She signed a contract to pretend she loved him.She never planned to mean it.Vera Morozova does not believe in billionaires. She believes in documentation. As one of the sharpest antiquities attorneys in America, she has spent four years building an airtight legal case around a Byzantine imperial artifact worth millions — a case that could finally clear her grandmother's name after thirty-five years of deliberate erasure.Then Nikolai Sorokin walks into a Manhattan auc...

*This book is published in the US as Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. The text is unchanged for this edition, except for the addition of a new foreword.*'With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history.' -Anne Applebaum, bests...

The 22nd book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who documented her life while hiding from the Nazis during World War II.This engaging biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the you...

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the work itself? Can we distinguish between creativity and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring artefacts as diverse as video games, Wikileaks...

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What was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule. The author outlines the seven principles on which that police state operated during its history, from the Bolshevik revo...

Rating 5.0. - that's my current Blablacar rating. 34 people left the perfect rating, and probably more than a hundred Blablacar trips were made. Due to the russian full-scale invasion to Ukraine, I had to stop writing Blablacar stories. The logical end and the last 13th story is when I return to Kyiv on the evening of russian attack. Now in Ukraine, we have the fuel crisis but what's worse we have russians on our lands, who are doing murders and genocide.Blablacar had an idea to sh...

On September 7, 1978, Bulgarian writer and journalist Georgi Markov was assassinated by the Bulgarian government. Since moving to London in 1970 and working as a newscaster for the BBC’s Foreign Service, he had become one of the most vocal critics of the regime, broadcasting narrative essays about life in Bulgaria. Two of those essays, translated here by Dimiter Kenarov, “Prostitution” and “Wastewaters,” expose the moral hypocrisy of the regime through the everyday stories of its forgotten...

Once Upon a Russia: Voices From a Vanished Era gathers over one hundred vivid, personal accounts from foreigners who lived, worked, or wandered through Russia during a time that now feels irretrievably past. Edited by Steven A. Fisher, who shared that journey with the contributors, this anthology captures not only the country's strange beauty and contradictions, but the emotional imprint it left on those who experienced it.From diplomats and dreamers to journalists, banker...

Moscow is the core of all changes, plunging Russia. Nowhere in Russia contrasts are not so pronounced - ancient monasteries and ultra-modern buildings are melded to each other and Russian millionaires and impoverished pensioners walk the same streets. By XVI century church, covered with gold and glass building rises from the XXI century salty caviar goes with sweet champagne.Get now the Ultimate Travel Guide to Moscow and enjoy a great trip with it.

Get a fascinating and disturbing look into how state and nonstate actors throughout the world use cyber attacks to gain military, political, and economic advantages. In the third edition of this book, cyber warfare researcher Jeffrey Caruso explores the latest advances in cyber espionage and warfare that have emerged on the battlefields of Ukraine and the Middle East, including cyber attacks that result in the physical destruction of the target and the pairing of cognitive with maneuver wa...

There are many conspiracy theories about the creation of Israel. Many people believe that it was the Rothschilds and other Jewish bankers that caused the two world wars. They even believe that it was the Jews who supported Hitler, because they wanted the Jews of Europe to immigrate to Palestine and establish the state of Israel.These theories might sound very stupid to some, but there are many others who take them very seriously. And how can you blame them with so much propaganda a...