The book presents translations of five gunki-monogatari - tales of revolts and battles. “Records of Masakado”, “Tale of the Land of Mutsu”, “Records of the T...

A monument to the genre of “war stories” (“gunki-monogatari”), “The Tale of the Troubles of the Heiji Years” (“Heiji-monogatari”, 13th century) describes one...

Ikkyu Sojun (1394–1481) is perhaps the most famous Zen monk in Japan. According to the most famous version, he was the son of Go-Komatsu from a court lady of...

“Pig is not a nickname. My senior officer really was a pig. A fat pink boar with a bristly snout, small eyes and a rough snout. Therefore, he was not given a...

Adintsova Yu. Dogs. Illustrated Encyclopedia / Yulia Adintsova, Lyubov Rudnitskaya, Natalya Onishchenko. - M.: Eksmo, 2012. - 208 p. : ill.

This encyc...

One of the latest trends in the business world is a project system for organizing work; In recent years, project management skills have been required from ma...

Flowers are perhaps the most beautiful thing that decorates our lives. And therefore, the book that you are holding in your hands and which tells about them,...

Man and nature are inseparable from each other. Even if you are a city dweller and do not have a house in the village or a summer cottage, you can still do g...

The novel is a sharp satire on the Wehrmacht officer cadres with their petty-bourgeois slave worldview. The plot is based on actual events that took place in...