Corruption is a major problem linked to economic inequality, unemployment, crime, pollution and climate change, human trafficking and terrorism. The book exa...

Do you dream of a happy life together with your chosen one, a strong family and eternal love? Do you want to maintain respect, joy and harmony in your relati...

Galina Artemyeva's stories are wise, subtle and honest. All of them are about us, ordinary people living our usual lives. These are stories about joy and sad...

At the end of September 1939, Bialystok, Grodno, Kovel, Baranovichi and other once Polish and Belarusian cities unexpectedly became Soviet for their inhabita...

Climate change is still, arguably, the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. Previously published as Global ...

The brochure, which opens the “Controversial Issue” series, examines the problem of using electric shock collars, which has largely been overcome in the West...

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable...

Mark Kurlansky became famous for his unexpected choice of heroes for his “Stories” - he would write “A General History of Salt” (Russian translation in 2007)...

American writer Edna Ferber's (1887–1968) novel The Floating Theater (1926) is the story of three generations of actors. Life and work on a floating theater ...