Книга посвящена весьма эффективным элементам ведения войны в наши дни – действиям в киберпространстве. Войны «традиционных форматов» затратны, сопровождаются риском боевых потерь, встречают критику не только со стороны других стран, но и большинства граждан государства – инициатора конфликта. В отличие от них кибервойна – это не только применение Интернета с целью нанесения урона противнику, это использование коммуникаций, систем командования и ...
The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles’s singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist’s sensibility, and her insider’s perspective. Women ...
Meredith Sue Willis ’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis’s stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families ...
Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state. The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their ...
«Коллекция Караван историй» – это самые громкие материалы из архива журнала «Караван историй» и лучшие фото. В каждом номере – романы, скандалы, загадочные катастрофы, а также эксклюзивные интервью со знаменитостями. В номере: Юлия Ковальчук: «Я – неленивая» Анна Невская: «Это прекрасно, когда твой муж еще и лучший друг!» Наталья Сенчукова и Виктор Рыбин. Фруктовый салат с перцем Георгий Пусеп. По дороге в рай Елена Гольянова. Опасный по ...
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the import ...
A surreal short story collection from the master of what-ifs. The Lives of Things collects Jose Saramago’s early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist’s imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories explore the horror and repression that paralyzed Portugal under the Salazar regime a ...
