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What happens when a democratically elected leader evolves into an authoritarian ruler, limiting press freedom, civil liberties, and religious and ethnic tolerance? India and Turkey are two of the world's biggest democracies –multi-ethnic nations that rose from their imperial past to be founded on the values of modernity. They have fair elections, open markets, and freedom of religion. Yet this is an account of how the charismatic strongmen Narendra Modi, in India, and Recep Tyyip Erdogan, in Turkey, used the power they had won as elected heads of state to push their countries toward authoritarian ways. Journalist Basharat Peer knows only too well how the tyranny of the majority can exact a terrible human toll; it's a story he told in Curfewed Night , his memoir of growing up in war-torn Kashmir. For this book, Peer spent a year and a half traveling across India and Turkey to chronicle the rise of Modi and Erdogan, and to tell the stories of the men and women they have victimized, who have showed courage and endured great suffering because of their love of true democratic traditions. It is more important than ever to understand the failings of democracies like India and Turkey if liberal traditions are to be protected and nourished. Получить ссылку |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Автор: Дж. К. Роулинг
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"'You are sharing the Dark Lord's thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.'"
Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time…
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The Order of the Day. Сборник профессионально-ориентированных текстов для студентов экономических специальностей и бизнесменов
Автор: Клавдия Солодушкина
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Сборник текстов по актуальным вопросам в сфере экономики и бизнеса предназначен для ознакомления с вызовами современности. Сборник содержит разделы, которые заинтересуют всех, кто хочет быть в курсе событий, происходящих в сфере бизнеса и экономики. Структура сборника выдержана таким образом, чтобы дать возможность читателю не только ознакомиться с различными мировыми тенденциями в сфере бизнеса, но и с различными стилевыми особенностями авторов статей, а также повторить основные грамматические структуры. В конце каждого текста приводится список слов и выражений, подлежащих активному усвоению. Сборник может быть использован студентами экономических вузов, а также при подготовке специалистов в курсе делового английского.
Russia and Norway. Physical and Symbolic Borders
Автор: Сборник статей
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The book is a collection of papers presented at the conference «Russia and Norway: Physical and Symbolic Borders» held in St Petersburg in April 2005 in connection with the opening of the exhibition «Norway – Russia. Neighbours through the ages». In the book different aspects of the history of the Norwegian-Russian border are covered by historians from Moscow, St Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Bergen and Tromso. The papers are diverse and refer to different chronological periods. One group of articles deals with problems connected with the medieval border treaties between Norway and Novgorodian Russia, others with the diplomatic history of the border convention of 1826, as well as its effect on ethnic minorities living in the border area. One author addresses the present-day delimitation controversy between Norway and Russia in the Barents Sea. Other articles deal with symbolic borders, for example, barriers in translating Russian literature into Norwegian, and borders between the two cultures, experienced by the Russian emigrants in Norway after the Russian Revolution. And finally, there are articles without explicit references to the concept of borders, where the authors investigate in more general terms different aspects of Norwegian-Russian relations.
A reply to two pamphlets, entitled «Illustrations of the Portuguese question, by a Portuguese lawyer,» and «The last days of the Portuguese Constitution, by Lord Porchester»
Автор: William Walton
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Полный вариант заголовка: «A reply to two pamphlets, entitled „Illustrations of the Portuguese question, by a Portuguese lawyer,“ and „The last days of the Portuguese Constitution, by Lord Porchester“ / by an Engl. civilian».
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