Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) is an American science fiction writer, perhaps best known for his Martian trilogy, which won several awards, including the Hug...

The reality of a small mining town, where day by day someone dies and is born - going down to the mine and returning to the ground, and someone decides wheth...

The book presents in a popular form the philosophical ideas of thinkers of the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the New Age and the modern er...

Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw, a Burmese meditation master, pioneered today's revival of mindfulness meditation (satipatthana). Possessing a rare combination of d...

A short story of a man who finds out that he will become a father for the first time. Excitement, experience, happiness shared with the woman you love and a ...

Five small “technical” tales made up this book: “The Tale of a Submarine”, “The Tale of a Small Airplane”, “The Tale of One Tractor”, “The Tale of a Small Tr...

The book includes fairy tales about animals, magical and everyday tales of the peoples of Africa, Australia and Oceania. Compilation, introduction and notes ...

The Kruglovs lived an ordinary life in one of the Siberian cities. But at one point their lives changed dramatically, a strange flu epidemic hit the city, an...

The Kruglovs had to leave their beloved city in a hurry; the “flu virus” destroyed it. Now their only hope of survival is to reach the village where their gr...

The adventures of the Kruglovs in the new world continue. Before they had time to come to their senses after the invasion of the living dead “The Living”, a ...

A short but rather gloomy story that conveys many of the values of the modern world. The main character's name is not mentioned. A radical turning point occu...