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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:17pm CEST
European Jewry and the First Crusade
Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520205065 | edition 1996 | CHM | 380 pages | 1,20 mb
One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:14pm CEST
The Apocalypse in Germany
Publisher: University of Missouri Press | ISBN: 0826212921 | edition 2001 | PDF | 437 pages | 2,64 mb
Originally published in German in 1988, "The Apocalypse in Germany" is translated here into English. A fitting subject for the dawn of the new millennium, the apocalypse has intrigued humanity for the last 2000 years, serving as both a fascinating vision of redemption and a profound threat. A cross-disciplinary study, "The Apocalypse in Germany" analyzes fundamental aspects of the apocalypse as a religious, political and aesthetic phenomenon. Author Klaus Vondung draws from religious, philosophical and political texts, as well as works of art and literature.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:05pm CEST
The North and the Nation in the Era of the Civil War
Publisher: Fordham University Press | ISBN: 0823222942 | edition 2003 | PDF | 277 pages | 5,26 mb
In this rich collection, a leading historian argues that in order to fully understand the Civil War, we need to grasp the relationship between American national identity and the values of Northern society. Northerners shaped nationalism into an ideology to justify and sustain a war against the South. Parish explores politics and religion as sinews that connected Northerners to the Union cause.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:48pm CEST
The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation
Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520077792 | edition 1992 | CHM | 318 pages | 1,04 mb
This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:45pm CEST
The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations
Publisher: University of Missouri Press | ISBN: 082621388X | edition 2002 | PDF | 344 pages | 2,92 mb
In The First Cold War, Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani review the Wilson administration's attitudes toward Russia before, during, and after the Bolshevik seizure of power. They argue that before the Russian Revolution, Woodrow Wilson had little understanding of Russia and made poor appointments that cost the United States Russian goodwill. Wilson later reversed those negative impressions by being the first to recognize Russia's Provisional Government, resulting in positive U.S.-Russian relations until Lenin gained power in 1917. Wilson at first seemed unsure whether to recognize or repudiate Lenin and the Bolsheviks. His vacillation finally ended in a firm repudiation when he opted for a diplomatic quarantine having almost all of the ingredients of the later Cold War. Davis and Trani argue that Wilson deserves mild criticism for his early indecision and inability to form a coherent policy toward what would become the Soviet Union.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:41pm CEST
SS-Wiking: The History of the Fifth SS Division 1941-45 By Rupert Butler
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers Ltd 2002 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1932033041 | PDF | 35 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:37pm CEST
Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press | ISBN: 0807824321 | edition 1998 | CHM | 354 pages | 1,78 mb
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred nearly all Chinese from US shores for ten years. Gyory traces the origins of the Act, contending that rather than confronting divisive problems such as class conflict, politicians sought a safe, non-ideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:32pm CEST
Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics
Publisher: University of Texas Press | ISBN: 0292743440 | edition 2002 | PDF | 208 pages | 10,5 mb
"This text will be the classic work in the field. . . . It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America." --Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, Chicago From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole spectrum of ethnic origins, traditions, and religious practices. In this book, Akel Ismail Kahera explores the history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:23pm CEST
Vietnam War (America at War) By Maurice Isserman, John S. Bowman
Publisher: Facts on File | ISBN: 0816049378 | edition 2003 | PDF | 192 pages | 3,4 mb
This riveting history includes a clear discussion of the roots of American involvement in Indochina in the days just after World War II and goes on to explore the varied and complex motives behind America's effort to halt the spread of communism in Asia. In clear, lucid prose, Maurice Isserman explores the critical questions surrounding the United States experience in Vietnam: What led President Lyndon Baines Johnson to commit combat troops in 1965? How was it possible for North Vietnamese to suffer a military defeat in the Tet Offensive in 1968 and yet achieve a political victory? What has America learned from the experience of fighting in Vietnam? The need for objective and accurate information about the Vietnam War has never been greater than it is today.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:09pm CEST
New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches
Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520067223 | edition 1990 | CHM | 251 pages | 2,36 mb
First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum--the underground story--of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:03pm CEST
Central America, 1821-1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform
Publisher: University Alabama Press | ISBN: 0817307656 | edition 1995 | CHM | 168 pages | 1,15 mb
This volume consists of two interrelated essays dealing with the economic, social and political changes that took place in Central America, changes that led to both liberal regime consolidation and export agricultural development after the middle of the 19th century.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:02pm CEST
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric By Susan Miller
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press | ISBN: 0809327880 | edition 2007 | PDF | 224 pages | 2,60 mb
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:00pm CEST
Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press | ISBN: 0877458472 | edition 2003 | PDF | 272 pages | 4,34 mb
From the end of the Ice Age to the fur trade era, Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley provides an excellent overview of the 12,000-year human past of the Driftless region of the Upper Mississippi River Valley—roughly from Dubuque, Iowa, to Red Wing, Minnesota, but framed within a somewhat larger area extending from the Rock Island Rapids at the modern Moline-Rock Island area to the Falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:52pm CEST
Till God Inherits the Earth (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World) By ALEJANDRO GARCÍA SANJUÁN
Publisher: BRILL | ISBN: 9004153586 | edition 2006 | PDF | 548 pages | 1,96 mb
This volume deals with the origins and evolution of the Islamic institution of pious endowments in al-Andalus and provide us with a complete review of relevant issues such as the structure of economic property, the idea of charity, the concept of general or common interest and the social and juridical role of men of religion.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:51pm CEST
The Iliad
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 0140445927 | edition 1991 | CHM | 704 pages | 1,22 mb
In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry and evokes the impact and nuance of Homer's mesmerizing repeated phrases.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:50pm CEST
Gallipoli: Gully Ravine By Stephen J. Chambers
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd 2003 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0850529239 | PDF | 30 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:47pm CEST
Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration since 1945
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | ISBN: 0742519147 | edition 2003 | PDF | 304 pages | 17,55 mb
This accessible text provides a concise political history of European integration from the end of World War II to the present. The European Project raises fascinating and important questions: How did Europe's states overcome their traditional rivalries and quarrels to build supranational institutions? What were the economic and geopolitical forces that drove them? Which individual statesmen contributed most to defining the European project? What are the issues that confronted the EU in the last decade and what problems will the EU face as its leaders consider even more advanced forms of political integration? All these questions are addressed by this engaging text, which offers a clear and readable account of the complex historical process by which Europe's unique polity has been built. Visit our website for update chapter!
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:20pm CEST
Battleship "Yamato" By Janusz Skulski
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press Ltd 1995 | 92 Pages | ISBN: 0851774903 | PDF | 37 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 6:53pm CEST
Chariots Of The Gods? Was God An Astronaut?
Publisher: CORGI | ASIN: B000S6JV2Y | edition 1969 | PDF | 5,97 mb
It took courage to write this book, and it will take courage to read it. Because its theories and proofs do not fit into the mosaic of traditional archaeology, constructed so laboriously and firmly cemented down, scholars will call it nonsense and put it on the Index of those books which are better left unmentioned.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 6:31pm CEST
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions): Mary Wollstonecraft
Dover Publications | ISBN: 0486290360 | 1996-07-03 | PDF (OCR) | 224 pages | 15.5 Mb
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:35pm CEST
Giuseppe Nesi , "International Cooperation in Counter-terrorism: The United Nations And Regional Organizations in the Fight Against Terrorism"
Ashgate Publishing | 2006 | ISBN: 0754647552 | 313 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:21pm CEST
Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau's Journal of Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition
Publisher: Praeger Publishers | ISBN: 031332512X | edition 2002 | CHM | 232 pages | 1,05 mb
This lively, firsthand account of an army trapped in a hostile land, cut off from reinforcement and facing powerful enemies, is offered in English for the first time. As an active artillery officer, Jean-Pierre Doguereau was present at most of the major battles and sieges of the campaign. While essentially the account of a professional soldier, the journal also details Doguereau's wonder and reflections on the invaded country and its people, so different from the land he and his comrades had expected.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:14pm CEST
Christie W. Kiefer PhD, "Doing Health Anthropology: Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change"
Springer Publishing Company | 2006 | ISBN: 0826115578 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:13pm CEST
The Great Armies of Antiquity
Publisher: Praeger Publishers | ISBN: 0275978095 | edition 2002 | CHM | 456 pages | 1,69 mb
Gabriel examines 18 ancient army systems, examining the organizational structure and weapons employed and the degree to which cultural values and imperatives shaped the form and application of military force. The tactical doctrines and specific operational capabilities of each army are analyzed to explain how certain technical limitations and societal/cultural imperatives affected the operational capabilities of ancient armies. Cross-cultural and cross-historical connections ground the analysis in the larger historical context of the ancient world.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:05pm CEST
The History of Iran
Publisher: Greenwood Press | ISBN: 0313307318 | edition 2000 | CHM | 320 pages | 1,05 mb
With almost three thousand years of history, Iran is home to one of the world's richest and most complex cultures. Yet to the average American the name Iran probably conjures up an image of a remote and upstart country inhabited by a people whose religious fanaticism is matched only by the intensity of their disdain for the United States and its values, who speak an obscure tongue called Farsi, and whose identity is not clearly distinguished from that of their Arab neighbors. This work offers an objective and engagingly written portrait of the Iranian people and their complex history from the perspective of one of the world's foremost experts on the country. It is ideal for student use and for the interested reader.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 4:36pm CEST
The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia: A Supplemental Bibliography, 1984-2003 (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)
Publisher: Brill | ISBN: 900414594X | edition 2006 | PDF | 944 pages | 2 mb
| “ | The bibliography includes material published from 1984 to 2003. The historical chronology has been expanded to include the fourth century. This includes unlike the first one Iberian Fathers such as Gregory of Elvira, Potamius of Lisboa, Prudentius, and Pacian of Barcelona. As with the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) among the many topics represented are: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics, Germanic and Muslim Invasions, and more. In addition, peoples such as the Vandals, Sueves, Basques, Alans and Byzantines are included. The book contains author and subject indexes and is extensively cross-indexed for easy consultation. A periodicals index of hundreds of journals accompanies the volume. This collection of nearly 8,000 entries is an attempt to bring up-to-date the scholarship on Iberia and Gaul in Late Antiquity... | ” |
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:49pm CEST
The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521584086 | edition 1997 | CHM | 164 pages | 1,03 mb
Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of repudiating one's opposition, and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare. Her study challenges recent claims that the state controlled poets' criticisms by means of censorship, arguing instead that power relations between poets and the state are more accurately described in terms of the reversible charge of slander.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:34pm CEST
Reading Inca History
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press | ISBN: 0877457255 | edition 2000 | PDF | 335 pages | 1,10 mb
At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History, Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:03pm CEST
Old Routes of Western Iran: Narratives of an Archaeological Journey
Hardcover | 308 pages | 1969 | ISBN: 0837122562 | PDF | 133 mb
Sir Marc Aurel Stein (Hungarian: Stein Márk Aurél) (1862 – 1943) was a Hungarian archaeologist. He was also a professor at various Indian universities.
Stein was born in Budapest in a Jewish family. His parents had him and his brother, Ernst Eduard, baptised as Lutherans, while his parents and sisters remained Jews He later became a British citizen and made his famous expeditions under British sponsorship....
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 3:03pm CEST
The Emergence of American Zionism
Publisher: NYU Press | ISBN: 0814774997 | edition 1998 | CHM | 320 pages | 1,58 mb
The images of Zionist pioneers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--hard working, brawny, and living off the land--sprang from the ascendent socialist Zionist movement in Palestine known as "Labor Zionism." The building of the Yishuv, a new Jewish society in Palestine, was accompanied by the rapid growth of Zionism worldwide.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 2:18pm CEST
Urban Politics And the British Civil Wars: Edinburgh, 1617-53 (The Northern World) By Laura A.M. Stewart
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers 2006-06-01 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 9004151672 | PDF | 1.72 MB
On 23 July 1637, riots broke out in Edinburgh. These disturbances triggered the collapse of royal authority across the British Isles. This volume explores the political and religious culture in the Scottish capital from the reign of James VI and I to the Cromwellian occupation...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 1:23pm CEST
Justo Miranda, Paula Mercado - Secret Wonder Weapons of the Third Reich: German Missiles 1934-1945
Schiffer Publishing | 2000 | ISBN: 0764300865 | 138 pages | PDF | 19.78 MB
This book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 "Fritz-X", Henschel Hs 293, Hs 294, Hs 295 and Henschel "Zitterrochen", Blohm und Voss Bv 226, Bv 246 "Hagelkorn" and Lippisch GB-3/L, Blohm und Voss Bv 143, Henschel G.T. 1200 and other gliding torpedos, Arado E-377 and E-377a, Mistel Me 262 A-1/A-2 and Me 262 A-1a/Ju 287b-1, Fieseler Fi 103 Series; PILOTED MISSILES: Blohm und Voss Bv 40, Daimler-Benz Projekt E and F, Messerschmitt Me 328, "Gleiter Bombenflugzeug" 1945, Projekt "Reichenberg" Series, Sombold So 344, Zeppelin "Rammer"; BALLISTIC MISSILES: EMW A-3/A-5, EMW A 4/A 4b, EMW A 5/A 8, EMW A 7/A 9/A 10, Blohm und Voss "Manuell Gesteuertes RAketen Projektil"; ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-4, Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-7 "Rotkappchen", Henschel Hs 298 V1 and V2, Henschel Hs 117 "Schmetterling", Messerschmitt "Enzian", Rheinmetall-Borsig F-25 and F-55 "Feuerlilie", Rheinmetall-Borsig "Rheintochter" I and III, Rheinmetall-Borsig "Hecht" 2700, EMW C2 "Wasserfall".
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 11:46am CEST
The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare and Propaganda under the Successors By A. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2002-12-26 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 0198153066 | PDF | 28 MB
This major study by a leading expert is dedicated to the thirty years after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. It deals with the emergence of the Successor monarchies and examines the factors that brought success and failure.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 11:24am CEST
Coins of England and the United Kingdom
Spink & Son Ltd; 37 edition (3 Sep 2001) | ISBN: 1902040449 | 267 pages | PDF | 38 mb
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 11:06am CEST
A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-110 (Blackwell Companions to British History) By Pauline Stafford
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 2009-04-27 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 140510628X0 | PDF | 4.8 MB
Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:52am CEST
Weapons of Terror, Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms Hans Blix, WMDC Chairman Weapons Of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC)
Publisher: Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council 2006 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 9138225824 | PDF | 1.4 MB
WHY ACTION IS NECESSARY... Nuclear, biological and chemical arms are the most inhumane of all weapons. Designed to terrify as well as destroy, they can, in the hands of either states or non-state actors, cause destruction on a vastly greater scale than any conventional weapons, and their impact is far more indiscriminate and long-lasting...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:27am CEST
Hard-won victory: The Canadians at Ortona, 1943 (Access to history) By N. M Christie
Publisher: CEF Books 2001 | 42 Pages | ISBN: 1896979408 | PDF | 14.6 MB
Maps, illustrations, photographs, bibliography...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:20am CEST
Shreveport Sounds in Black and White (American Made Music)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi | ISBN: 9781934110423 | edition 2008 | PDF | 358 pages | 2,5 mb
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To borrow words from Stan "The Record Man" Lewis, Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of this nation's most important "regional-sound cities." Its musical distinctiveness has been shaped by individuals and ensembles, record label and radio station owners, announcers and disc jockeys, club owners and sound engineers, music journalists, and musicians. The area's output cannot be described by a single genre or style. Rather, its music is a kaleidoscope of country, blues, R&B, rockabilly, and rock.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:08am CEST
The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Studies on Tradition, Redaction, and Theology (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter | ISBN: 9783110194999 | edition 2008 | PDF | 411 pages | 2,1 mb
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The Book of Sirach raises many questions: philological, exegetical, literary, historical, theological. There were even confessional questions which divided the traditions of synagogues and churches. It is, therefore, a fascinating book, located on the edges of the canon. Does the book attempt to repair the harm done by the erosive criticism of Job and Qoheleth, or is it the work of a thoughtful interpreter who, in a time of change, seeks to bear the tradition towards the new situation emerging from the Hellenistic Diaspora? Is it a book which aims at the restoration of the true faith against the autonomous questing of human wisdom, or is it merely a sincere, if shrewd, experiment at dialogue between the legitimate reasoning of the world and the wisdom given in the Law? According to a well-tried methodology of juxtaposing the specialists of different schools, this volume presents an up to date consideration of historical, exegetical and theological research.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 10:02am CEST
The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire (International Library of Colonial History) By Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies 2008-10-14 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1845115856 | PDF | 3.3 MB
Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India in the late 15th Century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. At the height of Portugal’s maritime influence, it had created an oceanic state ranging from the Cape of Good Hope to China. While Portugal’s direct political influence in Asia was comparatively short-lived, its linguistic influence remains...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:59am CEST
War of 1812, Updated Edition (America at War)
Publisher: Facts on File | ISBN: 9780816049332 | edition 2003-04 | PDF | 176 pages | 6,39 mb
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A revised account of the events surrounding the War of 1812 between the newly established United States and Great Britain.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 9:03am CEST
Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World By E.R. Hoffman
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing 2007 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 140512072X | PDF | 8 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:32am CEST
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker By Robert S. Hopkins
Publisher: Midland Publishing 1997 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1857800699 | PDF | 80 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:25am CEST
Miriam Greenblatt , John Stewart Bowman, "War of 1812"
Facts on File | 2003 | ISBN: 0816049335 | 176 pages | PDF | 6,4 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 8:20am CEST
Deutsche Lufthansa: Der Kranich in Turbulenzen, 1939-1945 By Hans W Neulen
Publisher: Stedinger; Auflage: 1 2003 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 3927697346 | PDF | 40 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:09am CEST
Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador By Terence Grieder, James D. Farmer, David V. Hill, Peter W. Stahl, Douglas H. Ubelaker
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2009-01-01 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0292718926 | PDF | 5 MB
Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)--now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador--has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 7:08am CEST
Hilary Synnott, "Bad Days in Basra: My Turbulent Time as Britain's Man in Southern Iraq"
I. B. Tauris | 2008 | ISBN: 1845117069 | 240 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 5:58am CEST
George W. Liebmann, "Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World"
I. B. Tauris | 2008 | ISBN: 1845116372 | 288 pages | PDF | 15 MB
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:32am CEST
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Short Circuits) By Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank
Publisher: The MIT Press 2009-04-24 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0262012715 | English | PDF | 1.1 MB
What matters is not so much that iek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:31am CEST
American Bomber Crewman 1941-45 Warrior 119
Osprey | 68 Pages | Gregory Fremont-Barnes | ISBN: 1846031257 | English | PDF | 2008 | 25MB
Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth", who crewed, maintained and repaired the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and the B-24 Liberators that flew from the airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk and other counties of England. He highlights the physical and psychological strain placed on these brave men. Long bombing missions called for brute strength to control the aircraft and extraordinary endurance to fly for hours at 20,000 feet at temperatures below freezing in unheated, unpressurized cabins. Then there were Luftwaffe fighters and anti-aircraft fire to contend with and it required incredible skill and some luck to return from a mission unscathed. This book is a fitting tribute to these often uncelebrated heroes who took the war deep into the Third Reich, as well as a fascinating historical account of the experiences they went through.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:30am CEST
The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia By Victor Tupitsyn
Publisher: The MIT Press 2009-05-29 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0262201739 | PDF | 5.6 MB
In The Museological Unconscious, Victor Tupitsyn views the history of Russian contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a "communal optic" that registers the influence of such characteristically Russian phenomena as communal living, communal perception, and communal speech practices...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:25am CEST
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India. (Cross/Cultures) By Nalini Iyer, Bonnie Zare
Publisher: Rodopi 2009-01-22 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 9042025190 | PDF | 2.2 MB
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India explores the implications of the energetic and, at times, acrimonious public debate among Indian authors and academics over the hegemonic role of Indian writing in English. From the 1960s the debate in India has centered on the role of the English language in perpetuating and maintaining the cultural and ideological aspects of imperialism...
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:19am CEST
The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, 2nd edition By Professor Lee I. Levine
Publisher: Yale University Press 2000-02-09 | 768 Pages | ISBN: 0300074751 | PDF | 5.4 MB
In this comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through late antiquity, Lee Levine traces the development of a dynamic and revolutionary institution. Examining synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora, he describes their physical features, role in the community, leadership, liturgy, and art as well as their success in integrating social and religious behavior from surrounding non-Jewish society.
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Posted: April 28th, 2009, 12:18am CEST
Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures By Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2009-05-01 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0292719094 | PDF | 4.9 MB
In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways...
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 11:22pm CEST
Letters from the New World: Selected Correspondence of Don Diego De Vargas to His Family, 1675-1706
Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr | ISBN: 082631354X | edition 1992 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,7 mb
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:33pm CEST
Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador By Terence Grieder, James D. Farmer, David V. Hill, Peter W. Stahl, Douglas H. Ubelaker
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2009-01-01 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0292718926 | PDF | 5 MB
Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)--now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador--has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities...
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:20pm CEST
Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films By Roz Kaveney
Publisher: I. B. Tauris 2008-03-18 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1845115694 | PDF | 5 MB
Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire?...
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:18pm CEST
To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) By Matthew G. Looper
Publisher: University of Texas Press 2009-01-01 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0292709889 | PDF | 11 MB
The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an association with feasting and gift exchange...
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:17pm CEST
Architecture Depends By Jeremy Till
Publisher: The MIT Press 2009-03-31 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0262012537 | PDF | 1.2 MB
Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself...
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:12pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 60 - Panther
1998 | Polish | ISBN: 8372190100 | PDF | pages 82 | 14.06 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:09pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 59 - Fiat G-50
1998 | Polish | ISBN: 8372190097 | PDF | pages 55 | 67.85 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:06pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 58 - Wespe
1998 | Polish | ISBN: 8372190054 | PDF | pages 40 | 20.37 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 10:03pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 57 - BT
1998 | Polish | ISBN: 8372190046 | PDF | pages 60 | 8.29 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 9:59pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 56 - Jagdpanzer 38(t) HETZER
1998 | Polish | ISBN: 8372190017 | PDF | pages 35 | 2.98 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 9:21pm CEST
Manfred Griehl - German Rocket Planes
Greenhill Books | 2000 | ISBN: 1853674044 | 74 pages | PDF | 82.12 MB
Luftwaffe at War 14
As the Allies intensified their bombing of the Third Reich and the Luftwaffe's conventional fighters seemed taxed to their very limit, the sudden appearance of rocket aircraft in May 1944 marked the advent of Germany's last hope. The first rocket planes were being tested by January 1944, and a handful of these advanced fighters would take to the sky, destined for a short but violent life in the face of Allied air superiority. This brilliant addition to the series presents extremely rare photos of Germany's rocket planes and vividly captures the wartime career of the Third Reich's secret weapons. Using images taken of aircraft under development and in the field, this comprehensive study examines the rocket planes appearance and markings and the pilots who flew and tested the aircraft. The book covers the Me 163B (Komet), Me 163BV1, Me 163AV4, as well as a number of key experimental planes.
96 b/w and 10 color photographs.
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 8:06pm CEST
British Military Transport, 1829-1956 By Tank Museum
Publisher: Stationery Office Books 1998 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0112905706 | PDF | 35 MB
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 7:59pm CEST
Into the Abyss: The Last Years of the Waffen SS 1943-45, A Photographic History By Ian Baxter
Publisher: Helion & Company 2006 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 1874622590 | PDF | 41 MB
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Posted: April 27th, 2009, 7:37pm CEST
Doak K., "A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan"
BRILL | 2006 | ISBN: 9004155988 | 292 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 10:44pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 50 - Flakpanzer 38(t)
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209745 | PDF | pages 24 | 7.79 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 10:40pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 49 - He 162 Volksjager
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209682 | PDF | pages 40 | 9.71 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 10:37pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 47 - Bf 109 G/H
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209634 | PDF | pages 105 | 52.34 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 10:33pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 46 - He 177 Greif
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209836 | PDF | pages 56 | 17.40 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 9:42pm CEST
Eugenijus Ivanauskas "Coins of Lithuania 1386-1707"
Savastis | 1999 | ISBN: 9986420288 | English | PDF | pages 271 | 77.76 Mb
Перед каждым подразделением подается историческая справка о монетных эмиссиях, кратко приводятся аргументы о хронологии и атрибуции соответствующих групп монет. Для каждой монеты представлено описание аверса и реверса, источник происхождения, рыночную цену. В конце каждой из групп чеканки соответствующего обладателя есть фото каждой монеты.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 8:57pm CEST
Environmental Information for Naval Warfare By Committee on Environmental Information for Naval Use
Publisher: National Academy Press | ISBN: 0309088607 | edition 2003 | PDF | 203 pages | 6,11 mb
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 8:22pm CEST
The Navy in Action (U.S. Military Branches and Careers) By Ann Gaines
Publisher: Enslow Publishers | ISBN: 0766016331 | edition 2001| PDF | 128 pages | 6,1 mb
When President James Madison declared war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812, the British Navy was the largest in the world. It had more than seven hundred ships and tens of thousands of experienced sailors.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 8:12pm CEST
Des Kaisers Rock im 1. Weltkrieg. Uniformierung und Ausrüstung der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee von 1914 bis 1918 By Stefan Rest
Publisher: Verlag Militaria 2002 | 508 Pages | ISBN: 3950164200 | PDF | 88 MB
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 8:09pm CEST
Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force
Publisher: National Academies Press | ISBN: 0309112656 | edition 2008 | PDF | 170 pages | 1,01 mb
The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to transforming the nation's armed forces to meet the military challenges of the future. One approach to achieving this transformation is by leveraging advances in science and technology. New technologies and innovations are integral to today's military actions, and associated changes have rippled through all aspects of operations, highlighting the need for changes in policies related to military personnel. At the request of the Force Chief of Naval Operations, the NRC reviewed the military manpower and personnel policies and studies currently underway in the DOD and developed an implementation strategy for the Department of the Navy's future military manpower and personnel needs.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 7:54pm CEST
Das Reich: Waffen-SS Armoured Elite By Mike Sharpe, Brian L. Davis
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd 2003 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 071102975X | PDF | 42 MB
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 7:51pm CEST
Oppy Wood (Battleground Europe) By David Bilton
Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd 2005 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1844152480 | PDF | 45 MB
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 7:42pm CEST
David Sabben, "Through Enemy Eyes: After Months of Planning, the Viet Cong Were Near Long Tan and Ready to Attack . . . "
Publisher: Allen & Unwin | 2006-09-01 | ISBN 1741145619 | PDF | 368 pages | 2.73 MB
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 7:40pm CEST
Dye`s Coin Encyclopedia: a complete illustrated history of the
Coins of the World
John S. Dye | Philadelphia: Bradley & Co | 1883 | English | PDF | pages 1155 | 124 Mb
В каталоге много иллюстраций, данны описания монет, краткая информация о стране.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 7:38pm CEST
Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities: Adaptive Site Management
By Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities, National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press | ISBN: 0309087481 | edition 2003 | PDF | 376 pages | 5,5 mb
The number of hazardous waste sites across the United States has grown to approximately 217,000, with billions of cubic yards of soil, sediment, and groundwater plumes requiring remediation. Sites contaminated with recalcitrant contaminants or with complex hydrogeological features have proved to be a significant challenge to cleanup on every level—technologically, financially, legally, and sociopolitically. Like many federal agencies, the Navy is a responsible party with a large liability in hazardous waste sites.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 7:34pm CEST
Noise and Military Service: Implications for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus
By Committee on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Associated with Military Service from World War II to the Present
Publisher: National Academies Press | ISBN: 0309099498 | edition 2005 | PDF | 338 pages | 2,8 mb
The Institute of Medicine carried out a study mandated by Congress and sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an assessment of several issues related to noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with service in the Armed Forces since World War II. The resulting book, "Noise and Military Service: Implications for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus", presents findings on the presence of hazardous noise in military settings, levels of noise exposure necessary to cause hearing loss or tinnitus, risk factors for noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, the timing of the effects of noise exposure on hearing, and the adequacy of military hearing conservation programs and audiometric testing.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 6:37pm CEST
"Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism"
National Academies Press (2001-12-31) | ISBN 0309082862 | 98 Pages | PDF | 3.3 Mb
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 6:24pm CEST
Adam Nicolson. "God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible"
HarperCollins | 2003 | ISBN: 0060185163 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 Mb
Fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king; of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible; of the influences that shaped their work and of the beliefs that colored their world, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building, but a book.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 6:17pm CEST
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance (Lived Religions)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University P-s | ISBN: 0801883709 | edition 2006 | PDF | 400 pages | 2.32 mb
This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from...
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 5:50pm CEST
Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads)
Publisher: University of California Press | ISBN: 0520246497 | edition 2006 | PDF | 293 pages | 1,1 mb
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups...
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 5:33pm CEST
R. P. Hunnicutt - A History of the American Light Tank. Vol.1: Stuart
Presidio Press | 1992 | ISBN: 0891414622 | 503 pages | PDF | 84.6 MB
Hunnicutt's work is an absolute must for light tank enthusiasts. Covering earlier development of the American light tank beginning in the 1920's, it ascends through the 1940's. Tanks covered include all variants of the M2, M3, M5, M8 series light tanks and even LVT (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) vehicles. Coverage is also provided, albeit surprisingly, on the M18! Illustrated with black and white and color photos, line drawings and color plates; it includes action as well as technical views. Many photos are drawn from the U.S. Army Ordnance archives and Army technical manuals. This provides not only views of production vehicles, but prototypes and interior shots not normally seen. Technical specifications are also provided for the majority of vehicles illustrated.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 8:45am CEST
The TVA Idea
Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education | ASIN: B00128GQ98 | edition 1949 | PDF | 106 pages | 5,69 mb
The issue of government ownership of the means of production is no longer open to discussion in Russia. That issue was decisively settled by revolution.The issue of government ownership of the means of production is still open to discussion here in America. This study is dedicated to that discussion.
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 7:46am CEST
The Origins of the Second World War
Publisher: Penguin Books Lt | ISBN: 014013672X | edition 1995 | RTF | 368 pages | 2,30 mb
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into it partly by accident, aided by the shortcomings of others. Fiercely attacked for vindicating Hitler, A.J.P. Taylor's stringent re-examination of the events preceding the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 opened up new debate, and is now recognized as a brilliant and classic piece of scholarly research. 'Highly original and penetrating...No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way' - "Sunday Telegraph".
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 5:10am CEST
A. A. Long, D. N. Sedley, "The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 2: Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography"
Cambridge University Press | 1998 | ISBN: 0521275571 | 524 + 157 pages | PDF (Scan) | 23,9 + 21 MB
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 1:52am CEST
The First World War (Cassell History of Warfare) By Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 030435256X | PDF | 87 MB
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Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 12:42am CEST
The Vital Guide to Military Aircraft By Sophearith Moeng
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd 2001 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 1840370653 | PDF | 65 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 11:01pm CEST
Ф. Араго- Биографии знаменитых астрономов, физиков и геометров. В 2-х томах.
Регулярная и хаотическая динамика | 2000 | ISBN: 593972017Х,5939720188 | 496,464 pages | DJVU | 5.10 MB
Первый том этой книги представляет сборник биографий великих астрономов, от древнего Гиппарха до Лапласа, а также биографии Бальи, Кондорсе, Карно, Монжа и Фурье, где описываются не только их научные труды, но и общественная жизнь в буре политических страстей. Во втором томе содержатся биографии Малюса, Томаса Юнга, Френеля, Гей-Люссака, Вольта и Ампера. Здесь также представлены неоконченные очерки биографий членов Французского института. В последнем томе содержатся две биографии, Пуассона и Джеймса Уата, а также автобиография самого Араго. В приложении приведена статья переводчика о жизни Араго, его влиянии на современников и значении его сочинения и открытий в науке. Для широкого круга читателей.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:43pm CEST
O.C. Gaedechens "Hamburgische Munzen und Medaillen"
Hamburg | 1854 | German | PDF | pages 358 | 9.17 Mb
Книга по монетам и медалям ганзейского города Гамбурга. Первая половина книги посвящена медалям, отчеканенным с 1594 по 1848, вторая - золотым, серебряным...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:21pm CEST
Citizens More than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press | ISBN: 0803229704 | edition 2007 | PDF | 230 pages | 1,23 mb
Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside with a rusty, antiquated musket. Citizens More than Soldiers demonstrates that, to the contrary, the militia remained an active civil institution in the early nineteenth century, affecting the era’s great social, political, and economic transitions. In fact, given their degree of community involvement, militiamen were more influential in Kentucky’s maturation than any other formal community organization...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:11pm CEST
Die deutsche Schutztruppe 1889 - 1918. Auftrag und Geschichte By Werner Haupt
Publisher: Dörfler 2001 | 163 Pages | ISBN: 3895550329 | PDF | 61 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 10:02pm CEST
The Vital Guide to Modern Warships By Leo Marriott
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd 2001 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1840371773 | PDF | 63 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:57pm CEST
Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries By Michael Kurland
Publisher: Alpha 2000-06-14 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0028638433 | PDF | 3 MB
Albert Einstein once said, "There is nothing more beautiful than a mystery." If you believe Albert, then the "Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries" is for you...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:34pm CEST
Missing (Astonishing Headlines) By Sarah Hutt, Kent Publishing
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc. 2005-08 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 1562548247 | PDF | 1.3 MB
This new series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with reluctant readers in mind, these riveting 64-page softcover books offer short chapters on high-interest headlines. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:32pm CEST
Into the Bermuda Triangle By Gian Quasar
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press 2005-02-07 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0071452176; B001E5NNM2 | PDF | 3.5 MB
Still unsolved, still baffling, still claiming new victims. Here are the untold stories...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 9:04pm CEST
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative
Publisher: Rutgers University Press | ISBN: 0813539013 | edition 2006 | PDF | 176 pages | 1,08 mb
The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window into the experience of sickness...
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 8:37pm CEST
Raymond Westbrook, Gary M. Beckman, "A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2003-10 | ISBN 9004129952 | PDF | 1209 pages | 4.4 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 8:05pm CEST
Jan-Bart Gewald, Jeremy Silvester, "Words Cannot Be Found: German Colonial Rule in Namibia"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2003-06-01 | ISBN 9004129812 | PDF | 312 pages | 3.0 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:58pm CEST
Karin Moorhouse, Wei Cheng, "No One Can Stop the Rain: A Chronicle of Two Foreign Aid Workers during the Angolan Civil War"
Publisher: Insomniac Press | 2000-09-01 | ISBN 189466390X | PDF | 288 pages | 17.6 MB
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:57pm CEST
R. P. Hunnicutt - Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank
Presidio Press | 1984 | ISBN: 0891412301 | 460 pages | PDF | 58.25 MB
This book covers the history and development of America's longest service series of tanks, the Patton.
Tracing the post Korea era, Hunnicutt provides excellent detail of all prototypes, models and varients of the M-47, M-48 and M-60 series. The photos, line drawings and text fully explain the armament, suspension, hull, turret, automotive.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:49pm CEST
Peter C. Smith - Aichi D3A1/2 Val
Crowood Press | 1994 | ISBN: 1861262787 | 194 pages | PDF | 106.9 MB
From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the kamikaze raids in the closing stages of WWII, the Aichi Val was a potent Japanese weapon that caused considerable damage to Allied ships and ground installations. Using official records and the testimony of men who designed and flew it, Peter Smith tells the full story of the Aichi D3A1/2 Val using many rare photographs and interviews with surviving crew members. Filled with a wealth of material never before seen on this often-overlooked aircraft.
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Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 7:37pm CEST
Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War By Elizabeth Bergman Crist
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0195383591 | edition 2009 | PDF | 272 pages | 1,3 mb
Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War.
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 6:03pm CEST
Sharon and Richard Hanes , "Cold War Reference Library" (Repost)
Gale | PDF |6 Volumes Total 27 MB | 1465 pages | 2003 | ISBN: 0787690899 | 5% Recovery Record | Rapidshare Links
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 4:11pm CEST
Martin W. Bowman - De Havilland Mosquito
Crowood Press | 1997 | ISBN: 186126075X | 194 pages | PDF | 127.34 MB
De Havilland's Mosquito was conceived in 1938 as a high speed unarmed bomber, built mainly from wood. Its adaptability saw it as a night fighter, bomber photoreconnaissance aeroplane, high speed courier aircraft, target marker and anti-shipping strike aircraft. This is the story of the Mosquito's design and development, its operational use, with both the RAF and USAAF, and of its production in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Appendices list the many variants, production totals and nightfighter kills. This volume contains many rare and unpublished photographs.
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 3:26pm CEST
Hans-Peter von Peschke, “Was ist was?, Bd. 106 - Burgen.pdf”
Tessloff Verlag | 1998 | ISBN: 378860669X | Language: German | 50 pages | PDF | 28.11 MB
Kein einziges Bauwerk symbolisiert das europäische Mittelalter so sehr wie die Burg...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 3:18pm CEST
Никольский М.В. "Орион" Р-3. Охотник за субмаринами
PDF | Russian | 95 pages | 5,6 MB | ISBN 5170097433 | 2001
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 1:38pm CEST
All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Army on the Western Front By Ian Passingham
Publisher: The History Press Ltd 2005 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 075094241X | PDF | 39 MB
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 1:34pm CEST
Bell Aircraft Since 1935 By Alain Pelletier
Publisher: Brassey's: Putnam Aeronautical 1992 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0851778518 | PDF | 89 MB
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 12:53pm CEST
Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome
Harvard University Press | 224 pages | 1981 | ISBN: 0674144759 | PDF | 9 mb
John D'Arms explores here a question of central importance for the social economic history of the Roman world: which sectors of society were actively engaged in trade? ...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 12:33pm CEST
Usus Antiquus Juris Romani: Antikes Recht in lebenspraktischer Anwendung
Springer | 241 pages | 2005 | ISBN: 3540244638 | PDF | 12 mb
Die Erforschung des römischen Rechts wendet sich zunehmend den Realitäten des antiken Rechtslebens zu. Dahinter steht die Erkenntnis, dass sich auch das rechtswissenschaftliche Schrifttum der römischen Juristen zu einem erheblichen Teil auf die Vorgänge des Rechtsverkehrs bezog...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 12:06pm CEST
British Military Band Uniforms-Household Cavalry By Wendy Skilton
Publisher: Midland Publishing 1998 | 72 Pages | ISBN: 1857800079 | PDF | 26 MB
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 11:54am CEST
D-Day - Juno Beach: Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny By Lance Goddard
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd 2004 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1550024922 | PDF | 12 MB
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 11:30am CEST
Gerhard L. Weinberg, "A World at Arms - A Global History Of World War II"
Cambridge | ISBN: 0521443172;0521558794 | 1995 | PDF | 1197 Pages | 11 mb
This comprehensive examination of the Second World War looks at grand strategy and diplomacy, as opposed to the gritty details of the combat experience. A World at Arms is written in a matter-of-fact tone, so don't expect a poetic narrative.
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 11:00am CEST
Kenneth G. Holum, "Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity"
University of California Press | 1989 | ISBN: 0520068017 | 325 pages | PDF | 24,6 MB
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 10:20am CEST
How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press | ISBN: 0826333125 | edition 2008 | PDF | 357 pages | 4.98 mb
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 10:14am CEST
M. I. Finley, "Politics in the Ancient World (Cambridge Paperback Library)"
Cambridge University Press | 1983 | ISBN: 0521275709 | 168 pages | PDF | 8,6 MB
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 10:13am CEST
Law and Life of Rome
ACLS History E-Book Project | 352 pages | 2001 | ISBN: 1597401277 | PDF | 18 mb
It would be pretty tough to argue that this isn't a great book. J.A. Crook provides a very through overview of Roman law and procedure from roughly 90 B.C.E. to 212 C.E. Under such rubrics as commerce, labor, and status, Crook explains in minute detail the workings of law as it related to society and social relations. Beware, this is specialized Roman history. A beginner could be in trouble if he is not aware of at least a basic outline of Roman history and society.....
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 9:41am CEST
America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521829585 | edition 2004 | PDF | 332 pages | 35,8 mb
Long before Rwanda and Bosnia and the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century occurred in Turkish Armenia in 1915. The essays in this collection examine how Americans learned of this catastrophe and tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, however, were not enough to stop the killings, and a terrible precedent was born in 1915. The Armenian genocide has haunted the U.S. and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 9:21am CEST
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415770025 | edition 2006 | PDF | 256 pages | 1 mb
The Chinese Army Today is a unique and comprehensive study of all elements of the Chinese military, focusing on its ground forces to a degree not found in any other contemporary works.
In 1999, the military modernization program of the Chinese People's Liberation Army that had been underway for 20 years increased in intensity and achieved a focus not seen in the previous two decades. Based primarily on Chinese sources, this book details the changes and key development implemented since 1999 and puts them in the context of the many traditions that still remain...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 9:15am CEST
The Suez-Sinai Crisis: A Retrospective and Reappraisal
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0714633569 | edition 1990 | PDF | 400 pages | 2,5 mb
A comprehensive and balanced volume which juxtaposes the views of statesmen with those of military leaders that fought the war...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 9:09am CEST
Managing Defence in a Democracy (Cass Military Studies)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415395631 | edition 2006 | PDF | 272 pages | 1 mb
Although each state is inarguably unique it is possible to identify certain common problems and issues with respect to defense governance and management. This text introduces the reader to the basic principles of governance and management through the identification of these key commonalities.
It also shows that if individuals are keen to reform practices within their defense establishment they also need to be aware of the various constraints and obstacles that may challenge them. Each written by an acknowledged expert in their field, the contributions identify examples of good practice from across the world and analyze the steps taken to implement that practice. Designed to support teaching, each chapter includes prompts for reflective activity...
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Posted: April 18th, 2009, 9:00am CEST
Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Personnel
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience | ISBN: 047177152X | edition 2007 | PDF | 466 pages | 1,66 mb
Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Personnel gives a detailed explanation of how to implement preventive and/or protective measures to ensure the safety of personnel and facilities. It includes:
* Easily customized templates for the vulnerability analysis, security procedures, emergency response procedures, and training programs
* Vulnerability assessment methodologies and formulas for prioritizing targets...
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Posted: April 17th, 2009, 8:39am CEST
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
Publisher: Penguin | ISBN: 0140048979 | edition 1978 | PDF | 351 pages | 3,48 mb
" I have not been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath. I have questioned people who have been in battle - my father and father-in-law among them; have walked over battlefields, here in England, in Belgium, in France and in America; have often turned up small relics of the fighting - a slab of German 5.9 howitzer shell on the roadside by Polygon Wood at Ypres, a rusted anti-tank projectile in the orchard hedge at Gavrus in Normandy, left there in June 1944 by some highlander of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherlands; and have sometimes brought my more portable finds home with me (a Minie bullet from Shiloh and a shrapnel ball from Hill 60 lie among the cotton-reels in a painted papier-mache box on my drawing-room mantelpiece). I have read about battles, of course, have talked about battles, have been lectured about battles and, in the last four or five years, have watched battles in progress, or apparently in progress, on the television screen. I have seen a good deal of other, earlier battles of this century on newsreel,some of them convincingly authentic, as well as much dramatized feature film and countless static images of battle: photographs and paintings and sculpture of a varying degree of realism. But I have never been in a battle. And I grow increasingly convinced that I have very little idea of what a battle can be like..."
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Posted: April 17th, 2009, 8:09am CEST
The Palladium Book of Weapons and Assassins
Publisher: Palladium Book | ISBN: 0916211037 | edition 2002 | PDF | 52 pages | 6,09 mb
History talls of innumerable assassinnations from the earliest records at the dawn of history right through to todays newspaper headlines. No era has ben spared the work of madmen and fanatics as they continue to attempt to chenge the path of history with singular acts. It is altogether too track down biographies of the slain ones. Information on the slayers is usually sparse.
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Posted: April 17th, 2009, 7:11am CEST
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Publisher: Penguin | ISBN: 0143036556 | edition 2005 | PDF | 592 pages | 2,50 mb
Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.
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Posted: April 17th, 2009, 4:28am CEST
Norman Herz, Ervan G. Garrison, "Geological Methods for Archaeology"
Oxford University Press, USA | 1997 | ISBN: 0195090241 | 352 pages | PDF | 24,1 MB
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 11:49pm CEST
Давидович Е. А. "Корпус золотых и серебряных монет Шейбанидов"
М., Наука | 1992 | ISBN: 5020171719 | Русский | PDF | ст. 504 | 31.62 Mb
В книге публикуются монеты, хранящиеся в государственных и частных собраний СССР и за рубежом. Книга состоит из трех частей: 1 - источниковедческое исследование нумизматического материала (надписи, атрибуция, датировка, принципы и назначение классификации); 2 - описание типов золотых и серебряных монет; 3 - каталоги золотых и серебряных монет, каталог надчеканов на шейбанидских серебряных монетах...
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 11:11pm CEST
Viktor Katz "A thousand years of official Bohemian coinage 929-1929"
Sunford J.Durst numismatic publications New-York | 1980 (reprint 1929) | ISBN: 091526255x | English | PDF | pages 33 | 17.50 Mb
Небольшое эссе на английском, в котором делается краткий обзор тысячелетней истории чеканки монеты в Богемии и Моравии (Чехия).
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 10:52pm CEST
Scientific American, "Evolution: A Scientific American Reader"
University Of Chicago Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0226742695 | 312 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 9:56pm CEST
Bob Moore, Barbara Hately-Broad, "Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace "
Publisher: Berg Publishers | 2005-04-23 | ISBN 1845201566 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.1 MB
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 9:50pm CEST
Tom Thatcher , "What We Have Heard From the Beginning"
Publisher: Baylor University Press | 2007-11-01 | ISBN 1602580103 | PDF | 425 pages | 4.1 MB
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 9:40pm CEST
"The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho: Geological, Climatological, and Archaeological Background" by David Neev, K.O. Emery
Oxford University Press | 1995 | ISBN: 0195090942 | 188 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
The story of the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho - three cities situated along a major fault line extending 1,100 kilometers from the Red Sea to Turkey - is the oldest such description in human history. In this book, noted geologists K.O. Emery and David Neev have revisited that story to shed light on what happened there some 4350 years ago.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 9:17pm CEST
The Court of the Gentiles
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: NA | edition 2007 | CHM | 62 pages | 1,13 mb
Almost five hundred years had passed since the Second Temple (Zerubbabel's) was constructed by those who returned from the Babylonian Exile. After that the Temple had no doubt been repaired and enlarged, but it remained essentially the old building, inferior in beauty and grandeur to Solomon’s Temple and to some of the pagan temples which were around.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 9:14pm CEST
The Flower Class Corvette "Agassiz" By John McKay, John Harland
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press Ltd 2004 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0851779751 | PDF | 77 MB
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 9:06pm CEST
Herod`s Temple
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: NA | edition 2007 | CHM | 56 pages | 1,8 mb
The Temple Jesus knew was the Temple renovated, enlarged and beautified by Herod the Great. Architecturally it was new; religiously it was still Zerubbabel's Temple, rebuilt after the Jews returned from the Babylonian exile. The six centuries between the return from exile and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD are known in Jewish history as the age of the second Temple.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 6:43pm CEST
The Tax Collectors
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: NA | edition 2007 | PDF | 72 pages | 1,42 mb
The Jews detested these tax collectors not only on account of their abusive and tyrannical attitude, but because the very taxes that they were forced to collect by the Roman government were a badge of servitude and a constant reminder that God had forsaken His people. The tax collectors were always classed by the people with the harlots, usurers, gamblers, thieves, and dishonest herdsmen, who lived promiscuous, lawless lives. Some of the common terms for the tax collectors were "licensed robbers" and "beasts in human shape."
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 6:38pm CEST
Jewish Literature in New Testament Times
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: NA | edition 2007 | PDF | 82 pages | 1,14 mb
There was no nation in all of antiquity who had been so immersed in their national writings as the Jews were in their law. Not even the Greeks in the zenith of the Periclean Age could come close. Some may have possessed a larger amount of text with vast literature, but the Jews were in love with their book and they were a people of that book. For the Jew, it was not merely a representation of a prized culture, but it was Torah… and Torah was, to him, the voice of almighty God. Its instruction was to be obeyed without question, and followed to the very letter. The moral law impacted every thought, the civil law influenced every judicial system within Judaism, and the ceremonial law affected every lifestyle from the home to the Temple.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 6:23pm CEST
The Florida/Hollywood mob connection, the CIA and O.J. Simpson (The Constantine report)
Publisher: Alex Constantine | ISBN: 0300121911 | edition 1995 | PDF | 39 pages | 2,64 mb
At least seven murders are associated in one way or another to the principles in the O.J. Simpson case: Nicole Simpson, Ronald Goldman, Brett Cantor, Michael Nigg, Casimire Sucharski, Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers. Only O.J. Simpson and three Caribbean teenagers allegedly working for cocaine dealers were brought to trial for these crimes. In 1995 contemporary historian Alex Constantine wrote a report called The Florida/Hollywood Mob Connection that linked the Bundy murders to the underworld traffic in cocaine. His report, which cited sources such as the Associated Press, The Philadelphia Enquirer, the Los Angeles Times and the book, L.A. Secret Police by Mike Rothmiller and Ivan Goldman, did not see wide circulation.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 5:50pm CEST
Sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands
Publisher: Monique Chemillier-Gendreau | ISBN: not set | edition 2006 | PDF | 248 pages | 2.8 mb
Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, Sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands LEÏLA CHOUKROUNE Perspectives chinoises n° 35, May- June 2001, page n°74 On April 1st this year, a US spy plane and a Chinese fighter aircraft collided about sixty-five miles southeast of Hainan Island. The consequences were the death of the Chinese pilot who was rapidly promoted to the rank of national hero, and the arrest of the eighty American crew members who were taken hostage and then released. Another result was a whole range of political-*****-strategic analyses, which stressed Peking’s intermittent ex...
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 5:31pm CEST
Conservation and the Age of Consensus
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 041524983X | edition 2008 | PDF | 249 pages | 3,99 mb
This new text on the subject of conservation in the built environment provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation connecting it with wider societal and political forces. UK practice is used as a means, along with international examples, for bringing together a real understanding of practice with a social science analysis of the issues. The authors introduce ideas about the meanings and values attached to historic environments and how that translates into public policies of conservation.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 5:25pm CEST
Marty Crump , Alan Crump, "Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories "
University Of Chicago Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0226122026 | 216 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 5:12pm CEST
Paul Johnson, "Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Revised Edition)"
HarperCollins Publishers | Revised edition | ISBN: 0064334279 | 1991 | 880 pages | siPDF | 14.6 MB
Now available in a revised and updated edition, the continuing national bestseller (nearly 200,000 copies sold) about the events, ideas, and personalities of the seven decades since the end of World War I. Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the
New York Times, this edition contains a new final chapter, and the text has been revised and updated.... Incisive, stimulating and frequently controversial,
Modern Times combines fact, anecdote, incident and portrait in a major full-scale analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 4:57pm CEST
APOLLO (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 041531710X | edition 2008 | PDF | 190 pages | 1,83 mb
Fritz Graf provides a survey of Apollo, from his first attestations in Homer and the complicated question of Pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in 19th and 20th century thinking. Greek religion and myth are examined to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world. This book will be of great interest to students of Greek religion and culture and also working in associated fields such as art and literature. The book is also suitable for the general reader.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 4:46pm CEST
Martin W. Bowman - Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Crowood Press | 1998 | ISBN: 1861261438 | 194 pages | PDF | 76.07 MB
Consolidated's B-24 Liberator was one of the most costly and complicated aircraft produced by the US during WWII. It was produced in greater numbers than any other US bomber. 19,000 were built and served all over the globe as a bomber, transport, and long-range anti-submarine aircraft. This is a detailed examination of the design, development and use of the B-24 - the backbone of the USAAF bombing offensive during WWII. Extensively illustrated with over 200 archive photographs. Exceptional!
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 4:35pm CEST
Fascism and Genocide in Inter-War Europe (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 041533960X | edition 2008 | PDF | 414 pages | 1,26 mb
Drawing on the latest research into the ideological dynamics of fascism, Aristotle A. Kallis’ fascinating new book is a major contribution to the understanding of the Holocaust, and the mass murder and genocide committed by Fascist regimes in the twentieth century.
Locating the Holocaust within an historical context , Kallis views the Nazi regime’s crimes against humanity as a specific product of the inter-war European climate of culture and politics. Refuting Daniel Goldhagen’s theory that the Holocaust came about because of a unique form of 'eliminationist' 'anti-semitism' in the German identity, Kallis asks crucial questions about the complex and problematic relationship between fascism, anti-semitism, race and inter-war eliminationism. For those studying the Holocaust, fascism or German history, Fascism and Genocide in Inter-War Europe will open eyes and minds to the theories of reasoning behind probably the most horrific event of the twentieth century.
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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 4:28pm CEST
Cameron M. Smith "Anthropology For Dummies"
For Dummies | 2008-08-11 | ISBN: 0470279664 | 360 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 9:54pm CEST
А.В.Пыльцын"Правда о штрафбатах 2"
Publisher: Москва "Яуза" ЭКСМО | 2008 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 9785699267101 | Djvu | 1.2 MB
Многие годы о штрафных батальонах говорить было «не рекомендовано».
Александр Пыльцын не был «штрафником» — он «помогал штрафникам искупать вину перед Родиной». Три года — от Курской дуги до Берлина — он прошел рядом с ними. Воевал, отдыхал, командовал, дружил, рисковал...
Книга рассказывает об увиденном и пережитом автором, прошедшим Великую Отечественную войну в офицерском штрафбате, который был создан по известному приказу Сталина "Ни шагу назад!". В ней нет ни одного придуманного события или вымышленного участника. Предельно правдиво освещены судьбы штрафных офицеров и их командиров.
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 9:48pm CEST
Hazel G. Genn, Alan Paterson, National Centre for Social Research (Great Britain), "Paths to Justice Scotland: What People in Scotland Do and Think About Going to Law"
Publisher: Hart Publishing | 2001-10 | ISBN 1841130400 | PDF | 391 pages | 14.7 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 9:46pm CEST
А.В.Пыльцын"Правда о штрафбатах:как офицерский штрафбат дошел до Берлина"
Publisher: Москва "Яуза"ЭКСМО | 2007 | 177 Pages | ISBN: 5732007148 | PDF | 1 MB
Штрафбат. У любого современного человека это название вызывает шок и ужас. Слова «штрафбат», «смерть», «унижение» и «бесчестье» для многих стали синонимами. Но так ли это? Прочитайте новый взгляд на великую историю, на Великую войну. Взгляд очевидца и патриота. Человека, который командиром роты офицерского штрафбата дошел до Берлина.
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 9:03pm CEST
Cacilia Fluck, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, "Riding Costume in Egypt: Origin and Appearance"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2003-12 | ISBN 9004131639 | PDF | 416 pages | 30.9 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 8:58pm CEST
Marc Garcelon, "Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia, 1985-2000"
Publisher: Temple University Press | 2005-06-30 | ISBN 1592133614 | PDF | 312 pages | 1.1 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 8:34pm CEST
Paul Corby Finney, "The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art"
Oxford University Pres | 1994 | ISBN: 0195082524 | 352 pages | PDF | 33,5 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 8:22pm CEST
Leonard L. Thompson, "The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire "
Oxford University Press, USA | 1997 | ISBN: 0195115805 | 288 pages | PDF | 16,2 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 8:02pm CEST
Anthony N. Speca, "Hypothetical Syllogistic and Stoic Logic"
Brill Academic Publishers | 2001 | ISBN: 9004120734 | 180 pages | DJVU | 1 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 8:01pm CEST
Eusebius , Averil Cameron (Introduction), Stuart Hall, "Life of Constantine"
Chapman | 1999 | ISBN: 0198149174 | 416 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 7:59pm CEST
Scott B. Noegel, Joel Thomas Walker, Brannon M. Wheeler, "Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World"
Pennsylvania State University Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0271022582 | 255 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 7:58pm CEST
Orest A. Ranum "Paris in the Age of Absolutism: An Essay"
Pennsylvania State University Press | 2002-12 | ISBN: 0271022213 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 7:06pm CEST
Christopher Tilmouth, "Passion's Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester"
Oxford University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0199212376 | 400 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 6:26pm CEST
Cajus Bekker, "Angriffshöhe 4000"
Heyne | ISBN: 3453002962 | 1999 | 625 pages | PDF | 1,68 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 6:12pm CEST
Procopius, H. B. Dewing, "History of the Wars: Books 1-2 (Persian War)"
Loeb Classical Library | 1914 | ISBN: 0674990544 | 608 pages | DJVU | 15,5 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 5:48pm CEST
Harriet I. Flower, "The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic"
Cambridge University Press | 2004 | ISBN: 0521003903 | 422 pages | PDF | 18,1 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 5:42pm CEST
Etowah: The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital
Publisher: University Alabama Press | ISBN: 0817312242 | edition 2002 | PDF | 192 pages | 1,47 mb
This a reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important centre of the prehistoric world.
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 5:36pm CEST
Frank Santi Russell "Information Gathering in Classical Greece"
University of Michigan Press | 2000-01-12 | ISBN: 0472110640 | 280 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 5:26pm CEST
High Priest of New Testament Times
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 0802837174 | edition 2007 | PDF | 53 pages | 1,30 mb
As in ancient times, the high priest was the head of the priesthood. After the time of Herod the Great the high priest was no longer the political leader of the people. However, he did remain president of the Sanhedrin. This function, and the fact that the high priest was always chosen from one of the leading aristocratic families in Jerusalem, meant that he still had some influence in the political sphere. As had been customary from Persian times, the high priest was nominated by the foreign power in control, in this period the Romans. The most well-known high priest in the time of Jesus was Joseph surnamed Caiaphas, who held this office from about 18 to 37 A.D.
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 5:23pm CEST
The Samaritans
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: NA | edition 2007 | PDF | 72 pages | 1,41 mb
In later Hebrew writings the word Samaritan speaks of the people of the district of Samaria in central Palestine. They came from intermarriages of certain Israelites with the colonists from Babylon and other parts of Mesopotamia and Syria. These colonists had been placed there by the Assyrian kings Sargon II and Esarhaddon, after the Northern Kingdom of Israel had been conquered and the stronghol
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Posted: April 14th, 2009, 4:06pm CEST
Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle (Studies in Transformational Growth) By Edward J. Nell
Publisher: Routledge 1998 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0415148553 | PDF | 1.8 MB
Using historical and geographic perspectives of transformational growth, this book explores market adjustments in two distinct periods, 1870-1914 and 1945-the present, focusing on the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, Japan and Argentina.
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Posted: April 13th, 2009, 12:17am CEST
Der Westwall zwischen Niederrhein und Schnee-Eifel By Manfred Gross
Publisher: Rheinland-Verlag GMBH 1982 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 379270644X | PDF | 152 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 11:32pm CEST
Janusz Parchimowicz, Tomasz Borkowski "Katalog Banknótow Polskich i z Polska Zwiazanych"
Nefryt, Szczecin | 1997 | ISBN: 839057098X | Polish | PDF | pages 316 | 30.97 Мб
Каталог польских банкнот охватывающий весь период хождения бумажных денег на территории Польши по 1997 год.
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 11:28pm CEST
Kopicki Edmund "Ilustrowany skorowidz pieniedzy polskich i z Polska zwiazanych, Czesh 2"
Polskie Towarzystwo Numizmatyczne, Warszawa | 1995 | ISBN: 8385075250 | Polish | PDF | pages 391 | 37.01 Mb
4-томный каталог Копицкого самый знаменитый из написанных доселе каталогов по монетам и бонам Польши в четырёх томах. Присутствует обширная информация по монетам Речи Посполитой и Великого Княжества Литовского.
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 11:24pm CEST
Kopicki Edmund "Ilustrowany skorowidz pieniedzy polskich i z Polska zwiazanych, Czesh 1"
Polskie Towarzystwo Numizmatyczne, Warszawa | 1995 | ISBN: 8385075250 | Polish | PDF | pages 397 | 41.54 Mb
4-томный каталог Копицкого самый знаменитый из написанных доселе каталогов по монетам и бонам Польши в четырёх томах. Присутствует обширная информация по монетам Речи Посполитой и Великого Княжества Литовского.
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 10:38pm CEST
Douglas C Dildy "Denmark and Norway 1940: Hitler's boldest operation"
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd. 2007 | 51 Pages | ISBN: 1846031176 | PDF | 9.6 MB
On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark, and then Norway, in an attempt to secure the vital mineral resources of Scandinavia for their war industry. This assault, Operation Weser¿bung, represents the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the history of warfare, and was the only such campaign planned, launched, and completed by the three services of the Wehrmacht...
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 10:33pm CEST
Michael Mcnally "Easter Rising 1916: Birth of the Irish Republic"
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd.2007 | 51 Pages | ISBN: 1846030676 | PDF | 10 MB
When the outbreak of World War I delayed home rule for Ireland, a faction of Irish nationalists - the Irish Republican Brotherhood - decided to take direct action and infiltrated a number of other nationalist and militia outfits...
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 9:08pm CEST
PANZERKAMPFWAGEN III AUSF.E, F, G, UND H By Thomas L Jentz, Hilary Louis Doyle
Publisher: Panzer Tracts 2007 | 84 Pages | ISBN: 097716439X | PDF | 27 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 9:05pm CEST
The Channel Islands at War: A German Perspective By George Forty
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd 1999 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0711026785 | PDF | 79 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 9:02pm CEST
Daniel Botkin "Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark"
Oxford University Press | 2004-05-27 | ISBN: 0195168291 | 328 pages | PDF | 3,7 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 8:57pm CEST
Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective
Publisher: Northwestern University Press | ISBN: 0810123703 | edition 2006 | PDF | 456 pages | 1,56 mb
As the discipline of Holocaust studies matures, new questions and themes come to the fore. Among these are critical issues that receive serious scholarly attention, often for the first time, in this collection of essays by...
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 8:20pm CEST
Miriam Estensen, "Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Quest for the Mysterious Great South Land"
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic | 2007-06-01 | ISBN 1741750547 | PDF | 296 pages | 1.4 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 7:54pm CEST
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press | ISBN: 0807133566 | edition 2008 | PDF | 375 pages | 2.46 mb
The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. The scarcity of surviving autobiographical material has allowed tellers of his story to...
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 7:39pm CEST
Jerry Scutts, «Typhoon/Tempest in action - Aircraft No. 102»
Squadron/Signal Publications | ISBN: 0897472322 | 1990 | PDF | 50 pages | 14.9 MB
The Hawker Tempest was a British fighter aircraft primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, and one of the most powerful fighter aircraft used during the war.
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 7:10pm CEST
High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline, 1881 to the Present By Jim Rasenberger
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks | ISBN: 0060004355 | edition 2005 | PDF | 400 pages | 1,07 mb
HIGH STEEL does for the world of ironworkers - the brave men who scale the beams of skyscrapers hundreds of feet in the air - what THE PERFECT STORM did for deep sea fishing and RIVETHEAD did for assembly line workers. From the early days of steel construction in Chicago, through the great boom years of New York city ironwork, and up through the present, High Steel follows the trajectory of careers inextricably linked to both great accomplishment and catastrophic disaster.
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 4:33pm CEST
Michael Byers, Georg Nolte "United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law"
Cambridge University Press | 2003-06-30 | ISBN: 0521819490 | 550 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 4:16pm CEST
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two By Peter Chamberlain, Evelyn Doyle
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1993 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1854092146 | PDF | 84 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 4:13pm CEST
A Desperate Business: Wellington, the British Army and the Waterloo Campaign By Ian Fletcher
Publisher: The History Press LTD 2001 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1862271186 | PDF | 70 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 4:08pm CEST
Paul Erdkamp "A Companion to the Roman Army"
Blackwell Publishing Limited | 2007-03-01 | ISBN: 140512153X | 574 pages | PDF | 4,8 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 3:30pm CEST
Robert E. Gaebel "Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World"
University of Oklahoma Press | 2002-02 | ISBN: 0806133651 | 345 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 3:27pm CEST
Jones, Prudence J. Jones, Prudence J. "Cleopatra: A Sourcebook"
University of Oklahoma Press | 2006-04 | ISBN: 080613741X | 345 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 1:52am CEST
Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer - Deconstructing Reagan:
Conservative Mythology And America's Fortieth President
M.E. Sharpe | 2006 | ISBN: 0765615908 | Pages: 150 | PDF | 5.13 MB
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Posted: April 12th, 2009, 1:52am CEST
Kyle Longley, Jeremy D. Mayer - Deconstructing Reagan:
Conservative Mythology And America's Fortieth President
M.E. Sharpe | 2006 | ISBN: 0765615908 | Pages: 150 | PDF | 5.13 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 11:39pm CEST
Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians
Publisher: Boydell Press | ISBN: 0851158153 | edition 2001 | PDF | 204 pages | 1 mb
Agnes and Huguette were two Waldensian women who were interrogated by the inquisitional court of Pamiers, in southern France, in 1319 and subsequently burnt at the stake for their heretical beliefs. Shahar uses the records of their inquisition as a basis for an examination of the Waldensian sect's attitude towards its women members, and their role within the sect, comparing their lives with women in the Catholic church and in other sects. She finds that in a persecuted voluntary group such as the Waldensians, gender was largely immaterial, subordinate to the fervent religious commitment of the members...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 11:39pm CEST
Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians
Publisher: Boydell Press | ISBN: 0851158153 | edition 2001 | PDF | 204 pages | 1 mb
Agnes and Huguette were two Waldensian women who were interrogated by the inquisitional court of Pamiers, in southern France, in 1319 and subsequently burnt at the stake for their heretical beliefs. Shahar uses the records of their inquisition as a basis for an examination of the Waldensian sect's attitude towards its women members, and their role within the sect, comparing their lives with women in the Catholic church and in other sects. She finds that in a persecuted voluntary group such as the Waldensians, gender was largely immaterial, subordinate to the fervent religious commitment of the members...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 10:33pm CEST
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
Publisher: The University of North Carolina | ISBN: 080782786X | edition 2003 | PDF | 288 pages | 5.04 mb
In eight new essays, contributors to this volume explore the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as a Confederate hero.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 10:33pm CEST
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
Publisher: The University of North Carolina | ISBN: 080782786X | edition 2003 | PDF | 288 pages | 5.04 mb
In eight new essays, contributors to this volume explore the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as a Confederate hero.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 9:47pm CEST
GI: The US Infantryman in World War II By Robert Rush, Robert S. Rush
Publisher: Osprey Publishing 2003 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1841767395 | PDF | 35.6 MB
This book focuses on the US Army combat infantryman fighting in different war theaters. Wars are won and lost in the trenches and examining soldiers' lives assists in understanding larger scale unit operations and strategy...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 9:47pm CEST
GI: The US Infantryman in World War II By Robert Rush, Robert S. Rush
Publisher: Osprey Publishing 2003 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1841767395 | PDF | 35.6 MB
This book focuses on the US Army combat infantryman fighting in different war theaters. Wars are won and lost in the trenches and examining soldiers' lives assists in understanding larger scale unit operations and strategy...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 9:26pm CEST
Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces) by: George Mellinger
Publisher: Osprey Publishing 2006 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 1846030412 | PDF | 13.6 MB
By the end of 1941 the Soviet Union was near collapse and its air force almost annihilated, leaving large numbers of surviving pilots with no aircraft to fly. At this juncture the United Kingdom put aside its prewar animosities toward the Communists and despatched several hundred Hurricane fighters despite the fact that at this time the British were still struggling to supply the RAF with modern fighters in North Africa and the Far East...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 9:26pm CEST
Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces) by: George Mellinger
Publisher: Osprey Publishing 2006 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 1846030412 | PDF | 13.6 MB
By the end of 1941 the Soviet Union was near collapse and its air force almost annihilated, leaving large numbers of surviving pilots with no aircraft to fly. At this juncture the United Kingdom put aside its prewar animosities toward the Communists and despatched several hundred Hurricane fighters despite the fact that at this time the British were still struggling to supply the RAF with modern fighters in North Africa and the Far East...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 8:25pm CEST
Second World War (1) The Pacific By David Horner
Publisher: Osprey Publishing 2002 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 1841762296 | PDF | 3.9 MB
The war in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the atomic bombs on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to the surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 8:25pm CEST
Second World War (1) The Pacific By David Horner
Publisher: Osprey Publishing 2002 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 1841762296 | PDF | 3.9 MB
The war in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the atomic bombs on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to the surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 7:58pm CEST
Andreas Schmenk, Arno Wätjen, Dr. Rainer Köthe, “Was ist was?, Bd. 100 - Multimedia und virtuelle Welten”
Tessloff Verlag | 1995 | ISBN: 3788606630 | Language: German | 50 pages | PDF | 25.68 MB
Die Zeiten, als auf Computerbildschirmen nur Texte und Zahlen in grüner bernsteingelber Schriften flimmerten sind längst vorbei. Heite....
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 7:34pm CEST
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe (Blackwell Companions to European History) By Peter H. Wilson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 1405139471 | edition 2008 | PDF | 616 pages | 7,7 mb
This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.
Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe
Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context
Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 7:34pm CEST
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe (Blackwell Companions to European History) By Peter H. Wilson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 1405139471 | edition 2008 | PDF | 616 pages | 7,7 mb
This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.
Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe
Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context
Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 6:33pm CEST
Dr. Rainer Köthe, “Was ist was?, Bd. 98 - Kriminalistik”
Tessloff Verlag | 1994 | ISBN: 3788606614 | Language: German | 49 pages | PDF | 22.77 MB
Heute besitzen wir weit bessere Möglichkeiten, Straftätern auf die Spur zu kommen....
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 6:27pm CEST
Father of the Land
Publisher: Putnam Adult | ISBN: 0399144978 | edition 1999 | PDF | 399 pages | 1,25 mb
Two emotionally weighted projects inform Kempe's thoughtful exploration of present-day Germany. In one, Kempe, editor and associate publisher of the Wall Street Journal Europe, travels throughout Germany searching for the present and future of the country poised to regain its position at the political center of Europe. In the other, he examines his own family's links to Germany's Nazi past. The two-track structure works. Kempe, who was raised in America by German-born parents, introduces us to a fascinating array of characters...
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 6:25pm CEST
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tarnovski, “Was ist was?, Bd. 97 - Hexen und Hexenwahn”
Tessloff Verlag | 1994 | ISBN: 3788606338 | Language: German | 49 pages | PDF | 21.07 MB
Wärend des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts traten in Oberitalien, Südfrankreich, am Rein und anderswo neue Glaubensgemeischaften auf, deren weitere Ausbreitung die damals allmächtige Papstkirche schli?lich nur mit Gewalt verhindern konnte.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 6:25pm CEST
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tarnovski, “Was ist was?, Bd. 97 - Hexen und Hexenwahn”
Tessloff Verlag | 1994 | ISBN: 3788606338 | Language: German | 49 pages | PDF | 21.07 MB
Wärend des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts traten in Oberitalien, Südfrankreich, am Rein und anderswo neue Glaubensgemeischaften auf, deren weitere Ausbreitung die damals allmächtige Papstkirche schli?lich nur mit Gewalt verhindern konnte.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 5:24pm CEST
Richard Winship Stewart (Editor)"American Military History, Volume I: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917"
Publisher: Dept. of the Army 2005 | 818 Pages | ISBN: 0160723620 | PDF | 3.8 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 5:24pm CEST
Richard Winship Stewart (Editor)"American Military History, Volume I: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917"
Publisher: Dept. of the Army 2005 | 818 Pages | ISBN: 0160723620 | PDF | 3.8 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 4:38pm CEST
William V. Harris, "War and Imperialism in Republican Rome: 327-70 B.C."
Oxford University Press | 1985 | ISBN: 0198148666 | 312 pages | PDF | 12,7 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 4:38pm CEST
William V. Harris, "War and Imperialism in Republican Rome: 327-70 B.C."
Oxford University Press | 1985 | ISBN: 0198148666 | 312 pages | PDF | 12,7 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 3:42pm CEST
Manfred Griehl"Luftwaffe 2: Nightfighter Over The Reich"
Publisher: Greenhill Books 1997 | 38 Pages | ISBN: 1853672718 | PDF | 10 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 3:42pm CEST
Manfred Griehl"Luftwaffe 2: Nightfighter Over The Reich"
Publisher: Greenhill Books 1997 | 38 Pages | ISBN: 1853672718 | PDF | 10 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 2:33pm CEST
Augustus
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: NA | edition 2007 | PDF | 102 pages | 1,73 mb
"He was quite handsome.... Sometimes he would clip his beard; sometimes he would shave it. While his barbers were at work on him, it was not unusual for him to read or write.... His eyes were clear and radiant.... His complexion was between dark and fair. Though only five feet, six inches in height . . his shortness was not too noticeable because of the good proportions of his figure." -SEUTONIUS
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 2:33pm CEST
Augustus
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: NA | edition 2007 | PDF | 102 pages | 1,73 mb
"He was quite handsome.... Sometimes he would clip his beard; sometimes he would shave it. While his barbers were at work on him, it was not unusual for him to read or write.... His eyes were clear and radiant.... His complexion was between dark and fair. Though only five feet, six inches in height . . his shortness was not too noticeable because of the good proportions of his figure." -SEUTONIUS
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 1:14pm CEST
Hsin-Hsin Ming
Publisher: White Pine Press | ISBN: 189399614X | edition 2001 | PDF | 15 pages | 2,82 mb
This is an interpretation of the Hsin Hsin Ming. The Hsin Hsin Ming (Shinjinmei in Japanese) is a verse attributed to the Third Chinese Chan (Zen) Patriarch Seng-ts’an (known as Sosan in Japan). Written in the 6th century, it is considered the first clear and comprehensive statement of Zen. The Hsin Hsin Ming has been much beloved by Zen practitioners for over a thousand years. It is still studied today in Western Zen circles. Its core is nonduality and I find it is as relevant today as it was then.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 1:14pm CEST
Hsin-Hsin Ming
Publisher: White Pine Press | ISBN: 189399614X | edition 2001 | PDF | 15 pages | 2,82 mb
This is an interpretation of the Hsin Hsin Ming. The Hsin Hsin Ming (Shinjinmei in Japanese) is a verse attributed to the Third Chinese Chan (Zen) Patriarch Seng-ts’an (known as Sosan in Japan). Written in the 6th century, it is considered the first clear and comprehensive statement of Zen. The Hsin Hsin Ming has been much beloved by Zen practitioners for over a thousand years. It is still studied today in Western Zen circles. Its core is nonduality and I find it is as relevant today as it was then.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:36pm CEST
Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
BY RAVI BATRA
Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 1403968594 | 2008-12 | PDF | 288 pages | 1 Mb
"PEOPLE CALLED HIM A MAESTRO, A VISIONARY, THE BEST ECONOMIST EVER. BUT WHO WAS THIS PERSON WHO HAD CATAPULTED INTO THE SPOTLIGHT FROM VIRTUALLY NOWHERE? DID THE WORLD REALLY KNOW ALAN GREENSPAN?...HE MAY BE A LEGENDARY FIGURE IN THE EYES OF MANY BUT WHEN YOU CAREFULLY EXPLORE WHAT HE HAS WROUGHT, THE AURA OF PUBLIC REVERENCE AROUND HIM CAN EVAPORATE QUICKLY..."
—EXCERPT FROM GREENSPAN’S FRAUD
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:36pm CEST
Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
BY RAVI BATRA
Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 1403968594 | 2008-12 | PDF | 288 pages | 1 Mb
"PEOPLE CALLED HIM A MAESTRO, A VISIONARY, THE BEST ECONOMIST EVER. BUT WHO WAS THIS PERSON WHO HAD CATAPULTED INTO THE SPOTLIGHT FROM VIRTUALLY NOWHERE? DID THE WORLD REALLY KNOW ALAN GREENSPAN?...HE MAY BE A LEGENDARY FIGURE IN THE EYES OF MANY BUT WHEN YOU CAREFULLY EXPLORE WHAT HE HAS WROUGHT, THE AURA OF PUBLIC REVERENCE AROUND HIM CAN EVAPORATE QUICKLY..."
—EXCERPT FROM GREENSPAN’S FRAUD
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:31pm CEST
Red Flag: Air Combat for the 21st Century By Tyson Rininger
Publisher: Motorbooks International 2007 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0760325308 | PDF | 24 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:31pm CEST
Red Flag: Air Combat for the 21st Century By Tyson Rininger
Publisher: Motorbooks International 2007 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0760325308 | PDF | 24 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:29pm CEST
Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc | ISBN: 0810848686 | edition 2004 | PDF | 416 pages | 1.45 mb
This is an essential and must-to-have reference work designed for librarians, scholars, students, for the business and policy-making community, and for anyone interested in Kyrgyzstan's contemporary history and politics.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:29pm CEST
Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc | ISBN: 0810848686 | edition 2004 | PDF | 416 pages | 1.45 mb
This is an essential and must-to-have reference work designed for librarians, scholars, students, for the business and policy-making community, and for anyone interested in Kyrgyzstan's contemporary history and politics.
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:28pm CEST
Patton: Operation Cobra and Beyond By Michael R. Green, Gladys Elena Morales
Publisher: Motorbooks International 1998 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 076030498X | PDF | 58 MB
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Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:28pm CEST
Patton: Operation Cobra and Beyond By Michael R. Green, Gladys Elena Morales
Publisher: Motorbooks International 1998 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 076030498X | PDF | 58 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:37pm CEST
Archaeology in British Towns: From the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death By Patrick Ottaway
Publisher: Routledge 1996 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0415144205 | PDF | 9.1 MB
In this authoritative volume, Patrick Ottaway draws on his extensive experience of urban archaeology to show how our conception of the early history of British towns has been radically changed over the last twenty five years...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:33pm CEST
Fixing the Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the Twenty-First Century By Arthur S. Hulnick
Publisher: Praeger Publishers 1999 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0275966526 | PDF | 1.5 MB
With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.S. intelligence system faces new challenges and threats. The system has suffered from penetration by foreign agents, cutbacks in resources, serious errors in judgment, and what appears to be bad management; nonetheless, it remains one of the key elements of America's strategic defense...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 10:59pm CEST
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution By Richard Stites
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 1988 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0195055365 | PDF | 26 MB
The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and the arts...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 10:57pm CEST
Joseph Gerson"EMPIRE AND THE BOMB"
Publisher: Pluto Press 2007 | 365 Pages | ISBN: 0745324959 | PDF | 1.3 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 10:24pm CEST
Terrorism And the Chemical Infrastructure: Protecting People And Reducing Vulnerabilities
Publisher: National Academies Press | June 21, 2006 | ISBN: 0309097215 | Pages: 152 | PDF | 1.36 MB
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, federal, state, local, and tribal governments, aided by the private sector, have undertaken an unprecedented review of the nation’s infrastructure to determine potential targets for future terrorist attacks. At the national level, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has divided the nation’s infrastructure into 17 categories of critical infrastructures and key resources, one of which is the chemical industry and hazardous materials sector.
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 10:01pm CEST
M. J. Azevedo, "Roots of Violence: A History of War in Chad"
Publisher: Routledge | 1998-10-01 | ISBN 9056995839 | PDF | 220 pages | 1.0 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 9:57pm CEST
Intervention for Human Rights in Europe By Janne Haaland Matlary
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2002 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0333794249 | PDF | 1.5 MB
Values, in terms of human rights and democracy, have become importantfactors for individual state's participation in the international community. Janne Haaland Matláry, former Secretary of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Norway, explores the ethical and moral conflict between the international system and the rights of sovereign powers in cases such as Kosovo, Bosnia and Rwanda...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 9:52pm CEST
David F. Crew, "Consuming Germany in the Cold War"
Publisher: Berg Publishers | 2004-04-24 | ISBN 1859737668 | PDF | 256 pages | 4.2 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 9:36pm CEST
Kathleen Deagan"Columbus’s Qutpost among the Tainos"
Publisher: Yale University Press 2002 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0300090404 | PDF | 5.8 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 9:36pm CEST
Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction by: Roger Lewin
Publisher: Roger Lewin 5th Edition, 2004-09 | 284 pages | ISBN:1405103787 | PDF | 8.2 MB
The brief length and focused coverage of Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction have made this best-selling textbook the ideal complement to any biology or anthropology course in which human evolution is taught. The text places human evolution in the context of humans as animals, while also showing the physical context of human evolution, including climate change and the impact of extinctions...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 9:31pm CEST
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (Studies in the History of Sexuality) By Robert A. Nye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 1993-03-18 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0195046498 | PDF | 19.8 MB
Gender studies have become an area of great interest in many disciplines. Here, Nye examines the evolving definitions of masculinity in France since the eighteenth century...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 9:11pm CEST
Paul French, "North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History"
Zed Books | 2007 | ISBN: 1842779044, 1842779052 | 340 pages | PDF | 1,75 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:25pm CEST
Sound the Charge: U.S.Cavalry in the American West, 1866-1916 By John P. Langellier
Publisher: Greenhill Books 1998 | 72 Pages | ISBN: 1853673196 | PDF | 19 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:19pm CEST
Over There!: American Soldier in World War I By Jonathan Gawne
Publisher: Greenhill Books 1997 | 80 Pages | ISBN: 1853672688 | PDF | 24 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:17pm CEST
Donald E. Chipman, "Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700"
University of Texas Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0292706286 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:13pm CEST
Johnny Reb: Uniform of the Confederate Army, 1861-65 By Michael J. McAfee, John P. Langellier
Publisher: Greenhill Books 1996 | 72 Pages | ISBN: 1853672513 | PDF | 21 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 8:09pm CEST
Thomas James Dandelet, "Spanish Rome, 1500-1700"
Yale University Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0300089562 | 320 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 7:53pm CEST
B.F. Brekke "The Copper Coinage of Imperial Russia 1700-1917"
Forlagshuset Norden AB, Maime, Sweden | 1977 | ISBN: 9185556009 | English | PDF | pages 336 | 107 Mb
В каталоге известного норвежского нумизмата B.Brekke представлены медные монеты императорского периода России...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 7:44pm CEST
R.S. Khurmi, J.K. Gupta "Theory of Machines"
Chand (S.) & Co Ltd ,India | 2005-08-01 | ISBN: 812192524X | 1071 pages | PDF | 14,3 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 7:43pm CEST
Carla Kelly"On the Upper Missouri The Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851–1852"
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS 2005 | 345 Pages | ISBN: 0806136553 | PDF | 5.8 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:11pm CEST
Concorde
Crescent Books | ISBN 0517186829 | 1975 | PDF | 35 (Double pages) | 20 MB
| “ | The Story of the World's Most Advanced Passenger Aircraft. | ” |
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:08pm CEST
A History of Chile, 1808-2002 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521534844 | edition 2004 | PDF | 478 pages | 2,16 mb
'This is a most enjoyable book. The author's intentions are clearly set out in the preface where they state their aim to provide a general account of modern Chilean history and they have done so most successfully. The overriding tone of the book is one of immense affection and respect for Chile and its people, and there is an overwhelming sense that the authors enjoyed writing this book very much. Such sentiments are communicated to the wide range of readers to whom this book will appeal ... a rich history of Chilean political, economic and cultural life which is in no way diminished by being a 'basic narrative' rather than a complex interweaving of theory and empiricism which can frequently cloud an appreciation of history.' Journal of Latin American Studies
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:06pm CEST
Ellison Banks Findly, "Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1993 | ISBN 0195074882 | PDF | 424 pages | 29.14 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:02pm CEST
Ben Procter, "William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1998 | ISBN 0195112776 | PDF | 384 pages | 23.18 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:01pm CEST
in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521007526 | edition 2002 | PDF | 304 pages | 2,22 mb
"A historical orientation makes [this book] of immense interest beyond circles of human rights theorists and philosophers...engaging and provocative..." China Rights Forum
"There has been a flurry of fine books within the last decade on the debate about the history and role of human rights in China, and Professor Stephen Angle has written one of the best, if not the best of the lot."...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:01pm CEST
Wind-Sock Datafiles No.2 - Sopwith Pup
Albatross Productions | ISBN: 0948414065 | 1986 | English | PDF | 20 pages | 28.48 Mb
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 12:00pm CEST
John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | ISBN: 0374177724 | 2007 | 496 pages | siPDF | 13.1 MB
Writing in The New York Review of Books, Michael Massing declared, “Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force.” The publication of
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is certain to widen the debate and to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:53am CEST
Jack Salzman, Cornel West, "Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1997 | ISBN 019508828X | PDF | 448 pages | 25.09 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:53am CEST
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521004888 | edition 2004 | PDF | 216 pages | 1,28 mb
"If economic history is to fulfill the promise inherent in its subject matter, it must add the dimension of time to economics. Bob Fogel's pathbreaking study does just that and in doing so not only revises our understanding of the past but provides a thoughtful guide to policy in the future."...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:50am CEST
Ben Halpern, "A Clash of Heroes: Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1987 | ISBN 0195040627 | PDF | 320 pages | 25.76 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:47am CEST
Phyllis Cole, "Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1998 | ISBN 0195039491 | PDF | 400 pages | 25.37 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:46am CEST
Detail and Scale, Vol. 2 - B-17 Flying Fortress, Part 1
Aero Publishers | ISBN: 0816850127 | January 1982 | English | PDF | 72 pages | 17.12 Mb
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:42am CEST
Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521671701 | edition 2008 | PDF | 240 pages | 3,46 mb
Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate historical research through the ability to identify and use the geographical characteristics of data. Historical GIS introduces the basic concepts and tools underpinning GIS technology, describing and critically assessing the visualisation, analytical and e-science methodologies that it enables and examining key scholarship where GIS has been used to enhance research debates. The result is a clear agenda charting how GIS will develop as one of the most important approaches to scholarship in historical geography...
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:33am CEST
Harriet Chappell Owsley, "Frank Lawrence Owsley: Historian of the Old South : A Memoir by Chappell Owsley: With Letter and Writings of Frank Owsley"
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press | 1991 | ISBN 0826512429 | PDF | 223 pages | 1.31 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:32am CEST
Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc Est Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum & in Vita Actionum Pictura & Nomencaltura. Joh. Amos Comenius's Visible World: or A Nomenclature and Pictures of All the Chief Things that are in the World and of Men's Employment Therein By Joh. Amos Comenii
Publisher: S. Leacroft at the Globe | 2003-04-02 | ISBN: B0011F12CS | PDF | 229 pages | 7.52 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:30am CEST
Aeroguide 6 - Avro Vulcan B Mk 2 / Mk 2K - Vulcan
Linewrights | ISBN: 094695805X | 1984 | English | PDF | 36 pages | 71.28 Mb
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:29am CEST
PHANTOM - A Legend In Its Own Time
Patrick Stephens Publishers | ASIN: B001KSW0MC | 1984 | PDF | 190 pages | 28.5 MB
| “ | In service with America's armed forces, accustomed to enjoying the fruits of world technological leadership, the McDonnell Phantom II fighter represented-for all its extraordinary angularity-an astonishing masterpiece of design ingenuity and commercial persistence. | ” |
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:29am CEST
Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Wilma Mankiller, "The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History"
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin | 1998 | ISBN 0395671736 | PDF | 720 pages | 1.21 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:22am CEST
Christopher L. Vaughan, "Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack"
Publisher: Imperial College Press | 2008 | ISBN 1860949886 | PDF | 324 pages | 11.33 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 11:20am CEST
Deborah D. L. Chung, "The Road to Scientific Success: Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers"
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company | 2006 | ISBN 9812566007 | PDF | 244 pages | 23.15 MB
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Posted: April 10th, 2009, 2:32am CEST
Trevor Dean - Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy
Cambridge University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0521864488 | Pages: 236 | PDF | 5.19 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 11:43pm CEST
The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (Studies in the History of Sexuality) By George L. Mosse
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 1998-10-08 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0195126602 | PDF | 13.8 MB
What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be manly? How has our notion of masculinity changed over the years? In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness to reveal how it came to embody physical beauty, courage, moral restraint, and a strong will...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 11:36pm CEST
Antisemitism in America By Leonard Dinnerstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 1995 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 019510112X | PDF | 25.6 MB
Is antisemitism on the rise in America? Did the "hymietown" comment by Jesse Jackson and the Crown Heights riot signal a resurgence of antisemitism among blacks? The surprising answer to both questions, according to Leonard Dinnerstein, is no--Jews have never been more at home in America...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 11:12pm CEST
Herbert A. Grueber "Handbook of the coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum"
London: Printed by of the Trustees of the British Museum | 1899 | English | djvu | pages 397 | 31,4 Mb
Собрание монет Англии, Шотландии и Ирландии, охватывает период от англо-саксонских монет до времен королевы Виктории (600-1899 гг.) из фондов Британского музея. Издание содержит 64 фотопластины с изображением...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 10:46pm CEST
Janson Hector Carlos "Amonedacion de la Republica Argentina 1881-2007"
Buenos Aires | 2008 | Spanish | PDF | pages 75 | 9.63 Mb
Каталог монет Республики Аргентина выпушенных с 1881 по 2007 гг. Данный каталог выпускается регулярно. Дана стоимость монет на различные степени сохранности.
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 10:14pm CEST
Robert Hinde and Joseph Rotblat"War No More Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age"
Publisher: Pluto Press 2003 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 0745321917 | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 9:50pm CEST
The Hitler Youth 1933-45 (Warrior)
Osprey Publishing; (March 28, 2006) | ISBN: 184176874X | 114 pages | PDF | 25 Mb
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.,."does a fine job in all aspects, the art is well done, the detail is fantastic, and the information, regarding a subject that could be seen as so tought as to be difficult, fairly done." -Alex Ness, "popthought.com"
.,."an informative study of the youth arm of the Nazi part." -"Military Trader
""The Hitler Youth was not the same as other youth movements during the same period. No other youth movement at that time pushed their wards into front line combat... Dearn's use of photographs in the book is very well done...provides the reader a good introduction to the Hitler Youth and a firm base to support more in-depth study if desired." -Sergeant Gary I H Kett CD MA, "Canadian Army Journal "(Summer 2006)
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 9:49pm CEST
J.Remick, S.James, A.Dowle, P.Finn "British Commonwealth coins 1649-1971"
Lindsay | 1971 | English | PDF | pages 568 | 50.73 Mb
Подробный каталог монет английских колоний.
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 9:45pm CEST
Michael Johnson"American Indians of the Southeast "
Publisher:Reed International Books Ltd. 1995 | 48 Pages | ISBN: 1855325667 | PDF | 15.8 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 9:15pm CEST
Peter Pantzer, "Was ist was?, Bd.94, Samurai: Ritter des Fernen Ostens"
Tessloff Verlag | 2006 | ISBN: 3788606363 | 48 pages | PDF | 26,4 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:59pm CEST
Arthur Goldschmidt, Arthur Goldscmidt "Concise Hist Middle East 7e, Vol. 7"
Westview Press | 2001-07 | ISBN: 0813338859 | 504 pages | PDF | 36 MB
This new edition of Arthur Goldschmidt's well-researched history includes a refined discussion of the life and mission of the Prophet Muhammad, updated scholarship on the 19th-20th century Persia/Iran, as well as clarification and exploration of the aspects of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:58pm CEST
Rethinking Architectural Historiography By Dana Arnold
Publisher: Routledge 2006-10-24 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 041536082X | PDF | 3.1 MB
Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, "Rethinking Architectural Historiography" begins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other fields, such as art history and archaeology...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:55pm CEST
Rome, Season One: History Makes Television
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 1405167769 | edition 2008 | PDF | 272 pages | 1,50 mb
Rome, Season One: History Makes Television examines the first season of the HBO-BBC collaboration, Rome, in a collection of thought-provoking essays by some of the world’s most influential scholars in the fields of classical antiquity and popular culture.
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:42pm CEST
Plutarch Lives, VI: Dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | ISBN: 0674991095 | edition 1954 | PDF | 496 pages | 16,0mb
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 , was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:40pm CEST
Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: The Spellmount Aircraft Identification Guide By Chris Bishop
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers Ltd 2006 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1862273308 | PDF | 33 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:40pm CEST
Television Mythologies: Stars, Shows and Signs By Len Masterman
Publisher: Routledge 1987-05-18 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 041503700X | PDF | 1.1 MB
Roland Barthes wrote Mythologies between 1954 and 1956. His sharp and elegant studies of such aspects of popular culture as striptease, wrestling, toys, tourist guides, etc., were produced at a time when most of the contributors to this volume were still at school. Such is the insularity of British culture that Mythologies was not translated into English until 1972....
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:36pm CEST
Hitler's U-Boat Bases By Jak P. Mallmann Showell
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press 2002 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0750926066 | PDF | 30 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:26pm CEST
In the Shadow of the Swastika: Life in Germany Under the Nazis 1933-1945 By Matthew Seligman, Elizabeth Hurren, John McDonald, Matthew S. Seligmann
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers Ltd 2003 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1862272042 | PDF | 62 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:21pm CEST
Operation Nemesis. Die Türkei, Deutschland und der Völkermord an den Armeniern
Publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH | ISBN: 3462034685 | edition 2005 | PDF | 351 pages | 1,95 mb
Juni 1921 wird das Berliner Landgericht zum Schauplatz eines Pro-zesses, der die Welt aufrüttelt. Der Angeklagte hat den Verant-wortlichen für den Völkermord an den Armeniern, den ehemaligen türkischen Großwesir...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:13pm CEST
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War 1914-1918 By Peter Barton, Peter Doyle, Johan Vandewalle
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers Ltd 2007 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 186227357X | PDF | 60 MB
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:11pm CEST
The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | ISBN: 0742551725 | edition 2007 | PDF | 320 pages | 1,40 mb
From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. Over the course...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 8:08pm CEST
Edward J. Petuch, Charles Roberts. "The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas"
Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press | 2007 | ISBN: 9781420045581 | 250 pages | PDF | 6 Mb
Painting a complete picture of the history of the Everglades, The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas brings together theperspectives of various geoscientists to provides an overview of the geology, paleontology, and paleoceanography of the Everglades region.
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 7:58pm CEST
Teaching from the Heart and Soul: The Robert F. Panara Story
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press | ISBN: 156368358X | edition 2007 | PDF | 232 pages | 1,37 mb
The Sixth Volume in the Deaf Lives Series Robert F. Panara lost his hearing from spinal meningitis in 1931 at the age of ten. However, he could read and write, and...
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 7:43pm CEST
Ethan Bier. "The Coiled Spring: How Life Begins"
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 2000 | ISBN: 0879695625 | 273 pages | PDF | 5 Mb
Since the beginnings of conscious thought, human beings have looked with wonder at the world around them. Perhaps the most significant part of the development of consciousness was self-awareness, and with it came the profoundest of biological questions: “Where did I come from?”
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 7:22pm CEST
Squadron Signal-Walk Around-B-52 Stratofortress
Squadron/Signal Publications | ISBN :0897473582 | 1996 | PDF | 82 pages | 19.0 MB | RS.com
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Posted: April 9th, 2009, 7:16pm CEST
Persians: An Introduction By Maria Brosius
Publisher: Routledge 2006-05-01 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 0415320895 | PDF | 5.6 MB
The Persians provides a comprehensive introduction for the student and general reader interested in the history of the three dynasties of Pre-Islamic Iran, the Achaemenids, the Arsacids (or Parthians), and the Sasanians, covering the period from c. 700 BC to c. AD 650...
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Posted: April 8th, 2009, 12:00am CEST
The Implosion of American Federalism By Robert F. Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2002-11-28 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0195158415 | PDF | 1.3 MB
At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk--among politicians, academics, and jurists--of "coups d'etat," of culture wars, of confederation, of constitutional breakdown?...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:59pm CEST
Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, And an Island in Conflict (New Anthropologies of Europe) By Yiannis Papadakis, Gisela Welz
Publisher: Indiana University Press 2006-06-30 | 235 Pages | ISBN: 0253347513 | PDF | 1.7 MB
The volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic "island of Aphrodite" of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christianity and Islam, Greeks and Turks, Europe and the East, tradition and modernity...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:58pm CEST
A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness By Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim
Publisher: Open University Press 2005-07-01 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0335215831 | PDF | 2.1 MB
A vital text for studying the effects of mental health and illness on a society...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:42pm CEST
Каталог монет мира 18-го века. 3 издание. На английском языке (Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 3th Edition).
ISBN: 0873494695 | 2008 | JPEG | 2297 x 3128 | 313 MB
With prices for classic coins driving collecting activity around the world, continued fluctuation of the precious metal market, and greater than ever availability of coins now is a great time to expand your coin collecting efforts, and extend your knowledge, before you buy and sell.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:40pm CEST
Thomas J. Sienkewicz "Ancient Greece, Vol. 3"
Salem Press | 2006-08-22 | ISBN: 1587652811 | 1200 pages | PDF | 9,6 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:28pm CEST
A New World Order: Grassroots Movements for Global Change By Paul Ekins
Publisher: Routledge 1992-02-13 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0415071151 | PDF | 2.35 MB
"Hard hitting, yet hopeful, Ekins combines a compendium of our planet's greatest ills with stirring, real-life examples of people breaking out of old moulds to become practical problem solvers.' Frances Moore Lappe
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:17pm CEST
Stacke Roderick "The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany"
Routledge | 2007-12-20 | ISBN: 0415308615 | 369 pages | PDF | 1.76 MB
The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany combines a concise narrative overview with chronological, bibliographical and tabular information to cover all major aspects of Nazi Germany. This user-friendly guide provides a comprehensive survey of key topics such as the origins and consolidation of the Nazi regime, the Nazi dictatorship in action, Nazi foreign policy, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the opposition to the regime and the legacy of Nazism.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:06pm CEST
Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs By Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Routledge 1995-11-20 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415118441 | PDF |1.3 MB
In Judaism in the New Testament, Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, the most prolific author writing in English today, contend that, contrary to conventional wisdom, early Christians identified not as Christians, but as Jews...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:50pm CEST
Adrian Goldsworthy "Caesar: Life of a Colossus"
Yale University Press | 2006-09-22 | ISBN: 0300120486 | 608 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB
As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, “in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer.” In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:49pm CEST
Daniel C. Snell, Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Daniel C. Snell "A Companion to the Ancient Near Est"
Wiley | 2004-12-09 | ISBN: 0631232931 | 504 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB
A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:48pm CEST
Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) By Sophocles
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2001 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0195049608 | PDF | 3.29 MB
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:07pm CEST
Eliot Crawshay Williams, "Across Persia"
Publisher: | 1907 | ISBN 1437487998 | PDF | 378 pages | 15.5 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:10pm CEST
S. Vanantetzi, Victoria, "Descent of her Majesty Victoria Queen of England from the Arsacid Kings of Armenia"
Publisher: Armenian & English | 1866 | ISBN B0018FZ8U8 | PDF | 98 pages | 3.6 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:52pm CEST
Catapult Aircraft: Seaplanes That Flew from Ships without Flight Decks By Leo Marriott
Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation 2006 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 184415419X | PDF | 25 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:31pm CEST
Bruce Babbitt. "Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America"
A Shearwater Book Island Press | 2005 | ISBN: 9781559630931 | 215 pages | PDF | 5 Mb
In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:25pm CEST
Lords of Battle: The World of the Celtic Warrior By Stephen Allen
Publisher: OsPublishing 2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1841769487 | PDF | 39 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:11pm CEST
Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything By Gene Healy
Publisher: Cato Institute | ISBN: 1930865635 | edition 2004 | PDF | 160 pages | 1,56 mb
The American criminal justice system is becoming ever more centralized and punitive, owing to rampant federalization and mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines. Go Directly to Jail examines these alarming trends and proposes reforms that could rein in a criminal justice apparatus at war with fairness and common sense.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:08pm CEST
Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC - AD 1840 By C.J. Peers
Publisher: OsPublishing 2006 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1846030986 | PDF | 53 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 8:00pm CEST
Fergus Millar, Guy M. Rogers, Hannah M. Cotton, Hannah M. Cotton
"Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire"
The University of North Carolina Press | 2004-06-28 | ISBN: 0807855200 | 504 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 7:14pm CEST
Paul Barber, "Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality"
Yale University Press | 1988 | ISBN: 0300041268 | 244 pages | siPDF | 4.5 MB
In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires—from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires. Analyzing these reports, Barber offers for the first time a scientific explanation for the origin of the vampire legends.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 12:24pm CEST
Romanticism and Form
Palgrave Macmillan | 256 pages | 2007 | ISBN: 1403994722 | PDF | 1 mb
Romanticism and Form gives a snapshot of what and where the recent revival of formalism in Romantic Studies is up to, ...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 12:09pm CEST
Historic Bridges: Evaluation, Preservation, and Management
CRC | 304 pages | 2008 | ISBN: 1420079956 | PDF | 2 mb
Explore Historic Bridge Design through the Perspective of Modern Engineering
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:43am CEST
Динозавры. Школьный путеводитель
Publisher: Балтийская книжная компания | 2007 | ISBN: 9785912330506 | PDF | 98 pages | 13 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:28am CEST
Adam Horowitz, "The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses, and Other Signs of Unintelligent Life in the Workplace"
Portfolio Hardcover | 2004 | ISBN: 159184035X | 176 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:26am CEST
Wolfgang Tarnowski, "Was ist was?, Bd. 88, Ritter"
Tessloff Verlag | 2003 | ISBN: 3788606304 | 48 pages | PDF | 19,8 MB
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:59am CEST
“50th Anniversary of Sinchon Museum Observed”
KOREA PICTORIAL, Pyongyang. DPRK | 2008 | Language: English | 12 pages | PDF | 1.01 MB
For 52 days of their occupation of Sinchon County during the war the U.S. imperialists massacred at least 35,000 patriots and innocent people or a quarter of the population of the county by the most brutal methods. They tortured civilians in a savage manner, buried them alive, hung and burned them to death and drove nails into their heads....
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:34am CEST
Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0199242690 | edition 2000 | PDF | 400 pages | 2,4 mb
The first study to investigate the interlinked problems of domestic security and national defense in Ireland, this book describes the development of ...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:27am CEST
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
Publisher: HarperCollins | ISBN: 0747273332 | edition 2000 | PDF, LIT, DOC, HTML, TXT | 416 pages | 2 mb
Our Lady of Victories
How many lands, how many frontiers separate us!
—Napoleon, in a letter to Josephine .
In which my new life begins
March 10, 1796 — Paris, early morning, grey skies. I am writing this in my jasmine-scented dressing room, where I might not be discovered by Bonaparte, my husband of one day...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:25am CEST
Speech Acts in the History of English (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company | ISBN: 9027254206 | edition 2008 | PDF | 318 pages | 1,8 mb
Histories of the English language continue to be published in great numbers and recent years have seen an upsurge in such publications in the form of handbooks, scholarly treatises or introductory textbooks for students.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:20am CEST
Readings in Han Chinese Thought
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company | ISBN: 0872207099 | edition 2006 | PDF | 220 pages | 3,56 mb
The first comprehensive English-language collection of the writings of this pivotal period in Chinese intellectual history, this volume provides translations of key works, arranged chronologically within topics, and accompanied by substantive headnotes, a glossary, and a bibliography...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:14am CEST
Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press | ISBN: 0801866081 | edition 2001 | PDF | 296 pages | 1,07 mb
Stories of transgression--Gilgamesh, Prometheus, Oedipus, Eve -- may be integral to every culture's narrative imaginings of its own origins, but such stories assumed different meanings with the burgeoning interest in modern histories of crime and punishment in the later decades of the seventeenth century. In Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England, Hal Gladfelder shows how the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience. These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterizes the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 10:08am CEST
Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements)
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | ISBN: 0810860740 | edition 2008 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,06 mb
"Originating in the 1870s from a small group of Bible students led by Charles Taze Russell, the Watch Tower Society grew into an international society. After Russell's death in 1916, Franklin Rutherford was named his successor and gave the society a new name: Jehovah's Witnesses. Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses shows how World Wars I and II influenced Watch Tower attitudes toward civil government
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:57am CEST
Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262026333 | edition 2008 | PDF | 400 pages | 1,4 mb
Our morning cups of coffee connect us to a global industry and an export crisis in the tropics that is destroying livelihoods, undermining the cohesion of families and communities, and threatening ecosystems. Confronting the Coffee Crisis explores small-scale farming, the political economy of the global coffee industry, and initiatives that claim to promote more sustainable rural development in coffee-producing communities. Contributors review the historical, political, economic, and agroecological processes within today's coffee industry and analyze the severely depressed export market that faces small-scale growers in Mexico and Central America.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:51am CEST
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0199256047 | edition 2005 | PDF | 312 pages | 1,2 mb
Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social' as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling: and a type of material, distinct from others.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:47am CEST
THE MANY LIVES&SECRET SORROWS OF JOSEPHINE B.
Publisher: Review | ISBN: 0747273324 | edition 1999 | PDF, LIT, DOC, TXT, HTML | 438 pages | 2 mb
June 23, 1777—Trois-Ilets, Martinico.
I am fourteen today and unmarried still. Without a dowry, what hope is there? Mother says the wind takes hope and dashes it into the sky, just as the big wind took our house, picked it up and dashed it, leaving nothing but debts in its place.
Oh, what a black mood has possessed me. Is not the celebration of one's birthday supposed to bring one joy? After dinner, after eating too many doughnut fritters with guava jelly, I took my leave and climbed up to my special place in the kapok tree. It was cool in the shade of the leaves. I could hear Grandmother Sannois and Mother arguing in the front parlor, the slaves chanting as they pushed the cane stalks through the rollers in the crushing hut, a chicken scratching in the honeysuckle bushes. I felt strange up there—peering out at my world, enveloped in gloom on my happy day...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:39am CEST
Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company | ISBN: 087220636X | edition 2003 | PDF | 312 pages | 2,42 mb
This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entrée into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder a range of interpretations. The ideal student edition, this volume also includes a general introduction, notes, multiple appendices—including a glossary of technical terms, references to modern Western scholarship that point the way for further study, and an annotated bibliography...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:32am CEST
Prophets Without Honor
Publisher: Algora Publishing | ISBN: 1892941988 | edition 2002 | PDF | 376 pages | 1,6 mb
Priests, giving their lives to the poor, protesting wars and . . . ., they have been beaten, arrested, and threatened with death. In this chronicle of their times, they mourn parishioners whom they could not protect.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:10am CEST
Top Secret: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Publisher: Book Tree | ISBN: 1885395566 | edition 1998 | PDF | 56 pages | 3 mb
This is the top secret manual found by accident in 1986 by an employee of Boeing Aircraft who bought a surplus IBM copier for scrap parts and found the manual inside. Much of it has come to pass - it planned to control the masses through manipulation of industry, education and politics, and to divert the public's attention from what's really going on...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:03am CEST
Camron Amin, Benjamin C. Fortna, Elizabeth B. Frierson "The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook"
Oxford University Press | 2006-05-12 | ISBN: 0199262098 | 704 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists' and travellers' accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced, translated and annotated by a specialist in the particular history and culture from which it was drawn...
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Posted: April 7th, 2009, 9:02am CEST
Chris Wickham "Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800"
Oxford University Press | 2005-11-10 | ISBN: 019926449X | 1018 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base...
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 10:00pm CEST
W. Warde Fowler, "The Religious Experience of the Roman People"
Publisher: Echo Library | June 18, 2008 | ISBN 1406891207 | PDF | 336 pages | 1.1 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 9:44pm CEST
История кладоискательства в России
Publisher: Захаров | ISBN: 5815905119 | edition 2005 | DJV | 243 pages | 10.7 mb
Книга известного российского историка, доктора исторических наук, писателя Виктора Бердинских в живой и увлекательной форме рассказывает о кладоискании в России - со времен Киевской Руси до сего дня. Тайны, загадки, мистика, а также...
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 9:26pm CEST
Uljas, S., "The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses"
Publisher: BRILL | 2007-07-30 | ISBN 9004158316 | PDF | 434 pages | 1.33 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 8:20pm CEST
Mary Kay Ricks, "Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad"
Publisher: Harper Perennial | 2008-02-01 | ISBN 0060786604 | PDF | 464 pages | 3.9 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 7:39pm CEST
Keen's Latin American Civilization By Robert Buffington, Lila Caimari
Publisher: Westview Press | ISBN: 0813344085 | edition 2008 | PDF | 536 pages | 3,5 mb
Keen’s Latin American Civilization introduces readers to the sweeping panorama of Latin American history through a classic collection of primary documents. More than 140 readings, organized chronologically and placed in context by insightful introductory notes and essays, provide vivid glimpses of life in Latin America from the Conquest to the colonial and republican eras to contemporary Latin America. In the ninth edition, editors Robert Buffington and Lila Caimari document dramatic recent changes in Latin America, including the resurgence of leftist governments in South and Central America, the feminization of politics from the grassroots to the presidency, the devastating effects of narco-trafficking and political corruption on law and order, and growing concerns about the environment.
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 7:16pm CEST
Matila Ghyka, "The Geometry of Art and Life"
Dover Publications | 1977 | ISBN: 0486235424 | 174 pages | PDF | 18 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 7:03pm CEST
Anton Myrer, "The Big War"
Publisher: Harper Perennial | 2001-12-01 | ISBN 0060934735 | PDF | 512 pages | 1.35 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 6:44pm CEST
The Fleet Air Arm Handbook 1939-45 By David Wragg
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd 2003 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0750934301 | PDF | 34 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 6:29pm CEST
Royal Air Force Handbook 1939-1945 By David Wragg
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd 2007 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0750943610 | PDF | 39 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 3:49pm CEST
Tony Buttler - British Secret Projects : Jet Bombers Since 1949
Midland | 2003 | ISBN: 185780130X | 225 pages | PDF | 102.98 MB
This long awaited title is a natural successor to the author's successful volume on fighters. The design and development of the British bomber since World War II is covered in similar depth and again the emphasis is placed on the tender design competitions between projects from different companies. Extensive reference has been made to recently- declassified archives in national and industry collections, which allows many little known projects to be brought together within a full narrative of bomber development. The design backgrounds to the V-Bomber program, Canberra, Buccaneer, Avro 730, TSR.2, Harrier, Jaguar and Tornado are revealed in more detail than has probably ever been published, but attention is also given to anti-submarine types and stillborn programs such as the RAF's first requirement for a low level bomber and the AFVG. The book includes many previously unpublished illustrations plus specially commissioned renditions of might-have-been types in contemporary markings. Keith Woodcock's cover painting shows how the Avro 698 might have looked in service had it not been turned into the famous Vulcan.
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 3:37pm CEST
Tony Buttler - British Secret Projects : Jet Fighters Since 1950
Midland | 2000 | ISBN: 1857800958 | 178 pages | PDF | 51.76 MB
A large number of fighter projects have been drawn by British companies over the last fifty years, but very few have turned into hardware, and very little has been published about these fascinating "might-have-beens." This book makes extensive use of previously unpublished, primary-source material-much recently declassified. It gives an insight into a secret world where the public has had little idea of what was going on, while at the same time presenting a coherent nationwide picture of fighter development and evolution. Particular emphasis is placed on tender design competitions and some of the events that led to certain aircraft either being canceled or produced. Some of the many and varied types included are the Hawker P.1103/P.1136/P.1121 series, and the Fairey "Delta III". The book includes many illustrations, plus specially commissioned renditions of "might-have-been" types in contemporary markings. For military history enthusiasts.
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 2:54pm CEST
Battle for Caen By Simon Trew
Publisher: The History Press Ltd 2004 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0750930101 | PDF | 38 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 2:53pm CEST
Squadron Signal-Walk Around-F-14 Tomcat
Squadron/Signal Publications | ISBN :089747337X | 1995 | PDF | 82 pages | 17.7 MB | RS.com
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 2:46pm CEST
A Color Guide to the Petrography of Carbonate Rocks: Grains, Textures, Porosity, Diagenesis (AAPG Memoir) (Aapg Memoir)
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists | 2003-11-01 | ISBN: 0891813586 | PDF | 474 pages | 168 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 2:35pm CEST
Gold Beach By Simon Trew
Publisher: The History Press Ltd 2004 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 075093011X | PDF | 38 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 10:27am CEST
Church History in an Age of Uncertainty: Historiographical Patterns in the United States, 1906 - 1990
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press | ISBN: 0809316218 | edition 1991 | CHM | 296 pages | 1,15 mb
Essential to Catholic, Protestant, and even secular scholars of American religious history this is the first historiographical analysis of the work of Henry K. Rowe, James H. Nichols, Leonard J. Trinterud, H. Shelton Smith, John T. McNeill, Herbert W. Schneider, Robert T. Handy, John T. Ellis, and Jaroslav Pelikan.
Aware that every generation rewrites history, Bowden bases his investigation of major twentieth-century church historians on two questions: Why are young historians dissatisfied with earlier treatments? What leads them to believe their version is better?...
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 8:51am CEST
Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Kevin Corrigan, "Reading Ancient Texts, Aristotle and Neoplatonism: Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Reading Ancient Texts)"
Brill Academic Publishers | 2008 | ISBN: 9004165126 | 280 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 8:40am CEST
Н. Непомнящий: Военные загадки Третьего рейха
Russian | ISBN: 5783811238 | 2002 | 462 Pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
Книга повествует о самых разных сторонах и эпизодах Второй мировой войны: о роли оккультизма в жизни Третьего рейха и экспедициях нацистов в Тибет; о зловещем приказе № 270 и штрафных батальонах; о секретах Пенемюнде и тайнах дрезденских сокровищ; о гибели "Красной капеллы", судьбах генерала Паулюса и капитана Маринеско... Причем, что особенно ценно, в книге представлены взгляды "с обеих сторон". Большинство героев и антигероев этих очерков давно стали тенями потустороннего мира. Однако они так повлияли на судьбы мира и жизнь человечества, что мы и по сей день разбираемся в хитросплетениях их деяний...
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 6:52am CEST
Judson Knight, "Middle Ages Reference Library"
Gale | PDF | 5 volumes Total 24 MB | 915 pages | 2000 | ISBN: 0787648558 | 5% recovery Record
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 6:28am CEST
Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Kevin Corrigan, "Reading Ancient Texts, Presocratics and Plato: Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Reading Ancient Texts)"
Brill Academic Publishers | 2008 | ISBN: 9004165096 | 226 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
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Posted: April 6th, 2009, 12:42am CEST
Kate Ascher, "The Works: Anatomy of a City"
Penguin Press | 2005 | ISBN: 1594200718 | siPDF | 240 pages | 22.8 MB
Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What all the pipes underneath city streets do? For those who have ever stopped mid-crosswalk, looked around at a rapidly moving metropolis, and asked themselves "How does it all work?,"
The Works is required reading.
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:18pm CEST
Anita Vickers "The New Nation, 1783-1816: (American Popular Culture Through History)"
Greenwood Press | 2002-06 | ISBN: 0313312648 | 264 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics, paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America's other history: the arts, activities, common items, and popular opinions that profoundly impacted our national way of life. At the birth of the nation, when America's statesmen were laying the foundations of a new government, citizens were forging a popular culture to call their own...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:17pm CEST
Robert P. Sutton "Federalism: (Major Issues in American History)"
Greenwood Press | 2002-09-30 | ISBN: 0313315310 | 296 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
The issues and controversies surrounding the creation of our federal republic--and the rights of the federal government--have reverberated through many watershed events in the 200+ years of American history. This book will help students to debate those issues as they played out in eight crises from 1787 to the beginning of the 21st century...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:16pm CEST
P. J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden "Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy"
Chatham House Publishers | 2000-12-01 | ISBN: 1889119091 | 306 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB
Long over due, this anthology collects in one volume new translations of some of the central works by major early Chinese philosophers-Kongzi (Confucius), Mozi, Mengzi (Mencius), Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi. The book offers an excellent and balanced selection of texts in readable translations that reflect the very latest in fine scholarship...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:13pm CEST
Jesus as Guru: The Image of Christ among Hindus and Christians in India. (Currents of Encounter) By Jan Peter Schouten
Publisher: Rodopi 2008-09-30 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 9042024437 | PDF | 6.5 MB
People in India form images of Jesus Christ that link up with their own culture. Hindus have given Jesus a place among the teachers and gods of their own religion, seeing in his life something of the wisdom and mysticism that is so central to Hinduism...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:12pm CEST
Julian Jackson "The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940"
Oxford University Press | 2004-04-14 | ISBN: 0192805509 | 296 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB
On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten, rushed to Paris to meet the French leaders...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:09pm CEST
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto "Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature"
Free Press | 2001-05-02 | ISBN: 0743202481 | 560 pages | PDF | 7,7 MB
"Civilization" is a tricky term, one that means many things to many people. For some, it denotes great buildings, canals, codes of law; for others, it offers a contrast between one group and another, with the advantage always going to the more "civilized" bunch against the "barbaric," "savage," or "primitive."...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:06pm CEST
William A Johnson, Holt N Parker, "Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-02-05 | ISBN: 0195340159 | 448 pages | PDF | 3,1 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:05pm CEST
Walter Scheidel, "Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (Oxford Studies in Early Empires)"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-02-05 | ISBN: 0195336909 | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:04pm CEST
Yulia Ustinova, "Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-04-15 | ISBN: 0199548560 | 328 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 11:03pm CEST
The Study of Religion Under the Impact of Fascism (Numen Book) By Horst Junginger
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers 2007-11-01 | 663 Pages | ISBN: 9004163263 | PDF | 2.8 MB
Addressing the European study of religion in the interwar-period, these proceedings tackle one of the most problematic epochs of its history. The commonplace that understanding the present requires learning from the past is particularly true, as this case well illustrates.
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 10:59pm CEST
2nd Tactical Air Force: v.1: Spartan to Normandy June 1943 to June 1944 By Christopher Shores, Chris Thomas
Publisher: Classic Publications 2004 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1903223407 | PDF | 57 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 10:55pm CEST
2nd Tactical Air Force: From the Rhine to Victory v. 3 January 1945 to May 1945 By Christopher Shores, Chris Thomas
Publisher: Classic Publications 2006 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1903223601 | PDF | 54 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 10:50pm CEST
Historical Dictionary of the Inuit (Historical Dictionaries of People and Cultures) By Pamela K. Stern
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2004-07-28 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0810850583 | PDF | 1.7 MB
Profiles the history of the Inuit people from the first inhabitants to the present day society. More than 450 dictionary entries cover issues of society, economy, and politics; influential educators and writers, environmentalists, and politicians; and the many voluntary associations and governmental agencies that have played a role in Inuit history...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 10:49pm CEST
Katherine Callen King "Ancient Epic"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2009-04-20 | ISBN: 1405159472 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 10:23pm CEST
Robert J. McMahon, "The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2003-07-10 | ISBN: 0192801783 | 200 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 10:21pm CEST
Michael J. Benton, "The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-12-15 | ISBN: 0199226326 | 144 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 9:51pm CEST
Charles L. Scrivner, «TBM/TBF Avenger in Action - Aircraft No. 82»
Squadron/Signal Publications | ISBN: 0897471970 | 1987 | PDF | 50 pages | 8.1 MB
Only six TBF's actually entered front-line, combat service in time for the critical Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. These planes, attached to VT-8, flew up to Midway Island itself three days before. Commanded by Lieutenant Langdon K. Fieberling, none of the TBF pilots had ever been in combat, and only a few had ever flown out of sight of land before. (Most of this squadron, the famed Torpedo Squadron Eight, flew the outmoded Douglas Devastators from the carrier Hornet.) But both new and old were nearly wiped out.
Lieutenant Fieberling's six TBFs reached the Japanese fleet at 7:10 AM, dropped to low altitude and bore on toward the carriers. Zeros swarmed around the vulnerable torpedo planes. Two TBFs were destroyed in the first attack, followed by three more. Realizing that he could not reach the carriers, Ensign Albert K. Earnest loosed his torpedo at a cruiser, then broke away with two Zeros after him. Earnest flew his shot-up TBF back to Midway, navigating "by guess and by God." Earnest's was the only TBF to return, with nothing but the trim tab for longitudinal control, with one wheel and the torpedo bay doors hanging open. Radioman 3rd Class Harrier H. Ferrier was injured and Seaman 1st Class Jay D. Manning, who was operating the .50 caliber machine gun turret, was killed during the attack.
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 9:33pm CEST
William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton "Timon of Athens"
Oxford University Press | 2004-04-20 | ISBN: 0198129386 | pages | PDF | 2,2 MB
Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. The play's response to matters topical in Jacobean London sharpens its thrust as satire. Yet the setting in ancient Athens allows it to read as a timeless fable, deeply relevant to a modern society that sees itself as pursuing material prosperity to the point of self-destruction...
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Posted: April 5th, 2009, 9:32pm CEST
Timothy L. Challans, "Awakening Warrior: Revolution in the Ethics of Warfare (Suny Series, Ethics and the Military Profession)"
State University of New York Press | 2007-05-10 | ISBN: 0791471268 | 227 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 10:26am CEST
Israel's Armor Might By Samuel Katz
Publisher: Concord Publications 1990 | 60 Pages | ISBN: 9623610017 | PDF | 14 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 10:17am CEST
Karine Chemla , "History of Science, History of Text"
Springer | 2005 | ISBN: 1402023200 | 254 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 9:55am CEST
Robin J. Wilson "Stamping through mathematics"
Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. | 2001 | ISBN: 0387989498 | PDF | pages 133 | 23.35 Mb
Каталог марок издательства Springer посвящен математикам, изображеных на марках различных стран.
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 9:55am CEST
Götz Aly, "Unser Kampf: 1968 - ein irritierter Blick zurück"
Fischer (S.), Frankfurt | 2008 | ISBN: 3100004213 | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 9:46am CEST
History's Disquiet
Columbia University Press | 2000-05-15 | ISBN: 0231117949 | 192 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 8:10am CEST
Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press | ISBN: 0817929029 | edition 2002 | PDF | 274 pages | 15,2 (rar'd 14,9) mb
During the Great Terror (1937 to 1938), at least 1.5 million Soviet citizens were arrested for alleged crimes against the state. Some 700,000 of them were shot. A dozen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, still-classified Soviet archives reveal for the first time the scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin...
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:59am CEST
Bitter Waters: Life and Work in Stalin's Russia
Westview Press | 1997 | ISBN: 0813323746 | 195 pages | PDF | 33 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:44am CEST
Stalin's Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936 (Annals of Communism Series)
Publisher: Yale University Press | ISBN: 0300068611 | edition 1996 | CHM | 308 pages | 1,42 mb
These letters from Stalin to his trusted friend and political colleague Molotov constitute a unique historical record of Stalin`s thinking - both personal and political - during a dramatic period of transformation in the Soviet Union. They throw valuable light on the way he controlled the government, plotted the overthrow of his enemies, and imagined the future. Formerly housed in Soviet archives, this top secret correspondence is now available to the public for the first time...
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:42am CEST
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin: A Novel
Publisher: Da Capo Press | ISBN: 0306809974 | edition 2000 | HTML+PDF | 272 pages | 18 mb
Chilling and mesmerizing, Louries novel traces the Russian dictators life from childhood to the apex of his career, exploring the diabolical nuances of Stalins psychology. The USSR dictator narrates, in a grim and relentless voice, often referring to himself in the third person (Stalin needs peace for terror). His first words, Leon Trotsky is trying to kill me, reveal the fury and incipient dementia of his reaction to the news that his nemesis Trotsky, whom he has driven into exile in Mexico, is writing a biography of his former revolutionist comrade. Indignantly comparing Trotskys libelous biography to his own egotistical version, and ostensibly refuting Trotskys account, Stalin reveals the origins of his criminal mind and the extent to which he has indulged his murderous instincts. From the beatings he suffered at his fathers hands, Stalin learned the perverse power and effectiveness of psychological detachment and physical cruelty. From Darwin he ecstatically gleans that there is no God, therefore no judgment from above...
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:22am CEST
Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
Publisher: NYU Press | ISBN: 0814731112 | edition 2000 | PDF | 280 pages | 1 mb
The whole terrible Nazi experience had many oddities, and this relatively unknown woman is one of them. Born in France in 1905 as Maximiani Portas, she became a strong admirer of Hitler in the 1920s, moved to India in 1932 because of its caste system, and took a Hindu name. After the war she traveled through a devastated Europe and was a vocal apologist of the Nazis, their horrific atrocities notwithstanding. Her early writings were republished by far-right-wing publishers, and she gained new fans in the 1970s as neo-Nazism spread. Devi died in 1982, but the author writes that her combination of Hindu religion and Nordic racial ideology became "a bridge between neo-Nazism and the New Age" movements. (For more on this subject, see also Goodrick-Clarke's The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, New York Univ., 1992). This work will be useful for understanding the ideological background of the neo-Nazis. Suitable, but not essential, for all academic and large public libraries...
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:17am CEST
Hitler and I
Publisher: AMS Press | ISBN: 040416997X | edition 1982 | DJVU | 248 pages | 9 mb
Introduction
An the beginnig of 1940 I wrote a book, Nemesis?, which told the story of a man then little known outside Germany, Otto Strasser. It described his upbringing and his distinguished service in the war we once called Great; his political peregrinations in the crazy and turbulent post-war German years...
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:03am CEST
Marguerite Zimmer, "Histoire de l'anesthésie : Méthodes et techniques au XIXe siècle"
EDP Sciences | 2008 | ISBN: 2868838960 | 757 pages | PDF | 7,45 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:02am CEST
Jean Fontanieu, Paul Heiney , Al Coutelis, "Les chats ont-ils un nombril?"
EDP Sciences | 2008 | ISBN: 2759800547 | 219 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 7:00am CEST
Denis Beaudouin, "Charles Beaudouin : Une histoire d'instruments scientifiques"
EDP Sciences | 2005 | ISBN: 2868838073 | 285 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 6:45am CEST
Gerald Gruman MD PhD, "A History of Ideas About the Prolongation of Life (Classics in Longevity and Aging)"
Springer | 2003 | ISBN: 0826118755 | 232 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 6:14am CEST
Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War
The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2002-09-09 | ISBN: 0801869404 | 280 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 5:46am CEST
James M. McPherson, "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)"
Oxford University Press | 1988 | ISBN: 0195038630 | siPDF | 904 pages | 18.3 MB
Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 5:10am CEST
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
Oxford University Press | 1995 | ISBN 0198279493 | 296 Pages | PDF | 55 MB
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 4:41am CEST
Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History and the Last Man"
Free Press | 1992 | Philosophy | ISBN: 0029109752 | siPDF | 418 pages | 6 MB
Fukuyama's profound inquiry leads the reader to the question of whether humanity will eventually reach a stable state in which it is at last completely satisfied, or whether there is something about the condition of humans that will always lead them to smash this ultimate equilibrium and plunge the world back into chaos.
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Posted: April 4th, 2009, 3:40am CEST
Martin L. Davies - Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society
Routledge | 2005 | ISBN: 0415261651 | Pages: 300 | PDF | 5.05 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 5:32pm CEST
Panzersperren und Hindernisse. Betonhöcker, Igel, Gräben u. a. bis 1945 By Sonja Wetzig
Publisher: Podzun-Pallas 2000 | 52 Pages | ISBN: 3790906980 | PDF | 68 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 5:21pm CEST
Aircraft of the Royal Navy Since 1945 By David Hobbs
Publisher: Maritime Books 1982 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0907771068 | PDF | 29 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 5:12pm CEST
Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center By Rex D. Hall, David J. Shayler, Bert Vis
Publisher: Praxis 2005 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 0387218947 | PDF | 13 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 5:02pm CEST
The Secret History of Chemical Warfare By N.J. McCamley
Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd 2006 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 184415341X | PDF | 80 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 4:53pm CEST
The Royal Navy in Focus 1940-49 By Mike Critchley
Publisher: Maritime Books 1984 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0907771114 | PDF | 84 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 3:38pm CEST
Isaiah Wilner, "The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine"
Harper Perennial | 2007-09-01 | ISBN: 0060505508 | 384 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 2:55pm CEST
Воспоминания о войне Н.Н. Никулина
Издатель: СПб: Изд-во Гос. Эрмитажа 2008 | 244 страницы | ISBN: 9785935723309 | DJVU | 1 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 2:38pm CEST
Jay Twomey, "The Pastoral Epistles Through the Centuries"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2009 | ISBN: 1405126140 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 2:31pm CEST
Philip Rousseau, "A Companion to Late Antiquity"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2009 | ISBN: 1405119802 | 736 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 2:27pm CEST
Paul R. Kimmel, "Collateral Damage: The Psychological Consequences of America's War on Terrorism (Contemporary Psychology)"
Praeger Publishers | 2006-08-30 | ISBN: 0275988260 | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 2:20pm CEST
Y.Gordon - Soviet/Russian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Midland | 2005 | ISBN: 1857801938 | 131 pages | PDF | 107.99 MB
Red Star vol.20
While Soviet combat aircraft have received extensive coverage, the many UAVs developed in the Soviet Union and, more recently, Russia remain unsung. Nevertheless, this is a subject deserving attention. The first Soviet UAV to find large-scale use was the La-17 developed by the Lavochkin OKB, a fighter maker of World War II fame; it came in both target drone and reconnaissance versions. The Tupolev OKB, best known for its heavy bombers and commercial aircraft, also had a line of UAVs of varying size. The first of these was the Tu-123 Yastreb which started life as a heavy cruise missile but evolved into a supersonic unmanned spyplane; the book also describes the Tu-141 Strizh (Swift), which again came in reconnaissance and target versions, the Tu-243 Reys (Flight) and the latest Tu-300 recce/strike UAV. The Yakovlev OKB's unmanned aircraft are also covered, including the Pchela (Bee) surveillance UAV which has seen operational use in the Chechen wars; mention is also made of UAVs and drones developed by such companies as Strela and the Moscow Aviation Institute. The book is richly illustrated with black-and-white and color photos, including until-now unpublished ones, and line drawings.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:58pm CEST
AM Reda, "Wie aus den Kelten die Germanen wurden"
Books on Demand Gmbh | 2000 | ISBN: 3831104743 | 224 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:57pm CEST
Jorge Ramos, "Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History"
Harper Paperbacks | 2006-06-01 | ISBN: 006078945X | 208 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:55pm CEST
Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics): Daniel J. Cohen
The Johns Hopkins University Press | ISBN: 0801885531 | March 1, 2007 | PDF (OCR) | 256 pages | 2175 KB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:51pm CEST
Geschichte der Medicin: Vorlesungen gehalten zu Leipzig im Sommersemeser 1858 By C. A. Wunderlich
Publisher: Ebner & Seubert | 1859 | ISBN: B000IFXYRS | PDF | 487 pages | 20.50 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:36pm CEST
AvaxHome Special: Gale U.X.L Reference Library and Encyclopedia Collection (32 Titles)
Publisher: Gale and U.X.L | Format: PDF | Year 1995-2008 | 50000+ pages | 935 MB | English | ISBN: Various | Rapidshare Links Only
World War I Reference Library || World War II Reference Library || Vietnam War Reference Library || World Religions Reference Library || Middle Ages Reference Library || Cold War Reference Library || War of 1812 Reference Library || The Crusades Reference Library || Space Exploration Reference Library || Renaissance and Reformation Reference Library || Reconstruction Era Reference Library || Ancient Civilizations Reference Library || American Civil War Reference Library || Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library || Elizabethan World Reference Library || Gale Arts and Humanities through the Eras || Gale Encyclopedia of Fashion, Costume and Culture || Gale Encyclopedia of Religion || Gale Encyclopedia of Russian History || Gale Encyclopedia Of The Barbarian World-Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000 || Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained || Gale Espionage Intelligence And Security || Gale Encyclopedia of Science || Gale Science and Its Times || Gale The Renaissance - An Encyclopedia for Students || Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders || Gale Encyclopedia of Alternate Medicine || Gale Encyclopedia Of Mental Disorders || The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology || Gale U.X.L Encyclopedia of U.S. History || Gale U.X.L Encyclopedia of World Biography || Gale New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:25pm CEST
Wiley-Blackwell, "A Social History of Byzantium"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2008 | ISBN: 140513240X | 328 pages | PDF | 13,8 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:15pm CEST
The Cambridge Companion to Galen (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy): R. J. Hankinson
Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521819547 | September 15, 2008 | PDF (OCR) | 472 pages | 1.8 Mb
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 12:09pm CEST
Prof. Wolfgang Tarovski, “Was ist was?, Bd. 71, Seeräuber”
Tessloff Verlag | 1982 | ISBN: 3788604115 | Language: German | 49 pages | PDF | 24.87 MB
Die Geschichte der Seeräuberei ist ein Teil der Weltgeschichte. Sie ist unauflösbar verflochten mit der Handelsgeschichte, der Kriegsgeschichte, der politischen GEschichte und der Rechtsgeschidhte.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 12:05pm CEST
The Roman Imperial Army: Of the First and Second Centuries A.D.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press | ISBN: 0806130008 | edition 1998 | CHM | 343 pages | 4,61 mb
Webster's book is considered a leading source on the topic, and it should be noted that it is not for beginners. That said, it ought also be noted that it is not for the advanced student, either: those of us who have studied the Roman army in some detail will not find many new takes on the sources we have, except for a very interesting discussion of the Etruscan influence on Roman warfare, which I personally enjoyed a lot. As it stands, this book is a definite middle ground: excellent in its own right, but not adequately targeted to either audience. For a student of the Classics who has some background with Roman history this book will indeed be invaluable, but for graduate students and professionals it does not contribute anything radically new, no matter how elegant and stimulating as Webster's treatment may be.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 11:30am CEST
Mike Rapp, "1848: Year of Revolution"
Basic Books | 2009 | ISBN: 0465014364 | 480 pages | PDF | 3,6 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 11:23am CEST
The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors
Publisher: Greenwood Press | ISBN: 0313310084 | edition 2004 | PDF | 416 pages | 1,22 mb
This encyclopedia provides 79 entries detailing the works and lives of innovators of the intellectually fervent late Renaissance-early Enlightenment period. Authors is defined broadly to include composers and scientists as well as diarists, novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, and philosophers. Though most are British or American, some European writers and artists "who significantly influenced British and American literary culture" are included. Alphabetical entries average three to five pages, with longer ones devoted to major figures like Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, and William Shakespeare. Each entry is consistently divided into "Biography," "Major Works and Themes," "Critical Reception" (including both contemporary and later reactions over the centuries), and "Bibliography." Most bibliographies are about half a page long and are subdivided into "Works by" and "Studies of" sections. Cross-references are included...
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 11:10am CEST
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415234794 | edition 2002 | PDF | 656 pages | 3,71 mb
The focus of this dictionary-style work is the past century of African history, covering decades of tremendous change, including resistance to colonial rule and the reestablishment of African independence. Global forces that had an impact on the continent are also considered. An article, for example, on the cold war details the effect of the conflict between the U.S and USSR on Africa. Although the emphasis is clearly the twentieth century, entries place their topics in context: the long article on Christianity considers the churches established in Egypt in the first centuries after Christ as well as the nineteenth-century missionary movements before considering modern developments. Articles on Islam, Arabic language, and slavery are similarly contextual. The scope includes North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 11:05am CEST
Polish Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces 021)
Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1855327260 | July 24, 1998 | PDF | 96 pages | 12.90 MB
Pilots of the Polish Air Force saw action from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe. Flying hopelessly outmoded P.11 fighters in defence of their country in September 1939, a handful of aviators inflicted serious losses on the Luftwaffe before being overwhelmed. The survivors escaped to then neutral Hungary and Romania, before being ordered to France by the new C-in-C of exiled Polish Armed Forces, General Sikorski. With the invasion of Western Europe in May 1940, the surviving pilots were once more thrust into desperate action in newly-formed Polish units.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 10:54am CEST
AFV Weapons No.58 - French Infantry Tanks: Part I (Chars 2C, D and B)
Profile Publications | 1973 | ASIN: B000VQDFRS | PDF | English | 24 pages | 25.28 Mb
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 10:33am CEST
Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press | ISBN: 0810854848 | edition 2007 | PDF | 304 pages | 2,44 mb
In selecting the entries for this volume, attempts have been made to provide an overview of historical, legal, technical, and political aspects of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons. We have endeavored to maintain a balance within the entries in terms of coverage devoted to noteworthy events, notable individuals, nations, fundamental research, and the testing and fielding of NBC weapon systems. We hope that the dictionary contains information that those who closely follow NBC-related developments will find unusual as well as useful.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 10:31am CEST
Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia (American Law and Society)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415930197 | edition 2001 | PDF | 1128 pages | 3 mb
Johnson (history, Univ. of Northern Iowa), who has written several books on the history of U.S. law, including The Struggle for Student Rights, here uses a scholarly analysis of both state and national cases to show how the legal system affects our lives. Approximately a fifth of the 201 essays are new to this revised second edition, which follows the first by a decade. The essays, which vary in length depending upon the significance of their subjects, focus on five main categories: crime and criminal law; governmental organization, power, and procedure...
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 10:27am CEST
War in the Modern World
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co | ISBN: 0020363907 | edition 1985 | PDF | 420 pages | 7,24 mb
From the Renaissance to the Cold War, the definitive survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare returns to print in a new paperback edition. Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and war; and the First and Second World Wars and their aftermath.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 10:21am CEST
Encyclopedia of Social History (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0815303424 | edition 1993 | PDF | 896 pages | 4,37 mb
A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); major aspects of life for which social history has provided a crucial per...
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 10:10am CEST
Understanding Terrorist Innovation
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415423511 | edition 2007 | PDF | 204 pages | 1,13 mb
This book explores the innovations and advances in terrorist tactics and technologies to help fill the gap in the contemporary terrorism literature by developing an empirical theory of terrorist innovation. The key question concerns the global historical trends in terrorist innovation, as well as the critical factors responsible for the differences in practices among terrorist organizations. The first part of the book provides an overview of the tactics and technology used by terrorists in the last century and identifies the key trends for the future. The second part compares four differing terrorist organizations with the aim of identifying key factors in producing innovative tactics and weaponry. The volume provides a historical explanation of the trends in terrorist innovation and also has policy relevance, as the ability to identify signature characteristics of innovation-prone terrorist organizations is a critical element in predictive threat assessment. "Understanding Terrorist Innovation" will be of great interest to students of terrorism studies, security studies and political science in general.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 10:00am CEST
The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415410452 | edition 2007 | PDF | 111 pages | 1,16 mb
This book demonstrates that the origins of the US-Israeli alliance lay in the former's concern over Egyptian influence in Jordan, contrasting with the widely-held view of the significance of the Six Day War. The American-Israeli Alliance will be of great interest to students of Middle East studies, history, and politics.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:58am CEST
Squadron Signal - Combat Troops - 3006 - US infantry Vietnam In Action
English | PDF | ASIN: B00071FB0G | 1983 | 50 Pages | 24 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:57am CEST
Squadron Signal - Combat Troops - 3004 - AfrikaKorps in Action
English | PDF | ASIN: B000QRZTQ2 | 1979 | 50 Pages | 21 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:57am CEST
Tony Judt, "Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945"
Penguin Press | 2005 | ISBN: 1594200653 | siPDF | 896 pages | 18.5 MB
A magnificent history of postwar Europe, East and West, by arguably the subject's most esteemed historian.
Tony Judt's Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word "groundbreaking." It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to create a fully rounded, deep account of the continent's recent past. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every country has its chance to play the lead, and although the big themes are superbly handled--including the cold war, the love/hate relationship with America, cultural and economic malaise and rebirth, and the myth and reality of unification--none of them is allowed to overshadow the rich pageant that is the whole. Vividly and clearly written for the general reader; witty, opinionated, and full of fresh and surprising stories and asides; visually rich and rewarding, with useful and provocative maps, photos, and cartoons throughout, Postwar is a movable feast for lovers of history and lovers of Europe alike.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:54am CEST
Great American Lawyers: An Encyclopedia (2 Volumes)
Publisher: ABC-Clio | ISBN: 1576072029 | edition 2001 | PDF | 820 pages | 3,68 mb
Vile (political science, Middle Tennessee State Univ.) here offers lively profiles of 110 prominent trial lawyers, both living and dead. Contributed by political scientists, historians, and attorneys, the well-written profiles are three to nine pages in length and detail the upbringing of the attorneys, how they entered the law, and their significant cases. In addition, Vile adds colorful vignettes, as when Houston criminal attorney Percy Foreman is reported to have observed, "My fee is my client's punishment." The essays, which are accompanied by photographs, place the attorneys in historical context and offer suggestions for further reading. Sidebars describe less famous practitioners with the same flair. The book's appendixes list the lawyers by year of birth, nation or state of birth, law school, and place of practice and list questions about the lawyers' careers. Entertaining and informative, this work is recommended for public and academic libraries. Harry Charles, Attorney at Law, St. Louis...
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:49am CEST
War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0631226079 | edition 2005 | PDF | 336 pages | 2,41 mb
In the 300 years between the conquest of Alexander the Great and the battle at Actium, continual warfare had a dramatic effect on Hellenistic society and culture. Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the many different ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. The volume shows how war was intimately connected with economic, social and political life, looking at the connections between war and religion, the ideology of Hellenistic monarchy, the rule of elites, and technological change. At the same time, the book continually draws attention to the experience of war, both from the battlefield perspective of professional soldiers, and from that of its victims – non-combatants, women and children.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:41am CEST
Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc | ISBN: 1576074145 | edition 2001 | PDF | 304 pages | 2,5 mb
Over 100 years ago, a serial killer murdered a number of prostitutes in the East End of London. He was the first serial killer to terrorize a large city—at a time when literacy was rising and the power of the newspaper press was enormous. “Jack the Ripper” was the popular name that originated from letters sent to the press by somebody purporting to be the killer.
The gruesome murders immediately entered the popular consciousness, and interest in them remains high even today. Despite, or because of, the lack of agreement among scholars about many aspects of the murders (we do not even know how many victims he claimed), Jack the Ripper has spawned a vast number of books and films. But we are no closer to knowing his identity...
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:37am CEST
Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia
Publisher: ABC-CLIO | ISBN: 1576074226 | edition 2003 | PDF | 797 pages | 20,59 mb
This encyclopedia covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage to Pytheas ca. 325 BC to the present. From Pytheas's 4th century voyage to the North sea to Jeri Nielsen's battle with self-diagnosed breast cancer in Antarctica in 1999, the history of our quest to conquer the poles is filled with tales of courage, adventure, tragedy and triumph. Features of the encyclopedia include: 500 A-Z biographical, geographical and subject entries on Arctic and Antarctic exploration such as the Polar Sea and Elephant Island and major explorers such as Jane Franklin and Richard Byrd; alphabetical chronology of expeditions; illustrations such as woodcuts showing travel methods, man-hauling and Lady Franklin; maps of areas including the Arctic, Antarctic and New Siberian Islands; and photographs of places including the Antarctic Peninsula, the Hudson Bay and the Endurance crushed by ice.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 9:37am CEST
Osprey - Men at Arms 450 - American Loyalist Troops 1775-84
English | PDF | ISBN 1846033144 | 2008 | 48 Pages | 25 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 7:51am CEST
John Bodel, Saul M. Olyan, "Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (Ancient World: Comparative Histories)"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2008 | ISBN: 1405175796 | 344 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 3:42am CEST
Janet Todd (ed), "Jane Austen in Context (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen)"
Cambridge University Press | 2005 | Literary Criticism | ISBN: 0521826446 | siPDF | 498 pages | 8.5 MB
Covering many aspects of Jane Austen's life, works and historical context, this collection of essays provides the most complete one volume introduction to her life and times. The generously illustrated collection of concise contributions is arranged alphabetically, and covers topics ranging from biography to portraits, critical responses to translations, agriculture to transport. An essay on the reception of Austen's work is also included, showing how criticism of Austen has responded to literary movements and fashions. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 2:43am CEST
Nicholas Guyatt - Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Cambridge University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0521867886 | Pages: 352 | PDF | 5.07 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:12am CEST
Javier Tusell - Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy, 1939 to the Present
Wiley-Blackwell | 2007 | ISBN: 0631206159 | Pages: 504 | PDF | 5.17 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:10am CEST
Elizabeth Irwin, Emily Greenwood - Reading Herodotus:
A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories
Cambridge University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0521876303 | Pages: 360 | PDF | 5.27 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 1:04am CEST
Elena Andreeva - Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism
Routledge | 2007 | ISBN: 0415771536 | Pages: 252 | PDF | 5.04 MB
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 12:17am CEST
David Smith, «New York 1776: The Continentals' first battle»
Osprey Publishing Ltd | ISBN: 1846032857 | 2008 | PDF | 96 pages | 38.8 MB
General Sir William Howe's NewYork campaign gave the British their best chance of destroying the Continental Army and George Washington's resistance to colonial power. Having initially assembled his forces on Staten Island, Howe succeeded in dividing the Continentals, defeated them on Long Island and forced Washington to retreat to Brooklyn Heights. Under siege there Washington successfully extricated his troops and crossed the East River to Manhattan but soon had to fall back on Harlem Heights.
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Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 12:00am CEST
Dining in a Classical Context
Publisher: University of Michigan Press | ISBN: 0472101943 | edition 1991 | PDF | 264 pages | 11,00 mb
The chapters in this volume were delivered at a symposium at McMaster University in September of 1989 before a lively and appreciative audience.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 11:14pm CEST
TALES OF WAR PILOT
Publisher: Smithsonian | ISBN: 1560988886 | edition 1999 | CHM | 160 pages | 1,06 mb
Richard Kirkland would never have imagined that anything could compare to tangling with Zeros in life-and-death dogfights over the South Pacific—but that was before he traded his fighter-pilot wings for rotors. It was a move he never regretted, and the riveting experiences he chronicles in War Pilot provide ample reason why. From the first primitive Sikorsky and the sophisticated choppers of Vietnam to flying medevac choppers and saving countless soldiers from certain death in Korea, Kirkland’s firsthand accounts of pilots under fire provide a gripping portrait of not just one American hero, but the many courageous others with whom he flew. . . .
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST
Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) By Elizabeth J. Reitz, C. Margaret Scarry, Sylvia J. Scudder
Publisher: Springer 2007-12-10 | 463 Pages | ISBN: 0387713026 | PDF | 3.8 MB
The purpose of Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, Second Edition is to highlight studies addressing significant anthropological issues in the Americas from the perspective of environmental archaeology. Environmental archaeology encompasses the application of biological and geological techniques to the study of human/environmental interactions...
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 10:55pm CEST
Bert Kinzey - F-4 Phantom II. Part 3: USN & USMC Versions
Aero Publishers | 1983 | ISBN: 0853685886 | 76 pages | PDF | 26.09 MB
In detail & scale vol.12
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 9:08pm CEST
24 Declassified: Trojan Horse
Publisher: HarperEntertainment | 2006-02-01 | ISBN: 0060842261 | PDF | 352 pages | 0.92 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 8:59pm CEST
David Farber, "The 60's: From Memory to History"
University of North Carolina Press | 1994 | ISBN: 0807844624 | 342 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 8:51pm CEST
Iran. Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies. Vols. 1-42 (1963-2004)
Brill | ISSN 05786967 | 1963-2004 | PDF bookmarked, searchable | each vol. 20-50 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 6:43pm CEST
Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe By Professor Stanley J. Stein, Dr. Barbara H. Stein
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2000 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0801861357 | PDF | 1.5 MB
The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore from Portobelo and Veracruz on the Carribbean coast across the Atlantic to Spain in exchange for European goods shipped from Sevilla (later, Cadiz)...
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 6:35pm CEST
Тюремные записки Рихарда Зорге. Военные тайны XX века
Publisher: Вече | ISBN: 5783807761 | edition 2001 | PDF | 332 pages | 2,10 mb
В полутемной камере, то налитой зноем, то превращавшейся в ледяной склеп, Рихард Зорге долгие часы проводил над листами бумаги.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 6:35pm CEST
Friedel Weinert, "Copernicus, Darwin and Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2008 | ISBN: 1405181842 | 296 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 4:57pm CEST
Etienne Balibar, Spinoza and Politics
Verso | 2008 | ISBN 1844672050 | 128 Pages | PDF | 13.8 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 4:48pm CEST
Richard Albright, "Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions: How to Make Military Ranges Environmentally Safe"
William Andrew Publishing | 2008 | ISBN: 0815515405 | 250 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 4:36pm CEST
Annette Broschinski, "Dinosaurier (Taschenbuch)"
C.H.Beck | 1997 | ISBN: 3406418805 | 336 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 3:49pm CEST
Bert Kinzey - F-4 Phantom II. Part 2: USAF F-4E & F-4G
Tab Books | 1988 | ISBN: 0830680179 | 72 pages | PDF | 33.76 MB
In detail & scale vol.7
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 11:14am CEST
The Tour De France, 1903-2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values
Publisher: Frank Cass; annotated edition edition | ISBN: 0714682977 | edition 2003 | PDF | 290 pages | 4,79 mb
This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 11:13am CEST
German Night Fighter Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces 020)
Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1855326965 | June 5, 1998 | PDF | 96 pages | 60.41 MB
When the Luftwaffe entered the war, its nightfighter force was virtually non-existent thanks to its leader, Reichmarschall Hermann Göring, boasting that bombs would never fall on Germany. By mide-1940 his folly was evident; the first nightfighter wing was hastily formed with Bf 110s. As arguably the most consistently effective arm of the wartime Luftwaffe, the Nachtjagd took a steady toll of Allied aircraft - the vast majority of them RAF bombers - throughout most of World War 2. Fighting a tough enemy, as well as a lower priority in aircraft and personnel procurement than it merited, the force never shrank from its task.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 11:06am CEST
Оружие: Руководство к истории, описанию и изображению ручного оружия с древнейших времен до начала XIX века.
Publisher: Софт-Мастер | ISBN: 5844400100 | edition 1992 | DJV | 330 pages | 4.05 mb
Работа П.П. фон Винклера "Оружие" посвящена истории оружия со времени его появления до начала XIX века. Основной материал посвящен индивидуальному оборонительному...
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 9:42am CEST
Aztec Deities - e-Artbook
Publisher: The Count of Fate & Convergence | ISBN: 188284777 | edition 2002 | PDF | 41 pages | 2,07 mb
Why did I do the Aztec Deities Series when obviously I could never present a true appreciation of the majesty of this time in history? I didn’t research the mythology on the God Tonatiuh, which translates as “He Who Makes the Day” and use this as a basis for the painting. I let my imagination take hold and this guided me to represent the gods.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 9:01am CEST
Clifford Edmund Bosworth, "Historic Cities of the Islamic World"
Brill Academic Publishers | 2008 | ISBN: 9004153888 | 583 pages | PDF | 6,8 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 2:14am CEST
Robert Stern, «SB2C Helldiver in action - Aircraft No. 54»
Squadron/Signal Publications | ISBN: 0897471288 | 1982 | PDF | 50 pages | 12.4 MB
The Helldiver was developed to replace the Douglas SBD Dauntless; it was a much larger aircraft able to operate from the latest aircraft carriers of the time and carry a considerable array of armament and featured an internal bomb bay that reduced drag when carrying heavy ordnance. Saddled with demanding requirements set forth by both the U.S. Marines and United States Army Air Forces, the manufacturer incorporated features of a "multi-role" aircraft into the design.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 1:50am CEST
R. S. G. Mackay, «Lancaster in Action - Aircraft No. 52»
Squadron/Signal Publications | ISBN: 089747130X | 1982 | PDF | 50 pages | 10.4 MB
In 1936 the Air Ministry published specifications calling for a twin-engine bomber to be powered by Rolls Royce engines. A. V. Roe & Company took up the challenge.
In 1940 the Avro Lancaster came from the development of the Avro Manchester, powered by two Rolls Royce Vulture Engines. The Manchester's engines were not sufficient enough and were underpowered and were replaced the two Vulture engines with four with Merlin engines. Roy Chadwick, the designer, then tested this magnificent plane which was renamed the Lancaster. It was great to handle and could reach high speeds depending on how much bomb load it carried. It could carry heavy bomb loads over high distances.Its maximum speed was 287 mph (462 km) and had a range of 1,660 miles (2,670 km).
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 1:45am CEST
Yafeng Xia - Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks During the Cold War, 1949-1972
Indiana University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0253347580 | Pages: 326 | PDF | 5.13 MB
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Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 1:44am CEST
Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton - Slavery And South Asian History
Indiana University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 025321873X | Pages: 344 | PDF | 5.18 MB
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 11:50pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 45 - Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209903 | PDF | pages 51 | 6.64 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 11:47pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 44 - M3 Stuart
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209801 | PDF | pages 52 | 5.78 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 11:45pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 43 - CAC Boomerang, CAC Wirraway
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209577 | PDF | pages 59 | 34.22 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 11:42pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 442 - Messerschmitt BF109K
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209836 | PDF | pages 42 | 21.75 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 11:39pm CEST
Wydawnictwo Militaria 41 - Samochody pancerne 8x8
1997 | Polish | ISBN: 8386209685 | PDF | pages 49 | 5.21 Mb
Книги польского издательства Wydawnictwo Militaria посвящены военной технике. Все книги хорошо иллюстрированны фотографиями, рассказана история создания, применение военной техники.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 10:51pm CEST
Киселёв В.И. : "Военная одежда рима"
Publisher: Military-history club veteran | ISBN: 0886553229 | edition 2002 | PDF | 30 Pages | 8,1 MB
Римские солдаты Септимия Севера внешне мало отличались от солдат Ав-густа, живших двумя веками раньше. Но в III веке Римская Империя пережила период политических, военных и фи-нансовых потрясений. В течение пяти-десяти лет, прошедших после убийства Александра Севера в 235 году и до при-хода к власти Диоклетиана в 284 году, на троне сменилось почти тридцать императоров, из которых только трое умерли своей смертью.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 10:26pm CEST
Северин Г.М. "Серебряные Монеты Российской Империи 1801-1917 Книга II"
Профиздат | 2001 | ISBN: no | Русский | PDF | ст. 157 | 182.02 Mb
В книгах нумизмата Г.М. Северина дана идентификация и описание всех известных видов монетной чеканки Российской империи с 1682 до 1917 года. В них включены также образцы памятных жетонов по случаю коронаций, медалей исторического и персонального значения.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 10:12pm CEST
Северин Г.М. "Серебряные Монеты Российской Империи 1682-1801 Книга I"
Профиздат | 2001 | ISBN: no | Русский | PDF | ст. 193 | 243.9 Mb
В книгах нумизмата Г.М. Северина дана идентификация и описание всех известных видов монетной чеканки Российской империи с 1682 до 1917 года. В них включены также образцы памятных жетонов по случаю коронаций, медалей исторического и персонального значения.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 10:06pm CEST
Lesley Bolton, "The Everything Classical Mythology Book: Greek and Roman Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Monsters from Ares to Zeus"
Adams Media | 2002 | ISBN: 158062653X | siPDF | 304 pages | 5.2 MB
Entertaining and educational, The Everything Classical Mythology Book is a superb introduction to ancient Greek and Roman mythology. For those of us who cannot recount the twelve labours of Hercules, how Odysseus tricked the Trojans, why the phrase "Achilles Heel' was first coined, or how Medusa was slain, this comprehensive volume will provide answers to these and hundreds more enquiries.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 8:55pm CEST
Vom Eismeer bis zum Kaukasus. Die deutsche Gebirgstruppe im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1941/42 By Alex Buchner
Publisher: Dörfler 2001 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 3895550477 | PDF | 51 MB
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Posted: April 1st, 2009, 8:49pm CEST
Apollo's Warriors: US Air Force Special Operations During the Cold War By Michael E. Haas
Publisher: Air University Press 1997 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 1585660353 | PDF | 8 MB
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