of Armenian Treasures features more than 160 of the museum's most vital and beautiful pieces, each reproduced in full color and accompanied by a detailed entry. Essays by nine scholars of Armenian art and artifacts shed light not only on the artistic significance of these objects but on their cultural context as well.
Delving into a former eastern outpost in Armenia throughout antiquity and during the Middle Ages, this history explores the fascinating, mountainous province of Artsakh. The region adopted Christianity very early on, profoundly marking its destiny and shaping the main features of its heritage in the architecture of cross-stone carving, the art of illumination, and the craft of carpet-making. Artsakh remained virtually independent until the mid-18th century, when Tatar Khan succeeded in establishing his sovereignty before being annexed to the Russian Empire at the very beginning of the 19th century. Presenting an intriguing synthesis of this region’s complex past, this narrative also captures the collapse of Tsarist Russia, the Soviet 1921 allocation of Karabagh to the shores of the Caspian Sea, and the Armenian people’s eventual proclamation of independence in 1991. This edition is written in English and French.
Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
Gerhard Richter Painting is a thrilling document of legendary German artist Richter's creative process, juxtaposed with intimate conversations (with his critics, his collaborators, and his American gallerist Marian Goodman) and rare archive material. From our fly-on-the-wall perspective, we watch the 79-year-old create a series of large-scale abstract canvases, using fat brushes and a massive squeegee to apply (and then scrape off) layer after layer of brightly colored paint. This mesmerizing footage, of a highly charged process of creation and destruction, turns Belz's portrait of an artist into a work of art itself. In German with English subtitles.
A mesmerizing portrait of the artist Anselm Kiefer by acclaimed documentarian Sophie Fiennes, Over Your Cities Your Grass Will Grow is part tribute and part deconstruction; aided by beautiful widescreen cinematography, Fiennes captures the majesty of Kiefer's architectonic installations alongside observational footage of his work process.
The Power of Myth is a book and six-part television documentary originally broadcast on PBS in 1988 as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. The documentary comprises six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) and journalist Bill Moyers. The interviews in the first 5 episodes were filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in California, with the 6th interview conducted at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, during the final two summers of Campbell's life (the series was broadcast on television a year after his death). In these discussions, Campbell presents his ideas about comparative mythology and the ongoing role of myth in human society. These talks include excerpts from Campbell's seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
"Myth comes from the same zone as dream... from the great biological ground, whatever it may be. They are energies and they are matters of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
The remarkable new-music ensemble eighth blackbird has won Grammy Awards for its last two albums on Cedille Records. Now, the "polished, personable, routinely dazzling sextet" (New York Times) returns with meanwhile, an album highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of contemporary classical music.
Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto is one of the most sought-after interpreters of French, Italian and Russian repertoire. Here he joins Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky orchestra for a sumptuous recording of Massenet’s final great opera. Gergiev is no stranger to conducting Massenet, having recorded an outstanding performance of 'Hérodiade' in 1995 with Renée Fleming and Placido Domingo.
The Quatuor Ebène turns to Mendelssohn: two quartets by Felix and one by his elder sister Fanny, who composed over 400 works and who, like her brother, died in 1847. “Felix’s quartets speak with intimacy, but are not devoid of violent, stormy emotion,” says Raphaël Merlin of the Quatuor Ebène. He praises Fanny for composing “with surprising freedom”, saying “we fell in love with her string quartet”.
Recorded live in 2011 at the Aldeburgh Festival, which Benjamin Britten founded in 1948, this performance of his dark, intense chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia stars Angelika Kirchschlager, Peter Coleman-Wright and Ian Bostridge, with Oliver Knussen conducting. “Everything, without exception, was right on the money,” said The Guardian,” ... a dazzling success.”
This is the premiere recording J.S. Bach’s John Passion heard for the first time within its original liturgical context.
Escrita por el historiador, periodista y abogado Gonzalo Vial, Pinochet. La biografía narra en dos tomos, la vida y obra de Augusto Pinochet desde los orígenes de la familia Pinochet en Chile hasta el momento actual en que se encuentra el ahora general en retiro del Ejército.Se trata de un libro audaz, de un historiador serio que se atreve a escribir sobre el pasado reciente, que reseña situaciones y procesos, y emite juicios, aunque implícitos, sobre Pinochet por cierto, y sobre muchas otras personas aún vivas y en plena actividad. 
Horrifying but also inspiring, The Dictator’s Shadow is a unique tale of how geopolitical rivalries can profoundly affect everyday life.
In this brief yet expertly crafted remembrance, veteran American journalist and Nation contributing editor Cooper traces the fate of Chile from the overthrow in 1973 of its democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende, to today. Cooper is no impartial observer. As a young man he was Allende's translator and shared his radical visions. (He also married into a Chilean family.) But it is the underlying sadness of crushed hopes and demolished dreams, conveyed in the crisp prose of a skilled observer, that makes this tale so compelling. Cooper takes the reader through the last desperate days of Allende's rule and the "dizzying dance of chaos and blood" of his overthrow. He reports on the dreary and dangerous nature of life in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s under the dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. On returning to Chile in the 1990s, Cooper finds that while democracy has been restored, the political soul of the nation has been lost to a cynical individualism and mindless consumerism, stirred only by the arrest of Pinochet in England for the human rights violations of his regime. He finds in Chile an unwillingness to confront the past and remarks that without doing so the country can never really leave that past behind. In the end, this is a eulogy for the lost utopian longings of Chile, of Cooper himself and of so many of his generation. He writes, "Chile was not the prelude to my generation's accomplishments [but] our political high water mark." Cooper offers engaged reporting at its best. (Jan.)Forecast: Cooper's pro-Allende stance will mark this as a book for readers whose hearts remain on the left; the author's readers at the Nation, for instance, will find this account simpatico. Recent headlines regarding Pinochet will help as well.- Publishers Weekly
Published on the 30th anniversary of General Pinochet's military coup, declassified documents that reveal the startling facts behind US collusion with the notorious Chilean dictator. In the United States, as you know, we are sympathetic with what you are trying to do here....We want to help, not undermine you.—Henry Kissinger speaking confidentially to General Augusto Pinochet. The 1998 arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain brought renewed attention to the dark days of his dictatorship and raised questions about America's role in bringing the General and his henchmen to power. As a result of the efforts of Peter Kornbluh and the National Security Archive, thousands of the government records that spell out US government support of Pinochet have recently been declassified. The Pinochet File makes public many of the key and formerly secret records of the atrocity and complicity that are at the heart of the international campaign to hold this Chilean general legally accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. Peter Kornbluh's investigative narrative puts the documents in their historical context—exposing the efforts of Henry Kissinger, the White House and the CIA to conceal this history—and fills in the gaps of one of the most infamous chapters in the history of American foreign policy. 
This is the timely story of the rise and fall General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Using interviews and intimate sketches, Roger Burbach unravels Pinochet's historty--from the violent military coup that brought him to power to his ouster in 1990 and eventual arrest in 1998. Burbach reveals the sociopathic, paranoid and authoritarian tendencies that led the dictator to murder thousands of people in the country while authorizing acts of international terrorism.
This book, based on more than one thousand interviews and based on the research of thousands of secret documents recently declassified, is the story of the man who continues to gain momentum in finding a place in the universal history of infamy. This is the life of an old, but still challenging and threatening general who encouraged the tenebrous "Caravan of Death". Ernesto Ekaizer won the journalism award "Ortega and Gasset" for his essays about the Pinochet case. 
Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments led by Chile formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" initially encouraged by the CIA which later backfired on the United States.
Out of the Ashes is the most comprehensive defense of Pinochet; it has useful material but overall it is not to be trusted. Google yields up many more critiques than defenses.