Excerpt from the book "The Water of the World" The historian of science Sarah Drai wrote an exciting study on how the ideas about the climate of our planet were formed and developed. We publish a fragment of the chapter, from which it becomes clear that in the 19th century, attempts to clarify the nature of the climate, collecting statistics and the issues of colonies management went hand in hand. Sarah Dray. The waters of the world.

About the "speakers" - the Christian ecomanifesta Tatyana Goricheva Tatyana Goricheva is known as a Christian philosopher, co -author of Yuri Mamleeva, feminist and activist of animal rights. The theme of her book “Talking“ Yes ”” was the thoughts of an Orthodox person about the protection of the environment - a completely eschatological problem, if you look at it through the eyes of a believer.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The list of finalists for the “Best Library of the Year” award, organized by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, has been announced. It included libraries from Australia, Norway, Belgium, China and the Netherlands. More information about the shortlisted participants can be found on the website of the main sponsor of the award, Systematic.

Once again about the book of Eduar Lev “Self -portrait. Suicide" Last month, Gorky talked about the novel by Eduar Lev, a writer who sent the publisher the manuscript of the novel “Suicide”, and then implemented in practice what he carried into the title of the book. Avenue Vanyan explains how to consider in the injured text of the French author if not good news, then good news for literature. Eduar Leva. Self -portrait. Suicide. M.: Nosorog, 2021.

Speaking about the social aspect of architecture, it is difficult to ignore the socialist city as a whole. But the very concept of a “socialist city” is a kind of metaphor. By them we mean housing complexes, which were a structure that was aimed at serving people and should have allowed them to engage in production and creativity without wasting energy and time on maintaining their living conditions.

Reader's and scientific biography of Vera Milchina. Part one Vera Milchina is a philologist and translator, leading researcher at the IVGI RGGU and STEPS RANEPA, a specialist in French and Russian literature of the 19th century.