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...

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...

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...

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...

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."...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

Katherine Callen King "Ancient Epic"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2009-04-20 | ISBN: 1405159472 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

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

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

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.

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...

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